The power of automations is what draws many of us to Home Assistant in the first place, but there’s no denying that the ...

Imagine walking into your home and having it not just respond to your commands but truly understand your needs. Picture a smart home that offers thoughtful suggestions, like reminding you to grab an ...

By far the most important “setting” of all is turning on Home Assistant backups. This is one of the first things you should ...

What if you could take the chaos of managing endless documents, emails, and data and turn it into a seamless, automated system that works for you? The n8n Home Assistant add-on promises just that, a ...

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Let’s turn this smart house into a smart home. Let’s turn this smart house into a smart home. is a senior reviews editor who’s been testing tech since 2007. Previously at Wirecutter and Maximum PC.

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.

Google's Gemini can now help you create advanced automation scripts in Google Home, but it's still complicated and riddled with errors. Smart devices, on their own, are nifty, but one-note. You can ...

I'm getting extremely fed up with doing stuff in Home Assistant and I can't be the only one to be maddened by everything in it. It's such a dogshit system under the hood, I just don't understand how ...

What comes to mind when you think of a smart home? Wi-Fi enabled light bulbs, video doorbells, cloud-connected robot vacuums, or smart fridges perhaps? Brands like Google/Nest or everything enabled ...