When a Raspberry Pi is overkill.

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Imagine walking into a home that knows exactly what you want from the moment you walk in. The temperature, lighting and music adjust automatically to suit your tastes. Your appliances operate ...

As a smart home user, you've probably heard multiple mentions of Thread, Zigbee, and Matter from different companies, and ...

I’m a smart home nerd. That’s a given after running a smart home-focused website for nearly a decade and testing pretty much every platform, system and setup available. As such, people often ask me ...

Not another damn light bulb. That’s what you might be thinking if you’ve been following smart-home tech for the past decade or, indeed, building out your own fortress of missed connections. The first ...

You spend hours following guides to set up Home Assistant, ESPHome, and other integrations. Then come the pairing steps for several Bluetooth and Matter devices ...

If you've decked your home out with smart LED lightbulbs, thermostats, and cameras, you're likely to find yourself looking for a centralized way of managing all of them at once. Smart home hubs, like ...