On the hardware front, you can use an old smartphone with a working mic and speaker to use the Home Assistant Companion app ...

Imagine walking into your home and having everything respond to your needs without lifting a finger. Lights adjust to the perfect brightness, blinds open or close to keep your home at the ideal ...

Imagine a home that not only responds to your commands but also sees, understands, and acts on its own. With the integration of AI vision into the Home Assistant platform, this futuristic scenario is ...

You can find custom integrations, dashboard components such as custom cards, and even entire dashboards. These aren't ...

When the Nest Learning Thermostat burst into the smart home market nearly a decade ago, it seemed poised to change how we saw smart home tech: Lindsey Turrentine, CNET's editor-in-chief at the time, ...

Using voice commands to control smart home devices is very common, and something that Google Assistant is about to get better at through the use of AI. Google says it “worked hard to apply state of ...

Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. After an announcement this weekend, however, Home Assistant’s shape is a bit easier to draw out. All of the ...

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