Using a compact, affordable smart speaker with Home Assistant made it easy to manage smart devices with voice control.

And wouldn't you know it, I found a Home Assistant add-on that takes data from the FireBoard cloud API, integrates it to MQTT ...

Home Assistant is celebrating its 10th birthday with the new Home Assistant Green, a $99 plug-and-play computer to get the platform up and running. Home Assistant in a box.

Home Assistant seems to be the simpler system overall, but perhaps at the cost of customization. On this point I’m assuming, because I couldn’t get it to install properly due to the ...

Home Assistant, the powerful-yet-prickly smart home automation platform, is finally moving toward the mainstream. Nabu Casa, the company behind the free, open-source software, has launched Home ...

Devices featuring smart home assistants are more usable and affordable than ever. Here are the best home assistant devices available on the market in 2023.

Once Home Assistant is running, add to it as many of the devices and services in your home (termed "Integrations" in Home Assistant) as you want accessible from your phones or speakers.

Home Assistant’s capabilities can be extended through a variety of add-ons, such as: Studio Code Server: A powerful tool for editing configuration files directly within the Home Assistant interface.

Google Assistant has, especially in the context of the smart home, been crumbling over the past couple of years. In a post this evening, Google’s lead for Home and Nest has acknowledged Assistant ...

Results are then shared with Home Assistant via the ESPHome plugin and the ESP32’s WiFi connection. This allows [Giovanni] to see plots of live and historical data from the power meter via his ...

A Google exec is promising “major improvements” for Google Assistant on smart home devices following a spike in user complaints.