Learn how to turn old appliances into smart, Wi-Fi-enabled devices with ESP8266 and ESPHome. DIY automation made simple for your home.

DIY Raspberry Pi projects bring affordable, private, and customizable upgrades to your smart home, from security to automation and more.

There's a lot you can do when it comes to smart home automation, particularly with a Raspberry Pi. However, if you're like many home automation enthusiasts, you probably already have a few of those ...

If you are considering setting up new home automation projects you might be interested in using the Raspberry Pi powered Home Assistant Yellow. Specifically designed to provide a solid foundation to ...

If you’re working on a home automation project, you’re probably knee-deep into MQTT by now. If not, you should be. The lightweight messaging protocol is an ideal choice for getting your “Things” on ...

Home automation: for me the term recalls rich dudes in the ’80s who could turn off their garage lights with remote-control pads. The stereotype for that era was the more buttons your system had—even ...

New line of Life|media Servers are optimized for both digital entertainment and comprehensive home control. Exceptional Innovation, makers of Lifeware™, announces the launch of a new line of ...

Smart products seem to surround tech-savvy consumers these days. It isn’t a new concept since smartphones, TVs, watches and cars have been around for decades. The word “smart” harks back to the ...

I have to admit it: I backed the wrong horse when it came to driving home automation from a digital assistant and went with Microsoft's Cortana and its Harmon Kardon Invoke smart speakers. I had good ...

I've been growing mushrooms on logs outside my house in the Pacific Northwest for a few years now. While tons of people do this successfully, I generally do it poorly, because while mushrooms are ...

In the smart home world, an automation is a routine (or series of commands) a smart hub app will execute on the user's behalf. For instance, you could tell the app: At sunset, turn on the porch light; ...