Dresden-Elektronik has this month unveiled two new ZigBee home automation gateways taking the form of the Raspberry Pi based Phoscon Gateway and the smaller USB stick style hub, the ConBee II. The ...

What’s the point of smart home automation? To make every day tasks easier, of course! According to [Tomasz Cybulski], that wasn’t the case when he installed IKEA smart lights in his closet. It’s handy ...

What can you fit into a Raspberry Pi board while still keeping the price to $35? That’s a question Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton wrestled with when planning the third version of the product. He opted ...

Working towards automating a few things in a home often seems simple on the surface, but it’s easy for these projects to snowball into dozens of sensors and various servos, switches, and cameras ...

I rode the first wave of smart home devices but immediately quit when I learned that smart speakers record my talks (and snores). For far too long, I've treated those smart lights and smart TVs as ...

Home Assistant is free and open source home automation software that allows you to control and interact with smart home gadgets. You can install the software on a ...