Home Assistant includes a large number of native integrations that can do everything from allowing you to connect specific smart home devices to tracking daylight hours from sunrise to sunset, so your ...

A new year is a time of new beginnings and, as corny as it sounds, a great excuse to look at areas of your life that need ...

The free and open-source smart home platform Home Assistant got another vote of confidence today, with the IoT manufacturer Xthings announcing that its Ultraloq U-Bolt series of Z-Wave smart deadbolts ...

Xthings has announced an expanded integration with open-source home automation platform Home Assistant, including its line of ULTRALOQ smart locks. Xthings says that this collaboration is designed to ...

What if you could take the chaos of managing endless documents, emails, and data and turn it into a seamless, automated system that works for you? The n8n Home Assistant add-on promises just that, a ...

Have you ever imagined a home that anticipates your every need—lights that adjust to your mood, a thermostat that syncs with the weather, or security systems that work seamlessly in the background?

Music Assistant 2.7 arrives with a visual redesign, user accounts (SSO Home Assistant), remote streaming, a new open-source protocol (Sendspin), AirPlay 2, synchronized lyrics, and intelligent ...

Sick of waiting for Amazon to release a new Alexa that’s “supercharged” by generative AI? If you’re willing to go the DIY way, you can start controlling your smart home devices with an LLM-powered ...

45-plus more SwitchBot gadgets will soon work with Home Assistant. 45-plus more SwitchBot gadgets will soon work with Home Assistant. is a former weekend editor who covered tech and entertainment. He ...