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Many of us hacker types with some hardware knowledge and a smattering of embedded experience would like to get into home automation, but there can be quite a learning curve. If you’re looking for a ...

Nabu Casa is rebrandung Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link to emphasize local control, while HACS also joins Core as a built-in Marketplace.

Computers are very good at doing exactly what they’re told. They’re still not very good at coming up with helpful suggestions of their own. They’re very much more about following instructions than ...

Nabu Casa is renaming Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link, a change intended to better distinguish the service from cloud-dependent smart home platforms.

Home Assistant has released a new update for its Android companion app. Version 2026.1.6 brings notable improvements for Assist voice controls. Plus, there is an enhanced entity picker and a ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

He has loved computers since he got the Lenovo G570 in 2012. Abhishek holds a master's degree in computer applications and began his writing career in 2018. He loves writing how-to articles, listicles ...

Home Assistant 2025.6 has been officially announced. This latest version of the open-source smart home automation software follows a May update, which brought a new iteration of the backup system and ...

Home Assistant keeps getting better and better, and a recent update brings another key improvement to the self-hosted, open-source smart home platform: a revamped “overview” dashboard that’s far ...

Home Assistant can start innocently enough. Maybe you simply need the bedroom lights to turn off automatically, but that's just a gateway drug. After a while, your washing machine starts texting you ...