Do you own smart home devices, but still feel like your home is dumb? Being able to turn your lights on and off from your phone is fun for a while, but that's home control, not home automation. Home ...

Setting up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi gives full control with no subscription fees or cloud dependency. Home Assistant supports various integrations beyond lights and plugs, stays open-source, ...

These days, it seems like everything, even your usual everyday-use objects such as refrigerators and plugs, can be enhanced with smart home technology. Many grueling day-to-day tasks that used to take ...

If you need a project for the Raspberry Pi you have lying around, you could always turn it into a DIY Google Home. With a minimal amount of hardware and setup, you can create a functioning home ...

As an old companion in my tinkering journey, my Raspberry Pi 5 had to bear the brunt of my DIY experiments, which have ranged from all-in-one productivity hubs to Docker containers running Windows.

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 ...

Installation is straightforward. Flash the Home Assistant OS to a microSD card or an SSD connected via USB, boot your Raspberry Pi, and follow the setup wizard. It's time to become your own DJ. With ...

As voice recognition and natural language parsing have improved so has the availability of digital personal assistants, from Bixby to Alexa or Cortana to Google Assistant, all the major tech companies ...

If you are Interested in learning how you can use your Raspberry Pi mini PC to create home automation projects, you may be interested in a new tutorial published to the Hackster.io website this month ...