Imagine walking into your home and having everything respond to your needs without lifting a finger. Lights adjust to the perfect brightness, blinds open or close to keep your home at the ideal ...

Ask any smart home enthusiast about their platform of choice, and you’re bound to hear great things about Home Assistant.

If you would like to start your journey by setting up your own home automation system, Zigbee, offers a robust wireless protocol, and has been transforming the way we control and automate our homes.

You can customize the sensor by adding your own non-workdays to the list, or excluding ones that have been automatically ...

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 ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

Finnish software engineer [Toni] is on a quest to modernize his 1991 house, and his latest project was to automate the window blinds and control them using Home Assistant. Unless your blinds have ...

Let’s turn this smart house into a smart home. Let’s turn this smart house into a smart home. is a senior reviews editor who’s been testing tech since 2007. Previously at Wirecutter and Maximum PC.

When the Nest Learning Thermostat burst into the smart home market nearly a decade ago, it seemed poised to change how we saw smart home tech: Lindsey Turrentine, CNET's editor-in-chief at the time, ...