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, ...

Have you ever felt like your smart home setup is more chaotic than convenient? With countless devices, apps, and cloud services vying for your attention, managing it all can feel overwhelming. Enter ...

This tiny, inexpensive microcontroller makes it easy to build reliable, room-by-room Home Assistant sensors without paying the smart home tax.

Smart home frameworks, broadly speaking, are meant to give you a greater degree of control over the features and functions of your home via interconnected devices. No matter how prevalent smart home ...

What if you could transform a palm-sized computer into the brain of your next big project, without needing an engineering degree? The Raspberry Pi 5, the latest in the beloved Raspberry Pi series, is ...

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