It's no secret that I love Home Assistant, and the potent smart home and automation platform that it enables. Being able to control every aspect of my smart home from one dashboard is almost ...

The configuration.yaml file is a set of instructions commonly located under the config directory on your Home Assistant ...

I’ve been buying and tinkering with smart home devices for years. As a result, my home network resembles a kind of Model UN of devices, bridges, protocols, assistants, and apps. I try to broker ...

Buy enough tech and you can’t escape the siren call of a smart home. Amazon practically throws Echo Dots at you. Google will sneak a Nest Mini in the box with almost anything you buy in its store.