I 've been connecting everything I can to my Home Assistant lately, from my BBQ smoker to a small fleet of robotic vacuums. It's excellent for reducing cognitive load, centralizing all your home's ...

Better yet, the company has entirely open-sourced the new MQTT extension API and published a reference extension that ...

The Google Assistant is getting an API today with the launch of "Actions on Google," a way for developers to build "conversation actions" that can be called up on the Assistant's various interfaces.

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Home Assistant, the powerful-yet-prickly smart home automation platform, is finally moving toward the mainstream ...

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 ...