Building out a smart home can be fraught with frustration. Every device uses its own hub, and if not that, most definitely its own app. Before you know it, your smartphone is littered with ten ...

The new Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 is a USB adapter that unifies Zigbee, Thread, and Matter devices under one roof.

Home Assistant is often seen as the top choice for its wide compatibility and setup ease. Amazon Alexa excels with voice ...

If you dig around in the Google Home ecosystem for long enough, you'll discover the Google Home app alone doesn't handle everything you want to do with your smart ...

If your home apps are multiplying, I suggest converting to Matter devices, adopting a password manager, and using other hacks to cut down on juggling all those apps. Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home ...

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 ...

Home Assistant can use Google Gemini to describe who is at the door based on a snapshot from the video doorbell. You'll need to install LLM Vision, get a Google ...

The biggest question, however, remains: when will everyone get it? Google said the Gemini for Home rollout is still limited ...