I gave Home Assistant a physical color wheel, and now I flip through albums like it’s 2008
I loved my first Walkman to the point where I used it until it fell apart, but my favorite music…
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4 ways your neighbors are ruining your smart home (and how to fix it permanently)
Living in a dense neighborhood used to mean dealing with noise and parking. Now it means your neighbors can slow…
This 50-year old remote control technology still does what other smart home protocols can’t
Infrared (IR) remote controls have been commonplace since the early 1980s, and are still around today. Despite the development of…
How a $5 radar sensor turns an ESP32 into a weather display that wakes when you walk up
The great thing about ESP32 projects is that often someone else has done all the hard work for you. For…
Amazon and Google finally have real competition in the smart home
Amazon and Google have largely had the smart home world to themselves, at least for those who aren’t interested in…
This ESP32 project gave my office a “mood ring” that reacts to calendar events, the weather, and more
My kids bought mood rings in the summer that change color, supposedly to reflect your current mood. This gave me…
7 Home Assistant features I wish I’d started using sooner
I’ve been using Home Assistant for more than a decade, but I still come across things I’ve never seen before.…
$455 worth of subscriptions you can replace with Home Assistant
Home Assistant isn’t just a great way to control your smart home locally and privately, but it can also save…
Save $1,500 on this massive 77-inch LG OLED TV
Retailers are beginning to prep for the holiday shopping season, with stores like Best Buy leading the way, slashing prices…
Your smart home is probably already running AI-written code, and you can’t avoid it even if you want to
Whatever your personal feelings on using AI in coding, plenty of people are happy to take advantage of tools like…