O ne thing that I've noticed since getting heavily into home lab experimentation is that my home electricity bills are ...

Creating an alarm on your smart speaker is common, whether you set it to wake you up in the morning or keep you on task during the day. For some, a standard alarm going off isn’t enough to get them ...

H ome automation is fun, but writing individual automations can get tedious pretty quickly. If you've spent any amount of ...

Early TV watchers probably would have called it a miracle of technology that a television could be controlled from the couch. Nowadays, a remote that controls only the TV seems primitive considering ...

The Kalil House is a Usonian Automatic home, a short-lived design that Wright created for middle-class families seeking ...

IT requires an Apple Homekit, so it's neither free nor open source. It's an adapter. An adapter to an expensive proprietary Apple POS. Reading comprehension for the loss. Lee CHOSE the HomeKit ...

Google used its I/O conference to introduce Android@Home, a software framework for Android that allows programmers to interact with various connected appliances such as light bulbs, thermostats, ...

Finnish software engineer [Toni] is on a quest to modernize his 1991 house, and his latest project was to automate the window blinds and control them using Home Assistant. Unless your blinds have ...

MyQ is a steaming pile of dog turd. They used to have google home integration and removed it about 2 years or so ago. You can still fake it with IFTT, but its clunky. Their app is covered with ads. I ...