My DIY router has been my DNS, VPN, and ad-blocker for a year, and I'd never use an ISP router again
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Stop buying networking gear for your smart home that looks good on paper but fails in practice
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account Building out a smart home can make…
I built a touch-enabled ePaper Home Assistant dashboard, and it's better than any tablet
…Most smart home hardware looks like smart home hardware. We're talking plastic bezels, status LEDs, glossy screens; the typical visual language of consumer electronics. The reTerminal E1003 I'm using here…
Google Home and Alexa can't do what I built in Home Assistant, and that's the whole point
Ayush Pande May 7, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
I turned my old phone into a Bluetooth proxy for Home Assistant with this free app
…Just install and enable the option to turn it into a relay point. I can run the app on top of other apps like browsers and set it to show the dashboard…
The ESP32 makes more sense than a Raspberry Pi for your smart home
…Using it as an endpoint node — reading sensors, flipping switches, or toggling relays — is a misuse of the hardware. For that, you need something that boots quickly, runs reliably, and updates itself…
My entire smart home runs on a single Docker container now, and I'm never going back
…By migrating my entire ecosystem into a single Docker container, I didn’t just strip away the hardware clutter; I unlocked a level of automation and privacy that out-of-the-box…
I replaced five smart home hubs with a $30 Zigbee dongle and never looked back
Jasmine Mannan Apr 30, 2026, 10:01 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
Your NAS is becoming a single point of failure, and consolidating everything onto it is the reason why
Rich Edmonds May 28, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
10 quality-of-life services I self-host on my home lab
Ayush Pande Apr 12, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…