…your XDA account When away from home, I run into the same wall every time I want to check the Home Assistant . The IP address configured in the Home Assistant’s companion…
…ESPHome turns the ESP32 into a DIY champ for Home Assistant projects Bluetooth Proxy is by far my favorite use case for this tiny system Unlike the easy-to-access operating systems…
…Sign in to your XDA account On the surface, Home Assistant offers a neat control hub for managing smart devices and IoT gizmos. But once you start delving deep into HASS, you…
…Sign in to your XDA account With a smart home , it's easy over the years to add one bulb here, one camera there, and just slowly grow from there. Your home…
…A classic smart home usage is the Home Assistant Voice Satellite. A recent Home Assistant update, 2026.3, adds native wake-word detection to the Android Companion app. This means that you…
…The problem is that “only home automation” is rarely where things stop. Home Assistant has a way of becoming the front door to everything else running on the network. Once you have…
…In my spare time, you’ll probably find me playing Counter-Strike or VALORANT, and you can reach out to me at adam@xda-developers.com , on Twitter as @AdamConwayIE , on Instagram…
…But if your smart home has Zigbee lights and runs Home Assistant, then it's better to stick with just Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto. Home Assistant OS Windows, macOS, Linux iOS compatible Yes…
…Sign in to your XDA account When it comes to managing your smart appliances, Home Assistant surpasses practically every platform out there, be it a FOSS tool designed by the tinkering community…
…The presence of the Espressif chip makes it easy to customize its firmware and integrate it into a smart home platform like Home Assistant. Basically, no one needs to pry open those…