Here’s How to Choose Which Smart Home Assistant Is Best for Your Home
… You'll also need separate subscriptions for Ring devices if you choose to use them. Still looking for an Alexa? Here are my favorite devices to start with. …
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Home Assistant's new infrared support turns your smart home into a universal remote
… Now, with 2026.4, we've got friendly names that are more tightly aligned with parent device names. …
Smart home guides keep pushing the wrong starter setup – here are some tips that actually work
… In fact, you’d want to focus on devices with local polling first and foremost. Sure, the DIY community often comes up with unofficial integrations for pairing unsupported, seemingly dead devices with local control platforms such as Home Assistant. …
Google Home and Alexa can't do what I built in Home Assistant, and that's the whole point
… I don’t need to hunt for devices from specific brands with Home Assistant Even discontinued products and ESP32 projects are fair game on HASS One of the biggest issues with typical smart home hubs is their limited compatibility with IoT products. …
I replaced my smart home hub with a $120 mini PC, and my smart home finally feels responsive
… With built-in support for on-device automations and wireless over-the-air updates, managing your devices becomes straightforward and flexible. See at ESPHome Building my own sensors and devices Too many options to choose from Home Assistant supports a variety of DIY builds and commercial devices. …
I revived my old Android phone by turning it into a better voice assistant than any smart speaker I've owned
… Sign in to your XDA account Aside from its solid compatibility with smart devices, Home Assistant has several tricks up its sleeve. …
Tailscale replaced my dynamic DNS setup, and I stopped worrying about IP addresses entirely
… It doesn’t track or fix changing IP addresses for smart devices like bulbs, plugs, and sensors. These devices cycle through the DHCP addresses on the local network. I ended up configuring DHCP reservations for most of the compatible devices since Tailscale doesn’t touch them. …
The new Maintenance dashboard is the Home Assistant feature I did not know I needed
… But considering all the outages in my backwater town, it’s not uncommon for the low-priority devices in my arsenal to run out of juice. Heck, even without blackouts, I sometimes forget about recharging the standalone battery-powered devices. …
Local LLMs changed how I use Home Assistant, and now my smart devices actually listen
… Related My old phones replaced three smart devices in my Home Assistant setup And it's all thanks to the cool sensors included in modern smartphones MCP servers add more nuanced controls for my Home Assistant hub And they let me manage HASS from LLM-powered clients If I want to check device statist… …
My smart home was a mess until I gave it a brain
… Earlier, these devices lived in separate apps, but now they all appear in one unified dashboard. I can quickly check device status, control them instantly, and organize everything by rooms to keep things simple. …