You can find custom integrations, dashboard components such as custom cards, and even entire dashboards. These aren't officially supported by Home Assistant, so you use them at your own risk, but most ...

Ask any smart home enthusiast about their platform of choice, and you’re bound to hear great things about Home Assistant.

If you’ve got an RTL-SDR compatible receiver, you’ve probably used it for picking up signals from all kinds of weird things. Now, [Jaron McDaniel] has built a tool to integrate many ...

To give Android users more control over their smart home devices, Home Assistant is getting support for Device Control. This Android feature is now available in the panel view of the Home Assistant ...

Matter continues to gain momentum, and now that you can add Matter-enabled devices to Google Home, it’s finding its way into more households than ever before. Once synced, your non-Google devices with ...

The Smart Home: It's a place that anticipates your needs and empowers you to fine-tune your environment. That's the pitch, at least. Putting it all together isn't a smooth ride, but the right setup ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. From smartphones and TVs to kitchen fridges, a wider array of tech than ever now comes with voice assistant integration as standard. Home ...

Let's start with something simple. When you set up a device like the Nest Mini 2 or Nest Hub Max, it connects to all your Google-related apps through your Google Account. That means it's automatically ...

Google Gemini voice assistant is expanding to millions of US users on smart speakers. This includes Gemini Live, Home Brief, ...

The Home Assistant update 2025.12 brings a new Labs mode, more intuitive automation triggers, a real-time Energy dashboard, ...

HomeKit’s ecosystem is fantastic, but the directly compatible devices can get expensive – especially if you already have incompatible devices at home that you need to replace. $25 for a smart plug, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For years, I have been waiting for an excuse to make the transition to Home Assistant. With the Home Assistant’s ...