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

Ask any smart home enthusiast about their platform of choice, and you’re bound to hear great things about Home Assistant. After all, it’s compatible with most of the popular smart devices, and the ...

The leaders of Home Assistant declared 2023 the “Year of the Voice.” The goal was to let users of the DIY home automation platform “control Home Assistant in their own language.” It was a bold shot to ...

Google and Amazon are striving to get the Assistant and Alexa on as many smart home devices as possible as they battle for dominance in the market for virtual assistants. One factor that doesn’t seem ...

Buy enough tech and you can’t escape the siren call of a smart home. Amazon practically throws Echo Dots at you. Google will sneak a Nest Mini in the box with almost anything you buy in its store.

Google is rolling out a new user interface for the Assistant right now. Which seeks to make everything round. Now when you long-press the home button (or squeeze the phone, if you have a Pixel ...

Most smart home devices will work just fine on any platform if you are willing to jump through a couple of hoops. But there are a few pieces of hardware out there that, for various reasons, provide a ...

Google Assistant isn't what it used to be, and Gemini is something entirely different. Can these two coincide to fix the current state of the smart home? Chris Wedel Home Tech Editor Chris Wedel is a ...