Home Assistant is flexible enough to run on a wide range of hardware, but in my experience, nothing matches the Raspberry Pi 4B or 5. It isn’t just about convenience or power efficiency, though those ...

These days, it seems like everything, even your usual everyday-use objects such as refrigerators and plugs, can be enhanced with smart home technology. Many grueling day-to-day tasks that used to take ...

The Raspberry Pi has been very popular among hobbyists and educators ever since its launch in 2011. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer with a Broadcom BCM 2835 SoC, 256MB to ...

As voice recognition and natural language parsing have improved so has the availability of digital personal assistants, from Bixby to Alexa or Cortana to Google Assistant, all the major tech companies ...

Setting up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi gives full control with no subscription fees or cloud dependency. Home Assistant supports various integrations beyond lights and plugs, stays open-source, ...

Home Assistant is free and open source home automation software that allows you to control and interact with smart home gadgets. You can install the software on a ...

Google Inc. is teaming up with the makers of Raspberry Pi to put the power of Google’s artificial intelligence and voice technology into the hands of tinkerers and hobbyists. The latest issue of The ...

If you've ever wanted to talk to your Raspberry Pi, a kit from Google which is being given away with the Raspberry Pi Foundation's magazine could make it a lot easier. The pack allows you to turn a ...

Google’s Home speaker can do all kinds of cool things just by listening to your voice commands, such as describe the weather, play music and control your smart home devices. But what if you want a ...

[River] is a big fan of home automation. After moving into a new house, he wanted to assimilate two wirelessly controlled fan lights into his home automation system. The problem was this: although the ...