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

MQTT is a communication system that helps different parts of your smart home talk to each other. For Zigbee2MQTT to work smoothly with Home Assistant, you usually need an MQTT broker, which is like a ...

If you’re working on a home automation project, you’re probably knee-deep into MQTT by now. If not, you should be. The lightweight messaging protocol is an ideal choice for getting your “Things” on ...

I’ve been buying and tinkering with smart home devices for years. As a result, my home network resembles a kind of Model UN of devices, bridges, protocols, assistants, and apps. I try to broker ...

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 ...

New Ajax Home Assistant integration: via a HACS plugin, control your Ajax alarm (arming, sensors, notifications) directly in Home Assistant using the official Cloud API, with a step-by-step tutorial ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

Ready to add AI to an energy meter? Learn how to use Home Assistant data and Python labeling scripts to train an Edge Impulse ...