I wake my home PC from anywhere using an ESP32 and MQTT - Here’s how

4 Home Assistant integrations I installed and never configured properly

5 smart home controls that actually get used

I wasted time with this one smart home feature that sounded useful

Stop "Smart-ifying" your light bulbs: Smart Plugs are the secret to a resilient home

7 things you need in your home office at any cost

Multi-gigabit routers are pointless without this one upgrade

Take full advantage of your speeds with this addition

Samsung's Galaxy Upcycle promised to make old phones useful, then won an award for giving up

Your old phone could have been so much more.

My smart home still works without the internet, and it's all thanks to one app

Home Assistant is the best unified platfom for your smart devices.

I'm rebuilding my workstation with these 5 unique improvements

Upgrading form and function in one fell sweep

Stop buying gaming routers; you need a wired backhaul, not more antennas

Are there really any benefits to a spider router?

4 smart home devices I refuse to buy

I don't need to be locked into a subscription.

5 VLAN rules every smart home should have

Implementing these VLAN rules is a simple way to tidy up your smart home networking

Your smart home temperature sensors are useless if you don't calibrate them

What use is a sensor that's wrong?

Grocy seemed like a great self-hosted tool, until I used it for a week

The cracks started to show

8 apps I replaced with one Home Assistant dashboard

And adding more all the time

Home Assistant's new dashboard finally makes sense for the whole family

We've finally got a revamped dashboard!

This is the Home Assistant automation I run that my family actually loves

Use automations for things that matter, not because they exist

Stop using Wi-Fi for your smart home

You're crippling your own internet speeds

4 ways to use your phone's sensors in Home Assistant

Trigger automations with the device you always have on you

This Home Assistant integration makes notifications so much simpler

You've never been notified like this before.

5 Zigbee gadgets under $15 that completely transformed my smart home

Save yourself some major cash by using Zigbee.

Home Assistant isn't just powerful; it's also very user-friendly

Home Assistant strikes the right balance between simplicity and functionality

Home Assistant's best feature isn't automation

Home Assistant's best feature is a lot simpler than that: a unified dashboard.

4 smart home devices that work perfectly offline

Smart doesn't have to mean cloud-based

Alexa+ and Google Home's AI didn't revolutionize anything in 2025, but Home Assistant did

A free and open-source platform beat two giants when it comes to smart homes in 2025.