So I have an old Echo Dot. I use it for precisely two things right now, I turn on and off lights (two HS105 switches, one for bedroom, and another for a blacklight fixture in our home theater that ...

As AppStories+ subscribers will hear on next week’s post-show, Federico and I recently had similarly frustrating experiences moving tools we’d built from one Mac to another. What we moved and why ...

Python-/AppDaemon-Skript zur intelligenten Steuerung von Marstek-Venus-Batteriesystemen in Home Assistant ueber Modbus. Das Skript realisiert eine stabile Grid-Follow-Regelung (laden/entladen/stopp), ...

ZeroTier delivers the capabilities of VPNs, SDN, and SD-WAN with a single system. Manage all your connected resources across both local and wide area networks as if the whole world is a single data ...

In 2022, Apple announced it was adopting a “new Home architecture” for its smart home ecosystem to improve its performance and reliability and make it possible to support different kinds of ...

As The Verge reports, Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung SmartThings already support smart buttons. For now, Google Home's button support will be limited. It will not work with Gemini-powered ...

A new malicious campaign mixes the ClickFix method with fake CAPTCHA and a signed Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) script to ultimately deliver the Amatera infostealing malware. The ...

Google's latest Google Home app update brings new automation tools that offer more control over smart home routines. The latest update brings new starters, conditions, and actions, allowing users to ...

Google’s timeline for switching devices to Gemini now lands in 2026. Google’s timeline for switching devices to Gemini now lands in 2026. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, ...

Dutch smart home specialist Athom has unveiled the Homey Self-Hosted Server, a software-only version of the Homey Pro operating system that runs on your own hardware. You can run the Homey Self-Hosted ...

The evolution of smart home technology has come with all sorts of steps forward and steps back over the past decade. In the latter category, there’s news like we got today of important smart device ...