Home Assistant is giving Z-Wave a serious range boost with its latest bit of official hardware: the Connect ZWA-2, which has just been officially announced. Built by Nabu Casa (as all official Home ...

The free and open-source smart home platform Home Assistant got another vote of confidence today, with the IoT manufacturer Xthings announcing that its Ultraloq U-Bolt series of Z-Wave smart deadbolts ...

Home Assistant is a testament to the power of open source and interoperability, combining the abilities of devices in ways that would never be possible normally, while often enabling its users to ...

I installed some underlying components of Home Assistant--Zigbee2MQTT, Z-Wave JS UI, and an MQTT broker--but used a Python script to tie everything together and run my relatively simple automations ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. From coop to attic, Home Assistant’s new Z-Wave antenna helped me connect devices in the furthest corners of my ...

I’ve set up dozens of smart home gadgets across two homes and two apartments over the last five years. I have a mental list of brands I revere and brands from which nothing shall ever be purchased ...

When [Elixir of Progress] was looking at setting up environmental sensors around their home to keep track of temperature, humidity and such, the obvious ideas of using WiFi-connected sensors didn’t ...

Maybe it was the sight of Sengled users literally left in the dark by their useless Wi-Fi bulbs, maybe it was another price hike, or just an overall sense that my smart devices weren’t truly under my ...