Using a compact, affordable smart speaker with Home Assistant made it easy to manage smart devices with voice control.

Zooz has joined the Works with Home Assistant program, which is a certification effort run by the Open Home Foundation. The ...

Now that voice-controlled home assistants like Google Home and Amazon Echo have burrowed into millions of houses, the market has turned to accessories. This year at CES, dozens of companies ...

Home Assistant seems to be the simpler system overall, but perhaps at the cost of customization. On this point I’m assuming, because I couldn’t get it to install properly due to the ...

Google Assistant has, especially in the context of the smart home, been crumbling over the past couple of years. In a post this evening, Google’s lead for Home and Nest has acknowledged Assistant ...

Home Assistant, the powerful-yet-prickly smart home automation platform, is finally moving toward the mainstream. Nabu Casa, the company behind the free, open-source software, has launched Home ...

Home Assistant’s capabilities can be extended through a variety of add-ons, such as: Studio Code Server: A powerful tool for editing configuration files directly within the Home Assistant interface.

The Home Assistant already has a text-only "Conversation" command system, so it's a matter of building that out and wiring it up to voice input and output.What's unclear about this is the hardware ...

Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. After an announcement this weekend, however, Home Assistant's shape is a bit easier to draw out. All of the ...