Nabu Casa is rebrandung Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link to emphasize local control, while HACS also joins Core as a built-in Marketplace.

As well as being a long-term fan of Apple products, he also has a strong interest in smart home tech, running a Home ...

Making it as beginner-friendly as possible.

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Home Assistant Cloud is Home Assistant Link, as Nabu Casa's Carl Albertsson rails against "what the cloud has come to ...

The move is part of a long-term strategy Schoutsen and his team have been pursuing to make Home Assistant a mainstream smart ...

The latest version of Home Assistant, the 2026.1 release for the open-source smart home automation software, is now available. It arrives around a month after the 2025.12 update, which added the Home ...

I stopped rebuilding the same Home Assistant automations.

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

It’s no secret that the smart home world is dominated by Big Tech, with Amazon’s Alexa leading the charge, closely followed by Google Home and Apple HomeKit. These popular automation systems aren’t as ...

Home Assistant 2025.8 has arrived. This is the latest version of the open-source smart home automation software, following the 2025.7 release, which brought a new Ask Question action and redesigned ...

Many of us hacker types with some hardware knowledge and a smattering of embedded experience would like to get into home automation, but there can be quite a learning curve. If you’re looking for a ...