Google Home “Routines” has gained the option to read out Fitbit stats for the day. Google Assistant can deliver key metrics such as step count, distance traveled, calories burned, and much more.

[Jeff Sandberg] has put a fair bit of effort into adding solar and battery storage with associated smarts to his home, but his energy usage statistics were incomplete. His solution was to read data ...

Home Assistant turns all my different gadgets into inputs and outputs, which is exactly what a smart home should have been ...

Local LLMs made my Home Assistant setup far more responsive than any app or integration ...

What if your smart home could not only anticipate your needs but also make managing it effortless? With the release of Home Assistant 2025.9, that vision inches closer to reality. This latest update ...

Buy enough tech and you can’t escape the siren call of a smart home. Amazon practically throws Echo Dots at you. Google will sneak a Nest Mini in the box with almost anything you buy in its store.

How do you solve the problem of growing a popular smart home platform committed to open-source, open-standard ideals into something bigger that stays true to those ideals? You create a foundation. At ...