Home Assistant OS can serve as a user-friendly control hub for your smart devices. Here's how to get started. Smart homes make sense. The devices that bring a certain level of automation to your home ...

Home Assistant OS 18.0 is here to make installations and first-time smart home setups smoother. Raspberry Pi users can now manage bootloader firmware updates more easily, with support expected to ...

The center of the home.

The latest version of Home Assistant OS made its bow last month, bringing a more streamlined setup process. While do-it-yourself smart home platforms like Home Assistant OS and Home Assistant at large ...

An old netbook can automate the devices that otherwise aren't interested in talking to one another.

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Smart home automation is more versatile than ever with Home Assistant and a Raspberry Pi. Check out what they can do.

The Home Assistant 2025.9 release has arrived. It follows the open-source smart home automation’s August update, which brought a new AI Task integration and changes for the Areas dashboard. With Home ...

We know where you are. (We don't.) ...

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 ...