Category: Smart Home

Over the past three and a half years I’ve accrued a lot of experience with the frankly amazing home automation software called Home Assistant. More and more device

If you’re looking for a straightforward specs comparison, here’s the table on screen showing you the key differences between the various smart home networks. I’m not entirely sure

This little thing is a wireless doorbell I bought off of Amazon for £17, but with some blood, sweat, tears, 10p in ethernet cable, and a £6 ESP32

A couple weeks ago I showed off this, the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition, an ESP32 based smart speaker that if set up to use Whisper and Piper

This sleek and stylish little box is the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition, a replacement for your Amazon Echo that runs fully locally (if you want anyway) and

You can make your own Zigbee devices! DIY Zigbee How To Thanks to these little boards, you can make your own Zigbee devices! Scrap ESPHome and WiFi, these

These are Artika Skyshade Smart LED light panels, and these are an absolute steal at just £60 from Costco here in the UK – so much so that

This little guy is a zigbee presence detection sensor – specifically the SonOff SNZB-06P – and it is completely different from this, a PIR motion sensor – specifically

This shot was taken at 10:30pm, with no lights on. For some context, this is what the world looked like to our eyes. This is one hell of

I, and I think most people that have these Nanoleaf Shapes panels have a bit of a problem. See the controllers – these things, the thing that actually