Tag: smart home

I was sat one morning procrastinating doing work when YouTube popped up a video from Jaiden Animations. I like Jaiden’s work, so I gave it a watch, and

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

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

It’s been a touch over two years since I started the DIY Smart Home series, and since I started installing and using smart home tech, so I thought

Matter really seems like it’s the future of smart home and internet-of-things tech – but what even is it? It’s a bit of a complicated and under-supported mess

It’s not too far from being a full year since I started installing my self-hosted smart home kit, so I thought I’d give you a bit of an

If you’ve watched any of my DIY smart home series, you’ll know I’m somewhat militant with my approach to smart devices. I don’t do cloud hosted stuff –