Tag: smart home

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 –

Hi and welcome to episode 6 of my DIY smart home series. So far we have set up our main system using Home Assistant, connected Zigbee devices, created

One of the key advantages of internet connected smart home kit like Philips Hue or Samsung SmartThings is the ability to access and control your smart home tech

Hi and welcome to episode 4 of my DIY smart home series – last episode we covered a whole lot about Home Assistant, custom components and lighting controls,