If you’re running Home Assistant on a server that’s not easily accessible, you might be interested in making the platform’s files more easily accessible via a network share. This is pretty easy to do, ...

What if your smart home could anticipate your needs, troubleshoot itself, and adapt to your preferences with unprecedented ease? The Home Assistant 2025.5 release promises exactly that. Packed with ...

The configuration.yaml file is a set of instructions commonly located under the config directory on your Home Assistant ...

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 ...

Home Assistant has just taken the covers off of its latest device: the Connect ZBT-2, which is a big USB dongle that will give your smart home a high-performance Zigbee or Thread connection. It’s the ...

Your 2026 smart home will work best if your devices can all talk to each other without having to jump through hoops. Home ...

Smart home tech brands will often label everything as "AI," but not all of it will actually be. Conversational voice ...

In case you missed it, we polled our readers on the smart home tech they use and love. The results are in, and your favorite smart home brands have been revealed. As part of that survey, we also asked ...