Spend enough time looking at home automation setups, and you’ll quickly find there are two competing philosophies. The first wants to put an Arduino on every light socket, with everything connected by ...

The openHAB community has released the regular summer version 4.2 of the open source platform for smart home control. The focus is on mobile notifications, which are more comprehensive and clearer in ...

Smarthomes are supposed to make life simpler, but for many users, the convenience comes with hidden costs. Be it subscriptions, outages or, simply, privacy concerns. Cloud-based services are the go-to ...

Use the power of Ubuntu’s openHAB appliance and the Mycroft Voice Assistant to voice-enable your home. The open Home Automation Bus (openHAB) can connect all the diverse IoT appliances that may or may ...

Working towards automating a few things in a home often seems simple on the surface, but it’s easy for these projects to snowball into dozens of sensors and various servos, switches, and cameras ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Turning your home into a smart home is extremely popular – so popular, in fact, that it has become a $28 billion industry in America as of ...