Home Assistant’s unofficial app store is going official.

The Home Assistant 2025.4 release is here. This is the fourth update from the open source smart home automation company this year, following its regular monthly release pattern. In March, the 2025.3 ...

For years, my security cameras were basically background noise. I had them running; I got the occasional notification, and I mostly ignored the app until something actually went wrong. But with Home ...

For years, my smart home ran on Google Home. When I decided to switch, Apple's new smart hub was tempting, but Home Assistant ...

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Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

A seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, Chandraveer brings more than four years of consumer tech journalism experience to the table, with bylines at Android Police and ...

Home Assistant OS can serve as a user-friendly control hub for your smart devices. Here's how to get started. Smart homes make sense. The devices that bring a certain level of automation to your home ...

Home Assistant keeps getting better and better, and a recent update brings another key improvement to the self-hosted, open-source smart home platform: a revamped “overview” dashboard that’s far ...

Have you ever felt like your smart home setup is more chaotic than convenient? With countless devices, apps, and cloud services vying for your attention, managing it all can feel overwhelming. Enter ...

Building a custom smart home control panel can feel like a daunting task, but Techiesms demonstrates how the ESP32-P4 module simplifies the process. Central to this project is a 10.1-inch TFT ...

Home Assistant 2026.7 releases publicly on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 — two days from now — and brings the most consequential set of changes to the platform's automation engine and Matter implementation ...