Sluggish automations can make your smart home feel unresponsive, which can ruin the user experience. Diagnosing the issue can ...

Set up Pi-hole on a $15 Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with Cloudflare DNS to cut ads on all devices, improving speed and privacy at home.

Designed by Guimpt in Spain, the IoT HDMI Switch is an ESP32-C3-based open-source HDMI switch that integrates with Home ...

A Raspberry Pi is cheaper, simpler, and far easier for beginners to learn on than a mini PC when building a starter smart ...

The 52Pi UPS Gen 6 is another UPS solution for the Raspberry Pi 5 that supports external battery packs for long-duration ...

Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained – these days, you can get a quad-core board with 8 or 16GB of RAM to go around, ...

In brief: A couple in the UK has become the first people in the country to heat their home using a small data center in their shed, part of a trial scheme for low-income households to transition to ...

The benefits of smart home automation may keep you from ever going back to a "dumb" home again. Controlling the temperature, turning on the lights, locking the doors, and seeing who's at the door — ...

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Home Assistant OS fails to pull required Docker images from ghcr.io on a Home Assistant Yellow Kit using a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5). The system boots and basic networking works, but Docker ...

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 ...

Hedy Phillips is a freelance lifestyle writer based in New York. While she's not writing on topics like living on a budget and tips for city dwelling, she can usually be found at a concert or ...