HassKit is New Home Assistant Control App
Home Assistant continues to gain fans around the world with its powerful ability to integrate multiple home automation systems. While it’s still very much a…
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Check Out This Cool Budget Wall Controller Setup using Home Assistant
Reddit user loonysup posted this cool smart home control panel Been working on this for a while now. It’s utilizing home assistant on the backend….
Home Assistant v0.89 Brings Expanded SmartThings Support & Adds Nissan Leaf
Popular open source Home Automation software, Home Assistant, continues its development pace with the release of v0.89. It’s time for release 0.89. It’s another great…
DIY Smart Home Hack Uses IFTTT API to Trigger MQTT Home Assistant Action
While the mail box is more of a US concept than a UK one, there’s some satisfying DIY smart home hackery going on here that…
Weekend Project: Setting up Home Assistant on your PC or Mac
Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3 Earlier this week version 0.18 was released and with it even more support…
Video Review: Amazon Echo Your Smart Home Assistant?
The new Echo is a 9 inch high tube shaped Bluetooth and Wi-Fi speaker coupled to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, their version of Apple’s Siri…
Home Assistant – Open Source Python Home Automation Platform
Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3. The software allows you to track and control devices around your home from a single, mobile-friendly,…
Frigate is Open Source CCTV People Sensor, MQTT Integration with HomeAssistant
Frigate is an Open Source CCTV People Sensor Blake Blackshear’s project on GitHub uses OpenCV and Tensorflow to perform realtime object detection on RTSP cameras with…
Smart Home Wifi Chaos Recovery
I managed to get almost everything back online and functioning again after the chaos that ensued after my last update. In fact, for several devices,…
Will Matter Bring Smart Home Unity in 2022?
I’ve referred back to this post about a Smart Home Utopia many times since I wrote it 14 years ago. In the intervening years, there…
Converting to a DIY Shelly Smart Home – Part 1
Friend of Automated Home, MarkB, covers his latest DIY smart home project as he converts his house to use Shelly modules… There is no shortage…
Boundary Launch DIY Z-Wave Smart Home Security System
After hitting their Kickstarter funding target in just 48 hours back in June 2019, Edinburgh-based startup Boundary have just launched their new smart home security…
Black Friday Smart Home Bargains
Here’s our pick of some of the best Black Friday smart home bargains. As always, these Amazon Affiliate links do not affect the price you…
The Smart Home – Why is it so Complicated
I’ve mentioned Matt Ferrell’s YouTube channel before here, it’s a fascinating mix of coverage of topics mainly surrounding renewable energy. But his latest video delves…
Smart Home Bargains on Amazon Prime Day
Today and tomorrow (13th & 14th October 2020) sees Amazon run their annual Prime Day promotion. Here’s our pick of some of the best smart…
AutoHome Rewards: Win the Konnected Smart Alarm Panel
Many of us have an ancient wired security alarm in our homes. Sad little beige boxes under the stairs that actually have a world of…
Review: Aranet4 HOME Wireless Indoor Air Quality Monitor
We’re always interested in Air Quality sensors and the latest one to turn up at the Automated Home is the Aranet4. This is the first…
Imou Ranger IQ – AI Powered 1080p Pan Tilt Home Security Camera
Here’s a look at the new Imou Ranger IQ, plus a discount code for 30% off for Automated Home Readers. What is It? Imou is…
Aurora AOne Smart Home Lighting System Works With SmartThings
It’s time to sit up and take notice when a heavy weight in the lighting world like Aurora decides to create its own smart home…
Top 20 Automated Home Posts of the Year 2019
2019 was one to remember. It was the year that work got underway on the Automated Home 2.0 – thank you for following along with…