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How to create automations in Home Assistant that supercharge your smart home

April 22, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 6 Comments

For the past several weeks, I’ve been continuing a journey to immerse myself with Home Assistant, the open-source software platform used as a DIY local smart home hub If you’ve missed the previous steps I’ve taken so far with my Home Assistant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Almond, automation, digital assistant, Home Assistant, local processing, raspberry pi, smart home, SSH, voice assistant, yaml

We need more routers that function as smart home hubs

June 25, 2018 by Kevin C. Tofel 7 Comments

If I had a dollar for every time my wife asked me “what is that new….. tech box for?” I’d be a very rich man. “Tech box” is her generic for all of the hubs, gateways, bridges, access points, and -- more recently -- smart speakers I’ve installed at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Almond, Fibaro, homekit, hub, Hubitat, iot gateway, mesh networking, router, samsung, Samsung SmartThings, smart home, TP-Link, WeMo, Wink

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