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What the heck is the Home Assistant Amber and do you need it?

September 27, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Todd called in to our voicemail hotline with a question about a brand new smart home device. He heard about the recently announced Home Assistant Amber, wondering if we were familiar with it and if we'll be reviewing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Home Assistant, Home Assistant Amber, Home Assistant Blue, hubs, open source, raspberry pi, smart home

Can open-source smart home systems save your deprecated devices?

April 10, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Danny called in to our voicemail hotline with a very interesting question. He wants to know if platforms such as Home Assistant or OpenHAB could help support older smart devices that lose support from their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: APIs, Home Assistant, hubs, open source, openhab, smart home, SmartThings, Wink

The inexpensive age of DIY smart home image detection is here if you’re up for it

February 17, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

I’ve said many times in the past that every home ought to have a Raspberry Pi computer. And that is even truer for every smart home. Aside from being relatively inexpensive, these sub-$50 computers can accept analog signals from sensors, are easy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: AI, DIY, Home Assistant, HomeBridge, image recognition, iot, machine learning, ML, MMQT, open source, person detection, raspberry pi, smart home, webcams

DIY smart home hubs are going retail: Here’s why that’s a good thing

December 16, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

For years, there have been two kinds of hubs that run smart homes. One is the kind you buy from a retailer, such as the Amazon Echo Plus, Hubitat, Samsung SmartThings, or Wink hubs. And one is the DIY kind where you download and install software to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, DIY, google, Home Assistant, Home Assistant Blue, HomeBridge, hubs, open source, raspberry pi, samsung, smart home

Just how secure is Home Assistant? (Hint: very)

April 8, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 3 Comments

On our most recent IoT Podcast, a listener with the same name as me called in asking about Home Assistant security. Specifically, he wanted to know how secure I thought it was and I'm super glad he asked. Why? Because as I've continued my DIY journey … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: 2FA, Home Assistant, hubs, Nabu Casa, open source, raspberry pi, security, smart home, SSH, VPN

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