Do you own smart home devices, but still feel like your home is dumb? Being able to turn your lights on and off from your phone is fun for a while, but that's home control, not home automation. Home ...

These days, it seems like everything, even your usual everyday-use objects such as refrigerators and plugs, can be enhanced with smart home technology. Many grueling day-to-day tasks that used to take ...

Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi provides customizable automations for smart home control. Pi-hole on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W blocks ads and trackers on all network devices. MQTT-based system on Raspberry ...

A Raspberry Pi home automation project enables controlling lights, sensors, and smart devices via open-source software, turning any house into a smart home.

So you want to start up a smart home, do you? They can be a lot of fun, especially when you really get into the rhythm of setting up devices and getting them on your network. Best of all, because it's ...

and other smart home gadgets, you might want to set up a control hub instead of relying on a dozen or so apps from different manufacturers. You can transform your old Raspberry Pi into a powerful ...

Have you ever come home from work wishing you didn't have to juggle bags of groceries and fumble for the light switches? You could easily make your house smarter, and that doesn't require spending ...

Makers and Raspberry Pi enthusiasts interested in building their very own high-tech garden might be interested to know that the latest MagPi magazine issue #117 is now available offering you ideas and ...

[Tony] decided his “smart” LED TV wasn’t quite smart enough. So he stuffed a Raspberry Pi in it. Upon opening the case of his 40″ Hisense Smart LED TV, he discovered that the logic board actually had ...

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