New doorbell from Ring – old design, updated features
Powered by a battery and detects motion via radar technology, which helps the sensor to be more precise. But the
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Ecosystems
Using voice commands to control Home Assistant. Part 2
Today, we continue setting up voice control in Home Assistant. This time, we will need a small yet cheap device
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How to set up voice control for Home Assistant
For quite a while, we have had smart speakers in our house, allowing us to control appliances with a simple
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Tracking Sun and Moon in Home Assistant
You can track the Sun in the standard Home Assistant integration. The integration creates an object with two possible states: above_horizon,
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Your Echo Dot can now be used as a Wi-Fi hotspot
Echo and Echo dot 4th Gen speakers from Amazon will soon act as mesh hotspots for Eero Wi-Fi routers. There
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Review of the first Matter device from Sonoff: Mini R4M
Today, I want to show you a rather interesting and perspective device from a well-known Chinese brand. Should you buy
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Home Assistant panel on Sonoff NSPanel Pro
This article is my adaptation of the story of enthusiast in smart homes who calls himself blakadder. His experience is
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Setting up Lovelace UI on NSPanel
In one of my previous articles, I introduced you to a way to flash NSPanel for better compatibility with Home
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Hue Essentials is now available for Mac computers
The owners of Mac computers can now not only control Philips Hue lighting by using voice commands or apps on
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Introduction to a powerful single-channel WiFi relay Shelly1
Today, I want to acquaint you with an intriguing device. It’s a Wi-Fi relay based on the ESP8266 controller, which
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