Spend enough time looking at home automation setups, and you’ll quickly find there are two competing philosophies. The first wants to put an Arduino on every light socket, with everything connected by ...

The openHAB community has released the regular summer version 4.2 of the open source platform for smart home control. The focus is on mobile notifications, which are more comprehensive and clearer in ...

It's midday and the offices of the Digital Life Labs are lit up like a Christmas tree. All the smart lights are on. Nobody turned them on, and when we turn them off, they come back on again the moment ...

Smarthomes are supposed to make life simpler, but for many users, the convenience comes with hidden costs. Be it subscriptions, outages or, simply, privacy concerns. Cloud-based services are the go-to ...

If you are interested in learning more about home automation and would like to create your very own Raspberry Pi powered touchscreen command centre that is capable of interfacing with over 150 ...

Use the power of Ubuntu’s openHAB appliance and the Mycroft Voice Assistant to voice-enable your home. The open Home Automation Bus (openHAB) can connect all the diverse IoT appliances that may or may ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Turning your home into a smart home is extremely popular – so popular, in fact, that it has become a $28 billion industry in America as of ...