Home Assistant, the self-hosted smart home platform, is dropping support for two installation methods and three legacy CPU architectures. If your device is affected, you have a few months to migrate ...

Homey's smart home hubs are a great way to run a private and local smart home from one box. Now, the company is taking on Home Assistant with Homey Self-Hosted Server, an operating system you can run ...

Buy enough tech and you can’t escape the siren call of a smart home. Amazon practically throws Echo Dots at you. Google will sneak a Nest Mini in the box with almost anything you buy in its store.

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