Rich Edmonds Mar 29, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
…Related 4 Home Assistant cards that actually make dashboards usable A collection of neat cards to spice up boring old Home Assistant dashboards The only caveats of the new wake word detection…
…hobbyist home lab hardware. On top of that, there's a built-in unique selling point too, the single biggest advantage over a Raspberry Pi is the battery. If your home lab…
…Instead of saving time, my phone became a dashboard of constant interruptions—motion alerts, battery warnings, and API timeouts. My smart home had turned into a collection of isolated gadgets rather than…
…And I don’t mean simple dashboards displaying Home Assistant’s UI elements, either. Thanks to the HASS.Agent application, I can stream practically anything from my PC to my ESP32-based…
…Remote access to a print dashboard is convenient, but it still leaves too much riding on me noticing a problem fast enough. Once I let Home Assistant serve as the layer that…
…Why should you have to view ads in your own home on hardware that you own? The irony here is that you probably have a three-year-old flagship phone in your…
…the games are still great, or the homebrew scene gives the hardware a second life. The Xbox 360 now has both. For a long time, Microsoft’s seventh-generation console was too…
…The dashboard was lightweight, built on Python and Flask. There was even an SMS dead man’s switch sending alerts over the cellular network, completely outside my home network. The SMS function…
…4 reasons you need to use WireGuard instead of OpenVPN for connecting to your home lab remotely If you have a home lab and want to connect to it remotely, WireGuard is…