These metal washers are replacing smart home sensors, and they work without a single wire or battery
… Matter does not natively support Z-Wave. …
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Matter promised to fix smart homes, but created a worse mess instead
… Related Zigbee 4.0 supports more than 2.4 GHz, and it might finally end the smart home protocol war The move to 900MHz could change everything. …
Curtain automation is fun, but the weird smart home projects are where things get really useful
… Matter does not natively support Z-Wave. …
The real reason you should move to Proxmox isn't virtualization
… Related You need this free self-hosted tool if you're using Proxmox Its utility goes up even more for multi-node Proxmox setups Community support makes Proxmox the king of virtualization distros Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts single-handedly made it accessible for beginners When I was a fledgling PVE us… …
I gave Matter two years to work, then ripped out every Thread node for Zigbee
… Related Zigbee 4.0 supports more than 2.4 GHz, and it might finally end the smart home protocol war The move to 900MHz could change everything. …
Belkin bricked my Wemo plugs, and it was the best thing that ever happened to my smart home
… However, most modern smart plugs only support Matter, so this isn't unusual. TP-Link also has its older Kasa line of smart plugs that support Matter, but I ultimately went with Tapo instead because the three-pack was cheaper at the time. …
Your smart home needs fewer Raspberry Pis and more boring microcontrollers
… The ESP32 family is a cost-effective alternative for Home Assistant projects You can build dozens of ESP32 smart gadgets for the same price as a base Raspberry Pi Between its solid connectivity options, easy-to-configure nature, and massive support from the tinkering community, the ESP32 lineup is … …
Android Auto bug forcing some Pixel users to unlock their phones before connecting
… It's unclear when this issue will be resolved, but an Android Community Support specialist has acknowledged the problem, so it's possible a fix could arrive soon. You can find the Google support thread about the problem here . …
Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless
… Your CPU is juggling rendering, physics calculations, asset streaming, audio processing, and AI routines all at once, across multiple threads. These threads need to coordinate constantly. …
I almost bought a used Nvidia Tesla GPU for my home lab, then I read what owners actually deal with
… Cards that used to be officially supported now require a community patch from the PolloLoco vGPU projec t, which is way more involved than just clicking "install." The kernel side adds another headache on top. …