Automation
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What To Buy For Mother’s Day 2020: An Affordable Gift Guide
Mother’s Day is fast approaching. And many of us are left scratching our heads because let’s face it: Mother’s Day 2020 will be different from...
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The future of YAML
Recently, comments and questions in the community have been posted, about the announcement of integrations becoming available via the frontend...
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0.109: New integrations page and weather card, frontend lost weight.
Last week we wrote about the future of YAML . It raised quite a bit of additional questions, so Phil and Rohan released a special...
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Building a New RF Remote from Scratch
We’ve seen no shortage of projects that use the ESP8266 or ESP32 to add “smart” features to existing home appliances, often by pairing the...
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Aranet4 HOME Wireless Indoor Air Quality Monitor measuring CO2, Temperature, Relative Humidity and more
IoT devices that measure air quality are becoming increasingly common. I reviewed the Foobot back in 2017, then the Airthings Wave Plus in...
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LILIN Launches Edge-Based AIDA Traffic Management System
ARCADIA, Calif. — LILIN introduces the AIDA traffic management platform, with embedded artificial intelligence (AI) that learns, adapts and...
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Hot Takes on Fire Safety, Part 2: The Big Questions About Smoke Detectors, Answered
We recently caught up on video chat with a friend of the Guardian fam who bought a house about a year ago. After geeking out about backsplashes...
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How to Make a Z-Wave Driveway Motion Sensor (or Zigbee)
Want to know when the delivery truck is coming? Want to turn the lights on when you get home automatically? Whatever your motivation, stop...
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How to Update Your Kitchen Without Spending Too Much
Do everything you can to choose projects which will make the biggest impact for the lowest possible price. The post How to Update Your...
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30+ Useful Amazon Alexa Skills and Features
We are in 2020 and Amazon Alexa is still the superior smart home ecosystem. Alexa has truly invaded our homes when it comes to speakers, TVs,...