The self-hosting ecosystem is rife with cool and quirky apps designed to automate every facet of your life. There’s the holy Terraform and Ansible combo for home lab enthusiasts who love watching VMs ...

Featuring stylish wireless equipment and affordable monitoring, including a free self-monitoring plan, SimpliSafe makes it easy to build your own home security system and manage every aspect from the ...

Today’s project of the day is from J-J Shortcuts’s blog and is about the voice activated home automation project, a domotica controlled room. First let’s see it in action: This is the beginning of my ...

If you would like to add programmable controls via touchscreen and rotary dials to your existing project or next home automation system the M5Dial might be worth more investigation. Its interactive ...

Thanks to the ESP8266 and the ESP32, we’ve seen an explosion in DIY home automation projects recently. When it only takes $3 and a few lines of code to bring your gadgets onto the network, that’s ...

Over the years we’ve seen several attempts at adding Internet connectivity to the lowly wired doorbell. Generally, these projects aim to piggyback on the existing wiring, bells, and buttons rather ...