Home Assistant is flexible enough to run on a wide range of hardware, but in my experience, nothing matches the Raspberry Pi 4B or 5. It isn’t just about convenience or power efficiency, though those ...

Home Assistant is an open-source smart home platform. It’s a local server-based solution that runs on almost anything. It ...

If you use Control4 products, there’s a new way to take control. At CEDIA 2019, Google and SnapAV, a producer of audio/visual, surveillance, networking, automation, and remote management products, ...

Google’s Wear OS has long been able to control smart home devices thanks to Google Assistant, but it’s never had a touch-based method of doing so. This week, the popular open-source smart home client ...

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.

Google today detailed the new Winter 2023 features for Android. A number of them are for Wear OS, like the Google Home app adding support for manually setting Home/Away. Google Home for Wear OS will ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Wear OS will soon be getting a new Google Assistant app Tile, according to an APK teardown from 9to5Google. Judging by strings ...

The most notable new feature is the ability for your compatible Wear OS device to respond to your Google Assistant queries using the familiar Google Assistant voice. Now, when you ask Google Assistant ...

It’s official: Wear OS smartwatches are set for a significant voice assistant upgrade soon. Although it’s one of Google’s worst-kept secrets, Gemini will soon replace Assistant on various Google ...