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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. New automation capabilities rolling out to the Home app — and even more advanced ones in the script editor — put ...

Supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems sit in the background in industrial settings, performing all kinds of important jobs but in an ad-hoc ...

I want to set up some basic home automation tasks but I've never done anything like this before. How do I get started? For that matter, what kind of things can I do and how much should I reasonably ...

Doorbot is an excellent idea poorly executed -- hold off for now and hope that this glitchy device improves with time. BOT Home Automation's $200 (available internationally for about £120, AU$215) ...

Home Assistant automatically creates my daily Obsidian notes, combining data and reflection for effortless journaling.