[Tijmen Schep] sends in his project, Candle Smart Home, which is an exhibit of 12 smart home devices which are designed around the concepts of ownership, open source, and privacy. The central contr… ...

H ome Assistant is an open-source smart home controller. It’s designed to make it easy for you to manage your smart home devices. Getting started with Home Assistant is super easy, and this blog ...

It's no secret that the smart home world is dominated by Big Tech, with Amazon's Alexa leading the charge, closely followed by Google Home and Apple HomeKit. These popular automation systems aren ...

Internet of Anything: An Open-Source Smart Home You Control. The Calaos Project wants to build a home automation system that you control, not Google. Raoul Hecky/The Calaos Project ...

Researchers at Princeton University have built a web app that lets you (and them) spy on your smart home devices to see what they’re up to. The open source tool, called IoT Inspector ...

Since then, it's developed into the most comprehensive and powerful smart home platform that the general public has never heard of. You won't see advertisements for it on Amazon, which wants Alexa ...

A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's beats included smart home tech, lighting, appliances, broadband and home networking. Despite looking a bit like an alarm clock, Mycroft is an open-source ...

Apple is open-sourcing parts of its HomeKit ADK to “accelerate the development” of a new smart home standard. The move means that anyone now has access to the software and can prototype ...

A community-built, open-source smart home platform, Home Assistant differs from its major “big tech” competitors — such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home, because it offers four things ...

A newly launched, open-source smart home standard called Matter changes the foundation for this category of connection, though. Matter brings compatibility with Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit ...