[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… ...

Home 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 ...

Smart home users who are privacy-conscious or looking for open-source solutions can use Nabu Casa or Home Assistant knowing they're governed by an organization that respects personal data protection.

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 ...

The newly formed Open Home Foundation and its project, Home Assistant, aim to become the overarching Matter interface and control platform. Home Assistant, the open-source smart home platform ...

Fortunately, open source software solutions, combined with the power of Ubuntu, offer an alternative—allowing users to create a customizable, cost-effective, and secure smart home ecosystem. In this ...

Seeking funding on Kickstarter, the Mycroft Smart Home AI Platform is voice-activated, cloud-connected, control device with Arduino and Raspberry Pi 2 at its core.

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, is ...

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, ...