In 2019, I thought I had my ideal smart home and it all relied on Google Home. Then it all started failing piece by piece.

If you're spending more time fixing your smart home than using it, it could be time to stop relying on the cloud. Here's how.

We surveyed our readers about their favorite smart home devices, including which smart assistants they use and love.

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There is so much I love about Home Assistant, but I still have to fall back to Samsung SmartThings more often than I'd like.

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SCIOTO COUNTY — Law enforcement agents seized over 300 grams of methamphetamine and 14 guns from an Ohio home last week. On Wednesday, Oct. 29, the Southern Ohio Organized and Major Crimes Task Force ...

For decades my fellow Republicans quoted Thomas Jefferson: “The government closest to the people serves the people best.” As the heirs of Ronald Reagan, we know local control is most responsive to and ...

SAN ANTONIO — A fire in a shed in someone's backyard threatened a neighboring home before firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze. The fire was reported around 3:45 a.m. in the 300 block of ...

I began replacing the devices around my home, one by one, with all different kinds of open hardware, rather than the proprietary devices I was used to. Now, I have many different ESPHome-powered ...