Managing a smart home with individual apps and cloud platforms for each smart device can quickly become tedious and frustrating. Instead, you can bring everything under one roof using MQTT, a ...

Google Home's new automation editor adds a lot of powerful triggers and conditions, but it's still far behind what I require ...

I 've been connecting everything I can to my Home Assistant lately, from my BBQ smoker to a small fleet of robotic vacuums.

Les Masterson is a deputy editor and insurance analyst at Forbes Advisor. He has been a journalist, reporter, editor and content creator for more than 25 years. He has covered insurance for a decade, ...