After years of trusting Synology, a slow drift in hardware choices and software decisions pushed me to finally move on.

If you've ever tried to install Home Assistant, it's likely you've seen the numerous ways to get it up and going. I started with the recommended method, and, through trial and error, found the most ...

Build a voice assistant on Raspberry Pi using ElevenLabs and Open Meteo, so you get live forecasts hands free.

Windows’ built-in Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) command, a.k.a. dism.exe, is something of a Swiss Army knife when it comes to working on Windows OS images. Among its many ...

As a writer for Forbes Home since 2021, Emily specializes in writing about home warranties, solar installations, car transportation and moving companies. With a background in journalism and experience ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Pi-hole is an open-source application that blocks advertisements and internet tracking on a private network. By setting up Pi-hole as DNS server on your local router, all devices connected to your ...

A better user experience for installing Home Assistant on Intel/AMD CPU (x86_64/amd64) machines. Note: for ARM-based machines with the best user experience, check out Home Assistant Yellow, a ...

Retrospective Home & Automation: the trends that marked the year and the most read articles (energy, Home Assistant, AI, high ...

While using the Windows 11 Installation Assistant, users have been encountering the 0xc1900101 error message. Some users encounter the problem while trying to upgrade ...

Earlier this year, we introduced Rufus, our new generative AI-powered conversational shopping assistant. Rufus is designed to help customers save time and make more informed purchase decisions by ...

AI assistants have started to take a more prominent place in our lives, helping us with things like summarizing content, writing code, creating playlists, or managing calendar events. It frees up ...