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The Best Smart Home Prime Day Deals 2023!

Amazon Prime Day 2023 is here on the 11th and 12th of July 2023! These are all of the best Smart Home Deals I have found for you today!

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Everything New In Home Assistant 2023.5!

Upgrade your smart home game with Home Assistant's latest voice features! Assistant pipelines, ESPHome smart speakers, VOIP, and more!

Smart Home Tech

The King Of Video Doorbells - Reolink Video Doorbell Review

The Reolink Video Doorbell features good image quality, person detection, PoE, motion zones, RTSP, Home Assistant integration and more!

Reviews

This Smart Home Sensor Has Insane Features! - Aqara FP2 Review

The Aqara FP2 boasts mmWave performance with zones, interference sources and fall detection, but does those advanced features come at cost?

Home Assistant

Everything New In Home Assistant 2023.4!

Home Assistant 2023.4 has new cards and UI elements for dashboards, better Android features, a Windows App and loads of template features!

Home Assistant

Everything New in Home Assistant 2023.3!

We are steamrolling on into the third Home Assistant release of the year already, 2023.3, and this month we see a few new UI changes, Matter & Thread upgrades and new abilities for Assist!

Home Assistant

Easily Backup & Migrate Your Zigbee Network!

A new feature was added to Home Assistant that makes backing up and migrating your Home Assistant Zigbee network easier than ever, both on ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT - I will show you how, using the Home Assistant SkyConnect!

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Everything New in Home Assistant 2023.2!

Home Assistant 2023.2 has big updates when it comes to voice, with their new Assist feature. We also have live graphs, aliases and sensor groups plus so much more!

Home Assistant

Controlling Google Home With Home Assistant!

Controlling Google Home devices using Home Assistant just became a reality thanks to a brand new Integration, allowing you to automate even more things!

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Everything Presence One - Back In Stock!

You asked for it - the Everything Presence One is back for another wave of pre-orders! 🥳 The Everything Presence One supports a 24GHz mmWave Sensor for accurate presence detection, a powerful PIR for lightning fast responses, a temperature and humidity sensor for climate monitoring, ambient lighting sensor for smart control

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Everything New in Home Assistant 2022.11!

Home Assistant 2022.11 includes new cards, water usage tracking, a better way to reload automations and new template features!

Smart Home Tech

Why You Should(n't) Care About Matter For Your Smart Home

Matter is the new Smart Home standard on the block - is it going to be a game changer for your smart home or have we seen similar promises before?

Guides

4 Automations For A Better Smart Home Alarm System!

Take your DIY smart home alarm to the next level with multi user support on keypads, a silent panic mode, a panic button & NFC control!

Newsletter

The Everything Presence One - Available for Pre-order now!

The smart home presence sensor made specifically with Home Assistant community in mind - available now for pre-order! The Everything Presence One supports a 24GHz mmWave Sensor for accurate presence detection, a powerful PIR for lightning fast responses, a temperature and humidity sensor for climate monitoring, ambient lighting sensor for

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Everything New In Home Assistant 2022.10!

Home Assistant 2022.10 includes better discovery of integrations, even more Bluetooth support, dashboard features and several new integrations!

Reviews

The SwitchBot Lock Is ALMOST Perfect But...

The SwitchBot lock can be installed in minutes, is relatively affordable and can be retrofitted to a wide variety of locks, but it has one thing missing..

Home Assistant

Build Your Own Local Controlled Smart Home Alarm!

You can build your own smart home alarm system in Home Assistant using hardware you may have, and an excellent custom component that makes things super easy!

Reviews

Aqara Radiator Thermostat E1 Review

The Aqara Radiator Thermostat E1 is a quick and simple way to achieve individual zone controlled heating - but are they worth the price tag?

Reviews

How Did They Get This So Wrong!? - Sonoff NSPanel Pro Review

The Sonoff NSPanel Pro is the latest release in the NSPanel line-up of Smart Home Scene Switches - but can it deliver on the promise that it's pro name suggests?

Home Assistant

Everything New in Home Assistant 2022.9!

Home Assistant 2022.9 is here so let's take a look at the excellent new additions & features, including even more Bluetooth upgrades with ESPHome & Home Assistant, ZigBee backups, a brand new helper for scheduling and an overhaul on the automation UI!

Reviews

FINALLY Some Real Competition For Smart Curtains! - Aqara Curtain Driver E1 Review

Aqara has launched a new wireless solution for smart curtains with Zigbee - but how does it stack up compared to the trusty SwitchBot Curtains? Let's find out!

Home Assistant

The Full Guide To Getting Started With Home Assistant Yellow!

The Home Assistant Yellow is a smart home hub focused on local control, privacy and powerful automations - come along as I show you how to set it up from start to finish.

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Everything New In Home Assistant 2022.8

Home Assistant 2022.8 brings big improvements to Bluetooth, a new feature called Repairs, HomeKit upgrades and other quality of life improvements.

Smart Home Tech

Easy & Free Remote Access For Home Assistant!

I have covered quite a few different remote access solutions for Home Assistant, either through port forwarding or setting up a VPN. But recently, it has emerged there is another way to do it...via a Cloudflare tunnel! It's easy to get started and best of all? It's free!

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The Pilot

Welcome to our first newsletter full of Home Assistant tips and Automations to level up your smart home game!