Using Home Assistant for smart home automation is for the brave. Want to make the IoT systems work with Home Assistant? You've got to put in some hours and embrace the learning curve. If you're game ...

For years we’ve seen a trickle of really interesting home automation projects that use the Node-RED package. Each time, the hackers behind these projects have raved about Node-RED and now I’ve joined ...

Hackstaer.io member Tyeth has published a new Raspberry Pi ZeroW project offering a quick recreation of the Pimoroni Python example using Node-RED as the trigger, with dynamic text. If you have not ...

The self-hosting ecosystem is rife with cool and quirky apps designed to automate every facet of your life. There’s the holy Terraform and Ansible combo for home lab enthusiasts who love watching VMs ...

On paper, pet doors are pretty great. You don’t have to keep letting the cat in and out, and there should be fewer scratches on the door overall. Unfortunately, your average pet door is indiscriminate ...

While you might be familiar with APIs, we’ll get into how they work and how they can be used in this tech project, using low-code programming to check the weather with your home lab. If your ...