Although the HomePod and HomePod mini haven’t been Apple’s most successful products, the smart speakers have become an essential part of my life. Tonya and I constantly use them to control ...

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 ...

When you want to connect an IoT device to anything (or, for that matter, anything to anything), you should take a serious look at Node-RED, a free, open source visual process wiring system from IBM ...

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 ...

The list of my recent blog posts explaining new technologies impacting plant floor device use in Internet of Things applications is about to get one item longer with this post on Node-RED. The rest of ...