Home Assistant announced today the availability of the Voice Preview Edition, its own design of a living-room-friendly box to offer voice assistance with home automation. Having used it for a few ...

The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition represents a significant step forward in smart home automation, focusing on local voice control as an alternative to cloud-based systems. This open source ...

I don't have enough home right now to automate (and a miniscule power budget*), but once I do I will definitely have to keep this in mind. Google Assistant used to be really handy. I had some basic ...