Spend enough time looking at home automation setups, and you’ll quickly find there are two competing philosophies. The first wants to put an Arduino on every light socket, with everything connected by ...

The openHAB community has released the regular summer version 4.2 of the open source platform for smart home control. The focus is on mobile notifications, which are more comprehensive and clearer in ...

Smarthomes are supposed to make life simpler, but for many users, the convenience comes with hidden costs. Be it subscriptions, outages or, simply, privacy concerns. Cloud-based services are the go-to ...