Smart Home
This section explains the core concepts behind modern smart homes — from sensors and wireless protocols to platforms like Home Assistant and MQTT. If you’re new to smart home tech, or want to properly understand how everything fits together before building, this is the right place to begin.
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Smart bulbs or smart light switches? Which one should you buy?
There are numerous benefits to using smart lighting over traditional lights. Most people find that the increased convenience is a huge benefit. With smart lighting, you can turn on and off lights, either via an app or automatically via automations. In addition, you often get more control, such as changing the lights' colour, brightness, and…
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4 Benefits you need to know about Smart Lighting
Adding smart lighting to your home can be one of the easiest ways to get started on your smart home journey. There are plenty of reasons to adopt smart lighting, here are our top benefits and reasons to adopt smart lighting.Matter even relevant to me?
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Matter vs Reality: What Home Assistant Users Should Know
You’ve probably heard of Matter — the new smart home standard backed by Apple, Google, Amazon, and others. It promises to fix compatibility headaches by letting all your devices talk to each other, regardless of brand or ecosystem. Sounds great. But if you’re already deep into smart home setups — especially with Home Assistant and Zigbee/Z-Wave/etc. — you might…
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