Having a smart home isn’t just about automated routines and colorful lightbulbs. There are many upgrades that can protect your home and its occupants, some of which you’ll hopefully never need and ...

Single mode is the default setting in Home Assistant. This is intended to stop automations from repeatedly running when the sensors that trigger the automations keep changing.

When [Elixir of Progress] was looking at setting up environmental sensors around their home to keep track of temperature, humidity and such, the obvious ideas of using WiFi-connected sensors didn’t ...