Here's how my local voice assistant controls the smart home devices, powered by a local LLM that works with Home Assistant.

Home Assistant is an open-source smart home controller. It’s designed to make it easy for you to manage your smart home devices. Getting started with Home Assistant is super easy, and this blog ...

Smart home devices enable users to make the leap from tapping a button to simply asking for what they want. In the world of smart home assistants, speakers are the new screens, offering their own ...

Andy Rubin, the co-creator of the Android mobile phone operating system, has launched a new company called Essential Products to sell a high-end smartphone and a home assistant device. Palo Alto ...

Google has publicly acknowledged the ongoing reliability issues with its Assistant on Home and Nest devices. The company has ...

Open source software allows devices to communicate for easy smart home automation. You can pair LG TVs with Google Home or Amazon Alexa and control them through voice commands. Use Home Assistant ...

Further, Google says over the course of 2018, the number of active Assistant users grew by a factor of four. Google also shared a blog post outlining several ways Assistant became more helpful in 2018 ...

Not many people could have predicted the popularity of Amazon's Alexa when the product was first announced in 2014.It is a small speaker-like home automation device that can do everything from ...

It seems Google is making an effort to bring Assistant’s functionality to parity across Home and smartphones that feature the voice-activated assistant. One of the most confusing things about Google’s ...