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

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

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Google recently added a tiny change to voices available to a small set of users currently testing Gemini-powered Assistant on Nest speakers.

A Google exec is promising “major improvements” for Google Assistant on smart home devices following a spike in user complaints.

Over the past couple weeks, Google Home and Nest users reported serious glitches with their smart home devices. Some users ...

In recent years, smart technology has made its way into almost every aspect of our daily lives. From smart homes that can ...

As it turns out, Google’s overtures about fixing its smart home app and doing better may not be enough for people, and all of ...

Security researchers have shown that Google Gemini can be hijacked via hidden calendar prompts to control smart home devices, ...

It's been a slow erosion, but recent cracks in Google's smart home foundation paint a very grim picture of the future.

Another fix that’s been reported in the recent app update is camera stream reliability, where Google has “fixed an issue where turning a camera off and on during a live stream would result in a ...