Smart Home

An n8n "I got home" webhook vs an iOS Shortcut for the same lights: which one survives the next phone update

Callum Park

September 23, 2026

Phone presence in Home Assistant vs a mmWave sensor at the desk: the lights that turn off while you sit there

Drew Morrison

September 23, 2026

Home Assistant's automation editor vs Node-RED for one Zigbee button: which flow you can still read next year

Drew Morrison

September 23, 2026

A Used Mini PC vs a Raspberry Pi for Home Assistant Only: When the Board Is the Bottleneck

Drew Morrison

September 22, 2026

Zigbee Parent Aging: End Devices Stuck on a Coordinator Across the House

Ines Volk

September 21, 2026

A Zigbee Router That Is a Bulb You Turn Off at the Switch

Paul Riker

September 21, 2026

Changing a Zigbee Channel Without Re-Pairing the Whole House

Ines Volk

September 21, 2026

Zigbee vs Thread for a New Apartment: One Border Router vs a USB Stick You Keep Replugging

Ines Volk

September 18, 2026

Home Assistant vs Hubitat When the Mesh Misbehaves: Local Automations That Still Call Home

Drew Morrison

September 18, 2026

Zigbee Channel 15 vs 25: USB 3 Noise That Looks Like a Dying Coordinator

Helena Vos

September 18, 2026

Hue Bridge vs Zigbee2MQTT: When Philips' Mesh Fights Your Coordinator

Helena Vos

August 25, 2026

Thread Credential Sharing vs a Second Border Router: Why Adding an Apple TV Doesn't Heal the Mesh

Nolan Ibarra

August 25, 2026

Zigbee Groups vs Home Assistant Scenes: When the Hub Makes Lights Lag

Paul Riker

August 25, 2026

IoT VLAN vs a Flat LAN with Pi-hole: What Isolation Actually Breaks in Home Assistant

Helen Cho

August 25, 2026

SLZB-06 vs a USB Coordinator on Ethernet: Placement Fixes the Stick Doesn't

Lukas Reeve

August 25, 2026

Matter over Thread vs Matter over Wi-Fi: When the Border Router Isn't the Weak Link

Amina Colette

August 25, 2026

Zigbee2MQTT vs ZHA: When the Coordinator Isn't the Thing That's Broken

Ines Volk

August 25, 2026

Why Smart Irrigation Controllers Still Guess Wrong About Your Actual Soil

Paul Eriksson

July 9, 2026

LoRaWAN for Home Sensors: When Wi-Fi Is Overkill and Mesh Gets Noisy

Lin Nakamura

April 8, 2026

Local-Only Smart Cameras Without the Cloud Subscription: A Realistic Setup Path

Rachel Kowalski

April 8, 2026

Moving House With Home Assistant: What Actually Breaks and What Survives

Drew Morrison

April 8, 2026

Z-Wave 800 Series vs Zigbee 3.0 for US Homes: An Interference Reality Check

Drew Morrison

April 8, 2026

Thread Border Router Failover: What Users Expect vs What the Spec Actually Guarantees

Ethan Cole

April 8, 2026

Zigbee Coordinator Firmware: When Downgrading Beats the Latest Release for Mesh Stability

Lin Nakamura

April 8, 2026

Thread Border Router Placement: Why One Bad Corner Tanks Your Whole Mesh

Drew Morrison

April 8, 2026

Why Matter Bridges Still Feel Beta for Power Users in 2026

Ryan Collier

April 7, 2026

Zigbee Router Tables: Reading Network Maps Without Losing Your Mind

Drew Morrison

April 7, 2026

Zigbee End Devices That Wake Too Often: Battery Drain Patterns Makers Miss

Drew Morrison

April 7, 2026

Thread Border Router on Raspberry Pi: Stability Wins That Matter in 2026

Sam Chen

April 7, 2026

Self-Hosted Home Assistant Yellow vs Commercial Zigbee Hubs in 2026

Drew Morrison

April 7, 2026