As voice recognition and natural language parsing have improved so has the availability of digital personal assistants, from Bixby to Alexa or Cortana to Google Assistant, all the major tech companies ...

Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi provides customizable automations for smart home control. Pi-hole on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W blocks ads and trackers on all network devices. MQTT-based system on Raspberry ...

Setting up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi gives full control with no subscription fees or cloud dependency. Home Assistant supports various integrations beyond lights and plugs, stays open-source, ...

Smart home frameworks, broadly speaking, are meant to give you a greater degree of control over the features and functions of your home via interconnected devices. No matter how prevalent smart home ...

The benefits of smart home automation may keep you from ever going back to a "dumb" home again. Controlling the temperature, turning on the lights, locking the doors, and seeing who's at the door — ...

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A Raspberry Pi computer can do a little of everything, including keeping you occupied if you need a new project (or distraction). This teeny-tiny computer not only clocks in at a low price, but could ...

Type a sentence into the input bar at the top of the Serial Monitor and hit Enter to send it to the Wit.ai API. The console will log " Requesting TTS " followed by " Buffer ready, starting playback ," ...