Zigbee2MQTT

Lux sensors sound simple until the lights you turn on trip the sensor that turned them on. Here's the full chain, from Aqara T1 to Matter's missing...

Wi-Fi IoT ships locked to vendor clouds by default. Here's what it takes to break out — and where Wi-Fi is actually the right tool.

Picking a Zigbee RGB controller is the easy part — sizing the power supply and keeping mains water out is where patio lighting projects live or die.

Three gateways tested, three hurdles revealed. What actually works when bridging OT gear to Home Assistant.

Can Home Assistant run in the cloud while Zigbee stays local? We explore the decoupled control plane architecture.

Three engineering problems in a trench coat. Make Zigbee sirens, Snapcast speakers, and push-to-talk audio actually work together.

Can you mix Thread border routers from different brands across floors? Yes—here's how it actually works.

Cheap bulbs aren't the whole story — physics limits how bright color LEDs can get. Here's what to buy instead.

The "mesh" promise fails when you hit the coordinator bottleneck. Here's why multiple hubs don't work like Wi-Fi.

Tired of your smart home crashing? Discover why moving your home's "brain" to the cloud might be the ultimate reliability hack for your setup.

Herman and Corn dive into the shifting landscape of smart home protocols and why Ethernet coordinators are the future of home automation.