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Connect an IR receiver to ESP32, learn remote codes in ESPHome and use them in Home Assistant. Includes wiring, YAML, protocols and fixes.

Home Assistant Yellow is the official expandable smart home hub designed for people who want more flexibility than Home Assistant Green. It runs Home Assistant locally, supports Raspberry Pi Compute Module hardware, includes built-in Zigbee and Thread-capable radio hardware, and…

Home Assistant Green is the official plug-and-play smart home hub for Home Assistant. It is designed for people who want to run Home Assistant at home without building a Raspberry Pi setup, installing an operating system, choosing storage, flashing images…

Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is the official voice assistant hardware built for Home Assistant. It is designed to let you control your smart home by voice, without relying on the usual big tech voice assistants. Instead of sending every…

If you are building a local smart home with Home Assistant and want to use Z-Wave devices, the Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 is the official adapter Home Assistant recommends. It is an 800 series Z-Wave adapter developed specifically for Home…

If you run Zigbee or Thread in Home Assistant, the obvious question is whether the new Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 is a genuine upgrade over Connect ZBT-1 or just a nicer-looking replacement. The answer is fairly simple: ZBT-2 is clearly…

Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 is the official USB radio adapter for adding Zigbee or Thread to Home Assistant. This guide explains what it does, how it differs from ZBT-1, whether it works with Matter, when to choose Zigbee instead of…

A lot of old-school timer setups are too predictable. The same lamp comes on at the same time, stays on for the same length, and switches off the same way every night. That is fine if your goal is only…