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…
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…
Espressif has announced the ESP32-H21, a new low-power wireless SoC designed for Thread, Matter, Zigbee, and Bluetooth Low Energy devices. The company published the announcement on March 3, 2026, positioning the chip as an enhanced option for battery-sensitive IoT products.…
Espressif has announced the ESP32-H4, a new System-on-Chip aimed at advanced battery-powered wireless products, and the company says samples are now available on request. The announcement was published on March 27, 2026. The main selling point of the ESP32-H4 is…
Gas is one of the cleanest Home Assistant utility projects because it gives you something genuinely useful without needing cloud services or a paid device ecosystem. Home Assistant supports gas tracking directly in its energy tools, and ESPHome’s pulse_meter component…
ESP32-S31 – A Big Step Up for Smart Devices and Rich HMI Projects Espressif has announced the ESP32-S31, a new high-performance SoC aimed at advanced IoT products that need much more than basic Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The company published the…