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All 6 Smart Home articles, newest first. Back to the Smart Home overview.

  1. Build a Home Assistant Dashboard With AI: A Step-by-Step Guide10/10

    A step-by-step method for building a clean, Apple-inspired Home Assistant dashboard with an AI co-pilot — entity list, clear concept, the right cards, and iterative YAML.

  2. Editing Home Assistant With AI: 3 Ways to Manage Your Smart Home10/10

    Three honest ways to let an AI help with your Home Assistant YAML — SSH, MCP, and plain chat — plus the entity list that stops the model from guessing IDs.

  3. Home Assistant Green + Connect ZWA-2: The Ready-Made Local Smart Home10/10

    The official Nabu Casa bundle: Home Assistant Green as the brain plus the Connect ZWA-2 Z-Wave radio. A ready-made, local-first smart home with no DIY and no subscription.

  4. Amazon Echo Show 5, 8 & 11 – The Smart Displays That Turn Alexa Into a Family Photo Frame10/10

    Echo Show 5, 8, and 11 combine great sound, Alexa smarts, and an outstanding photo frame that makes your Amazon Photos library part of everyday family life.

  5. Raspberry Pi + Home Assistant – The Local-First Smart Home That Actually Belongs to You10/10

    A calm, private, local-first brain for your entire smart home that unifies Hue, Ring, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, and more—fast automations, beautiful dashboards, and zero cloud lock-in.

  6. SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Coordinator – The Little Stick That Makes Home Assistant Truly Local10/10

    Turn Home Assistant into a real, local-first smart-home brain. This SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB coordinator delivers instant, private control of lights, sensors, buttons, and plugs—no cloud required.