In an ideal smart home, the explosion of cheap WiFi and Bluetooth chips has allowed hundreds of small wireless devices to control the switches, lights, and everything else required for a “smart home” ...

The Raspberry Pi 5 hits a rare balance between capability and cost. It’s affordable enough for newcomers yet powerful enough ...

A new home automation system has been created by the development team at Easy Control based in France, providing a plug-and-play home automation system that requires ...

[Jake] took some cheap hardware and figured out a way to use it as a huge home automation network. He’s chose a Raspberry Pi board to connect the radio controlled power outlets to his network. He ...

The Pi is hard wired into a home automation board that controls a fan, light, AC, and the temperature. It’s then controlled over Twitter direct messages so it’s super easy to check the status or flip ...

Give your Raspberry Pi 3 or older a new life with these clever, practical, and creative projects you can build right now.

The process requires a bit of hacking together, but the end result is a Raspberry Pi-powered light system that you can use your phone to control. The Raspberry Pi runs a strip of LEDs, and the web ...

These days, it seems like everything, even your usual everyday-use objects such as refrigerators and plugs, can be enhanced with smart home technology. Many grueling day-to-day tasks that used to take ...

The Raspberry Pi was originally designed to provide a low cost solution to all lovers of programming (including students). With the passage of time, a strong community around this little device has ...

No longer targeted solely for education and experimentation, the Raspberry Pi platform is increasingly being promoted for direct industrial use. There’s been quite a bit of discussion around the use ...

The team at Contemporary Controls have created Raspberry Pi home automation controllers based on the BASPi series of building automation controllers. The first design is a 6-universal input, 6-relay ...

The Raspberry Pi has been very popular among hobbyists and educators ever since its launch in 2011. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer with a Broadcom BCM 2835 SoC, 256MB to ...