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Smart Home Gear That Actually Works in a Small Flat or Shared House (UK)
What to buy for communal areas vs your own room in a house share, and how…
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The Complete Guide to Home Assistant in the UK: From Unboxing to Fully Automated
Most people’s first encounter with Home Assistant is a single frustration: a smart plug that only works through its own […]
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Smart TVs and Streaming Boxes for a Connected Home: UK Picks
Apple TV, Fire TV Stick and Chromecast compared for how well each plugs into your existing…
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Smart Dehumidifiers UK: Which Ones Are Actually Worth Automating
Meaco, Pro Breeze and EcoAir smart dehumidifiers compared for tackling UK damp and condensation, plus a…
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Should You Put Smart Home Devices on a Separate VLAN? A UK Guide
Every smart home device on your network is, from a security standpoint, a small computer running…
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Setting Up a Mosquitto MQTT Broker for Home Assistant
MQTT is the lightweight messaging protocol sitting quietly underneath a huge amount of the smart home…
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Home Assistant Scenes, Scripts and Automations: What’s the Difference?
Home Assistant gives you three separate tools that all sound like they could do the same…
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Setting Up Automations in the Apple Home App: A Complete UK Guide
The Apple Home app has quietly become a genuinely capable automation platform, not just a remote…
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Homebridge: Bringing Non-HomeKit Devices into Apple Home
Apple’s smart home ecosystem is genuinely good once everything is in it - one app, real…
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Backing Up and Restoring Home Assistant Properly
Setting up automatic Home Assistant backups, storing them off-device, and actually testing a restore before you…