Have you ever thought about wanting to use your smart speaker (Echo Dot) at home in a way that is more convenient and ...

IntroductionI have written three articles so far about making a smart home using SwitchBot relay switches, but this time I ...

Vacuula replaces discontinued cloud services with a self-hosted server, restoring maps, schedules and cleaning zones on ...

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Who knew file servers could be this easy?

Out of the box, Jellyfin supports movies, TV shows, music, and audiobooks—basically everything Plex does. Unlike Plex, all of ...

You bought a Raspberry Pi with a head full of plans about how you'd use it, but it's been languishing in your drawer ever ...

Your junk drawer is five weekend projects short of a smart home.

Nick Lewis is an editor at How-To Geek. He has been using computers for 20 years --- tinkering with everything from the UI to the Windows registry to device firmware. Before How-To Geek, he used ...

Network-attached storage is the most versatile way to store data, but that's just one of the many benefits of a NAS device.

Kodi is not dead, whatever you may have read. Development is still active, with Kodi 21.3 “Omega” as the current stable release (December 2025), while Kodi 22 “Piers” has reached Beta 1 and remains ...

Insight into the latest Raspberry Pi HATs. Potential applications for AI, storage, remote power, and wireless mesh projects. What each HAT adds to Raspberry Pi-based designs. The Raspberry Pi is a ...