Ever tried integrating Amazon’s Alexa devices into Home Assistant? You already know the pain — the integration was always a hit-or-miss gamble requiring Amazon Skills authentication hoops. Home ...

Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming hardware, she's covered just about everything. Whether it's ...

Voice assistant technologies remain a hot commodity, given the ubiquity of Alexa and Google Home devices (although oddly, not Apple’s Siri to the same extent). The rise of voice assistants has become ...

The service, free to Amazon Prime members, introduces advanced features like voice-activated home automation creation, personalized automations, and enhanced smart home control. For non-Prime members, ...

A year in, Alexa Plus is the best smart home assistant I’ve tested: It’s easy to talk to, handles routines and multistep commands, and helps in the kitchen. But Amazon’s attempts to stretch it into a ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

Nabu Casa is rebrandung Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link to emphasize local control, while HACS also joins Core as a built-in Marketplace.