There’s more than one garage opener with a not-quite-open ecosystem. That’s why an Ars writer installed an OpenGarage unit.

Mister House is a long standing open source home automation project. It’s written entirely in Perl and works on almost any platform. It also supports many different home automation devices like X10.

Are you tired of manually controlling every aspect of your smart home devices? Tired of having to hop from app to app to ...

More broadly, Matter 1.4 bakes a lot of timing, energy cost, and other automation triggers into the spec, which—again, when ...

Matter 1.4 has been released, improving the interoperability of the smart home automation standard to work more easily.

An industrialized open-source and Arduino-compatible CPU interoperates with PLC I/O modules and various Arduino “shields.” (Shown: AutomationDirect ProductivityOpen P1AM-100) After more research, my ...

[Jeff] uses the open source home automation software Home Assistant which integrates nicely with his solar and battery backup system, but due to the way his house is wired, it’s only aware of ...

"As the industrial automation space rapidly accelerates its modernization, there is an urgent need to enhance edge interoperability across the ecosystem. The Margo Initiative aligns with Red Hat’s ...