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Coverage of smart home technology, home automation protocols, and connected device ecosystems. Examines Thread, Matter, Zigbee, and Z-Wave standards, ecosystem fragmentation, and practical experiences building reliable home automation setups.

May 30, 2026

Thread Claims Interoperability. Your Network Has Three Meshes.

dns-sd exposes what smart home apps hide: Apple, Amazon, and eero each run separate Thread meshes on the same network, and devices on different meshes route through Wi-Fi instead of communicating directly.

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May 27, 2026

Grouping Lights in Home Assistant

How to group color lights in Home Assistant using Helpers — and why the old YAML platform approach stopped working in 2026.5.

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