Discover the unexpected hurdles I encountered while setting up Home Assistant, from broken integrations to complex technical ...

Google’s Wear OS has long been able to control smart home devices thanks to Google Assistant, but it’s never had a touch-based method of doing so. This week, the popular open-source smart home client ...

My new server didn't have a Bluetooth adapter I could pass through to my virtual machine, so I built my own instead.

Google today detailed the new Winter 2023 features for Android. A number of them are for Wear OS, like the Google Home app adding support for manually setting Home/Away. Google Home for Wear OS will ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Wear OS will soon be getting a new Google Assistant app Tile, according to an APK teardown from 9to5Google. Judging by strings ...

If you use Control4 products, there’s a new way to take control. At CEDIA 2019, Google and SnapAV, a producer of audio/visual, surveillance, networking, automation, and remote management products, ...

Buy enough tech and you can’t escape the siren call of a smart home. Amazon practically throws Echo Dots at you. Google will sneak a Nest Mini in the box with almost anything you buy in its store.

The most notable new feature is the ability for your compatible Wear OS device to respond to your Google Assistant queries using the familiar Google Assistant voice. Now, when you ask Google Assistant ...

Google is rolling out a new Assistant tile to supported Wear OS devices. The feature allows users to set custom Assistant commands as quick tap shortcuts. It’s available on the Pixel Watch duo and the ...

Google is set to roll out a much-needed update to Wear OS that will revamp the interface so it’ll be easier to use smartwatches running the platform. The biggest change is in notifications, which ...