A Raspberry Pi is a great choice for hosting power user smart home tools. See how to quickly get a cheap headless server up and running for your first project.

Outdoor cameras options are a bit limited for HomeKit, but thanks to this tool we can use inexpensive Reolink cameras to fill the gap.

Want to connect your Ring devices to HomeKit? Well, here’s how to do it without breaking the bank, and tearing your hair out.

Motion controlled lighting should be easy, but when it doesn’t work right in HomeKit we have a couple of alternatives.

Smart lighting your shelves can really make a space but can also be a pain. This method is easy and still effective.

Getting the right alerts from your security cameras is vital. Here's How I go about optimizing smart camera motion detection for reliability and battery life.

How you position security cameras makes a big difference to effectiveness and cost. These camera placement options will help you plan your camera coverage.

Video Doorbells come with a lot of options and marketing gimmicks. This guide offers a step-by-step approach to determining your video doorbell requirements.

Can you turn off a Ring camera? Effectively yes, in several ways. This detailed guide steps you through all the options to control when your cameras record.

Video doorbells are generally easy to wire into an existing setup. But sometimes the specs can be confusing, and different models and chime configurations can take some additional care. See what to look out for in this handy guide.

Adding myQ to HomeKit is not as simple as it should be. Learn about the challenges and what your options are to get control of your garage door in the Home app.

Being able to control and integrate all our smart devices is a huge win, so getting SwitchBot and HomeKit to play nice was something I had to figure out.

If you’ve been frustrated not being able to have Siri announce things as part of your HomeKit automations, there is a tool that provides one way to make it happen easily.

The Tuya platform offers integration with Alexa and Google Assistant via the cloud. But using Homebridge can give you access to these in HomeKit, and with local control to boot. Here’s how.

The Logitech Circle View is an awesome HomeKit camera - when it works. This investigation tries to find out what’s going on and how to fix it.

Sooner or later the limitations of Apple’s built in HomeKit notifications will become too hard to ignore. Here’s how we can create far more useful, actionable notifications for our smart homes.