Home Assistant Beginner Setup on Raspberry Pi 5 (2026 Guide)
Why I Switched to Home Assistant (And Why You Might Want To) Three years ago, my smart home was a mess. I had a Hue bridge for lights, SmartThings for door sensors, an Alexa routine duct-taped to a Kasa plug, and a Wyze camera running its own app. Five ecosystems, five apps, zero coordination between them. When the SmartThings cloud went down for eight hours one Tuesday afternoon, half my automations stopped working and I didn’t notice until I came home to a dark house with the thermostat still cranked to 72°F. ...