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A new restriction on foreign-made mobile robots affects robotic vacuums, pool cleaners, and lawn mowers. Here’s what it means for the bots already in your home—and the ones you may never get to buy.

Buying multiple lamps for different rooms can get expensive. Govee’s rechargeable Table Lamp Classic gives you one lamp you can use throughout your home instead of getting one for every room, and right now it’s down to $59 ($21 off) at Amazon. That’s just $4 shy of the all-time low set during Prime Day, and […]

Here are the best back-to-school deals under $200 on comfy, ergonomic chairs for all-nighters and cram sessions

Looking for all our top recommended vacuums? Here are our favorites in every category, from cordless models to robot vacs.

I tested leading filtered showerheads to see how well they remove total chlorine from your water.

I was already a big fan of SwitchBot's big circulator fan I recently reviewed, and now we're getting the SwitchBot Battery Circulator Fan 2 Pro. Priced at $119.99, it ditches the height-adjustable stand but increases battery life, throw distance, and wind speed while adding native Matter-over-Wi-Fi, allowing it to join your smart home without needing […]

Curious if you should get Dyson’s new 2026 stick vacuums or stick to the older ones? I tested five models, old and new, to find out for you.

A note before the post: the mistake in the first section is genuinely mine. It cost me an evening of forking conditions in Home Assistant before I accepted the fix didn't belong in Home Assistant at all. I've left it in rather than writing around it, because it's the part I'd have wanted to read first. The first time motion-controlled lighting actually worked in my place, it didn't feel clever. It felt obvious — I walked into a dark hallway and the light was already on by the time I'd registered it was dark. That's the bar. Not smart , just attentive. Getting there with seven KNX motion sensors took me less code than I expected and one insight I wish I'd had on day one. This is Part 05 of the series. The earlier parts cover the boring-but-load-bearing groundwork: running Home Assistant in Docker and wiring up HACS . Here I'm assuming HA is up, talking KNX, and you just want the lights to behave. One sensor, two jobs, two addresses Here's the mistake I made, and it's the whole reason this post exists. KNX exposes each motion sensor to Home Assistant as a binary_sensor with device_class: motion , fed by a KNX group-address state object you configure in knx.yaml with a state_address per sensor. Simple enough. So I wired all seven sensors with one group address each and pointed both the lighting automation and the presence logic at the same signal. That works right up until you want the two to behave differently. A light should react to the smallest twitch, instantly, generously. Presence and security want the opposite: a debounce, a grace window, some scepticism before they commit. When both ride the same group address, every change you make to one quietly deforms the other. I spent an evening forking conditions in Home Assistant trying to make one signal mean two things. The fix isn't in Home Assistant at all. It's in ETS: give each physical PIR a second group address . One drives comfort lighting, the other feeds presence and the alarm path. I use a flat convention —

These are the cleaning robots, water monitors, and toys actually worth buying for pool season.

If your router is short on ports, you can add more with one of the best Ethernet switches. These are my top picks from what I’ve tested.

For years, we've heard rumors of a new home hub device from Apple, meant to take on smart home devices like the Google Nest Hub Mini and Amazon's Echo Show. Besides "HomePod with a screen," details have been sparse. But now, a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman sheds some light on the alleged device, […]

Your mom never gets you a thoughtless gift, so you shouldn’t get her one, either. Here’s every cool gift WIRED writers would give their mothers.

Dyson’s new stick vacuum can vacuum and mop in a single cordless device—if you’re willing to really splurge.

The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and storage to your wall. It combines colorful smart lighting panels with a low-profile shelf and pegboard, and right now you can buy the kit for half off at $99.99 from Nanoleaf, which marks a new low […]

Lightweight, powerful, and generally inexpensive, the handheld vacuum is the perfect household helper.

Most "why Proxmox" content in 2025-2026 is a migration story driven by Broadcom's ESXi pricing changes. The author had a working VMware stack and got priced out. I'm not that author. I evaluated both, picked Proxmox in 2024, and built on it without ever running ESXi in production. Two years in, I'd make the same call. It reads as either incompetent or contrarian until the rest of the post lands. Here's the reasoning. The three reasons it was the easy call 1. LXC and KVM in one host Most workloads in this homelab are LXCs. Pi-hole, Vaultwarden, Authelia, Traefik, the monitoring stack, GitLab CE itself, all containers sharing the host kernel. A few things need full VM isolation (the NAS guest, Proxmox Backup Server, the Home Assistant OS appliance). Same hypervisor, same CLI, same web UI for both shapes of workload. The alternative is ESXi for the VMs and a separate toolchain (containerd, Docker, Kubernetes, take your pick) for the containers. That's two backup pipelines, two HA stories, two places for config drift to surprise you at 2 AM. pct exec 254 systemctl status authelia and qm start 189 are the same shape. New hires don't have to learn one tool for containers and a different one for VMs. 2. Proxmox Backup Server beats the free Veeam alternative Chunk-level deduplication. Backups across guests and across time share storage. A nightly backup of all 11 LXCs and 2 VMs runs in about ten minutes and adds a few hundred MB of new chunks, because most of the content is the same as yesterday. Cluster-scheduled. One job definition runs across every node in the cluster. No per-node cron, no manual rotation when a node moves. Restore to a different storage class. A backup taken from local-lvm on the G7 restores onto ZFS on a G5 cluster node without conversion gymnastics. Veeam Community Edition is the free comparison. It works. It also caps repository size, doesn't dedup at the chunk level, and lacks the cluster-aware scheduling that makes PBS feel like a built-in feature

You don’t have to upload your video to the cloud or pay a monthly fee to secure your home. These security cameras record locally.

Friendly hobby machine or serious production tool? Here’s how to know which one is for you.

I Run Bare-Metal Kubernetes on $200 of Scrap Hardware (And Why I Burned 3 SD Cards...