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I have a GE Profile Café Coffee Maker (model P7CGAAS2T1SS) — a beautiful machine with a built-in grinder, bloom pre-infusion, and a touchscreen display. It connects to GE's SmartHQ app, which means it should be controllable from Home Assistant. The catch: the existing GE Home integration only exposed a handful of read-only sensors for this appliance. You couldn't actually start a brew.

A Home Assistant automation that watches your bedroom temperature all night and adjusts the ceiling fan speed automatically — so you never have to touch it again.

Both can control your lights, thermostat, locks, and sensors — but they take very different approaches to doing it.

If you already have Apple HomeKit devices in your home, you don’t need to replace them to start using Home Assistant.

There’s an important tradeoff built into the Alexa ecosystem that many users don’t realize at first.

Home Assistant is great at bringing all your smart devices together, but if you use Apple devices, you probably want to control those same devices with Siri

You don’t need an Echo speaker to start using Alexa. With just the Amazon Alexa mobile app, you can explore Alexa’s features, control compatible smart devices, and even talk to Alexa directly from your phone.

As your Home Assistant setup grows, automations can quickly become complicated. Multiple sensors, repeated conditions, and copy-pasted logic make things harder to maintain than they need to be.

Ever wonder if your internet is actually down—or if it’s just acting up? With Home Assistant’s Ping integration, you can turn your smart home into a simple internet monitor that gives you instant visual feedback and notifies you when you’re back online.

Once you've set up an automation to turn lights on and off, you'll find that sometimes that's not what you want.  You may prefer to have the lights simply stay on.  Here is an easy way to do that without interacting with the dashboard or using voice prompts.