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Honeywell has introduced the Honeywell Automation Server, a device that lets homeowners control household appliances and electronics by voice, computer, phone or personal digital assistant (PDA). It ...

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We love to automate things in our home here at Lifehacker, and it turns out that with just a router, an Arduino, and an RF switched outlet, you can control pretty much any electrical device you want ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Setting up smart home automations can feel overwhelming, and at times, downright ridiculous. You might wonder if you really need a machine ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts interested in building their very own Raspberry Pi 4 home automation server using Docker, OpenHAB, HASSIO and NextCloud should check out the tutorial embedded below, created ...

Salt brings simplicity, flexibility, and high scalability to Linux and Unix server infrastructure management -- it does Windows too Like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible, Salt is an open source server ...

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...