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Tips for saving energy at home

You may worry about your energy bills during peak seasons. Use SmartThings Energy to check your energy usage in real-time and lower your bills. from SmartThings Blog https://blog.smartthings.com/roundups/tips-for-saving-energy-at-home/ via IFTTT

2023.5: Let's talk!

Year of the Voice - Chapter 2: Let's talk

SmartThings Energy: Empowering Users to Manage Their Energy and Earn Rewards

As a first-of-its-kind ENERGY STAR-certified Smart Home Energy Management System, SmartThings Energy helps users reduce demand on the grid during peak and emergency situations and lower energy costs. Read how. from SmartThings Blog https://blog.smartthings.com/stories/smartthings-energy-empowering-users-to-manage-their-energy-and-earn-rewards/ via IFTTT

Home Assistant OS 10: Better memory management and new board support

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Highlights : Support for Hardkernel ODROID-M1 Improved data disk feature: Improved reliability Move from one data disk to a new data disk is now supported Improved memory management to improve overall device performance, especially in low memory situations Updated software packages: Linux, Docker, BlueZ, NetworkManager For existing installations, no manual intervention is needed! You can safely update without reading these rather technical release notes. Table of contents Table of contents New board support: Hardkernel ODROID-M1 Improved data disk feature Advanced memory management Updated software packages New board support: Hardkernel ODROID-M1 Home Assistant OS 10 supports the Hardkernel ODROID-M1 single board computer! Most notably, the ODROID-M1 supports NVMe SSD storage natively, which makes it another great choice to run Home Assistant on. With its quad-core CPU with up to 2 GHz and up to 8 GB of memory it is suitable even for demanding Home Assis...

HomeSeer joins Works with Home Assistant

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HomeSeer is now a member of the Works with Home Assistant partner program and they are committed to ensuring that their Z-Wave smart products are up to date and ready to use in Home Assistant. HomeSeer products are all Z-Wave Plus certified. Their smart dimmer/switches offer convenient RGB LEDs that may be programmed with automations to glow or blink 7 different colors when things happen in your home. The switches also support multi-tap actions for triggering automations and scenes. HomeSeer offers an AC powered Z-Wave multi-sensor that also includes an RGB LED for status updates. Additional Z-Wave products include a motion sensor, leak sensor, door/window sensor, floodlight sensor, and motorized water valve. HomeSeer Z-Wave devices work locally and integrate seamlessly with the Z-Wave integration in Home Assistant (Z-Wave interface required). As all connectivity is happening locally, status updates and control of your devices happen instantly in Home Assistant. With automatic ...