Working towards automating a few things in a home often seems simple on the surface, but it’s easy for these projects to snowball into dozens of sensors and various servos, switches, and cameras ...

Have you ever looked at an old, broken phone and thought, “This is just e-waste now”? What if that seemingly useless device could be transformed into something surprisingly powerful—a functional home ...

Windows Home Server is a respectable first attempt at a software-based, home-oriented network-attached-storage environment. From a full-fledged home server perspective, however, the company missed the ...

These simple USB upgrades give your Raspberry Pi 5 better performance, stability, and flexibility for home-server and ...

Scheduled to launch this fall, Windows Home Server connects multiple PCs in the same household and stores, manages, backs up and protects digital audio, video and photos. In addition to centralized ...

Before this week's release of Power Pack 1, the first major update for Windows Home Server, Microsoft may have been reluctant to trumpet the virtues of a product whose primary function of backing up ...

Turning on Home Assistant backups is trivially easy and can be done from the UI. In a web browser or companion app, head to ...

Set up your own free VPN server at home with a simple software based method that encrypts your traffic, protects privacy, and ...

No welcome-home hug, no pat on the head, no personalized coffee mug—just DVDs in my teeth and a deadline. Reading the specs didn't brighten my day, either. From the name Windows Home Server, you might ...