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Home Assistant

Home Assistant is a free, open-source home automation platform started in 2013 by Paulus Schoutsen, owned by the non-profit Open Home Foundation and reported to automate over a million homes.

Home automation

Home automation, also called domotics or a smart home, uses interconnected IoT devices to automatically control lighting, heating, locks, and appliances for comfort, security, and energy efficiency.

Home Before Dark is an Apple TV+ mystery drama (2020–2021, 20 episodes) created by Dana Fox and Dara Resnik, starring Brooklynn Prince as young reporter Hilde Lisko, inspired by real journalist Hilde Lysiak, filmed in British Columbia.

Home Care Dental Devices

Home Care Dental Devices (Dental Devices, Home Care): toothbrushes, dental floss, interdental brushes, and water irrigators used at home to maintain dental and periodontal health; powered brushes cut plaque 11-21% versus manual.

Home Care Services

Home Care Services: health and supportive care delivered at home, including skilled nursing, therapy, aide, and hospice services. Funded mainly by Medicaid (~40% of LTC spending) and Medicare's 60-day-episode home health PPS; distinct from institutional nursing home care.

Home Children

Home Children were impoverished and orphaned British children sent to Canada, mainly between 1869 and 1932, to work as farm laborers and domestic servants under emigration schemes.

Oct 3, 2026

Home Coming

Home Coming (万里归途, Wan li gui tu), 2022 Chinese war drama by Rao Xiaozhi, stars Zhang Yi, Wang Junkai, Yin Tao; diplomats evacuate 125 citizens from fictional Numia; 15.93 billion yuan, 2022 National Day champion.

Home computer

A home computer is a consumer-oriented microcomputer designed and priced for household use, emerging in 1977 with the Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET and flourishing in the 1980s.

Home counties

The Home Counties are the counties surrounding London in southeast England, including Surrey, Kent, Essex, Middlesex and often Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire; a term dating to the 1870s assize Home Circuit.

Home Delivery (2026 film)

Home Delivery (2026) is an American comedy-drama written and directed by Thom Harp, starring Melanie Field, Donald Faison, and Rainn Wilson. A plus-size supermodel's home birth gathers her chaotic family; released limited March 27, 2026 by TriCoast Worldwide, 105 minutes, rated R.

Home economics

Home economics, also called Family and Consumer Sciences or Human Ecology, applies science to household and family life; founded in US land-grant universities around 1900 (Isabel Bevier, Caroline Hunt), renamed FCS in 1994, still taught internationally.

Home Economics (TV series)

Home Economics is an American ABC sitcom (2021-2023) created by Michael Colton and John Aboud about the Hayworth siblings, three adult siblings in different income brackets, starring Topher Grace, Caitlin McGee, and Jimmy Tatro; 42 episodes across three seasons before cancellation.

Home Energy Rating System

The Home Energy Rating System (HERS) is a standardized method for measuring a home's energy efficiency, using the HERS Index where 100 is a 2006-code reference home and 0 is net zero.

Home eNodeB

A Home eNodeB, also called an LTE femtocell, is a low-power indoor base station covering 10 to 50 meters and serving a handful of users over broadband.

Home Environment

Home Environment: the physical and social conditions of a dwelling affecting health, a 2022 MeSH term (D000091502) covering housing quality, living alone, hazards, and neighborhood context.

Home equity line of credit

A home equity line of credit (HELOC) is a revolving credit line secured by a lien on a borrower's home, allowing repeated borrowing against home equity.

Home equity loan

A home equity loan is a fixed-rate, lump-sum loan secured by the equity in a borrower's home, typically repaid in equal monthly payments over 5 to 30 years.

Oct 3, 2026

Home for Christmas

Home for Christmas (Hjem til jul) is Netflix's first Norwegian original series, a romantic comedy-drama created by Per-Olav Sørensen starring Ida Elise Broch as nurse Johanne; three seasons, 2019–2025, filmed in Røros.

Home for the Holidays (1995 film)

Home for the Holidays is a 1995 American comedy-drama directed by Jodie Foster, starring Holly Hunter as a single mother visiting her family for Thanksgiving.

Home Free (group)

Home Free: American all-vocal country a cappella group formed 2000 in Mankato, Minnesota; won The Sing-Off season 4 (2013); albums Crazy Life, Timeless, Challenge the Sea; known for bass Tim Foust and beatboxer Adam Rupp.

Home freeze dryer

A home freeze dryer is a household appliance that preserves food by freezing it and removing water by sublimation under vacuum, producing shelf-stable food that keeps for years.

Home front during World War II

Home front during World War II: civilian mobilization in total war, 1939-1945. Covers rationing, Victory Gardens, scrap drives, women's war work, civil defense, war finance, and the contrasting US, British, German, and Japanese home fronts.

Home garden

Home garden, also called kitchen, backyard or homestead garden: small-scale household food production system near the dwelling, supplying over 50 percent of a family's vegetables and fruits and supplementary income.

Home Guard (United Kingdom)

The British Home Guard, originally the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV), was an unpaid volunteer militia raised on 14 May 1940 to defend against German invasion; it peaked near 1.8-2 million men, stood down in December 1944, disbanded in 1945, and was revived 1952-1957.

Home Health Aides

Home health aides (also home care aides, personal care aides) are supervised paraprofessional caregivers who assist elderly, disabled, and chronically ill clients with daily living and basic health tasks in the home; about 4.7 million U.S. jobs, median pay $35,800 (May 2025), 18% projected growth 2025-2035.

Sep 29, 2026

Home hemodialysis

Home hemodialysis is a renal replacement therapy in which a kidney failure patient performs dialysis at home on flexible schedules of two to seven sessions weekly.

Home improvement

Home improvement, also known as home renovation, is the renovating, repairing, remodeling, or adding to of a residential property, either do-it-yourself or through contractors, a multibillion-dollar industry in North America.

Home Improvement (TV series)

Home Improvement (ABC, 1991-1999) is an American family sitcom starring Tim Allen as Tim "The Toolman" Taylor, host of the fictional Tool Time, with Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, and Earl Hindman. It ranked No. 1 in the 1993-94 and 1995-96 seasons and streams on Hulu and Disney Plus.

Home Infusion Therapy

Home infusion therapy is the administration of medications, fluids, or nutrients in a patient's home, typically intravenously or subcutaneously, for infections, immune disorders, and cancer, often at lower cost than hospital care.