Home Assistant Podcast
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Join hosts Phil Hawthorne and Rohan Karamandi each fortnight as they explore the newest Home Assistant release and the latest home automation news. Featuring guests who use or contribute to Home Assistant, the podcast aims to inspire new ways to make your home smarter.
Home Assistant Podcast
1w ago
Kurt from Belgium loves everything to do with technology. So there’s little surprise as Kurt shares with us all the ways he is using Home Assistant to make his life smarter
Chapters
02:05 Getting started with Home Automation
10:10 Smart Locks
14:35 Solving the smart home for non tech people
15:53 Driving Automations
20:40 AI for the smart home
24:13 Favourite Automations
28:36 Sleep Detection
31:35 Phil's Zwave Network Offline
37:47 Robot Vacuums
42:33 Presence Detection
45:13 Powering Automations
48:29 Car Log Book Automation
50:07 Putting Home Assistant in Schools
53:28 Family feature reque ..read more
Home Assistant Podcast
1M ago
Brian is a spacecraft systems engineer, who uses Home Assistant to automate his house, and help him remember some of the earthly world problems in his day-to-day life
Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:25 Getting started with Home Assistant
05:59 Who's in the house
08:39 Protocols Used in the House
10:24 Driving Automations
13:48 Hardware used for Home Assistant
15:02 Using Frigate
16:56 Using Home Assistant for Memory
23:05 Night Time Automations
34:15 Leak Sensors
45:30 Zigbee
48:50 Presence Detection
55:48 To Do Lists and Battery Automation
01:03:25 Automating a Pool
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Home Assistant Podcast
2M ago
Paulus joins Rohan and Phil to catch up on what’s been happening with Home Assistant and Nabu Casa. From working with smart home alliances to the future of Home Assistant and Nabu Casa, this chat covered a lot of ground
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:26 What is Nabu Casa up to
05:48 How is Nabu Casa going
09:44 Nabu Casa vs Open Source
14:07 Working with Smart Home Alliances
21:36 Open Source vs Closed Alliances
28:49 Paulus at CES
31:52 Was the Year of the Voice a Success
34:57 Local Wake Word Detection
38:56 Reflecting on the Year of the Voice
40:14 Raspberry 5 Support
42:31 AI For Home Assistant ..read more
Home Assistant Podcast
3M ago
Rohan and Phil sit down with Simon from Australia. From smart integration with alarm panels to automating garage doors
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:23 Getting in to Home Automation
07:09 Australia's Device Limitations
10:05 Smart Home Setup
15:14 Automating the garage door
19:26 mmWave Sensors
21:37 Driving Home Assistant Tablets
23:00 Wireless Speaker Planning
24:31 Wireless Speaker Interface
28:23 Voice Assistants
35:05 House Alarm Modes
40:50 Room Presence
43:47 Garbage Bins
48:34 Away mode heating/cooling
51:14 Tracking data with Grafana
54:15 Energy Monitoring
56:22 End Goals for Home Automat ..read more
Home Assistant Podcast
4M ago
Meet Jasper, Technical Director of a Netherlands hotel. Discover how Home Assistant integrates with the hotel's KNX system, helping manage the hotel and Jasper’s home life
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:47 Getting started wth Home Automation
04:52 Custom Brewery
05:44 Automating a Hotel with Home Assitant
14:48 Future plans for the Hotel
16:18 Beta Testing for the Home
19:07 Hardware for Home Assistant
23:48 Tracking Guests energy usage
25:20 Presence Sensors
34:28 NVR for the Hotel
35:25 Home Energy Monitoring
37:59 What powers these automations
38:56 Natural Gas Replacements
43:38 Voice Control
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Home Assistant Podcast
5M ago
Rohan and Phil sit down with Ian, a Zero Trust security strategist, to unravel the intersection of security and smart homes. Ian shares insights on how he is fortifying his home with Home Assistant
Chapters
01:44 Getting started with Home Automation
09:55 First Security Automations
22:23 Cyber Security Career
25:43 Automations around the house
30:05 Voice Automations
34:13 How does telemetry power your home
40:35 Geothermal Heating
42:40 Heat Pump
45:01 Long Term Statistic Storage
49:02 TimeRole Based Accounts
57:42 Future plans for the smart home
01:02:59 Smart home ideas for kids
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Home Assistant Podcast
6M ago
Join Rohan and Phil as they unpack Home Assistant's 2023.11 release. They discuss new features like Matter 1.2 support, to-do lists, and other significant updates, along with fresh integrations.
Chapters
01:04 New Subscribers
04:18 Year of the voice Chapter 4
05:28 2023.11
28:40 New Integrations
33:05 Mazda's Takedown
38:00 Phil's Zigbee Issues
42:22 Rohan's Yellow
47:21 New Website
48:31 Smoke Alarms
57:44 Amazon to charge to use the Echo Show
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Home Assistant Podcast
6M ago
Life was going great for Petter, until a tragic accident on his mountain bike changed his life forever. With the need of a wheelchair, Petter uses Home Assistant everyday in his home to make things we take for granted everyday easier.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:45 Getting in to Home Automation
07:13 The day that changed Petters life
11:57 Getting serious about the smart home
21:22 Device naming conventions
25:43 Changing batteries
28:20 Changing blinds, motion sensor batteries
31:11 A calibration helper?
33:27 Automating temperature
34:57 Most Useful Automation
38:08 Link to automators podcast
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Home Assistant Podcast
7M ago
If you’ve got an iPhone or Apple Watch, you’ll know how frustrating it is when they change their MAC address. 2023.10 fixes that, meanwhile Philips Hue starts requiring a connection to their cloud to use their hubs
For complete show notes and more information about the topics discussed in this episode, be sure to check the notes at
https://hasspodcast.io/ha141
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This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsor
Home Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa
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Home Assistant Podcast
7M ago
Brian is a patent attorney by day, with a love of ESPHome and hardware.
For complete show notes and more information about the topics discussed in this episode, be sure to check the notes at
https://hasspodcast.io/ha140
Watch this episode on YouTube
Support Rohan and Phil on Patreon
This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsor
Home Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa
Easily connect to Google and Amazon voice assistants for a small monthly fee that also supports the Home Assistant project. Configuration is via the User Interface so no fiddling with router settings, dynamic DNS or YAML ..read more