From ESPHome wireless speakers to automating the irrigation, Alastair has covered a lot in his smart home. A wealth of knowledge is ready and waiting for you in this episode.

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From digital photo frames, irrigation and (almost) his children, Daniel has automated a lot with Home Assistant and ESPHome 
Chapters01:03 Getting started with Home Automation  02:51 Building a smart home  09:36 Partner Acceptance Rules for a Smart House  12:15 Smart Home Module Life Cycles  16:27 ESPHome  22:08 Water and Energy Monitoring  30:45 Irrigation 45:56 Reolink Cameras  54:01 Favourite Automations  58:02 Netgear Meural  01:13:03 Driving Automations  01:19:44 Home Assistant Hardware 
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Exploring Daniel’s Home Assistant powered smart home

The State of the Open Home live stream had some big announcements for Home Assistant and its future. Frenck fills in for Rohan to go behind the scenes and break down the announcements, and the latest Home Assistant release 
Chapters01:10 State of the Open Home  03:47 New Owner of Home Assistant 05:40 Home Assistant Foundation  10:56 How many homes use Home Assistant  13:35 Home Assistant Hardware Updates  17:18 Cloud New Features  18:04 Home Assistant Longterm New Features  22:53 2024.5 New Features  50:20 20245 New Integrations  54:45 Backwards Incompatible Changes 
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Talking the Open Home Foundation and 2024.5 with Frenck

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 
Chapters02:05 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 requests  55:41 Driving Home Assistant  01:01:28 Failsafes for Home Automation 
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Automating all the things with Kurt

2024.4 lands with a much requested feature - an ability to organise our automations, scripts and devices. Rohan and Phil break down the 2024.4 release and the Voice Assistant community content winners 
Chapters00:00 Intro 00:47 State of the Open Home  02:06 Voice Assistant Community Awards  10:03 2024.4  29:52 Maps and Webpage Dashboards  32:15 Section Layout  33:51 Related Items  34:41 Repairs and Spook  37:18 Matter Controllers  39:21 Opening Doors  43:24 New Integrations  45:21 Breaking Changes  47:21 Shoutouts 
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Categorising and Labelling everything with 2024.4

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 
Chapters00:00 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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Alastair’s Home Assistant Journey

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