Home Assistant Podcast

Phil and Rohan unpack Home Assistant 2026.10, from redesigned maps and easier trigger-based automations to AI setup, Matter devices and Z-Wave network maps. They also discuss reports about LG TV privacy and Shelly’s planned acquisition.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:00 Community Day plans

00:04:39 Home Assistant Link replaces Cloud

00:07:29 LG TV privacy concerns

00:16:38 Shelly’s planned acquisition

00:24:01 Critical iPhone notifications

00:26:16 Notification tips and Zooz sponsor

00:28:16 Redesigned and customizable maps

00:30:42 Easier automation trigger conditions

00:34:47 Dashboard visibility and AI tools

00:37:32 Z-Wave maps and YAML improvements

00:40:16 Generators and energy monitoring

00:44:00 Modbus, profiles and timers

00:47:56 Glass-break sensors and security dashboards

00:52:00 Matter updates and Thread plans

00:55:36 Templates, Hue and Z-Wave

00:58:00 UniFi Protect and integration updates

01:01:00 iCloud lists and local vehicle control

01:03:20 New infrared and energy integrations

01:07:18 Solar, messaging and plant integrations

01:10:27 Removed integrations and upgrade advice

01:11:24 Green Button energy data

This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors

Home Assistant Link by Nabu Casa

Easily connect to Google and Amazon voice assistants for a small monthly fee that also supports the Home Assistant project. Sign up for your free trial in your Home Assistant system: https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/cloud/ or visit https://nabucasa.com

Zooz

If you're looking to upgrade your smart home - you can’t go past Zooz! Zooz offers a range of affordable and innovative devices, including water leak sensors, water valve controllers, smart plugs and scene controllers.

For the best prices on all Zooz products, head over to https://thesmartesthouse.com

Apollo Automation

Apollo Automation are the makers of open source smart home sensors built for the Home Assistant ecosystem. They're an official Open Home Foundation commercial partner and their devices are built with local control, privacy, and reliability in mind, giving you full control and flexibility right out of the box.

Want Phil to help with your smart home?

You’ve heard him troubleshoot Home Assistant on the podcast. Now you can book him to troubleshoot yours. From broken automations and confusing YAML to dashboards, devices, and complete smart home setups: https://smarthomecto.com

Products Discussed

Shelly smart relays/switches: https://amzn.to/4tfoHdE

Home Assistant ZBT2 (Zigbee radio): https://amzn.to/4pLxykT

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Hosts

Phil Hawthorne

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Phil and Rohan are joined by Trey from Tallahassee, Florida, to explore his local-first Home Assistant setup. From an X10 beginning and a MyQ API shutdown to Zigbee migrations, Trey has seen a lot!

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Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:00 From X10 to Home Assistant

00:06:00 Zigbee migration and device choices

00:10:00 Smart lighting and cat alerts

00:14:00 Automation philosophy and voice control

00:18:00 Voice assistant TV pausing

00:20:00 Zigbee, Thread and Z-Wave

00:24:00 Batteries and dual Zigbee networks

00:28:00 UniFi networking

00:30:00 Garage and freeze automations

00:34:00 IKEA blinds and local AI

00:38:00 Local LLM voice pipeline

00:42:00 Backups and outdoor camera plans

00:46:00 Indoor cameras and privacy modes

00:50:00 Frigate, recognition and smart locks

00:54:00 Ring keypad and closing

This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors

Home Assistant Link by Nabu Casa

Easily connect to Google and Amazon voice assistants for a small monthly fee that also supports the Home Assistant project. Sign up for your free trial in your Home Assistant system: https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/cloud/ or visit https://nabucasa.com

Zooz

If you're looking to upgrade your smart home - you can’t go past Zooz! Zooz offers a range of affordable and innovative devices, including water leak sensors, water valve controllers, smart plugs and scene controllers.

For the best prices on all Zooz products, head over to https://thesmartesthouse.com

Apollo Automation

Apollo Automation are the makers of open source smart home sensors built for the Home Assistant ecosystem. They're an official Open Home Foundation commercial partner and their devices are built with local control, privacy, and reliability in mind, giving you full control and flexibility right out of the box.

Want Phil to help with your smart home?

You’ve heard him troubleshoot Home Assistant on the podcast. Now you can book him to troubleshoot yours. From broken automations and confusing YAML to dashboards, devices, and complete smart home setups: https://smarthomecto.com

Products we Recommend

Hosts

Phil Hawthorne

Website

Twitter: @philhawthorne

Bluesky: @philhawthorne.com

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Rohan Karamandi

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Twitter: @rohank9

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Roland joins Phil and Rohan to share how a simple attempt to measure an old fridge's energy use led to a deeply data-driven Home Assistant smart home. Energy monitoring, solar forecasting, home batteries, EV charging, ESPHome, weather data and templates are all used to make his home smarter.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Welcome

00:02:01 An accidental Home Assistant install

00:06:04 Scaling devices and automations

00:08:04 Solar forecasts and battery control

00:16:46 ESPHome windows and storm protection

00:21:03 Home Assistant at the university

00:26:16 Starting with energy data

00:29:08 Cooling buckets and digital grass

00:34:52 Turning data into automations

00:37:19 Summer-winter heating and cooling

00:43:52 Measuring a new home

00:47:21 Whole-home energy and smart PC

00:52:16 Pool monitoring and house insights

00:59:07 Future projects and stable automation

01:04:26 Updates, reliability and farewell

This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors

Zooz

If you're looking to upgrade your smart home - you can’t go past Zooz! Zooz offers a range of affordable and innovative devices, including water leak sensors, water valve controllers, smart plugs and scene controllers.

For the best prices on all Zooz products, head over to https://thesmartesthouse.com

Apollo Automation

Apollo Automation are the makers of open source smart home sensors built for the Home Assistant ecosystem. They're an official Open Home Foundation commercial partner and their devices are built with local control, privacy, and reliability in mind, giving you full control and flexibility right out of the box.

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. Sign up for your free trial in your Home Assistant system: https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/cloud/ or visit https://nabucasa.com

Want Phil to help with your smart home?

You’ve heard him troubleshoot Home Assistant on the podcast. Now you can book him to troubleshoot yours. From broken automations and confusing YAML to dashboards, devices, and complete smart home setups: https://smarthomecto.com

Products Discussed

Navimow robotic lawn mower: https://amzn.to/4d7phni

Apollo Automation ESPHome Starter Kit: https://esphome.io/starter-kit/

Apollo Automation Cast 1: https://apolloautomation.com/products/cast-1-audio-casting-device

Shelly smart relays/switches: https://amzn.to/4tfoHdE

Shelly One relay: https://amzn.to/4wUFxj6

Products we Recommend

Hosts

Phil Hawthorne

Website

Twitter: @philhawthorne

Bluesky: @philhawthorne.com

Buy Phil a Coffee

Rohan Karamandi

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Twitter: @rohank9

Buy Rohan a Coffee

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How do you make Home Assistant resilient when an update fails or your primary server goes offline? Phil and Rohan talk with Adrian from Western Australia about his dual Home Assistant setup, webhook heartbeat failover, Git-based YAML configuration, and a 12V battery-backed home network.

Adrian has shared some notes on his setup here:  https://docs.na.id.au/ 

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Chapters

00:00:00 Intro

00:02:00 Adrian's Home Assistant origin

00:05:00 12V battery-backed infrastructure

00:08:00 Presence and smart-light logic

00:13:00 Wi-Fi scale and interference

00:16:00 Matter, LIFX and 433MHz

00:21:00 Alarm integrations and appliances

00:29:00 Home Assistant high availability

00:34:00 Zigbee, MQTT and Matter

00:39:00 Git, YAML and device naming

00:44:00 DHCP reservations and static IPs

00:47:00 EV charging and roller shutters

00:51:00 Upgrades and family installations

00:55:00 Local AI and language learning

00:59:00 Wrap-up

This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors

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. Sign up for your free trial in your Home Assistant system: https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/cloud/ or visit https://nabucasa.com

Zooz

If you're looking to upgrade your smart home - you can’t go past Zooz! Zooz offers a range of affordable and innovative devices, including water leak sensors, water valve controllers, smart plugs and scene controllers.

For the best prices on all Zooz products, head over to https://thesmartesthouse.com

Apollo Automation

Apollo Automation are the makers of open source smart home sensors built for the Home Assistant ecosystem. They're an official Open Home Foundation commercial partner and their devices are built with local control, privacy, and reliability in mind, giving you full control and flexibility right out of the box.

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Want Phil to help with your smart home?

You’ve heard him troubleshoot Home Assistant on the podcast. Now you can book him to troubleshoot yours. From broken automations and confusing YAML to dashboards, devices, and complete smart home setups: https://smarthomecto.com

Products we Recommend

Hosts

Phil Hawthorne

Website

Twitter: @philhawthorne

Bluesky: @philhawthorne.com

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Rohan Karamandi

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Twitter: @rohank9

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Rob joins Phil and Rohan from New Zealand to share how he replaced 15 smart-home apps with Home Assistant. Discover his AI-assisted workflow using VS Code, Claude Code, Codex, Git, YAML documentation, solar optimisation, camera-powered number plate recognition, and a resilient smart-home network.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Intro

00:02:00 Escaping the app overload

00:07:00 First automations and Wi-Fi devices

00:10:00 Batteries, presence sensors and vacuums

00:17:00 UniFi network and Home Assistant upgrade

00:20:00 Solar, Modbus and energy optimisation

00:23:00 AI coding workflow with VS Code

00:33:00 OpenCode, MCP and custom workflows

00:37:00 AI documentation and automation intent

00:42:00 Fail-safe smart home design

00:45:00 AI camera gate recognition

00:50:00 Security, modes and alarm integration

00:54:00 Backup power and future projects

01:01:00 Advice for a new setup

This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors

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. Sign up for your free trial in your Home Assistant system: https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/cloud/ or visit https://nabucasa.com

Zooz

If you're looking to upgrade your smart home - you can’t go past Zooz! Zooz offers a range of affordable and innovative devices, including water leak sensors, water valve controllers, smart plugs and scene controllers.

For the best prices on all Zooz products, head over to https://thesmartesthouse.com

Apollo Automation

Apollo Automation are the makers of open source smart home sensors built for the Home Assistant ecosystem. They're an official Open Home Foundation commercial partner and their devices are built with local control, privacy, and reliability in mind, giving you full control and flexibility right out of the box.

Want Phil to help with your smart home?

You’ve heard him troubleshoot Home Assistant on the podcast. Now you can book him to troubleshoot yours. From broken automations and confusing YAML to dashboards, devices, and complete smart home setups: https://smarthomecto.com

Products Discussed

AirGradient air-quality sensor: https://www.airgradient.com/

Home Assistant Connect ZWA2 (Z‑Wave radio): https://amzn.to/3MfPzsP

Aqara FP300 presence sensor: https://amzn.to/3LpkZ02

Products we Recommend

Hosts

Phil Hawthorne

Website

Twitter: @philhawthorne

Bluesky: @philhawthorne.com

Buy Phil a Coffee

Rohan Karamandi

Website

Twitter: @rohank9

Buy Rohan a Coffee

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Home Assistant 2026.9 is here. Maps suffer an unexpected turn of events and easier Modbus integrations arrive. Activity history gets some love. Nabu Casa subscribers can start testing a new and improved speech to text provider via Labs.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:46 Home Assistant map outage

00:05:57 Community Day, Apollo and iOS

00:10:19 Mailbag: locks, pools and moving

00:18:13 AI assistants versus closed ecosystems

00:23:43 Proxmox upgrade compatibility warning

00:29:04 Home Assistant Cloud and Modbus

00:35:04 Dashboard updates

00:38:12 History, accessibility and Matter maps

00:43:39 New integrations and release wrap-up

This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors

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. Sign up for your free trial in your Home Assistant system: https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/cloud/ or visit https://nabucasa.com

Zooz

If you're looking to upgrade your smart home - you can’t go past Zooz! Zooz offers a range of affordable and innovative devices, including water leak sensors, water valve controllers, smart plugs and scene controllers.

For the best prices on all Zooz products, head over to https://thesmartesthouse.com

Apollo Automation

Apollo Automation are the makers of open source smart home sensors built for the Home Assistant ecosystem. They're an official Open Home Foundation commercial partner and their devices are built with local control, privacy, and reliability in mind, giving you full control and flexibility right out of the box.

Want Phil to help with your smart home?

You’ve heard him troubleshoot Home Assistant on the podcast. Now you can book him to troubleshoot yours. From broken automations and confusing YAML to dashboards, devices, and complete smart home setups: https://smarthomecto.com

Products Discussed

Apollo Automation ESPHome Starter Kit: https://esphome.io/starter-kit/

Apollo Automation Cast 1: https://apolloautomation.com/products/cast-1-audio-casting-device

Home Assistant Connect ZWA2 (Z‑Wave radio): https://amzn.to/3MfPzsP

Products we Recommend

Hosts

Phil Hawthorne

Website

Twitter: @philhawthorne

Bluesky: @philhawthorne.com

Buy Phil a Coffee

Rohan Karamandi

Website

Twitter: @rohank9

Buy Rohan a Coffee

This episode contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on one of them and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Sofia lives in a Home Assistant smart home, but she didn’t install it. We’re breaking down what its like on the other side of the fence and how open communication and involvement make for a happier smart home.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:00 Home Assistant origins

00:04:00 Philips Hue beginnings

00:06:30 Building automations together

00:09:00 Sensors and safety alerts

00:12:00 Magic mirror project

00:15:00 Apple Home scenes

00:18:00 Home Assistant usability

00:21:00 Privacy and stability

00:24:30 Voice control and wrap-up

This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors

Apollo Automation

Apollo Automation are the makers of open source smart home sensors built for the Home Assistant ecosystem. They're an official Open Home Foundation commercial partner and their devices are built with local control, privacy, and reliability in mind, giving you full control and flexibility right out of the box.

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. Sign up for your free trial in your Home Assistant system: https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/cloud/ or visit https://nabucasa.com

Zooz

If you're looking to upgrade your smart home - you can’t go past Zooz! Zooz offers a range of affordable and innovative devices, including water leak sensors, water valve controllers, smart plugs and scene controllers.

For the best prices on all Zooz products, head over to https://thesmartesthouse.com

Want Phil to help with your smart home?

You’ve heard him troubleshoot Home Assistant on the podcast. Now you can book him to troubleshoot yours. From broken automations and confusing YAML to dashboards, devices, and complete smart home setups: https://smarthomecto.com

Products we Recommend

Hosts

Phil Hawthorne

Website

Twitter: @philhawthorne

Bluesky: @philhawthorne.com

Buy Phil a Coffee

Rohan Karamandi

Website

Twitter: @rohank9

Buy Rohan a Coffee

This episode contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on this link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Rohan is moving house! Phil and Rohan dive into the realities of selling a Home Assistant-powered home and moving into a new property. They discuss what smart home gear is worth leaving behind, how to keep a house buyer-friendly, and why removable devices are often the safest choice. Plus, Rohan shares his plan to rebuild his smart home from scratch in a new house with a pool, septic, a generator, and plenty of new automation opportunities.

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Chapters

00:00:00: Intro

00:01:45: Moving House Update

00:04:41: Leaving Smart Gear

00:08:51: Selling Smart Homes

00:14:40: Lockbox Troubles

00:17:31: Open House Modes

00:19:59: Preparing The Yard

00:23:43: Packing The Tech

00:25:48: Home Assistant Move

00:28:50: Server Rack Plans

00:31:14: Doorbell And Locks

00:34:09: Irrigation Controller

00:35:19: New House Criteria

00:39:00: Pool And Irrigation

00:43:19: Fresh Home Assistant

00:48:03: New UI Features

00:51:26: Well Septic And Generator

00:55:09: Move Planning Tools

This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors

Apollo Automation

Apollo Automation are the makers of open source smart home sensors built for the Home Assistant ecosystem. They're an official Open Home Foundation commercial partner and their devices are built with local control, privacy, and reliability in mind, giving you full control and flexibility right out of the box.

Zooz

If you're looking to upgrade your smart home - you can’t go past Zooz! Zooz offers a range of affordable and innovative devices, including water leak sensors, water valve controllers, smart plugs and scene controllers.

For the best prices on all Zooz products, head over to https://thesmartesthouse.com

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. Sign up for your free trial in your Home Assistant system: https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/cloud/ or visit https://nabucasa.com

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Want Phil to help with your smart home?

You’ve heard him troubleshoot Home Assistant on the podcast. Now you can book him to troubleshoot yours. From broken automations and confusing YAML to dashboards, devices, and complete smart home setups: https://smarthomecto.com

Products we Recommend

Hosts

Phil Hawthorne

Website

Twitter: @philhawthorne

Bluesky: @philhawthorne.com

Buy Phil a Coffee

Rohan Karamandi

Website

Twitter: @rohank9

Buy Rohan a Coffee

This episode contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on one of them and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Home Assistant 2026.8 is here, we unpack the biggest changes. From port 8123 to port 80 for new Home Assistant OS installs, customizable entity ID formats, moon and vibration automation triggers, and the device-registry separation that may affect merged devices.

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Chapters

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:47 - Perth meetup and SmartThings API

00:07:47 - Battery charging and leak sensors

00:14:52 - Port 80 and HTTP settings

00:18:03 - UI wording and entity IDs

00:22:49 - Moon and vibration automations

00:24:23 - Device registry separation

00:30:00 - Template editor

00:32:21 - Dashboards and integration updates

00:36:37 - New Home Assistant integrations

00:44:48 - Breaking changes and upgrade advice

00:46:34 - Rohan's house move

00:48:14 - Proxmox migration and Zigbee

00:51:02 - Z-Wave migration and lock codes

00:55:31 - AI agent automations

00:57:36 - Network troubleshooting with Hermes

00:59:48 - Picture frame project and closing

This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors

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. Sign up for your free trial in your Home Assistant system: https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/cloud/ or visit https://nabucasa.com

Zooz

If you're looking to upgrade your smart home - you can’t go past Zooz! Zooz offers a range of affordable and innovative devices, including water leak sensors, water valve controllers, smart plugs and scene controllers.

For the best prices on all Zooz products, head over to https://thesmartesthouse.com

Apollo Automation

Apollo Automation are the makers of open source smart home sensors built for the Home Assistant ecosystem. They're an official Open Home Foundation commercial partner and their devices are built with local control, privacy, and reliability in mind, giving you full control and flexibility right out of the box.

Want Phil to help with your smart home?

You’ve heard him troubleshoot Home Assistant on the podcast. Now you can book him to troubleshoot yours. From broken automations and confusing YAML to dashboards, devices, and complete smart home setups: https://smarthomecto.com

Products Discussed

SwitchBot Candle Warmer Lamp: https://amzn.to/45plQEt

Roborock Q10 robot vacuum: https://amzn.to/4fVu105

Harbor Sleep Baby Monitor: https://amzn.to/3Rt73VV

Products we Recommend

Hosts

Phil Hawthorne

Website

Twitter: @philhawthorne

Bluesky: @philhawthorne.com

Buy Phil a Coffee

Rohan Karamandi

Website

Twitter: @rohank9

Buy Rohan a Coffee

This episode contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on one of them and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Phil and Rohan chat with Eugene about how he built a deeply automated smart home using Home Assistant, Raspberry Pi, Zigbee, Shelly devices, Aqara sensors, and even C#/.NET with NetDaemon. They explore practical automations for alarms, presence, notifications, kid management, and more.

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Chapters

00:00:00: Intro

00:02:00: Getting Into Automation

00:04:15: Choosing Hardware Wisely

00:06:30: Network Lessons Learned

00:10:30: Current Home Setup

00:15:00: Presence And Notifications

00:20:30: Actionable Alerts

00:27:55: Chores And Screen Time

00:34:20: Morning Summaries

00:39:00: .NET Automations

00:46:50: School Dates

This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors

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. Sign up for your free trial in your Home Assistant system: https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/cloud/ or visit https://nabucasa.com

Zooz

If you're looking to upgrade your smart home - you can’t go past Zooz! Zooz offers a range of affordable and innovative devices, including water leak sensors, water valve controllers, smart plugs and scene controllers.

For the best prices on all Zooz products, head over to https://thesmartesthouse.com

Apollo Automation

Apollo Automation are the makers of open source smart home sensors built for the Home Assistant ecosystem. They're an official Open Home Foundation commercial partner and their devices are built with local control, privacy, and reliability in mind, giving you full control and flexibility right out of the box.

Products Discussed

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