Andrew joins Phil and Rohan to share how he outgrew Apple HomeKit and built a powerful multi-user smart home in Home Assistant. We cover presence detection with ESP32s and sensors, ditching MyQ for a Meross garage opener, Yale smart locks, bathroom humidity fan automations, and fun ESPN sports goal alerts.

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00:00:00 - Welcome, Sponsors, Intro

00:02:00 - Andrew’s Tech Beginnings

00:05:00 - From Apple Home to HA

00:08:00 - Breaking HomeKit Limitations

00:11:00 - Hardware: Pi to Proxmox

00:14:00 - Backups, Restores, Cleanup

00:16:30 - Multi-User Automation Challenges

00:19:00 - Presence Without Phone Tracking

00:22:00 - Buttons, Switches, Voice Balance

00:25:00 - ESP32 Presence And Motion

00:29:00 - Bathroom Humidity Fan Logic

00:33:00 - Sensor Health & Batteries

00:36:00 - Lighting Philosophy & Accents

00:39:00 - WLED, TV Backlights, Aesthetics

00:41:30 - Goals For The Year, Wrap-Up

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Will joins Phil and Rohan to share how he tamed a period UK home and a remote Canary Islands vacation property with Home Assistant, ESPHome, and Zigbee. We dive into DIY pool chemistry control, fridge monitoring with a ‘strawtenna’, tactile dashboards, AI‑assisted heating, and why Shelly is everywhere

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00:00:00 Welcome

00:03:30 Will’s origin story and tinkering

00:08:30 Finding Home Assistant and ESPHome

00:12:00 Hot tub and pool control projects

00:17:00 Remote Canary Islands setup

00:22:00 Zigbee vs Wi‑Fi in old homes

00:27:00 Antennas and fridge sensor hacks

00:32:00 Dashboards and tactile panels

00:37:00 AI and heating optimizations

00:42:00 Remote access: fiber and TailScale

00:46:00 Multi‑site management and ideas

00:50:00 Favorite automations and LLM Vision

00:56:00 Home lab, IPTV, and Channels DVR

01:00:00 2026 goals: energy, irrigation, WLED

01:05:00 Shelly scripts and local‑first

01:07:00 Community vendors

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Mike joins Phil and Rohan to share how he hides smart tech in a 1953 mid‑century home so it looks analog but works like magic. Plus: Roborock tricks, leak sensors that turn rooms blue, HomePod TTS vs Sonos ducking, Samsung Frame art‑mode headaches, and running full HA OS in a VMware Fusion VM on a Mac mini.

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00:00:00 Welcome

00:03:00 Lighting gateway and Hue hack

00:05:30 Sneaking tech and dance reveal

00:08:00 From HomeKit/HomeBridge to HA

00:10:30 Dashboards and camera setup

00:12:30 Bulbs vs switches in 50s home

00:14:30 Bathroom fan and comforts

00:16:30 Homelab and Zigbee backbone

00:19:00 LLMs and announcements

00:21:30 Laundry alerts and Mac lab

00:25:30 Presence sensing strategy

00:28:00 Leak sensors and water safety

00:31:00 Light signals around the home

00:33:00 Roborock automations and hacks

00:40:30 Bedroom presence routines

00:43:00 Bayesian sensors and design

00:49:50 Time Machine and Frame TV

00:54:30 Pool fountain control

00:56:30 Power and crawlspace cabling

00:59:10 Party trick and outro

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We break down Home Assistant 2026.2: the Home Dashboard is now default, the new Command‑K command palette, a dedicated Matter dashboard, and add‑ons renamed to Apps. Plus: CES 2026 highlights, the Open Home Foundation device database and a Google Home outage.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:03:00 CES Highlights and Shoutouts

00:06:00 Device Database and Open Home

00:11:30 Cloud Outage and Local Control

00:13:50 Listener Feedback and Tips

00:21:20 2026.2 Release Overview

00:23:20 Home Dashboard Becomes Default

00:26:45 Command Palette and Shortcuts

00:29:40 Matter Dashboard and Apps Rename

00:32:40 Automations, Cards, and Buttons

00:37:10 Music Assistant, Media, Sponsor Break

00:41:10 New Integrations Roundup

00:46:25 Breaking Changes: Groups, Tuya

00:49:38 Closing Thoughts and Predictions

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Miranda from the Open Home Foundation takes us inside the Works With Home Assistant program: how devices are tested, why the badge matters, and how vendors—from startups to big brands—can get certified. We cover Zigbee vs Z‑Wave vs Matter, badge misuse, regional device coverage, and Miranda’s own fun automations.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:03:20 Miranda’s path to HA

00:08:00 CES stories and community

00:14:30 Moving program to Foundation

00:22:30 Fees, pushback, endorsement?

00:29:30 Guidance, safety, and testing

00:36:30 Zigbee, Z‑Wave, Matter realities

00:43:00 Big brands, IKEA, relationships

00:50:30 Cloud integrations, Genie

00:55:30 Miranda’s home and automations

01:03:30 Blinds, garden, robots

01:10:00 Regional coverage and filters

01:15:30 Badge misuse and enforcement

01:20:30 2026 goals and wrap‑up

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Aaron returns to share how his Home Assistant setup evolved from endless tinkering to a rock‑solid system that runs his family life. We cover Z‑Wave provisioning, ESPHome vs off‑the‑shelf reliability, RATGDO for garage doors, HA Green/Yellow, voice‑first routines, and the rise of AI‑powered helpers.

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00:00:00 - Welcome, guest intro

00:02:30 - Aaron’s Home Assistant dev journey

00:06:30 - Life change and HA evolving

00:10:30 - HA Green/Yellow setup ease

00:14:30 - Proxmox vs appliance hubs

00:18:30 - Remote radios and antennas

00:22:30 - AppDaemon to UI automations

00:26:30 - AI helpers and sensors

00:30:30 - Dashboards vs default view

00:34:30 - Voice and automation-first

00:38:30 - Community ideas and sharing

00:42:30 - Maintain vs rebuild strategy

00:46:30 - Vacuum and dishwasher flows

00:50:30 - Guest mode with Shortcuts

00:54:30 - ESPHome vs plug-and-play

00:58:30 - Z-Wave provisioning

01:02:30 - Local-first hardware wins

01:06:30 - Matter, cameras, standards

01:10:00 - Open-source continuity, advice

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By day Artem works for JetBrains, developing coding IDEs for software professionals. But today we want to learn about his smart home, and how he is using Home Assistant to make it more energy efficient

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00:00:00 - Welcome, sponsors, guest intro

00:02:30 - Developer life and new home

00:06:30 - Shutters and first automations

00:12:20 - Wi‑Fi presence and WAF/PAF

00:17:30 - Cabling regrets and PoE lessons

00:21:30 - Zigbee over Ethernet; IKEA fix

00:25:58 - Dynamic tariffs, solar and battery

00:33:20 - Smart appliance scheduling

00:41:00 - mmWave presence sensors

00:45:20 - Doorbell NFC and Nuki lock

00:50:10 - Wishlist, Hue and wiring

00:53:10 - Climate tuning and valve fix

00:58:40 - Versatile thermostat and wrap‑up

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Rohan and Phil are here to break down the 2026.1 release. We’re talking Home Dashboard improvements, a new multi-room audio protocol from Music Assistant, and of course some Zigbee quirks thrown into the mix

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00:00:00 - New Year, housekeeping, sponsors

00:03:00 - SendSpin: open sync audio arrives

00:10:00 - Cross‑ecosystem sync caveats

00:14:00 - Voice PE audio and DIY speakers

00:16:00 - Listener Q&A and AI log help

00:20:00 - 2026.1 mobile Home dashboard

00:24:00 - Purpose‑specific triggers expansion

00:27:00 - New integrations

00:31:00 - Labels/templates for presence

00:37:00 - Protocol hubs, Matter, graphs, devices

00:41:00 - Breaking changes, EcoWitt PSA, CES

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Josh from Josh’s Smart Home joins Phil and Rohan to unpack a 300-device Home Assistant setup running on Home Assistant Green. We dive into the move from SmartThings, building a reliable Zigbee mesh, energy automations with Tesla Powerwall and a smart pool pump and theatre room presence.

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:22 - Meet Josh

00:02:18 - Early smart home missteps

00:04:12 - SmartThings and Lutron

00:05:54 - WebCoRE ends, HA begins

00:09:29 - Home Assistant Green setup

00:09:34 - Zigbee mesh with Aqara

00:12:55 - Theater gear quirks

00:14:18 - Theater automation philosophy

00:22:02 - Time-of-use energy automations

00:23:00 - Powerwall + solar in HA

00:26:31 - ROI and arbitrage

00:28:28 - Tesla automations

00:32:42 - Dashboards and voice control

00:37:19 - Washer/dryer and doorbell alerts

00:40:37 - 187 automations, time saved

00:44:20 - Motion and humidity control

00:48:56 - Measuring automation impact

00:50:02 - Smart blinds convenience

00:50:19 - Yarbo mower and snowblower

00:58:43 - Security and utility uses

01:06:59 - Starting Josh’s Smart Home

01:10:27 - Automation content plans

01:12:45 - Top new-build tips

01:15:56 - Designing and building

01:21:26 - Where to find Josh

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YouTuber NetworkChuck joins Phil and Rohan to break down his real-world Home Assistant setup: migrating off Alexa, building a Home Assistant voice assistant (with a Terry Crews voice clone!), wiring Frigate to Reolink cameras, and using UniFi + AI to debug Wi‑Fi chaos. We also compare Node‑RED vs n8n, talk Plex vs Jellyfin and NAS headaches, inventory with Grocy, mmWave presence, ESP32 room presence, and how local AI stacks up against GPT/Claude for home automations.

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00:00:00 - Welcome

00:02:30 - Network Chuck’s background

00:06:30 - Discovering Home Assistant

00:10:30 - Toilet paper saga automation

00:14:30 - From Alexa to Home Assistant Voice

00:20:30 - Frigate cameras and Reolink lessons

00:27:30 - Face and plate recognition ideas

00:32:00 - Local AI models vs cloud

00:39:00 - Family adoption and analog rebounds

00:43:30 - Presence, phones, mmWave, ESP32

00:48:30 - Halloween thunderstorm and Plex fun

00:52:30 - Node-RED vs n8n in automations

00:58:00 - Plex vs Jellyfin and NAS woes

01:05:30 - Grocy, inventory, and shopping hacks

01:12:00 - Air quality, energy, and next steps

01:18:00 - Enterprise talk and wrap-up

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