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In this episode of the Home Assistant Podcast, hosts Rohan Karamandi and Phil Hawthorne have a fascinating discussion with Nir Lavi, an enthusiast and active contributor to the home automation community. The conversation delves deep into Nir’s journey with home automation, focusing on the practical aspects and challenges of integrating advanced smart technologies into everyday life.

Nir shares his experiences, from early experimentation with home automation to the sophisticated systems he uses today. The discussion covers a wide range of topics including lighting, security, energy management, and redundancy in smart home setups. Nir’s insights provide valuable lessons for both beginners and seasoned home automation enthusiasts, making this episode a treasure trove of practical advice and innovative ideas.

Nir’s innovative projects include setting up a ring keypad, using millimeter wave sensors for presence detection, integrating a fingerprint scanner for secure home entry, and developing a OneDrive backup add-on for Home Assistant. His approach to automating routine tasks and enhancing the smart home experience highlights the importance of balancing technology with convenience and reliability.

Key Takeaways:

• Predictive Maintenance: Utilizing energy consumption data to identify anomalies and predict potential failures in home appliances.
• Touchless Automation: Implementing presence-based automation with millimeter wave sensors for a more intuitive and convenient smart home experience.
• Voice Assistant Integration: The importance of local, cloud-independent voice assistants for enhanced privacy and reliability in smart home control.
• Sensor Utilization: Maximizing the use of various sensors, such as air quality, CO2 levels, and water leak detectors, for a healthier and safer living environment.
• Redundancy and Reliability: Ensuring the smart home remains functional even if the primary systems go down, highlighting the importance of failover mechanisms and backup plans.

Chapters:

00:00:00 - Introduction & Sponsorship

00:01:12 - Nir’s Background in Technology

00:02:01 - Early Smart Home Experiments

00:05:21 - Challenges with Smart Lighting

00:09:24- Smart Home Projects

00:10:51 - Smart Speakers

00:18:54- Automating the Roborock S7

00:24:10- Security Setup

00:26:37- Challenges with Redundancy & System Reliability on Home Security

00:35:23- Contributing to the Home Assistant Community

00:39:26- Presence Detection & Sensor Utilization

00:43:50- Challenges with Smart Home Dashboards

00:45:48- Redundancy in Smart Home Systems

00:54:28- Favorite Automation & Lighting Projects

00:56:38- Frigate and Camera Integration

01:01:16- Conclusion

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In this episode of the Home Assistant Podcast, hosts Phil Hawthorne and Rohan Karamandi provide the latest updates and features of Home Assistant version 2024.8 and more! They discuss various topics, including the discontinuation of Telstra TV and Nike's self-lacing shoes, environmental concerns related to e-waste, and notable updates in the Home Assistant ecosystem, including new local LLM integrations, updates to the Home Assistant Yellow and Green devices, and enhancements to the user interface.

Key Highlights:

• Background Discussion: Phil and Rohan go over the key features of the Home Assistant 2024.8 release, including updates to the dashboard, service calls, and new integrations.

• Cloud Strikes Again: A lighthearted segment where Phil shares his experiences with tech products that have been rendered obsolete due to cloud service shutdowns, including the Telstra TV box and Nike's self-lacing shoes.

• Home Assistant Yellow Update: Rohan provides insights into the latest updates for Home Assistant Yellow and Green, discussing their functionalities and the ease of use for beginners and advanced users. Home Assistant Blog Link: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/08/01/streamlining-the-home-assistant-yellow-lineup/

• New Integrations: A detailed discussion on the new integrations added in this release, including Otarco, Bright Evolution, Iron OS, and Tesla Fleet API.

• Breaking Changes: An overview of the breaking changes introduced in this update, focusing on the impact on users and how to navigate them.

Chapters

00:00:15 Introduction and Sponsor Mention

00:01:30 Telstra TV Discussion Begins

00:03:35 Telstra TV Discontinuation

00:04:24 Environmental Concerns with E-Waste

00:07:00 Nike Self-Lacing Shoes

00:07:58 Frustration Over Discontinued Products

00:11:30 Home Assistant Yellow and Green

00:17:27 Wave JS and Home Assistant Green Performance

00:20:07 2024.8 Home Assistant Update

00:22:30 Transition from Services to Actions

00:26:30 Introduction of Local LLaMA AI

00:37:30 New UI for KNX Integration

00:42:00 YAML-Based Integrations Now Visible in UI

00:52:00 Wake Word Collective Announcement

00:55:55 Episode Conclusion and Closing Remarks

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In this episode of the Home Assistant Podcast, Rohan Karamandi and Phil Hawthorne have an engaging conversation with Jason Shearer, a long-time listener and an engineering leader in the technology industry.

Jason shares his fascinating journey from experimenting with home automation in his first condo to integrating advanced technologies into his current home. His expertise spans various domains, including lighting, irrigation, security, and energy management.

Jason's story is filled with intriguing projects, such as transitioning from SmartThings to Home Assistant, automating a sit-stand desk, and creating elaborate holiday light displays using individually addressable LEDs.

He delves into the importance of understanding energy consumption, leveraging predictive maintenance, and the integration of various protocols for a seamless smart home experience. Jason's innovative approaches and practical solutions provide valuable insights for both novice and experienced home automation enthusiasts.

Key Takeaways:

• Predictive Maintenance: Using energy consumption data to identify anomalies and predict potential failures in home appliances.

• Touchless Automation: Implementing presence-based automation with millimeter wave sensors for a more intuitive and convenient smart home experience.

• Holiday Lighting Automation: Combining physical and software skills to create impressive holiday light displays, controlled via Home Assistant and MQTT.

• Voice Assistant Integration: The importance of local, cloud-independent voice assistants for enhanced privacy and reliability in smart home control.

• Sensor Utilization: Maximizing the use of various sensors, such as air quality, CO2 levels, and water leak detectors, for a healthier and safer living environment.

Chapters

00:16 Introduction

00:47 Guest Introduction

01:24 Consumer vs. Commercial Automation

03:03 Jason's Home Automation Journey

05:59 Lighting Automation and Christmas Decorations

09:58 Physical Setup and Cable Management

12:50 Weather Automation

15:20 LED Longevity and Replacement

17:36 Sequence Programming for Lights

22:06 Lighting Effects and Home Assistant Integration

28:01 Future Plans for Lighting Automation

31:56 ESP Home Projects

35:26 Leak Detection and Mitigation

49:55 Energy Monitoring

57:39 Daily Use of Automation

01:12:16 Closing Remarks

To learn more about Jason and his home automation projects, connect with him through the Home Assistant community.

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2024.7, Year of the voice chapter 7, and an amazing ESPHome update are just some of the goodies released Rohan and Phil break down.

Chapters

00:44 ESPHome Update Entities

05:16 Year of the voice chapter 7

18:49 2204.7

20:11 Home Assistant Roadmap

29:05 20247 Continued

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Florian from The Netherlands joins Rohan and Phil to break down his smart home journey, and some of the decisions made when designing his families smart home.

Chapters

00:56 Getting started with Home Assistant

12:23 Design Considerations for a smart home

17:00 Protocols in the smart home

19:17 100 Devices on Zigbee

27:40 Home Assistant Hardware

29:27 Favourite Automations

34:03 Outdoor Irrigation

40:24 Other Life Automations

44:51 Room Presence

48:47 Future plans for automations

50:51 Automating Solar Consumption Output

58:40 Dashboards and UI

01:00:06 Zigbee Smoke Detectors

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From digital photo frames, irrigation and (almost) his children, Daniel has automated a lot with Home Assistant and ESPHome

Chapters

01:04 LLM AI Support for Home Assistant

09:52 Assust Room Awareness

10:58 Section Layout Control

13:28 Blueprint Collapsible Sections

14:23 Grouping Actions

17:04 Matter Matters

18:24 Disabling Expired Login Tokens in 20246

21:16 Tag Entities

23:14 Teslemetry

26:56 New Integrations

33:25 Azure Data Explorer

37:42 Backward-incompatible Changes

48:05 A subscription price for Alexa

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From digital photo frames, irrigation and (almost) his children, Daniel has automated a lot with Home Assistant and ESPHome

Chapters

01:03 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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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

Chapters

01:10 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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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 requests

55:41 Driving Home Assistant

01:01:28 Failsafes for Home Automation

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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

Chapters

00:00 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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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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2024.3 lands with exciting updates, with some features which are sure to please everyone. Phil shares a tip for owners with robot vacuums with mopping capabilities

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:00 2024.3 New Features

27:01 Vacuum Smells

31:15 Template Translation Helper

36:22 New Integrations

39:33 Breaking Changes

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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

47:55 Roadmap for Home Assistant

50:56 More Hardware for Nabu Casa

56:23 The Home Assistant Community

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Rohan and Phil sit down with Simon from Australia. From smart integration with alarm panels to automating garage doors

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00:00 Intro

00:49 Cloud Strikes Again

13:46 Apple Car Play

18:51 2024.2

45:15 Breaking Changes

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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 Automation

01:00:09 Smart Irrigation

01:01:10 Internet Down Alert

01:01:56 Phil Zigbee Issues

01:04:24 Simons End Goals

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Rohan and Phil break down the 2024.1 release, which brings in some new updates to the automation UI

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00:00 Intro

01:12 2024 Wishes

14:07 2024.1

26:22 2024.1 New Integrations

34:09 2024.1 Breaking Changes

39:03 iOS versions

43:39 Reolink Doorbell

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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

46:05 Technology Stack

49:33 Brewery Automations

54:32 GPT Flavoured Beer

56:21 To Do Lists

01:01:00 Battery Management

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The final release of 2023 is here, and Franck joins Rohan and Phil to break it down and ponder what 2024 will bring.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:54 Another "year of"

04:49 30 Employees at Nabu Casa

11:20 GitHub Security Audit

14:15 2023.12

01:00:12 2023 Wish List - Cameras

01:02:26 2024 Wish List

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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

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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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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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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.

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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

39:32 The cat box

40:10 Lawn Mowing

47:34 Design Principals

53:45 Vacuums

54:59 Voice Assistants

59:25 If you could design from scratch today?

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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

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Brian is a patent attorney by day, with a love of ESPHome and hardware. 

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Rohan and Phil break down the 2023.9 release, Home Assistant turns 10, and Phil has an update on his Zigbee devices going offline

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From automating the sprinklers to creating an ESPHome Saturn V model, John shares his stories of his smart home journey with Rohan and Phil

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John Vassiliou

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Christian joins Rohan and Phil to talk about his smart home journey. From object detection with cameras, to a smart heated bed for his new cat

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Generating images with AI, a new event entity type and more translations hit Home Assistant

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With 2023 the year of the voice, Rohan and Phil talk with Mike Hansen about what’s being worked on, and what the future may hold

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2023.7 brings in the biggest change to Home Assistant in 10 years. Rohan and Phil break it down along with all the other goodies

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Rohan and Phil talk with Rian about his Home Assistant setup, including arduinos, NFC tags and a bunch more

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2023.6 lands with a brand new integration page layout, and for OS users network storage support. Meanwhile Rohan and Phil discuss their vacuum cleaners and gadgets

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Rohan and Phil talk to Philip from Germany, who has an extensive smart home powered by KNX and Home Assistant

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The year of the voice chapter 2 brings some new goodies landing in Home Assistant 2023.5

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Guy Petersen from Newcastle joins Rohan and Phil to talk about his smart home. From gluing ecosystems together to automations built from past mistakes.

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Rohan and Phil break down the 2023.4 release and 2023.3 Android app update

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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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2023.3 lands with an easier restart button and an overhaul to the entity dialogs. Rohan and Phil discuss flashing robot vacuum cleaners.

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Rohan and Phil are joined by Corey Edwards who tells us about his automated sprinklers, fun things around the house, and some useful automations he’s been able to do for when being on-call

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The year of the voice is well underway. Rohan and Phil break down the 2023.2 release, including the new Assistant feature

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If you were just starting out with Home Assistant, what would you want to know? Dean Mancini from the US is just starting out with Home Assistant, and joins Rohan and Phil to discuss his journey, ask some newbie questions

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Rohan and Phil bring in 2023 with a breakdown of the new features in Home Assistant this month, and discuss some of their goals for 2023

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Rohan and Phil are talking with Jan from Sweden and how he is using self hosted tools like Uptime Kuma to monitor his smart home

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2022.12 is out with official support for the next generation smart home protocol Matter. While Rohan is away on holiday Frenck is here to help break down the final release for 2022

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Rohan and Phil are joined by Danny Tsang from the UK. Danny shares some of his smart home ideas including bed sensors, solar power and ESPHome’s Bluetooth Proxy

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Rohan and Phil are breaking down the 2022.11 release. They also discuss energy monitoring, tracking toothbrushes and pressure sensors.

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Mike was a runner up in our 2021 competition, and he joins Rohan and Phil to talk about his smart home and how it helps with his family life

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Rohan and Phil break down the 2022.10 release, which brings Active Bluetooth via ESPHome devices, and subview dashboards. Plus we hear some feedback from our previous episodes.

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Rohan and Phil talk to fellow YouTuber Ryan Holland, who is using Home Assistant to track his car, and is using various ESP devices around the home to make it smarter

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The UI builder gets a massive overhaul in 2022.9, with weekly schedules and more Bluetooth support. Meanwhile Rohan has started his journey’s with cameras

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Simon joins Rohan and Phil to talk about his journey with Home Assistant, and some of his grand plans he wants to achieve.

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Rohan and Phil break down the 2022.8 release, Phil discusses a new custom component he’s found in HACS for energy dashboard users

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Rosemary Orchard (Automators, iOS Today, Nested Folders) joins Rohan and Phil to talk about the Home Assistant rabbit hole Phil started her down.

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A new month brings a new Home Assistant release, and 2022.7 is probably the most snappiest release this year

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Rohan and Phil talk to Keir, who shares his Home Assistant mobile dashboard, and some of his ESP projects.

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Rohan and Phil break down the 2022.6 release and celebrate 5 years of the Home Assistant Podcast

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Rohan and Phil talk to Erwin from Belgium, who explains how Home Assistant saved him from paying a speeding ticket

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2022.5 lands with another new configuration menu update, and the cloud strikes again with Insteon abruptly closing down

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Rohan and Phil talk to Luke from Canada, who tells us one of his created a smart climbing wall to keep his children entertained throughout the pandemic

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Rohan gets home from vacation to help Phil break down the 2022.4 release. Rohan describes the issues he's been having with his Bluetooth smart lock

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Rohan and Phil talk to Gene, who tells us about his automated "on zoom" light lets his family know when he's in a meeting

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Rohan and Phil take a look at the 2022.3 release, with some great new additions and the migration of OpenZwave to ZwaveJS.

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Rohan and Phil talk to Dan from the USA about some of his interesting uses of Home Assistant.

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Rohan and Phil break down the first Home Assistant release for 2022, and its a big one!

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From locking people in the toilet, to hacking hover boards. Rohan and Phil talk to Brett about his use of Home Assistant

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Rohan and Phil talk to Michael, a core contributor to the Material Design Icons project.

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Rohan and Phil break down the final release of 2021, talk about Dark Sky replacements, and how many automations they have in their smart homes

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Joshua joins Rohan and Phil to give a breakdown of his smart home, including automating a safety message when someone gets home

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Rohan and Phil take a look at the 2021.11 release. Phil discusses his use of Heimdall, which is similar to the new feature Home Assistant just released.

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Rohan and Phil chat with Dan from the USA to learn about MySensors and how they can be used with Home Assistant

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Rohan and Phil break down the 2021.10 release, and announce the winner of their competition celebrating 100 episodes of the Home Assistant Podcast.

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Rohan and Phil talk to Alan from Australia, where he explains how he's using Arduino's to measure how much beer is in the fridge, amongst other things.

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Rohan and Phil break down the 2021.9 release and share some entries to the Nabu Casa Cloud giveaway competition

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Will, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Drexel University College of Medicine joins Rohan and Phil to talk about how he's using Home Assistant to streamline the sequencing of COVID-19

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2021.8 brings a new energy dashboard to Home Assistant, while we announce a competition and a new show.

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Marlon joins Rohan and Phil, author of The Smart Home Manual about his home automation journey with Home Assistant

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Rohan and Phil break down the goodies coming in with 2021.7. Phil discusses his experience setting up an ESP32 device for the first time with the ESP web tools.

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Rohan and Phil talk to Keiran on how he uses Home Assistant around the home, and how he was able to use it to assist his girlfriend after surgery.

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