- Automating all the things with Kurt
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
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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
Chapters
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
Chapters
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
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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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.
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
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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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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