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1. How FireAvert wants to prevent house fires with a smart home twist

   <p><span>We’re sitting down with Nick and Larsen from FireAvert to talk about how FireAvert aims to stop house fires, and how they can tie into smart home systems like Home Assistant</span></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/C1q_R1Ddtbo" rel="
   48 min

2. How Mike is making heating smarter with Home Assistant

   <p>Industrial data pro Mike joins Phil and Rohan to unpack his Home Assistant setup. We dive deep into Node‑RED flows, mmWave presence, actionable dashboards, and AI‑assisted automations—including recognizing his own cat and verifying the r
   1 h 10

3. Braden’s Reliable, Low-Cost Home Automation System With Zero YAML Powered by Home Assistant

   <p>Electrical engineer Braden joins Phil and Rohan to share practical Home Assistant wins. From migrating to Zigbee2MQTT, taming a Whirlpool ice maker with ESPHome, building a garage door opener, and planning a sensor-packed greenhouse lab.
   1 h 00

4. Infrared is cool again with Home Assistant 2026.4

   <p>Home Assistant 2026.4 is here! We break down Infrared as a first‑class feature with IR proxies, expanded purpose‑specific triggers, dashboard background colors, favorites for lights/covers, Matter lock credential management, and more. We
   54 min

5. Kaden‘s Cat-Tracking Smart Home with Home Assistant and Frigate

   <p><span>We’re diving into Kaden’s cat-first smart home: Reolink + Frigate for pet detection, PetLibro feeders, and a Litter-Robot 4 all tied together with Home Assistant and LLM-generated dashboards.</span></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https:
   58 min

6. Home Assistant AI Deep Dive: LLM Vision, Copilot, OpenClaw & More

   <p><span>Phil and Rohan go deep on practical AI for Home Assistant. We cover LLM Vision for doorbell and perimeter alerts, HACS add‑ons like AI Agent and AI Suggester, and using GitHub Copilot to generate YAML automations. Rohan shares his
   53 min

7. Home Assistant 2026.3: Vacuuming rooms, and the sky is dark again

   <p><span>Breaking down Home Assistant 2026.3: map vacuum rooms to Areas for voice control, set HA as your default Android assistant with wake word support, SendSpin multi-room updates, Python 3.14 performance gains, and new integrations for
   56 min

8. How Andrew Rebuilt His Solo Smart Home When a Roommate Moved In

   <p>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 lock
   42 min

9. How Will Automates His Parents' Pool from 2,000 Miles Away and a Period UK Home

   <p>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’, tact
   1 h 09

10. Hiding Smart Tech in a 1950s Home: Mike’s Home Assistant Journey

    <p>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
    1 h 02

11. Home Assistant 2026.2: New Home Dashboard, Apps & our CES2026 wrap

    <p>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
    52 min

12. Inside the Works With Home Assistant program with Miranda Bishop

    <p>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 Matte
    1 h 23

13. From SimpliSafe to Matter: We’re re-visiting Aaron

    <p>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/Ye
    1 h 12

14. Artem’s Energy‑Smart Automations Without the Chaos

    <p>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</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://y
    1 h 02

15. Home Assistant 2026.1: SendSpin, new Home Dashboard improvements and presence using labels

    <p>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</p><p><br></p><p><a href="htt
    43 min

16. 187 Automations, 300 Devices: Josh’s Smart Home Assistant Journey

    <p>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 Powerwal
    1 h 22

17. From Alexa to Assist: NetworkChuck’s Smart Home with Frigate, UniFi, and AI

    <p>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
    1 h 25

18. Home Assistant 2025.12: Labs, Smarter Automations, Real‑Time Energy and Frenck

    <p>We’re closing out the final Home Assistant release for 2025 with Frenck and a massive Home Assistant 2025.12. Home Assistant Labs, purpose‑specific triggers and conditions, a smarter automation UI, real‑time power flows in Energy, Androi
    1 h 43

19. Jeroen’s energy dashboard and e-ink calendar display

    <p>Jeroen is a software developer from The Netherlands with a passion for saving money by saving energy. In this episode Jeroen shares his energy dashboard and e-ink calendar display.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/MxzH8d7teRI"
    1 h 04

20. From Pi to Blue, we’re revisiting Courtenay Watson

    <p>We’re revisiting Courtenay, who was last spoke to on Episode 45 six years ago. She’s here to share six years of Home Assistant progress: moving from Raspberry Pi to Home Assistant Blue, mastering the Energy Dashboard with MQTT, surviving
    1 h 06

21. Inside the Open Home: Darren Griffin

    <p>Go inside the Open Home Foundation with Darren, the web developer behind Home Assistant’s sites. From keeping the various Open Home Project websites online to automating his own home, we cover a lot in this one.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=
    1 h 10

22. Brewing With Home Assistant: From Modbus PIDs to ESPHome Fermentation Control with Greg Martin

    <p>Greg joins Phil and Rohan to share how he built a brewery control system with ESPHome and Home Assistant: Modbus PID retrofits, ESP32-based temperature control with one-wire probes and 24V valves, Bluetooth gravity sensors via proxies, p
    59 min

23. Home Assistant 2025.11: Improved target picker and energy pie charts

    <p>In this episode Phil and Rohan break down Home Assistant 2025.11. We cover the revamped Automation UI with the new target picker, naming options on dashboards, the new Energy pie chart, update progress indicators, and an upgraded Home da
    57 min

24. Garage Doors, E‑Ink Dashboards, and Entity Chaos with the Evil Genius Dave Slusher

    <p>Podcaster Dave Slusher joins Phil and Rohan to share hard-won smart home lessons: building a reliable mesh, solving a 100m mailbox sensor with Z-Wave Long Range and the ZWA2, and retiring MyQ with RATGDO + ESPHome. We also cover using an
    1 h 24

25. The Reluctant Home Assistant Guy: From Hue Chaos to Hour‑of‑Power Wins

    <p>Chris joins Phil and Rohan to share a brutally honest smart home journey: starting with Philips Hue, hitting limits with multiple bridges, battling MyQ and RatGDO, and landing real energy savings with Home Assistant.</p><p><br></p><p><a
    1 h 07

26. AirGradient: From Thai Wildfires to Open Source Hardware feat Achim Haug

    <p>Discover the origins of AirGradient, which began as a volunteer project in Northern Thailand during the harsh "burning season" of 2019. Learn how this effort evolved into a company focused on providing open source air quality hardware, m
    1 h 06

27. Philips Hue's New Bridge and the Cat Automation Problem with Josh Burg

    <p>We're joined by psychologist Josh Burg, who shares his unique journey from Google Home to a fully local Home Assistant setup. We get to see how he’s using some of the new Philips Hue zone capabilities to make his home smarter</p><p><br><
    1 h 10

28. Voice goes bilingual with Home Assistant 2025.10

    <p>Rohan and Phil are breaking down the 2025.10 release, which includes bilingual support for assistants. Meanwhile Sonos finds a new partner, and we answer some listener questions</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/-_ZfVewIXHo" rel
    1 h 02

29. Beyond the Bulb: Gimmy Chu Talks Nanoleaf, Smart Homes & Community Integration

    <p>Phil and Rohan talk to Gimmy Chu, CEO of Nanoleaf, about the Nanoleaf smart lighting ecosystem, their open API vision, and how Nanoleaf got its start in the world of innovative lighting technology.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://youtu
    1 h 03

30. Smart Home Automation for Accessibility with Thomas

    <p>Phil and Rohan chat with Thomas about his journey building an accessible smart home with Home Assistant. From experimenting with bulbs and voice assistants to creating cutting-edge automations like occupancy sensors and even a ChatGPT-po
    1 h 02

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