Episode 595 - Taking Back the TVs

On this week's show: Sony may be done with standalone UHD Blu-ray players, HACS gets folded into Home Assistant as the Marketplace, SMLIGHT tries Zigbee over Ethernet, and Ubiquiti keeps expanding the UniFi empire with long-range PoE and Thread-ready Wi-Fi 7 access points. We also hit CEDIA award winners, Everything Smart Home joining Works with Home Assistant, a few smart-home community notes, a pick of the week, project updates, and so much more!
• Home Assistant Community Day: November 7, 2026• Columbus, Ohio Meetup · Luma (luma.com/u7limgv2)
• Open Home Foundation Community Day · Events Calendar (luma.com/communityday2026)

• HomeTech Headlines• Sony reportedly exits UHD Blu-ray player market (flatpanelshd.com/news.php?id=1792667456&su…)
• HACS is now built into Home Assistant (frenck.dev/hacs-is-now-the-home-assistant-mark…)
• ZREL — Zigbee over Ethernet (smlight.tech/articles/introducing-zrel)
• Introducing UniFi Long-Range PoE Switching (blog.ui.com/article/introducing-unifi-long-ran…)
• Ubiquiti is putting Thread inside UniFi Wi-Fi 7 access points — turning them into smart home infrastructure (matteralpha.com/news/ubiquiti-unifi-wifi-7-acc…)

• Everything Smart Home joins Works with Home Assistant (community.home-assistant.io/t/everything-smart…)
• From the ifttt community on Reddit (reddit.com/r/ifttt/comments/1xbqq2w/ifttt_is_m…)
• apps.apple.com/us/app/roomsync-for-home-assist… RoomSync for Home Assistant