Podcast Episodes

Keyless Locks, Panic Buttons and automating Electric Fireplaces with Marlon

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

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5 years, 1 month ago

2021.7 – Adding ID’s to our automation triggers, and provisioning ESP devices with ease

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…

5 years, 1 month ago

Using Home Assistant to help sick family around the home with Keiran

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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5 years, 2 months ago

2021.6 – Faster Philips Hue, and a little bit of everything

Rohan and Phil break down the 2021.6 release, and Rohan talks about the outdoor smart plug from Lutron.

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5 years, 3 months ago

Creating the ultimate environmental board gaming experience with Anthony

Rohan and Phil talk with Anthony about how he uses Home Assistant to bring a more immersive experience for his board games

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5 years, 3 months ago

2021.5 – A better integrations dashboard and getting the status of remote services

Rohan and Phil break down the 2021.5 release and Rohan’s status page in Lovelace. Phil shares some of his sensors for monitoring various services and…

5 years, 3 months ago

Bridging ecosystems for better home media control with Luke

Rohan and Phil are joined by Luke from Western Australia, who explains how he uses Home Assistant to make the ultimate home media controller.

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5 years, 4 months ago

2021.4 – Debugging our automations, experimenting with Node-RED and getting future plans from Paulus

Rohan and Phil break down the 2021.4 release. Rohan talks about his experience making the switch to Node-RED, and Paulus talks about future plans for…

5 years, 4 months ago

Talking the ESPHome Acquisition with Paulus

In this special episode we dig a bit deeper into Nabu Casa's acquisition of the ESPHome project with Home Assistant founder Paulus.

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5 years, 5 months ago

2021.3, TP-Link Backflip, Using NFC Tags for Chores

TP-Link does a back-flip on their local API, Rohan and Phil break down the 2021.3 release

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5 years, 6 months ago