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Customize Your Home with Advanced Automation with Jason Shearer Jul 19, 2024

Show notes

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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Hosts

Phil Hawthorne

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Rohan Karamandi

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Taking control of Blueprints, Voice gets smarter in 2024.7 Jul 03, 2024

Show notes

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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Phil Hawthorne

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Florian’s 100+ device ZigBee Network Jun 20, 2024

Show notes

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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Phil Hawthorne

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Letting AI take control of our home with 2024.6 Jun 04, 2024

Show notes

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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Exploring Daniel’s Home Assistant powered smart home May 21, 2024

Show notes

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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Phil Hawthorne

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Talking the Open Home Foundation and 2024.5 with Frenck May 01, 2024

Show notes

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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Automating all the things with Kurt Apr 16, 2024

Show notes

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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Phil Hawthorne

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Rohan Karamandi

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Categorising and Labelling everything with 2024.4 Apr 03, 2024

Show notes

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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Phil Hawthorne

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Using Home Assistant as a second brain with Brian Mar 20, 2024

Show notes

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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