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Home Assistant Podcast

Join hosts Phil Hawthorne and Rohan Karamandi as they explore the newest Home Assistant release and the latest Home Automation news.

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Let’s Talk About 2023.5

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2023/05/04

The year of the voice chapter 2 brings some new goodies landing in Home Assistant 2023.5

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Remembering the bike is attached to the car with Guy

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2023/04/21

Guy Petersen from Newcastle joins Rohan and Phil to talk about his smart home. From gluing ecosystems together to automations built from past mistakes.

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2023.4 – Template Macros and Windows 11 (sort of)

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2023/04/04

Rohan and Phil break down the 2023.4 release and 2023.3 Android app update

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Alastair’s Home Assistant Journey

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2023/03/21

From ESPHome wireless speakers to automating the irrigation, Alastair has covered a lot in his smart home. A wealth of knowledge is ready and waiting for you in this episode.

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2023.3 – A new restart button and better entity dialogs

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2023/02/28

2023.3 lands with an easier restart button and an overhaul to the entity dialogs. Rohan and Phil discuss flashing robot vacuum cleaners.

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Automating Sprinklers with Corey Edwards

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2023/02/15

Rohan and Phil are joined by Corey Edwards who tells us about his automated sprinklers, fun things around the house, and some useful automations he’s been able to do for when being on-call

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A new Assistant launches with Home Assistant 2023.2

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2023/02/01

The year of the voice is well underway. Rohan and Phil break down the 2023.2 release, including the new Assistant feature

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Getting Started with Home Assistant in 2023

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2023/01/18

If you were just starting out with Home Assistant, what would you want to know? Dean Mancini from the US is just starting out with Home Assistant, and joins Rohan and Phil to discuss his journey, ask some newbie questions

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2023.1: The year of voice; new features, and our home...

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2023/01/04

Rohan and Phil bring in 2023 with a breakdown of the new features in Home Assistant this month, and discuss some of their goals for 2023

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Using Uptime Kuma to monitor the smart home with Jan

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2022/12/18

Rohan and Phil are talking with Jan from Sweden and how he is using self hosted tools like Uptime Kuma to monitor his smart home

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Home Assistant 2022.12 launches Matter with 2023 “the...

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2022/12/07

2022.12 is out with official support for the next generation smart home protocol Matter. While Rohan is away on holiday Frenck is here to help break down the final release for 2022

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KPI’s for your smart home with Danny Tsang

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2022/11/16

Rohan and Phil are joined by Danny Tsang from the UK. Danny shares some of his smart home ideas including bed sensors, solar power and ESPHome’s Bluetooth Proxy

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What the Heck is new in 2022.11?!

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2022/11/02

Rohan and Phil are breaking down the 2022.11 release. They also discuss energy monitoring, tracking toothbrushes and pressure sensors.

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Automating a house for twins and the family with Mike

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2022/10/19

Mike was a runner up in our 2021 competition, and he joins Rohan and Phil to talk about his smart home and how it helps with his family life

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2022.10 – Active Bluetooth, Hacktoberfest and Subviews

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2022/10/05

Rohan and Phil break down the 2022.10 release, which brings Active Bluetooth via ESPHome devices, and subview dashboards. Plus we hear some feedback from our previous episodes.

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Tracking cars and automating everything with Ryan...

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2022/09/21

Rohan and Phil talk to fellow YouTuber Ryan Holland, who is using Home Assistant to track his car, and is using various ESP devices around the home to make it smarter

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2022.9 – Automation UI Overhaul, Bluetooth Proxies...

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2022/09/07

The UI builder gets a massive overhaul in 2022.9, with weekly schedules and more Bluetooth support. Meanwhile Rohan has started his journey’s with cameras

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Checking the rain tank water levels with Simon

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2022/08/17

Simon joins Rohan and Phil to talk about his journey with Home Assistant, and some of his grand plans he wants to achieve.

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2022.8 – Repairs, Hive creates e-waste to help...

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2022/08/03

Rohan and Phil break down the 2022.8 release, Phil discusses a new custom component he’s found in HACS for energy dashboard users

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Rosemary Orchard and her HomeKit smart home hacks

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2022/07/20

Rosemary Orchard (Automators, iOS Today, Nested Folders) joins Rohan and Phil to talk about the Home Assistant rabbit hole Phil started her down.

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