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New @home_assistant podcast episode! 🎙️ Dan Built His Own Smart Switches and Connected Them to Home Assistant Watch: https://youtu.be/cqBtlCVRAJs

New @home_assistant podcast episode! 🎙️ Jason’s Home Assistant Smart Home That Watches Birds and Tracks Visitors Watch: https://youtu.be/IGJsY2TTUL4

Ironic that this admin was so lazy, they forgot to code the replacement for the current year

New @home_assistant podcast episode! 🎙️ A Baby Who Wouldn’t Sleep Started Maayan’s Home Assistant Journey Watch: https://youtu.be/l_sFMkjgEMo

New @home_assistant podcast episode! 🎙️ Mapping all the changes in Home Assistant 2026.10 Watch: https://youtu.be/s1opRVT6SlI

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I chat with Trey Beard about his local-first smart home in Tallahassee—X10 beginnings, a MyQ shutdown, Zigbee migrations, and how Home Assistant became the answer. Watch: https://youtu.be/srX5G4yzEO4

New @home_assistant podcast episode! 🎙️ Roland “Accidentally” Installed Home Assistant, Then Automated Everything Watch: https://youtu.be/FmDKbY1SXyg

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Together with Rohan, I chat with Adrian about making Home Assistant resilient: dual servers, webhook heartbeat failover, Git-based YAML, and a 12V battery-backed home network. Watch: https://youtu.be/0hmS6Dax7rs

New @home_assistant podcast episode! 🎙️ Rob went from 15 Apps to One Smart Home With Home Assistant Watch: https://youtu.be/OblBL0kcmPU

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I dig into Home Assistant 2026.9: smoother Modbus integrations, a better Activity History, an unexpected twist for Maps, and a new speech-to-text provider in Labs for Nabu Casa subscribers. Watch: https://youtu.be/TVNU1ctYlLA

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here 🎙️ Together with Rohan, I chat with Sofia about living in a Home Assistant smart home she didn’t install—and how involvement and open communication lead to a happier home. Watch: https://youtu.be/fYbCnZqT2JE

New @home_assistant podcast episode! 🎙️ Rohan is Packing Up his Smart Home and Starting Over Watch: https://youtu.be/ta5fu-ci8Ts

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I unpack Home Assistant 2026.8: goodbye to 8123 for new HAOS installs, customizable entity IDs, moon & vibration triggers, and the device-registry split that may affect merged devices. Watch: https://youtu.be/FcHfN5uRIqk

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Together with Rohan, I chat with Eugene Niemand about a deeply automated smart home built with Home Assistant, Raspberry Pi, Zigbee, Shelly, Aqara, and C#/.NET with NetDaemon. Watch: https://youtu.be/fBLah8ovRkY

Packed episode today! We’re covering: Apple Music & Plex pricing, SiliconDust’s offline HDHomeRun upgrade, TV Time’s demise, and big shakeups at Xbox & PlayStation Stream it here: www.thedigitalmediazone.com/2026/07/22/e...

New @home_assistant podcast episode! 🎙️ Khaled - The dentist with a Kubernetes Cluster and Home Assistant Watch: https://youtu.be/CLJsiR8cv8g

New @home_assistant podcast episode! 🎙️ The Home Assistant Smart Home That Reminds, Nudges, and almost Pours Tea. Watch: https://youtu.be/vKB77wRwIPs

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! 🎙️ Together with Rohan, I chat with Omri Peretz about QuickBars for Home Assistant — the Android TV app that puts your smart home on the couch screen. We also dig into his smart home journey. Watch: https://youtu.be/O0fwnF8got4

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I unpack Home Assistant 2026.7, the biggest automation upgrade yet! Purpose-specific triggers/conditions, Matter.js, faster templates, improved dashboards, better debugging, plus mailbag comments and Rohan’s e-ink display progress.

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I talk to Neil Spiegel, who shares how he’s using AI + Home Assistant to build his ultimate smart home from automated blinds to a winter cottage. Watch:

New @home-assistant.io podcast episode! Rohan and I are talking to Claudia Quitt who shares how one orange Philips Hue bulb snowballed into a full Home Assistant-powered smart home

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I chat with Steve from KiwiSmartTech about going from Tuya bulbs to Home Assistant, garage door wins, cross‑protocol sensors, mmWave presence, and why Apple Home is the daily driver.

New @home-assistant.io podcast! #HomeAssistant 2026.6, E‑Ink Displays, Yoto, and smarter automations. We dive into IR upgrades, purpose‑based triggers/conditions, KVMs, and starting from scratch in 2026. #smarthome

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I are chatting with Imre Laszlo about MiciMike which aims to turn your Google Home Mini into a fully local Home Assistant voice satellite. Perfect for re-using some older hardware

New @home-assistant.io podcast! Rohan and I talk with Giovanni about fully local, privacy-first smart homes: HA on Intel N100, Shelly, Zigbee vs Wi‑Fi, ESP32 BT proxies, Frigate+Coral, Reolink and more youtu.be/WUaUcBfPfSs

New episode of the @homeassistant@fosstodon.org podcast is here! Rohan and I are chatting with Mark, who shares how he steadied a shaky SmartThings setup with rock-solid Home Assistant, and upgraded from clunky Zigbee to AI-powered cameras. Watch: youtu.be/FiBsJi80ecM

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I chat with @mihorrocks.bsky.social about making heating smarter with @nodered.org flows, mmWave presence, actionable dashboards, and AI automations (cat ID + bin check). Watch: https://youtu.be/EfyXiTYeoio

On today's episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast Rohan and I are sitting down with electrical engineer Braden to share real-world #smarthome wins, including his sensor-packed greenhouse plan. Watch: https://youtu.be/OeYXq7F8LCc #homeassistant #smarthome #homeautomation

New @home-assistant.io podcast! Rohan and I chat with Kaden Thompson about a cat-first smart home: Reolink+Frigate pet detection, PetLibro feeders, Litter-Robot 4, and LLM dashboards. Watch: https://youtu.be/m--W_DZau64 #homeassistant 😺

New @home-assistant.io podcast! Rohan and I chat with Kaden Thompson about a cat-first smart home: Reolink+Frigate pet detection, PetLibro feeders, Litter-Robot 4, and LLM dashboards. Watch: https://youtu.be/m--W_DZau64 #homeassistant 😺

New episode of the #homeassistant podcast is here! Rohan and I dig into practical AI: LLM Vision for doorbells, HACS add‑ons (AI Agent, AI Suggester), Copilot‑made YAML, Ollama+LiteLLM and of course #openclaw https://youtu.be/uXTV2nkugy8

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! 😺 Rohan and I are digging into 2026.3: map vacuums to Areas for voice, HA as Android assistant (wake word), Python 3.14 boosts + new integrations and mailbag comments https://youtu.be/YTphwNUXMCc

New @home-assistant.io podcast! Rohan and I are talking to Andrew Leighty about outgrowing HomeKit for a multi-user smart home: ESP32 presence, Yale locks, humidity fan automations, and ESPN goal alerts. Watch: https://youtu.be/TYb-O847nyA #smarthome #homeassistant

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I chat with Will Osborne-Kennedy about taming a period UK home and a Canary Islands getaway: DIY pool chemistry, a fridge "strawtenna", dashboards, AI heating and more. Watch: https://youtu.be/_pBJXLIbawU

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast! Rohan and I chat with Mike Schmick about hiding smart tech in a 1953 mid-century home so it looks analog but works like magic. Plus: Roborock tricks, Frame art-mode woes, HA OS on Mac mini. https://youtu.be/Oj1q141znjM

New Home Assistant Podcast! We dive into 2026.2: Home Dashboard by default, Command‑K palette, a Matter dashboard, and add‑ons renamed to Apps. Plus CES 2026 highlights, the OHF device database, and the Google Home outage. Watch: https://youtu.be/8dpyyix22L8

I've never seen this happen before with Z-wave 🤯 A Z-wave motion sensor unpaired itself from my Z-wave network. All entities in Home Assistant and ZwaveJS gone, the device back to factory pairing mode. I wasn't home, so it wasn't something I did

Openclaw.ai can now speak to me via my HomeAssistant Voice Speakers! all local

Truly there is truth in jest. #FOSDEM #HomeAssistant

🔴 About to go live with Rohan Karamandi to record the 2026.2 release breakdown of the @home-assistant.io #podcast https://youtube.com/live/5PUuWkP7RCU

I tried (still trying ) to build a Smart Home Cinema Room. I'm using the awesome VisionMaster Pro 2 and automating it with @home-assistant.io So far the room has leaked... twice... If you have any DIY tips or cool smart home cinema ideas or automations then let me know! youtu.be/Ft544CfRVQ8

New @home-assistant.io podcast episode! We go inside “Works With Home Assistant” with Miranda from the Open Home Foundation: device testing and certification, why the badge matters, Zigbee vs Z‑Wave vs Matter, misuse, regional coverage, and her own automations Watch: https://youtu.be/Yb7fndTRXdY

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast! I’m joined by Rohan and Aaron Bach to revisit how Aaron’s setup went from tinkering to rock-solid: SimpliSafe→Matter, Z‑Wave provisioning, ESPHome vs off‑the‑shelf, RATGDO, voice-first + AI. Watch: https://youtu.be/1kwy_cCsmZs

New @home-assistant.io podcast episode! Rohan and I chat with Artem as he shares energy-smart Home Assistant automations, no chaos, just clear patterns to save energy and stay comfy. Watch: https://youtu.be/krxBE-4MIFY

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! I break down 2026.1 with my co-host Rohan: Home Dashboard upgrades, SendSpin, presence with labels, Music Assistant's new multi-room audio, plus some Zigbee quirks. Watch: https://youtu.be/zYhtDsfBK7s

Happy new year! In some new year miracle, I got back home from the Christmas break my FP1's working again. I'm now thinking this was an issue on the Home Assistant side, and not the devices. This is my frustration with ZigBee. For now my FP1's are back and I can revert my automation changes

Final @home-assistant.io podcast episode for 2025! Rohan and I talk with Josh (Josh’s Smart Home) about a 300-device HA Green setup, SmartThings migration, rock-solid Zigbee, and Powerwall energy tricks. Watch now: https://youtu.be/DlVPBcOsaPg