Join hosts Phil Hawthorne and Rohan Karamandi as they explore the newest Home Assistant releases and the latest Home Automation news. Featuring guests who use or contribute to Home Assistant, the podcast aims to inspire new ways to make your home smarter.
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The HomeTech Podcast features news, opinions, insights, and advice on all things Smart Home | Co-Hosted by Home Automation Pros Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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IoT Leaders is a podcast from Eseye that shares real IoT stories from the field about digital transformation swings and misses, lessons learned, and innovation strategies that work.In each episode, you’ll hear our conversations with top digitization leaders on how IoT is changing the world for the better. Let IoT Leaders be your guide to IoT, digital transformation, and innovation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Florian’s 100+ device ZigBee Network
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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:…
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On this week's show: After a long two weeks the HomeTech Team checks in with Seth's updates from Infocomm in Vegas, TJ reviews a number of Aqara products, Apple talks about AI and less about the home, Alexa may not be getting the AI, Arlo brings tapping to the home, two new universal remote options are on Kickstarter, Govee adds to their outdoor li…
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Scaling Telecom Everest: Leading the Charge in Global IoT Connectivity
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If the telecoms industry is Mount Everest, TELUS VP of 5G and Industry Solutions Jodi Baxter is leading the climb toward the peak of global IoT connectivity. To achieve this, Jodi drives TELUS with a single-minded vision of collaboration among mobile network operators (MNOs). She says collaboration is the only way to unite and turn the tide of adva…
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On this week's show: The reviews are out on the Sonos Ace headphones and the are... not very exciting TJ. Instead, TJ reviews a new camera from Argus, Google Home is getting some features back, older AppleTVs lose Netflix, and HomeKit gets a map view feature courtesy of a 3rd party app. All this, project updates, a pick of the week, and so much mor…
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On this week's show: Hubitat has a new UI, Home Assistant has a clever voice control hack for iOS, Sonos defends the new app, iRobot backs away from subscriptions, a pick of the week, project updates, and more!By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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Letting AI take control of our home with 2024.6
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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…
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On this week's show: We talk about the latest in home technology news and sit down with Daneal Moneta, chair of the Matter Marketing and Product Work Group, to discuss the current state of Matter and what's new in version 1.3.By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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You can find stories of the positive impacts of enhanced connectivity anywhere. The work of eWATERservices — installing safe, affordable and accessible water systems in communities across sub-Saharan Africa — is a great example of IoT’s power to meaningfully shape people’s lives. eWATERservices Chief Operations Officer James Kay talks about the imm…
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Exploring Daniel’s Home Assistant powered smart home
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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 Irrigat…
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On this Week's Show: Z-wave isn't dead, Brilliant might be dead, Sonos app woes continue, Matter 1.3 launches, IKEA is into energy monitoring, Siri comes to Denon (and no one noticed since December), a pick of the week, project updates, and so much more!By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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On this week's show: Hisense makes a lower cost art TV, Sonos launches a new app with fewer features, Josh.ai fires back at Snap One, Home invents lighting scenes, ecobee is shutting down thermostats, a visit to the mailbag, an amazing pic of the week, project updates, and so much more!By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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On this week's show: SnapOne releases a new Traid amp, Ring releases a new camera that is ugly, LG now supports Dolby Atmos, Meross expands into matter with a presence sensor, TJ's fight with technology and tech support, a pick of the week, project updates, and so much more!By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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Talking the Open Home Foundation and 2024.5 with Frenck
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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 us…
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On this week's show: Net Neutrality is back in the US, Espressif aquires M5Stack, QDEL TVs are all the rage in the future, Sonos has a new app coming in May, MatterBridge helps non-Matter devices Matter, Home Assistant and the Open Home Foundation, Josh.ai is using Home Assistant for integrations, Gavin gives an awesome overview of Z-Wave and Zigbe…
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On this weeks show: Resideo makes a big $1.4 billion acquisition, Samsung’s 98-inch TV is 4K for $4k, a pick of the week, project updates, and so much more!By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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Automating all the things with Kurt
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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 24:1…
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On this weeks show: Josh.ai launches new integrations, LG TVs need an update, Roku ruins TVs, SwitchBot, Yale, and Aqara have Matter news, a pick of the week, a pick of the week, project updates, and more!By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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On this week's show: Z-Wave LR may be soon coming to DIY systems, Ubiquiti's product and software preview, Dropcam is now gone, Lifx launches some bight lights, a few questions from the mailbag, project updates and probably the best pick of the week yet. Probably.By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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On this week's show: Wyze launches a new camera, Hue and SmartThings launch an app, eero announces wireless cables, TJ reviews some Nanoleaf products, Seth's SwitchBot saga, project updates, a pick of the week, and so much more.By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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Categorising and Labelling everything with 2024.4
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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…
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On this week's show: Robots will soon begin doing the unimaginable and climbing stairs to fulfill their objectives, Shelly adds KNX, the CSA offers a new check mark logo for secure products, Segway enters the robot mower category, TJ's dying door lock, and project updates from the group.By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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Using Home Assistant as a second brain with Brian
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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 Assist…
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On this week's show: Bell Canada sets up alarms to catch people stealing phone wire, Switchbot announces a new retrofit lock, Nest Cams are finally able to work fully on Google Home, Youtube redesigns the TV app for shopping, Roku accounts get hacked, TJ gives us a review of LIFX Landscape lights, what it takes for a basic Home Assistant install, p…
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While 2023 was all about the device for the IoT industry, 2024 is already shaping up to emphasize the device even more than before. The overarching theme of Eseye’s predictions for 2023 was how mobile network operators (MNOs) were finally going to cede control of IoT connectivity to enterprises. The predictions didn’t quite play out as expected, bu…
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On this week's show: Amazon sends a Ring device to the graveyard, Sonos headphones are still not here, Zooz announces some cool new kit, Josh.ai announces a cool new remote, Emporia Vue 3 is shipping, everyone is raising prices and consumers are dropping streaming, IKEA starts to Matter along with Lifx, project updates, a pick of the week, and so m…
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2024.3 - Features we wanted, and some we didn’t know we needed
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2024.3 lands with exciting updates, with some features which are sure to please everyone. Phil shares a tip for owners with robot vacuums with mopping capabilities Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:00 2024.3 New Features 27:01 Vacuum Smells 31:15 Template Translation Helper 36:22 New Integrations 39:33 Breaking Changes For complete show notes and more inform…
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On this week's show: Walmart acquires TV maker Vizio for the ads, a Wyze glitch affects 13,000, Inovelli launches Matter devices, and Josh.ai launches all new voices and a touch and other new products at their winter launch event. A pick of the week, project updates, and so more more.By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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Talking Nabu Casa, Future Plans and so much more with Paulus
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Paulus joins Rohan and Phil to catch up on what’s been happening with Home Assistant and Nabu Casa. From working with smart home alliances to the future of Home Assistant and Nabu Casa, this chat covered a lot of ground Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:26 What is Nabu Casa up to 05:48 How is Nabu Casa going 09:44 Nabu Casa vs Open Source 14:07 Working with …
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How Amazon is Opening Doors on a Global Scale
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When you’re delivering billions of packages a year and you want to make sure they arrive on time, device connectivity and availability are mission-critical. To this end, Amazon is on a mission to ensure that none of its customers is ever missing a package or parcel — or awaiting a late one. Introducing Amazon Key for Business: a smart fob that enab…
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On this week's show: TJ discovers something magical, Russound announces new mini-AVRs, thieves are jamming Wi-Fi cameras, El Taco matters, Home Assistant joins Z-Wave, project updates, batteries, and a genius pic of the week.By Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, & Seth Johnson
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Rohan and Phil sit down with Simon from Australia. From smart integration with alarm panels to automating garage doors Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:49 Cloud Strikes Again 13:46 Apple Car Play 18:51 2024.2 45:15 Breaking Changes For complete show notes and more information about the topics discussed in this episode, be sure to check the notes at https://…
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