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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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~ Ski Rex Media - Snow Sports Are For Everyone ~ Weekly talk program centered around skiing, snowboarding, and other snow and mountain sports. New episodes debut each week during the season, featuring guests and/or commentary.
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Second chances. Life after death new attitude. Interviews with those that know life better since nearly dying.
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We’re committed to ensuring extreme medicine education can reach all medical, healthcare and supporting professionals working in austere environments. With regular updates, our team brings you the latest from across the broad spectrum of extreme medicine disciplines, including expedition, space, remote, pre-hospital and humanitarian medicine as well as a range of topics across performance and non-technical skills. Enhance your ability to tackle challenges with new skills you can take home or ...
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From Slopes to Smart Homes: Using Home Assistant for Ski Conditions and Traffic Tracking w/ Nick Dawson
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In this episode of the Home Assistant Podcast, hosts Rohan Karamandi and Phil Hawthorne are joined by Nick Dawson, a ski instructor, mountain guide, and passionate home automation enthusiast. The conversation takes a deep dive into Nick's unique approach to home automation, particularly how he integrates smart technology into his life both on and o…
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HACS 2.0 and New Integration Features in Home Assistant 2024.9
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In this episode of the Home Assistant Podcast, hosts Phil Hawthorne and Rohan Karamandi, discuss the recent appointment of Paulus on the Z-Wave Alliance board, and dive into the improvements with HACS 2.0 and energy management discrepancies. The hosts also highlight innovative use cases for technologies like LoRa and the integration of Claude LLM i…
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Integrating and Advancing Smart Home Technologies with Nir Lavi
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In this episode of the Home Assistant Podcast, hosts Rohan Karamandi and Phil Hawthorne have a fascinating discussion with Nir Lavi, an enthusiast and active contributor to the home automation community. The conversation delves deep into Nir’s journey with home automation, focusing on the practical aspects and challenges of integrating advanced sma…
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Episode #60 A Close Call With Death with guest Zac Matthews
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In this powerful episode, we are joined by Zac Matthews, a miraculous survivor of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the neck that resulted in a total paralysis for many months. Against all odds, Zac regained his feeling and now looks forward to a new life ahead of him. One year ago, in July 2024, Zac attempted to end his life with a bullet to the n…
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Local LLM Integration and UI Updates in 2024.8
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In this episode of the Home Assistant Podcast, hosts Phil Hawthorne and Rohan Karamandi provide the latest updates and features of Home Assistant version 2024.8 and more! They discuss various topics, including the discontinuation of Telstra TV and Nike's self-lacing shoes, environmental concerns related to e-waste, and notable updates in the Home A…
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A Whaleback Summertime & PreSeason Update w/ Exec. Director, Jon Hunt
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It's been a while, My Friends. Ski Rex Media has been on pause for the summer, though more than usual. True, I don't podcast in the summer, anyway, but I usually have more going on than I have lately. I've been putting in some time with Tecnica & Rollerblade working in their warehouses. BUT...now is the time to get back into the swing of Ski Rex Me…
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Customize Your Home with Advanced Automation with Jason Shearer
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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 c…
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Taking control of Blueprints, Voice gets smarter in 2024.7
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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 For complete show notes and more information about the topics discussed in this e…
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Episode #59 A Close Call With Death with guest Jenny Ahlstrom. Blood Cancer Survivor!
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In this session, we talk with guest Jenny Ahlstrom, a true survivor of one of life's most dangerous cancers in our lifetime. I person every 9 minutes is diagnosed with a (Myeloma) Blood Cancer each year and is 10% of all cancers. Jenny tells us of her battle to not only overcome this dreaded disease but she has gone on with her husband Paul to deve…
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Episode #58 A Close Call With Death with guest Elizabeth Howard
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On a ten year anniversary of a near death incident my niece Elizabeth Howard said on this last Father's Day, that she had a desire to share her story and give thanks to her Dad Phil Howard, my brother, for the life saving action he provided to save Elizabeth from plummeting off a 50 foot cliff in Southern Moab Utah National Park. This will be the y…
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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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Episode #57 A Close Call With Death with guest Kyle Rivera, An experienced Wing Suiter who nearly died in a malfunction to his equipment and plummeted to the earth 150 miles an hour but lived.
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Kyle Rivera is an action packed character who has sky dived, BASE jumped and Wingsuited hundreds of times from airplanes, hot air balloons, cliffs, buildings, everything you can imagine that test a persons nerves and bravery. On one recent flight, Kyle had a scary malfunction of his equipment causing the lines that operate his Shute to wrap around …
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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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S5E29 - The Ski Rex Media Podcast Season Finale
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Welcome to the season finale of the Ski Rex Media Podcast! As we wrap up Season 5, we’re celebrating with a lively panel of Ski Rex Media friends and fans who are here to share stories and reflections on the ski and snowboard season that just ended. In this special episode, we’re joined by a fantastic lineup: Scooter, a charter fan of Ski Rex Media…
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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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Episode #56 - A Close Call With Death with Guest - Peter Ballentine - Physician Assistant, Ski Patrol Leader, Overall Good guy and friend to everyone
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This interview is with Peter Ballentine, a guy who lives life large!!! We get into a terrible crash in his 911 Porsche in San Francisco, Near Death Hypothermia on the Snake River, and a Firey Crash on his BMW Motorcycle when he went through a Black Angus Cow in the dark coming home from Jackson Hole Wyoming!!! Peter is an action hero and should hav…
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S5E28 - An Episode For The Tweens & Teens 3: Return of the Tween w/ Charlotte P
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Welcome back to another exciting episode of the Ski Rex Media Podcast! This week, we're bringing you a special treat as we sit down with Charlotte P, one of the youngest and most enthusiastic Ski Rex Media fans. But before we dive into our conversation with Charlotte, I have to admit something. This year, I was only able to snag one kid for our Twe…
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S5E27 - Exploring New England Ski Updates with James Morrison
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Welcome back to the Ski Rex Media Podcast! This week, we're diving into the heart of New England's ski scene with a special guest, James Morrison, the tech guru behind New England Ski Update. But before we jump into our conversation with James, I'll give you a quick rundown of the recent Boston Outdoor Expo, a must-visit event for outdoor enthusias…
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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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S5E26 - Introducing Jerry Feet: A Conversation with Engineer and Innovator, Devon Todd
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Get ready for an exciting episode of the Ski Rex Media Podcast! This week, we're joined by Devon Todd, an engineer with a passion for snow sports and innovation. Devon is the mastermind behind Jerry Feet, a groundbreaking new product that's causing a buzz in the snow sports community. Tune in as we sit down with Devon to learn all about his journey…
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S5E25 - Ski Rex Media Podcast Q&A: ChatGPT Edition
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Welcome back to the Ski Rex Media Podcast! This week, we're trying something a little different. Due to a shortage of listener-submitted questions, we're shaking things up with a Q&A episode featuring questions generated by none other than ChatGPT! That's right, I've teamed up with ChatGPT to bring you a list of snow sports-themed questions to test…
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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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S5E24 - This Thing That All Ski Mountains Share...Parking Lot Conditions!!!
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Welcome back to another episode of Ski Rex Media Podcast! We're back after a brief hiatus, and I'm excited to dive into today's topic. But before we get into it, let me fill you in on why there was no episode last week. Unfortunately, I was under the weather and couldn't hit the record button. But fear not, because I've got some ideas to ensure tha…
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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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S5E23 - Another Tim From Ski Rex Media Solo Episode - The Battle for Seasonal Supremacy Continues! WINTER IS NOT OVER!!!
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Prepare for a wild ride on the slopes of speculation as Tim from Ski Rex Media takes center stage in the latest episode of The Ski Rex Media Podcast. Join him as he unravels the captivating tale of an epic snowstorm that will sweep through parts of New England, setting the stage for a showdown of seasonal proportions. Despite the storm's passing be…
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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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