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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 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.

Chapters00:16 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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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.

Chapters00:44 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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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.

Chapters00:56 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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From digital photo frames, irrigation and (almost) his children, Daniel has automated a lot with Home Assistant and ESPHome

Chapters01:04 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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From digital photo frames, irrigation and (almost) his children, Daniel has automated a lot with Home Assistant and ESPHome

Chapters01:03 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

For complete show notes and more information about the topics discussed in this episode, be sure to check the notes at
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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

Chapters01:10 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

For complete show notes and more information about the topics discussed in this episode, be sure to check the notes at
https://hasspodcast.io/ha154
Watch this episode on YouTube
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This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors
Home Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa
Easily connect to Google and Amazon voice assistants for a small monthly fee that also supports the Home Assistant project. Configuration is via the User Interface so no fiddling with router settings, dynamic DNS or YAML.

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