Brewing With Home Assistant: From Modbus PIDs to ESPHome Fermentation Control with Greg Martin
Greg joins Phil and Rohan to share how he built a brewery control system with ESPHome and Home Assistant: Modbus PID retrofits, ESP32-based temperature control with one-wire probes and 24V valves, Blu...
11 Nov 202559min
Home Assistant 2025.11: Improved target picker and energy pie charts
In this episode Phil and Rohan break down Home Assistant 2025.11. We cover the revamped Automation UI with the new target picker, naming options on dashboards, the new Energy pie chart, update progres...
4 Nov 202557min
Garage Doors, E‑Ink Dashboards, and Entity Chaos with the Evil Genius Dave Slusher
Podcaster Dave Slusher joins Phil and Rohan to share hard-won smart home lessons: building a reliable mesh, solving a 100m mailbox sensor with Z-Wave Long Range and the ZWA2, and retiring MyQ with RAT...
30 Okt 20251h 24min
The Reluctant Home Assistant Guy: From Hue Chaos to Hour‑of‑Power Wins
Chris joins Phil and Rohan to share a brutally honest smart home journey: starting with Philips Hue, hitting limits with multiple bridges, battling MyQ and RatGDO, and landing real energy savings with...
23 Okt 20251h 6min
AirGradient: From Thai Wildfires to Open Source Hardware feat Achim Haug
Discover the origins of AirGradient, which began as a volunteer project in Northern Thailand during the harsh "burning season" of 2019. Learn how this effort evolved into a company focused on providin...
14 Okt 20251h 5min
Philips Hue's New Bridge and the Cat Automation Problem with Josh Burg
We're joined by psychologist Josh Burg, who shares his unique journey from Google Home to a fully local Home Assistant setup. We get to see how he’s using some of the new Philips Hue zone capabilities...
7 Okt 20251h 9min
Voice goes bilingual with Home Assistant 2025.10
Rohan and Phil are breaking down the 2025.10 release, which includes bilingual support for assistants. Meanwhile Sonos finds a new partner, and we answer some listener questionsWatch this episode on Y...
30 Sep 20251h 2min
Beyond the Bulb: Gimmy Chu Talks Nanoleaf, Smart Homes & Community Integration
Phil and Rohan talk to Gimmy Chu, CEO of Nanoleaf, about the Nanoleaf smart lighting ecosystem, their open API vision, and how Nanoleaf got its start in the world of innovative lighting technology.Wat...
23 Sep 20251h 3min
