
187 Automations, 300 Devices: Josh’s Smart Home Assistant Journey
Josh from Josh’s Smart Home joins Phil and Rohan to unpack a 300-device Home Assistant setup running on Home Assistant Green. We dive into the move from SmartThings, building a reliable Zigbee mesh, e...
16 Dec 20251h 22min

From Alexa to Assist: NetworkChuck’s Smart Home with Frigate, UniFi, and AI
YouTuber NetworkChuck joins Phil and Rohan to break down his real-world Home Assistant setup: migrating off Alexa, building a Home Assistant voice assistant (with a Terry Crews voice clone!), wiring F...
9 Dec 20251h 25min

Home Assistant 2025.12: Labs, Smarter Automations, Real‑Time Energy and Frenck
We’re closing out the final Home Assistant release for 2025 with Frenck and a massive Home Assistant 2025.12. Home Assistant Labs, purpose‑specific triggers and conditions, a smarter automation UI, re...
2 Dec 20251h 42min

From Pi to Blue, we’re revisiting Courtenay Watson
We’re revisiting Courtenay, who was last spoke to on Episode 45 six years ago. She’s here to share six years of Home Assistant progress: moving from Raspberry Pi to Home Assistant Blue, mastering the ...
25 Nov 20251h 6min

Inside the Open Home: Darren Griffin
Go inside the Open Home Foundation with Darren, the web developer behind Home Assistant’s sites. From keeping the various Open Home Project websites online to automating his own home, we cover a lot i...
18 Nov 20251h 9min

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






















