Home Assistant Podcast

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Home Assistant 2026.11 turns HACS into Marketplace, and adds target exclusions

Phil and Rohan unpack Home Assistant 2026.11, from HACS becoming the built-in Marketplace to target exclusions, entity and device naming changes, Matter cameras with two-

Nov 4
1 h 13 min

Dan Built His Own Smart Switches and Connected Them to Home Assistant

Dan joins Phil and Rohan to trace his smart home journey from X10 and MySensors to Home Assistant. Hear how he designs ESPHome light switches, controls an RS-485 thermost

Oct 27
50 min

Jason’s Home Assistant Smart Home That Watches Birds and Tracks Visitors

Phil and Rohan tour Patreon supporter Jason’s Home Assistant setup. Discover how he uses UniFi cameras as motion sensors, automatically aims a PTZ camera, and identifies

Oct 20
1 h 07 min

A Baby Who Wouldn’t Sleep Started Maayan’s Home Assistant Journey

A temperature sensor, a smart plug and a baby who wouldn’t sleep started Mayan’s Home Assistant journey. Phil and Rohan explore how that first nursery automation grew int

Oct 13
1 h 09 min

Mapping all the changes in Home Assistant 2026.10

Phil and Rohan unpack Home Assistant 2026.10, from redesigned maps and easier trigger-based automations to AI setup, Matter devices and Z-Wave network maps. They also dis

Oct 6
1 h 16 min

Home Assistant was Trey’s answer for a local first smart home

Phil and Rohan are joined by Trey from Tallahassee, Florida, to explore his local-first Home Assistant setup. From an X10 beginning and a MyQ API shutdown to Zigbee migra

Oct 2
55 min

Roland “Accidentally” Installed Home Assistant, Then Automated Everything

Roland joins Phil and Rohan to share how a simple attempt to measure an old fridge's energy use led to a deeply data-driven Home Assistant smart home. Energy monitoring,

Sep 22
1 h 05 min

Adrian’s High Availability Home Assistant

How do you make Home Assistant resilient when an update fails or your primary server goes offline? Phil and Rohan talk with Adrian from Western Australia about his dual H

Sep 15
59 min

Rob went from 15 Apps to One Smart Home With Home Assistant

Rob joins Phil and Rohan from New Zealand to share how he replaced 15 smart-home apps with Home Assistant. Discover his AI-assisted workflow using VS Code, Claude Code, C

Sep 8
1 h 03 min

Home Assistant 2026.9 improves Modbus integrations, and a better activity history

Home Assistant 2026.9 is here. Maps suffer an unexpected turn of events and easier Modbus integrations arrive. Activity history gets some love. Nabu Casa subscribers can

Sep 1
49 min

Living With Home Assistant: The Other Side of the Smart Home

Sofia lives in a Home Assistant smart home, but she didn’t install it. We’re breaking down what its like on the other side of the fence and how open communication and inv

Aug 18
37 min

Rohan is Packing Up his Smart Home and Starting Over

Rohan is moving house! Phil and Rohan dive into the realities of selling a Home Assistant-powered home and moving into a new property. They discuss what smart home gear i

Aug 11
59 min

Home Assistant 2026.8 says goodbye to 8123, while SmartThings goes behind a paywall

Home Assistant 2026.8 is here, we unpack the biggest changes. From port 8123 to port 80 for new Home Assistant OS installs, customizable entity ID formats, moon and vibra

Aug 5
1 h 03 min

How Eugene Built a .NET Home Assistant Brain for his Smart Home

Phil and Rohan chat with Eugene about how he built a deeply automated smart home using Home Assistant, Raspberry Pi, Zigbee, Shelly devices, Aqara sensors, and even C#/.N

Jul 28
51 min

Khaled - The dentist with a Kubernetes Cluster and Home Assistant

Phil and Rohan chat with Khaled, a periodontist who turned Home Assistant into the central brain of his home. From Roomba integrations and Soma shades to barcode-driven d

Jul 21
1 h 09 min

The Home Assistant Smart Home That Reminds, Nudges, and almost Pours Tea

Phil and Rohan chat with Jason from the UK about building a truly proactive smart home with Home Assistant. From room-aware dashboards and presence detection to Alexa rou

Jul 14
1 h 07 min

Omri Peretz the creator of QuickBars for Android TV

In this episode Phil and Rohan chat with Omri, the creator of QuickBars, an Android TV and Google TV app for controlling Home Assistant from the couch. They dig into his

Jul 7
49 min

Home Assistant 2026.7 Brings The Biggest Automation Upgrade Yet

Phil and Rohan unpack the massive 2026.7 release, including purpose-specific triggers and conditions graduating from Labs, the move to Matter.js, faster templates, improv

Jul 1
55 min

Neil takes us through how he is using AI to build his ultimate smart home with Home Assistant

Neil walks us through how he has managed to leverage AI tools to create his dream smart home with Home Assistant. From automating blinds to automating a winter cottage W

Jun 23
1 h 00 min

From an Orange Bulb to a Smart Home: Claudia’s Home Assistant Journey

Claudia joins Phil and Rohan to share how an orange Philips Hue bulb sparked a full-blown smart home powered by Home Assistant. Watch this episode on YouTube Show notes

Jun 16
1 h 05 min

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What listeners say

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I get so many great ideas from this podcast. Definitely recommend for anyone who’s just getting into home automation or who is a HA whiz.

snarknerd · Mar 2024

Listening to the hosts and guests discuss the unique and most useful features of their setups are inspiring. It is exciting to learn about a clever way to use devices in a way that I hadn't considered before. I appreciate the release notes and especially the breaking changes as a nice overview to listen to before I install an upgrade. I always quickly skim the breaking changes myself before an update to make sure nothing was added since the podcast was recorded.

bjhanifin · May 2019

I was skeptical going in to this podcast. I mean, what could you possibly talk about that I would be interested in? It turns out, a lot! I have come away with so many new ideas for new automations listening to this podcast. I really love that they’re featuring users that are normal every day people that have gotten into home assistant. It validates that anyone can get into home assistant and all the awesome things you can do with it. Keep up the awesome work guys!

Chris MPLS · Jan 2019

I enjoy the weekly updates on how software updates are coming. I think a weekly spotlight episode going over the details of one feature and “how to” will bring this podcast to the beginners as well! Keep up the good work!

Gambit120 · Oct 2018

The audio quality is unacceptable. The hosts need to invest like $50 into a proper microphone. The sound is not clear. It doesn’t help that the host speaks in monotone and has an accent. It’s so hard to understand what they say because of these clarity issues. The ads are very disruptive. They are inserted randomly in the middle of a segment and very abrupt. They should at least put them in natural places like in between segments and should use chapter markers. Finally the brown artwork is off-brand for Home Assistant and should be changed back to blue. If these changes are made then the rating could improve.

Scott👨‍💻 · Apr 2026

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