Home Assistant Podcast

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.

Paulus joins us to break down 2025.5 and the State of the Open Home
May 6, 2025 – 01:13:50
From music theatre to Home Assistant installers with Connor and Tez
Apr 21, 2025 – 01:25:36
How Bob automates an RV and a smart home with Home Assistant
Apr 15, 2025 – 01:19:48
Catching up with Travis aka digiblurDIY to talk Home Assistant
Apr 8, 2025 – 01:10:38
2025.4 - A new areas dashboard and some big announcements (for us!)
Apr 1, 2025 – 44:52
Jeroen’s energy dashboard and e-ink calendar display
Mar 18, 2025 – 01:03:36
Home Assistant 2025.3 lands with more dashboard improvements
Mar 4, 2025 – 45:38
How Damien Uses Home Assistant to Simplify Life
Feb 18, 2025 – 56:05
2025.2 - Broadcasting our backups to OneDrive and Google Drive
Feb 5, 2025 – 28:41
CES 2025 Debrief
Jan 21, 2025 – 46:09
Automating the pool pump started Gavin’s smart home journey
Jan 14, 2025 – 01:08:35
2025.1 - Backups, Voice and What The Heck?!
Jan 3, 2025 – 46:45
Meet Missy - Community Manager for Nabu Casa
Dec 17, 2024 – 51:44
Frenck Takes over the Podcast w/ Phil & Rohan
Dec 10, 2024 – 37:39
2024.12 - Frenck breaks down the final release for 2024 with us
Dec 3, 2024 – 01:04:45
Tim’s Aussie rental automated with Zigbee and Home Assistant
Nov 19, 2024 – 01:16:13
Sections and LG ThinQ go official in 2024.11
Nov 5, 2024 – 44:25
Using AI to help with your household admin w/ Benjamin
Oct 29, 2024 – 01:16:17
Grant Hinds on his smart home journey with Home Assistant
Oct 17, 2024 – 01:19:39
Google Photos Integration and Energy Usage Monitoring in Home Assistant 2024.10
Oct 2, 2024 – 48:24
From Slopes to Smart Homes: Using Home Assistant for Ski Conditions and Traffic Tracking w/ Nick Dawson
Sep 18, 2024 – 01:15:28
HACS 2.0 and New Integration Features in Home Assistant 2024.9
Sep 4, 2024 – 01:03:37
Integrating and Advancing Smart Home Technologies with Nir Lavi
Aug 21, 2024 – 01:02:14
Local LLM Integration and UI Updates in 2024.8
Aug 7, 2024 – 58:34
Customize Your Home with Advanced Automation with Jason Shearer
Jul 19, 2024 – 01:12:53
Taking control of Blueprints, Voice gets smarter in 2024.7
Jul 3, 2024 – 01:01:43
Florian’s 100+ device ZigBee Network
Jun 20, 2024 – 01:01:22
Letting AI take control of our home with 2024.6
Jun 4, 2024 – 01:01:18
Exploring Daniel’s Home Assistant powered smart home
May 21, 2024 – 01:23:04
Talking the Open Home Foundation and 2024.5 with Frenck
May 1, 2024 – 01:01:43
Automating all the things with Kurt
Apr 16, 2024 – 01:07:33
Categorising and Labelling everything with 2024.4
Apr 3, 2024 – 48:18
Using Home Assistant as a second brain with Brian
Mar 20, 2024 – 01:10:46
2024.3 - Features we wanted, and some we didn’t know we needed
Mar 5, 2024 – 50:26
Talking Nabu Casa, Future Plans and so much more with Paulus
Feb 22, 2024 – 58:42
2024.2 and Apple Car Play
Feb 11, 2024 – 57:35
Automating a rental with an existing alarm control panel with Simon
Jan 23, 2024 – 01:07:36
Home Assistant brings in 2024 with a fresh take on the automation UI builder
Jan 4, 2024 – 49:26
Jasper’s Automated Hotel with Home Assistant
Dec 19, 2023 – 01:02:05
Frenck joins us to see out 2023 and break down Home Assistant 2023.12
Dec 6, 2023 – 01:14:35
A Zero Trust Smart Home with Ian
Nov 24, 2023 – 01:06:58
Home Assistant 2023.11: Exploring Matter 1.2 and To-Do Lists
Oct 31, 2023 – 01:00:46
Automating Independence: Petter's Smart Home Journey with Home Assistant
Oct 17, 2023 – 01:03:28
Private Bluetooth Device tracking with Home Assistant 2023.10 + Philips Hue forces the cloud
Oct 2, 2023 – 58:32
Buying 1,000 lightbulbs with Brian
Sep 20, 2023 – 01:02:55
Mowing the lawn with Home Assistant 2023.9
Sep 5, 2023 – 39:38
How John made a Saturn V Rocket Launch Pad with ESPHome
Aug 28, 2023 – 01:19:48
Making an automated heated bed for the cat with Christian Kilvington
Aug 15, 2023 – 01:02:19
Translating what’s new in Home Assistant 2023.8
Jul 31, 2023 – 37:47
Michael Hansen on the year of the voice 2023 and what’s next
Jul 9, 2023 – 01:10:53

Recent Reviews

snarknerd

Great for anyone interested in home automation

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.
ndng28

Great show

Very inspirational and informative. Keep up the good job!
bjhanifin

Host and guest sharing is inspiring!

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.
Chris MPLS

Great Way to Generate Ideas

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!
Gambit120

Love the spotlight.

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!
webapprentice

Glad to have another IOT podcast

Great show
Gekkonaut

Excited for what's next

Maybe coverage of house wide audio related things would be cool!
User133577237

Great podcast!

Great first episode. Maybe some mailbag questions would be cool? Or specific HA automations, scripts, etc. discussed and how exactly they were implemented? Thanks!