About this episode
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.
Chapters
00:56 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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