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Braden shares his practical home automation experiences using Home Assistant.

Electrical engineer Braden joins Phil and Rohan to share practical Home Assistant wins. From migrating to Zigbee2MQTT, taming a Whirlpool ice maker with ESPHome, building a garage door opener, and planning a sensor-packed greenhouse lab. Watch this episode on YouTube Show notes for this episode are available at https://homeassistant.fm/HA229 Support the Podcast Get early-access to episodes and an ad-free feed by supporting our Patreon. https://homeassistant.fm/patreon Share your story We wouldn't be able to do this podcast without community members and home automation enthusiasts sharing their stories. To register your interest to come share your home automation journey, head over to homeassistant.fm and click share your story . Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:23 - Meet Brayden in Windy Indiana 00:03:35 - From Hue to Home Assistant 00:08:50 - Greenhouse Lab Plans 00:12:45 - Nursery Voice and Motion Tactics 00:18:20 - RFID Cards for Kids’ Media 00:29:00 - Zigbee2MQTT, Aqara, Litter Box Hack 00:36:40 - ESPHome: Ice Maker and Garage 00:43:40 - Power Monitoring and Breakers 00:47:00 - Unifi, Cameras, and ZBT-2 00:52:30 - Agents, Dashboards, and Presence 01:00:20 - Wrap-up and Thanks…

People in this episode

Hosts: Phil, Rohan

Guest: Braden

Topics covered

• home automation
• Zigbee2MQTT
• ESPHome
• garage door opener
• greenhouse lab
• Whirlpool ice maker

Keywords

• home automation
• Zigbee2MQTT
• ESPHome
• Whirlpool
• garage door opener
• greenhouse lab
• RFID

Sponsors

Nabu Casa

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Home Assistant, ESPHome, Zigbee2MQTT, Whirlpool

Places: Indiana

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