About this episode

Giovanni joins Rohan and Phil to discuss building a fully local, privacy-first smart home using various technologies and devices.

Giovanni joins Rohan and Phil to dive into a fully local, privacy-first smart home. We cover Home Assistant on an Intel N100, Shelly devices, Zigbee vs Wi‑Fi, ESP32 Bluetooth proxies, Frigate with a Coral TPU, Reolink cams, and smart lighting with pets. Watch this episode on YouTube Show notes for this episode are available at https://homeassistant.fm/HA234 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 00:05:00 Local-only gear and protocols 00:12:00 Lighting, presence, and pets 00:18:00 Cameras, Frigate and automations 00:27:20 Media servers 00:33:00 Plex vs Jellyfin 00:41:00 Nextcloud and Immich photos 00:47:00 Backups and offsite strategy 00:53:00 Security, reverse proxy, wrap-up This episode was made possible thanks to our sponsors Home Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa Easily connect to Google and Amazon voice…

Topics covered

• privacy-first smart home
• Home Assistant
• smart lighting
• local-only gear
• home automation
• media servers
• security

Sponsors

Nabu Casa, Zooz

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