How Mike is making heating smarter with Home Assistant

About this episode

Mike discusses his Home Assistant setup, focusing on smart heating and AI-assisted automations.

Industrial data pro Mike joins Phil and Rohan to unpack his Home Assistant setup. We dive deep into Node‑RED flows, mmWave presence, actionable dashboards, and AI‑assisted automations—including recognizing his own cat and verifying the right bin is curbside. Watch this episode on YouTube Show notes for this episode are available at https://homeassistant.fm/HA230 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 00:01:28 - Mike’s background and location 00:03:43 - From OpenHAB to Home Assistant 00:06:11 - Cloud vs local pragmatism 00:09:40 - Zigbee, Thread and Matter lessons 00:12:17 - Distributed hardware and Docker setup 00:16:08 - Family UX and presence ethos 00:20:26 - PIR, mmWave and context signals 00:24:41 - Automations with Node‑RED 00:29:50 - AI‑assisted automation building 00:34:44 - Dashboards and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Phil, Rohan

Guest: Mike

Topics covered

• Home Assistant setup
• Node-RED flows
• AI-assisted automations
• smart heating
• presence detection
• actionable dashboards

Keywords

• Home Assistant
• Node-RED
• AI automation
• smart heating
• presence detection
• dashboards
• mmWave

Sponsors

Home Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Home Assistant, OpenHAB, Google, Amazon

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