How Mike is making heating smarter with Home Assistant
Notas del episodio
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.
Show notes for this episode are available at https://homeassistant.fm/HA230
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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 notifications
00:43:42 - Cameras, AI and the cat
00:50:59 - Smarter heating and preheating
01:03:33 - Actionable notifications philosophy
01:05:40 - Evangelizing at work and wrap‑up
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