Enhancing Home Automation with Home Assistant and Smart Devices

Brian is a spacecraft systems engineer, who uses Home Assistant to automate his house, and help him remember some of the earthly world problems in his day-to-day life

Chapters

00:00 Intro

03:25 Getting started with Home Assistant

05:59 Who's in the house

08:39 Protocols Used in the House

10:24 Driving Automations

13:48 Hardware used for Home Assistant

15:02 Using Frigate

16:56 Using Home Assistant for Memory

23:05 Night Time Automations

34:15 Leak Sensors

45:30 Zigbee

48:50 Presence Detection

55:48 To Do Lists and Battery Automation

01:03:25 Automating a Pool

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