Exploring Kurt's fascination with technology and the evolution of his home into a smart environment through home automation.
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Kurt from Belgium loves everything to do with technology. So there’s little surprise as Kurt shares with us all the ways he is using Home Assistant to make his life smarter
Chapters
02:05 Getting started with Home Automation
10:10 Smart Locks
14:35 Solving the smart home for non tech people
15:53 Driving Automations
20:40 AI for the smart home
24:13 Favourite Automations
28:36 Sleep Detection
31:35 Phil's Zwave Network Offline
37:47 Robot Vacuums
42:33 Presence Detection
45:13 Powering Automations
48:29 Car Log Book Automation
50:07 Putting Home Assistant in Schools
53:28 Family feature requests
55:41 Driving Home Assistant
01:01:28 Failsafes for Home Automation
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Easily connect to Google and Amazon voice assistants for a small monthly fee that also supports the Home Assistant project. Configuration is via the User Interface so no fiddling with router settings, dynamic DNS or YAML.