Exploring Advanced Home Automation Options

Home Assistant has launched their own Z-wave radio. 2025.9 lands with a new experimental home screen. Meanwhile Rohan and Phil discuss LLM Vision and some of its use cases

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Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:14 Home Assistant Connect ZWA2

00:03:01 Z-Wave Network Challenges and Migration

00:16:45 Rainbird Integration and Irrigation Setup

00:23:25 New Features in Home Assistant 2025.9

00:30:13 Introduction to Smart Home Automation

00:33:17 Husqvarna Automower Features

00:35:54 Reolink Doorbell Updates

00:38:00 PlayStation and Unify Integrations

00:39:11 Tesla and Other Cars Integration

00:41:21 Weather and Bayesian Sensors

00:44:10 AI Vision and Home Automation

00:51:40 New Integrations: Seco, Sleep as Android

00:53:56 Breaking and Backward Incompatible Changes

00:55:26 Hacs Components: Person Location

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