Giovanni joins Rohan and Phil to dive into a fully local, privacy-first smart home. We cover Home Assistant on an Intel N100, Shelly devices, Zigbee vs Wi‑Fi, ESP32 Bluetooth proxies, Frigate with a Coral TPU, Reolink cams, and smart lighting with pets.
Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:05:00 Local-only gear and protocols
00:12:00 Lighting, presence, and pets
00:18:00 Cameras, Frigate and automations
00:27:20 Media servers
00:33:00 Plex vs Jellyfin
00:41:00 Nextcloud and Immich photos
00:47:00 Backups and offsite strategy
00:53:00 Security, reverse proxy, wrap-up

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Phil Hawthorne

Phil is a Melbourne based web developer who lives and breathes technology. When he's not at his day job, he’s in his home office attempting to simplify his life through complicated tech.

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Rohan Karamandi

Rohan from Toronto, Canada works in the Technology sector as an architect designing network and datacenter solutions for his customers. His passion for technology stems from there and extends to IoT and home automation

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Special Appearances By

Giovanni

I'm a senior manufacturing engineer at Dispelix, working on AR displays R&D. Got into HA during the pandemic with a pi3 and grew from there into a full unraid server, minipc for HA and more miniPCs for side projects that will eventually happen when time allows. After listening to the podcast for a while I'm thinking that it would be an interesting discussion being there. I discover new products every time or new way to do things. Also would be nice to talk about self hosting more generally.

Spotlight

 

Special episodes focused on various aspects of Home Assistant and Home Automation.