Jason’s Home Assistant Smart Home That Watches Birds and Tracks Visitors

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Apollo Automation are the makers of open source smart home sensors built for the Home Assistant ecosystem. They're an official Open Home Foundation commercial partner and their devices are built with local control, privacy, and reliability in mind, giving you full control and flexibility right out of the box.

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.

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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.

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

Jason Tucker is an IT Director based in Whittier, California, where he keeps the technology running at a nonprofit by day and runs a fully over-engineered homelab by night. His house is a living experiment in home automation — Lutron Caséta switches throughout, Matter and Thread devices, a Unraid server running Plex and a full self-hosted media stack, and Home Assistant tying together.
When he's not debugging container networking at midnight, he's documenting it on his blog at jasontucker.blog and createdimperfectly.com, the sites he runs with his wife Jen covering their ongoing journey of turning a family home into their own, one imperfect project at a time.
He's also no stranger to a microphone. Jason has been podcasting in the WordPress community for over 11 years through WPwatercooler, so he knows his way around a conversation.
Husband, father of three adult kids, and one schnauzer. Probably thinking about Grafana dashboards right now.