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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