Kaden‘s Cat-Tracking Smart Home with Home Assistant and Frigate
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We’re diving into Kaden’s cat-first smart home: Reolink + Frigate for pet detection, PetLibro feeders, and a Litter-Robot 4 all tied together with Home Assistant and LLM-generated dashboards.
Show notes for this episode are available at https://homeassistant.fm/HA226
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Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:35 From HomeBridge to Home Assistant
00:07:20 Cat cams and Frigate detection
00:12:45 Smart feeders and litter box
00:16:40 Human presence and privacy
00:20:50 Garage automation journey
00:24:42 State models and sponsor break
00:30:50 Wall tablet dashboards
00:36:27 Water monitoring with RTL-SDR
00:40:32 Energy tracking and panel CTs
00:44:52 Cutting server power draw
00:48:06 WLED beats Govee cloud
00:51:00 BLE proxies and neighbors
00:54:00 On-call alerts and alarms
00:56:20 Wrap-up and links
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Hosts
Phil Hawthorne
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Rohan Karamandi
Twitter: @rohank9
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