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Still To Be DeterminedJoin Matt Ferrell from the YouTube Channel, Undecided, and his brother Sean Ferrell as they discuss electric vehicles, renewable energy, smart technologies, and how they impact our lives. Author: Still TBD: Matt Ferrell and Sean Ferrell
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308: Why 2 Million People Ditched Alexa & Google for This - Me Included
Episode 308
Wednesday, 8 July, 2026
Most smart homes hand your house to Big Tech. Home Assistant is proof they don't have to.Matt and Sean sit down with Paulus Schoutsen, the software engineer who started Home Assistant, the largest open-source smart home platform in the world, now running in over 2 million homes. It runs locally, it keeps your data inside your house, and it doesn't stop working the day a company decides to shut off its servers. We get into why Paulus gave the whole project away to a nonprofit instead of selling it, how the energy dashboard turns your solar and battery into something genuinely useful, and whether a normal person can actually run this or if it's still a power-user thing. So is the open, local smart home finally good enough to replace Alexa and Google? Or is handing your house to Big Tech still the path of least resistance?Chapters:00:00: Intro01:20: Paulus Schoutsen52:08: Feedback - Updates56:20: Feedback - What Happens with the Chlorine?59:24: Feedback - Climate Change01:01:00: Feedback - PoutineWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPEtYL9F0VkMentioned in this episode:Home Assistant (free, open source): https://www.home-assistant.io/Nabu Casa / Home Assistant Cloud (~$80/yr, funds the mission): https://www.nabucasa.com/Open Home Foundation: https://www.openhomefoundation.org/Support the show directly: https://stilltbd.fm/join/Audio version of the podcast: https://stilltbd.fmYouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@stilltbdYouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4-aWB84Bupf5hxGqrwYqLA/joinGet in touch: https://stilltbd.fm/contact/Follow us on:Mastodon - https://mastodon.social/@mattferrellBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/mattferrell.bsky.socialUndecided with Matt Ferrell: https://www.youtube.com/@undecidedtechnology Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
