#18 • With YouTuber Andreas Dantz of Spiel und Zeug

Andreas Dantz of Spiel und Zeug, a German smart home YouTube channel with 417K subscribers, joins Abe on the Homey Podcast. They talk about letting AI build the automations you’d never get around to, and whether a smart home still needs buttons. 00:00 Introduction 01:01 Testing the Aqara FP400 presence sensor 08:35 Building automations with AI 18:16 Schneider Electric’s bid for Shelly 23:13 Apple’s rumored smart home display 27:25 Does a smart home still need buttons? 33:38 Retiring the HomeKit experiment for Matter Bridge 41:10 German smart home platforms: FRITZ! and Homematic IP 50:44 Thread 1.4 and combining Thread networks 58:11 Where to find Andreas