For Shane: does an Apple smart home also make your virginity grow back? 
Since we all know they’re both really using Home Assistant to build automations, what would they individually like to see Anthom change to persude them use Homey to build automations instead?
Good to note that both gentlemen do already use Homey in their smart home setups! In combination with platforms like Home Assistant, Alexa and Apple Home 
Oh I’m well aware they have Homey in their setups, but I’ll bet they don’t actually build flows for anything but testing. Ask them for an honest answer
Paul is my hero. When I had some issues with my Narwal, he helped me a great deal
Hi Doekse,
Great to see both of them as guests on the show — I’ve been following Shane Whatley and Paul Hibbert on YouTube for years now 
One question I’d love to hear their thoughts on: Paul recently shared quite a strong rant about Amazon Alexa on YouTube, and we’re now seeing a shift toward more personal, locally running AI assistants that can control smart homes — largely driven by privacy concerns.
How do they view this development? Do they see a future where a personal, on-device AI assistant becomes the central brain of the smart home? And are they already experimenting with setups like this themselves, or planning to in the near future?
I’m personally experimenting with running a local AI assistant (Gemma 4) on a dedicated Mac Mini using Openclaw, so I’m especially interested in how they see this space evolving.
Really curious to hear their perspective on this.
Warm regards from Enschede,
Luc
Good choice on guest for the podcast. I would like to hear both guys thoughts on pairing some devices via Zigbee and others via Thread and how to avoid interference and drop outs with multiple protocols in the same Smart Home set up.
Hi all, episode 14 of the Homey Podcast with Paul Hibbert and Shane Whatley is now live. You can watch it here.
Enjoy!
