Smarthome Sapiens – our own podcast
Audio episodes on Spotify: 6 shows about smart home design, condominiums, and events. Playback starts when you click, Spotify doesn't load anything until then.
Smarthome Beach 2026 is coming!
Cooling, shading, watering - how can smart home control systems help during heat waves?
Smart home design – through a female eye, as an engineer
How smart is a smart condominium?
That was 2025 – hello 2026! Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas!
Our videos on YouTube
18 videos: S01 series from Home Assistant basics to energy efficiency, interviews and field reports. Separate content from Spotify broadcasts.




2026. 03. 30.
How "smart" is a smart condominium apartment?


S01 E16 · 2025. 06. 08.
New energy pricing is coming soon – but not just for solar panels!

S01 E15 · 2025. 05. 20.
What is a smart village?! – stories from a villa park

S01 E14 · 2025. 05. 01.
As a visually impaired person in a smart home – interview


S01 E11 · 2025. 03. 25.
Yabune Smart Residence – Smart hotel, apartment building, guesthouse

S01 E10 · 2025. 03. 15.
Z-Wave Summit 2025




S01 E06 · 2025
What can we control in a smart home?

S01 E05 · 2025
Home Assistant Basics


As a guest on other shows
24 episodes in three podcasts, where the Yabune team talked about smart homes, hotels, industrial systems and internal discussions in the industry. The player plays the audio file of the show directly.

Smartopert – Beyond automation
Smart Home Guru Workshop · Péter Zsák's podcast · 10 episodes with Yabune
- 2025. 11. 07. 1 h 16 min
Developer Workbench: From Chinese Code to a Ready-Made Ecosystem
From the depths of the Smart Home Camp: how to turn a factory device into an integrated, maintainable smart home ecosystem.
- 2025. 07. 15. · 41 min
SmartHomeBeach 2025
The SmartHomeBeach meeting in Balatonfüred: goals, participants, the summer forum of the Hungarian smart home industry.
- 2025. 04. 10. · 54 min
Invisible struggles in the world of technology – roundtable discussion
Roundtable discussion on technology challenges that the customer never sees – integration, operations, support.
- 2025. 04. 07. · 1 h 8 min
What makes a smart home smart? – roundtable discussion
The definition and evolution of the smart home: a roundtable discussion with industry players and time codes.
- 2024. 11. 28. · 49 min
Battle of Protocols – a conversation at SmartHomeCamp
Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Thread and the others – which one is good for what and what the future holds.
- 2024. 09. 19. · 16 min
What is Yabune preparing for SmartHomeCamp?
A short discussion about what Yabune is presenting at SmartHomeCamp.
- 2024. 05. 29. · 39 min
Personalized smart home
Why the smart home is not a boxed product: the practice of personalization through the eyes of Yabune.
- 2024. 05. 22. 1 h 0 min
Smart home solutions – not just at home (we talked about the Yabune hotel solutions)
Yabune hoteles solutions: energy, guest experience, operations – where smart home logic becomes a business.
- 2024. 05. 15. · 42 min
Smart home solutions in industrial environments – we talked to the Yabune team
Industrial environment, different requirements: what Yabune learned when designing industrial smart systems.
- 2022. 11. 07. · 48 min
The Japanese guardian god of smart homes – About a smart home service
Yabune Home as a Service: Experiences from the First Years, the Home Assistant-based Model.

SmartHomeLab
Smart Home from A to Z · 2021–2025 · 11 episodes with Yabune
- 2023. 10. 24. 1 h 35 min
Homey VS Home Assistant
Two platforms, two experts: what Homey knows and what Home Assistant knows – the conversation turns to the practical differences.
- 2023. 06. 27. · 56 min
A smart hotel room is not a smart home
Why a hotel room is different from a home: constantly changing residents, operational aspects, the experiences of Yabune hoteles.
- 2023. 03. 07. 1 h 22 min
OOL Press Review
Aqara presence sensors and stackable smart plugs, Matter status report and weekly smart home news.
- 2022. 12. 31. 2 h 21 min
Informal farewell roundtable
The last, marathon broadcast of 2022: a roundtable discussion with industry participants about the lessons of the year.
- 2022. 09. 20. 1 h 27 min
Asset protection smartly
Security technology in smart homes: system components, integration, insurers' criteria and withdrawal.
- 2022. 08. 16. 1 h 24 min
Automation ABC – Part 5
Consumption-reducing automation during the energy price explosion – what can be automated to reduce the bill.
- 2022. 07. 12. 1 h 31 min
Automation ABC – Part 4
Automation of heating and cooling systems: what is logically one, but in practice two separate tasks.
- 2022. 05. 03. 1 h 19 min
When the service crashes
What happens if your chosen smart home platform company shuts down the cloud overnight - and how to prepare for it.
- 2022. 04. 05. · 1 h 22 min
Kádár cube reloaded
Renovating the 10×10 Kádár Cube with a smart home perspective: what is worth building if they are going to demolish it anyway.
- 2021. 11. 09. 1 h 29 min
Customer needs from a service provider's perspective
Who is opening up to the smart home, what are their initial needs, and where does their imagination go when the possibilities become clearer?.
- 2021. 11. 02. 1 h 6 min
Background-supported Home Assistant system
How to turn an open source program into a reliable, back-supported service - from development to operation.

Kömkel – Everything that is a family house
Construction and renovation in a family house · 3 episodes with Yabune
- 2023. 04. 04. 1 h 18 min
#9: WATT Hunters
Energy prices and consumption: where you can actually save in a family home - metering, heating control, solar panels.
- 2022. 05. 16. 1 h 49 min
#8: How do we design our own smart home?
Needs assessment, cohabitation for 10–15 years, consultation with professionals – the steps of planning, with many specific examples.
- 2021. 09. 14. 1 h 56 min
#6: Smart Home in 2021
What does a smart home mean, what are the smart devices available in stores good for, how secure is open source code, what happens if the company goes out of business.
Articles from the Knowledge Base
The blog posts that we send most often to interested parties.
- Smart Home for Everyone – Technical Requirements and Design ConsiderationsWhat needs to be built so that anything can be smartened up later.
- Smartening sockets and switchesThe most common questions before installation: zero in the switch, subwoofer, Shelly.
- Family home smartization with Shelly and Wi-FiWhen is Wi-Fi enough and when do you need another protocol?.
- Control smart devices with or without the cloudWhy does Yabune Home run locally and what is the price of the cloud.
- What is Thread?The advantages of the new radio protocol in the smart home.
- Experiences with Zigbee devicesThrough the eyes of a user: stability, device choice, typical errors.
- Smart tablet, hidden connectionsWhat does a cheap wall tablet send home - security check.
- A server in the boiler room – 7-apartment apartment building in SzegedReference: shared mechanical engineering, consumption measured per apartment.
- How to save money on energy consumption in a hotel?Case study with measured data about the Smart Hotel solution.
If you have a specific question
Let's talk about your own project
Residential property, condominium or hotel – describe what you are planning and we will think it through with you.