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Home Assistant AI Automation, Tesla FSD and Energy Monitoring with Phil Hawthorne – HGG691

Phil Hawthorne joins me to talk Home Assistant AI automation, the upcoming 2026.10 release, Tesla Full Self-Driving, smarter energy monitoring, climate zones and a 3D-printed presence-sensor planter. We also discover why my Home Assistant Container installation had fallen several releases behind. Click for more / Podcast Player>
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Safe Write Access: Why My AI Managers Had to Earn Permission

Giving an AI manager access to real systems is not one decision. It is a series of smaller decisions about scope, risk, validation, and trust. In my OpenClaw setup, write access had to be earned one step at a time. Before OpenClaw could change WordPress, patch a Home Assistant dashboard, repair operational state, or prepare anything for publishing, it had to prove that it could inspect, explain, dry-run, validate, report, and stop when the evidence was not clear.

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