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#657 – Automating the Home with Keith Burzinski

83 min • 5 februari 2024

Welcome Keith Burzinski of Nabu Casa and the ESPhome project!

Nabu Casa is a commercial venture that supports the open source Home Assistant (HA) project
Hardware
Home assistant allows your smart home to not require an outside connection, which is crucial to breaking free of large cloud providers.
Chris just got a Zigbee dongle and switched outlet working in under a minute on HA
Automation and triggers
Users share their automation routines on the HA subreddit
mmwave detecting heartbeat
What is esphome?
Abstraction / using YAML for business logic
Deciding when to go custom
Keith got started doing a PR for an IR remote
Nixie clocks
Boldport / Saar
Getting hooked on SMT builds
Keith made an STM32 based Tube Clock that Chris was very impressed by at a Chicago meetup
Keith reworked the sensing for his HVAC by fusing multiple custom sensor boards
Presence sensor – mmwave + IR sensor
Geodesic dome
Tiny fresnel lenses on low cost PIR sensors
Fixing thermostat in apt
Creating a network of temp sensors and weighing
SRE = site reliability engineer
Nabu Casa cloud service
The year of the voice
Home assistant YouTube
Hardware: Blue, yellow, green
How often are people reprogramming their devices
ESPhome discord
ESPhome.io
See devices that can be reprogrammed to work with ESPhome
Reddits
- ESPhome
- Homeassistant

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