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#657 – Automating the Home with Keith Burzinski
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