#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