The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

#657 – Automating the Home with Keith Burzinski

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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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