Wes and CJ talk with Paulus Schoutsen, creator of Home Assistant, about the future of smart homes, AI-powered automation, and open-source innovation.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:29 What is Home Assistant?
• 03:32 Web Components in Home Assistant
  • Home Assistant Frontend

10:41 Home Assistant’s stability and longevity

17:05 Is Home Assistant the biggest open-source project using web components?

20:03 How does the native app work?

23:34 Code sharing between Android and iOS

24:17 Self-hosting Home Assistant

28:13 Brought to you by Sentry.io

30:47 Bundle size and memory usage

32:29 How AI and voice assistants are shaping the future of Home Assistant

• Talking with Home Assistant

37:16 How Paulus made it possible to flash microcontrollers directly from the browser

• Open Home Foundation

43:48 Web Serial and Web Bluetooth APIs

47:03 Matter, Zigbee, and Z-Wave – where smart home standards are headed

• Matter

Zigbee

Z-Wave

51:17 Paulus’ smart home setup

• Reolink

Yale

53:16 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

• Andrew Schmelyun

Sick Picks

• Paulus: Bambu 3d Printer

Shameless Plugs

• Paulus: Nabu Casa

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