The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast   /     #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