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	Podcast:		The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
	Episode:		#657 – Automating the Home with Keith Burzinski
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		01:23:14
	Publish Date:		2024-02-05 19:47:02
	Description:		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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