880: Creator of Home Assistant: Web Components, Self Hosting and Home Hacking

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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