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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