Welcome to Syntax and I'm sorry, I didn't ask you how you pronounce it. How do you pronounce your name?

Paulus Schaudsen. Awesome. Are you Dutch? Yeah. Beautiful. I'm Dutch as well. I'm obviously

Canadian, but Dutch heritage. So always love, love when you have it on. So Paulus is the creator of Home Assistant, which is the, I don't know, how

would you, can you give us the pitch of what Home Assistant is and who you are? Yeah, so I'm Paulus Schaubze.

Home Assistant is an open source smart home platform with a focus on local control and privacy.

You can run it fully at home the way you want it.

At its core, it's a Python application, but we prefer to use our Docker container or like our operating system.

And it's the brains of your smart home.

So it pulls in all the data from wherever you host it.

If you have NAST thermostat, we pull it from the cloud.

If you have Phillips U, light bulbs, we talk to it locally.

We bring everything together.

And from there, you can do whatever you want, right?

We believe that users that buy devices that collect data in your house, you own that data.

You can do with it what you want.

So from Home Assistant, you can have dashboarding, automation, history, voice.

But we also allow it to send it to Apple Home send it to google home to amazon if you like those ecosystems just go there our open

API also like there's things like note red self-hosted automation engine it just fully plugs into home

assistant can do anything you can do inside home assistant automation but a different approach and

it's great like everything is just possible it's this is the foundation of your smart home really

yeah it's it's honestly awesome because like i've run it for probably five or six years now

i'm currently running it on the the assistant operating system, which is like one step

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