880: Creator of Home Assistant: Web Components, Self Hosting and Home Hacking
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Wes Bos
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🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
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
- 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
- 37:16 How Paulus made it possible to flash microcontrollers directly from the browser
- 43:48 Web Serial and Web Bluetooth APIs
- 47:03 Matter, Zigbee, and Z-Wave – where smart home standards are headed
- 51:17 Paulus’ smart home setup
- 53:16 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
Sick Picks
- Paulus: Bambu 3d Printer
Shameless Plugs
- Paulus: Nabu Casa
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax and I'm sorry, I didn't ask you how you pronounce it. How do you pronounce your name? |
| 0:06.2 | Paulus Schaudsen. Awesome. Are you Dutch? Yeah. Beautiful. I'm Dutch as well. I'm obviously |
| 0:12.6 | 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 |
| 0:24.0 | would you, can you give us the pitch of what Home Assistant is and who you are? Yeah, so I'm Paulus Schaubze. |
| 0:29.7 | Home Assistant is an open source smart home platform with a focus on local control and privacy. |
| 0:35.5 | You can run it fully at home the way you want it. |
| 0:37.8 | At its core, it's a Python application, but we prefer to use our Docker container or like our operating system. |
| 0:43.8 | And it's the brains of your smart home. |
| 0:45.6 | So it pulls in all the data from wherever you host it. |
| 0:49.1 | If you have NAST thermostat, we pull it from the cloud. |
| 0:51.0 | If you have Phillips U, light bulbs, we talk to it locally. |
| 0:54.1 | We bring everything together. |
| 0:56.1 | And from there, you can do whatever you want, right? |
| 0:58.4 | We believe that users that buy devices that collect data in your house, you own that data. |
| 1:04.3 | You can do with it what you want. |
| 1:05.5 | So from Home Assistant, you can have dashboarding, automation, history, voice. |
| 1:12.8 | 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 |
| 1:17.9 | API also like there's things like note red self-hosted automation engine it just fully plugs into home |
| 1:23.5 | assistant can do anything you can do inside home assistant automation but a different approach and |
| 1:28.0 | it's great like everything is just possible it's this is the foundation of your smart home really |
| 1:32.4 | yeah it's it's honestly awesome because like i've run it for probably five or six years now |
| 1:39.8 | i'm currently running it on the the assistant operating system, which is like one step |
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