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.

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