06-15, 14:00–14:35 (Europe/Prague), E105 (capacity 70)
Home automation is a rapidly growing area where Open Source impacts the ecosystem in a significant way. Open Source projects and solutions are often focused on privacy and security and allow users to build fully local home automation.
Let's have a look at the most popular home automation software - Home Assistant, how it is architectured, how the ecosystem looks like, how to leverage the ecosystem, and what you can achieve by using it.
I am Linux enthusiastic since I installed my first Slackware Linux distribution in the 90's. Since then I enjoy using Open Source as much as I can, especially for home automation, hardware hacking, and game development these days. My professional career started with software engineering jobs in the Telco area and then I moved to Linux. I continued as program manager for RHEL and I currently drive development of cryo electron microscopes.