Web Components, Self Hosting and Home Hacking with the Creator of Home Assistant

Wes and CJ talk with Paulus Schoutsen, creator of Home Assistant, about the future of smart homes, AI-powered automation, and open-source innovation. 🔥 Be the ~14,700th person to join our super tasty newsletter bit.ly/syntax_snackpack 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 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 All links available at https://syntax.fm/880 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: https://x.com/syntaxfm Scott: https://x.com/stolinski Wes: https://x.com/wesbos CJ: https://x.com/CodingGarden Randy: https://www.youtube.com/@randyrektor http://www.syntax.fm Brought to you by Sentry.io #webdevelopment #webdeveloper #javascript #syntax #syntaxfm #webdev