Open source home automation

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Privacy-first DIY home automation with concrete numbers and failures: about 30 environmental sensors and 20 cameras, all but six handmade, migrate from Raspberry Pi experiments to x86 nodes running TrueNAS, Podman and InfluxDB; uses Home Assistant with ESPHome and Tasmota for devices. Zigbee via three TI USB sticks supports ~65 clients but repeatedly clusters; Sonoff power modules handle a 3.5 kW induction cooker for ~3,500 cycles before relay issues; ESP32-CAMs fail at distance so old phones + IP Webcam or Raspberry Pi cameras feed local object detection (Dudes2) on CPU.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:21Recap
3. 5:21from rpi to "Cosplaying as a Sysadmin"
4. 9:36What is new: Displays
5. 12:39Power metering
6. 17:14Zigbee
7. 20:08Bluetooth: presence detection
8. 22:14Cameras HW

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