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Jasper’s Automated Hotel with Home Assistant

Published December 20, 2023
Recorded December 9, 2023
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Meet Jasper, Technical Director of a Netherlands hotel. Discover how Home Assistant integrates with the hotel's KNX system, helping manage the hotel and Jasper’s home life

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01:47 Getting started wth Home Automation
04:52 Custom Brewery
05:44 Automating a Hotel with Home Assitant
14:48 Future plans for the Hotel
16:18 Beta Testing for the Home
19:07 Hardware for Home Assistant
23:48 Tracking Guests energy usage
25:20 Presence Sensors
34:28 NVR for the Hotel
35:25 Home Energy Monitoring
37:59 What powers these automations
38:56 Natural Gas Replacements
43:38 Voice Control
46:05 Technology Stack
49:33 Brewery Automations
54:32 GPT Flavoured Beer
56:21 To Do Lists
01:01:00 Battery Management

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Phil Hawthorne

Phil is a Melbourne based web developer who lives and breathes technology. When he's not at his day job, he’s in his home office attempting to simplify his life through complicated tech.

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Rohan Karamandi

Rohan from Toronto, Canada works in the Technology sector as an architect designing network and datacenter solutions for his customers. His passion for technology stems from there and extends to IoT and home automation

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Jasper Bom

I am Jasper Bom, technical director of Hotel de Sterrenberg. Next to Home Assistant I do some beer brewing, photography and sim racing as a hobby.

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