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title: "Talk: Automating your home with Home Assistant (OpenIoT Summit)"
description: "The video of Paulus giving a talk at the OpenIoT Summit at the beginning of April about how to automate your home with Home Assistant."
date: 2016-05-06 07:09:00 -0700
date_formatted: "May 6, 2016"
author: Paulus Schoutsen
author_twitter: balloob
categories: Talks Video
og_image: /images/blog/2016-05-openiot/preview-video.png
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At the beginning of April I gave a talk about Home Assistant at the OpenIoT summit in San Diego. I talk about the Home Assistant architecture and explain how to get started integrating your devices. Big thanks to my employer AppFolio ([we're hiring!]) for letting me attend. [Slides.]

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[Slides.]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1P2WsmwGSSni4gAriY5IA0-m-FUGO1kno3gIkRYz20Kw/edit#slide=id.p
[we're hiring!]: http://www.appfolioinc.com/jobs-openings