Build Your Own Smart Home

Do you wish your home was smarter? It's okay to admit that your home is dumb, no one will judge you. Are you interested in possibly making your home smarter, but you've only gotten as far as a free Nest Thermostat from the electric company and a couple of Phillips Hue lightbulbs that you insist on using your phone to turn off and on? Are you in the market for a connected home hub but you aren't quite sure which one to bet on and which device communication protocols it does (and doesn't) support. In this session, Brandon will survey the latest and greatest in so called "Smart Home" technology before outright dismissing all off the shelf systems as total crap. With that out of the way, he'll walk through some of the ins and outs of building your own damn connected home, just as he's doing himself in a old and very dumb home that he just talked himself into buying. If you'd love to see Brandon try, fail and sometimes succeed in building his own home of the future, this is the session for you. Because, really, if Brandon can build his own Smart Home, you can too.

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1. BUILD
   B R A N D O N S AT R O M
   Y O U R O W N S M A R T H O M E
   

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3. “A COMMUNITY OF TOMORROW…
   

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4. “A COMMUNITY OF TOMORROW…
   …THAT WILL NEVER BE COMPLETED.”
   

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10. A 100 YEAR-OLD LIGHTBULB
    VS.
    PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
    

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12. THE
    CENTENNIAL
    BULB
    

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14. PHOEBUS CARTEL, 1924
    

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19. SMART HOME
    Smart Home, Dumb Home, Ignorant Home
    1
    BUILD YOUR OWN
    2Commercial Hubs & False
    Prophets
    3 B.Y.O. Smart Home
    

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20. 1SMART HOME
    DUMB HOME
    IGNORANT HOME
    

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21. “DUMB HOME”
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    A home that is neither automated, nor connected to the cloud or a local
    home controller
    A home with purely “analog” control mechanisms (thermostat, security, etc)
    

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22. “IGNORANT HOME”
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    A home with two or more “connected” devices that are unaware of each
    other
    A home that is overly cloud-dependent
    A home with connected devices that are insecure
    

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43. ENTER THE HUB
    

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44. 2COMMERCIAL HUBS
    &
    FALSE PROPHETS
    

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58. CHALLENGES
    HOME CONTROLLER
    Security
    DRM
    Cloud Services
    

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59. Security
    1
    

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60. MOST POPULAR
    TARGETS AT
    BLACK HAT
    

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61. 1997 - Microsoft Windows
    MOST POPULAR
    TARGETS AT
    BLACK HAT
    

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62. 1997 - Microsoft Windows
    2008 - Apple iPhone
    MOST POPULAR
    TARGETS AT
    BLACK HAT
    

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63. 1997 - Microsoft Windows
    2008 - Apple iPhone
    2016 - Smart Homes and The Internet of Things
    MOST POPULAR
    TARGETS AT
    BLACK HAT
    

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65. 1.
    Minimizes cloud
    communicaLons
    2.
    Secures
    communicaLon
    channels and
    messages
    4.
    Ensures that
    privilege matches
    funcLon
    3.
    Manages all
    integraLons through
    the hub
    A SECURE
    SMART HOME
    

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66. Digital Rights Management
    2
    

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71. “WE ARE HUXLEYING OURSELVES
    INTO THE FULL ORWELL.”
    - CORY DOCTOROW
    

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72. Cloud Services
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76. THE HOME CONTROLLER YOU PURCHASED IS INSECURE
    1. Independent security researchers cannot tell you about the flaw without breaking the law
    2. You cannot inspect the device to determine or fix the flaw without breaking the law
    

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77. THE HOME CONTROLLER DOES NOT SUPPORT YOUR DEVICES
    You cannot add support for your devices in unapproved ways without breaking the law
    

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78. THE HOME CONTROLLER YOU PURCHASED IS BEING SHUTTERED BY THE VENDOR
    You cannot open the device to remove the cloud dependency and/or make the device
    functional again without breaking the law
    

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80. ETERNAL RETURNS?
    

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81. 3B.Y.O
    SMART HOME
    

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82. OPTIONS
    Buy Open Hardware, Install Open Controller Software
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    SMART HOME
    2 Buy Open Hardware, Build Your Own Controller
    

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83. HOME ASSISTANT OPENHAB
    RASPBERRY PI 3
    

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84. SMART HOME ARCHITECTURE
    

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85. - RPI 3
    - 128 GB SD Card
    - Samsung Artik 5 (Beta)
    - Supports WiFi, BLE, ZigBee, ZWave and
    SigFox communication
    

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86. GATEWAY
    - RPI 3
    - 128 GB SD Card
    - Samsung Artik 5 (Beta)
    - Supports WiFi, BLE, ZigBee, ZWave and
    SigFox communication
    

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87. GATEWAY
    REPOSITORY
    - RPI 3
    - 128 GB SD Card
    - Samsung Artik 5 (Beta)
    - Supports WiFi, BLE, ZigBee, ZWave and
    SigFox communication
    

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88. REPOSITORY &
    DASHBOARDS
    SOFTWARE
    SETUP
    GATEWAY
    • Node-Red
    • MosquiXo
    • Telegraf
    SENSORS &
    DEVICES
    3RD PARTY AND CUSTOM
    MOBILE
    CROSS-PLATFORM NATIVE
    • NaLveScript
    • Angular 2
    • Firebase
    • Nest
    • Ring
    • Hue
    • ParLcle
    • Arduino
    • InfluxDB
    • Grafana
    • Telegraf
    

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89. Visualize key informaLon from smart home
    systems, sensors and devices
    VISUALIZATION
    Control home devices in a single way from a
    single app
    CONTROL
    Collect and aggregate smart home data in a
    single place
    COLLECTION
    Analyze data across home devices, document
    trends and alert homeowners
    INSIGHT
    B
    C
    D
    USES FOR A SMART HOME CONTROLLER
    B
    

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90. MEASURE & LOG
    ENVIRONMENT
    READINGS IN MY
    OFFICE
    

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91. MEASURE & LOG
    ENVIRONMENT
    READINGS IN MY
    OFFICE
    

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92. MEASURE & LOG ENVIRONMENT
    READINGS IN MY OFFICE
    

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93. VISUALIZE AND TRACK
    OFFICE READINGS
    

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94. RESPOND TO OFFICE
    READINGS
    

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95. RESPOND TO OFFICE
    READINGS
    

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96. LOGS TEMP FROM A 3RD
    PARTY DEVICE (NEST)
    

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97. LOGS TEMP
    FROM A 3RD
    PARTY DEVICE
    (NEST)
    

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98. VISUALIZE AND TRACK
    NEST READINGS
    

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99. LOGS EVENTS FROM
    CONNECTED CAMERAS (NEST)
    

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100. SEND NOTIFICATIONS FOR
     CONNECTED CAMERAS (NEST)
     

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101. HOMIE
     

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102. HOMIE
     

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103. STRATEGIES
     SECURITY
     HUB-ONLY
     COMMUNICATION
     Ways to ensure your homegrown smart home controller stays secure
     ENCRYPTED
     MESSAGES
     NO CLOUD
     DEPENDENCY
     

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105. A
     ROSIE
     Our goal with Rosie
     is to create an
     open, extensible
     smarter home
     controller for the
     homes of now and
     the future. No
     proprietary
     hardware and no
     DRM.
     THE SMARTER, OPEN
     HOME CONTROLLER
     GITHUB.COM/ROSIE-HOME
     

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107. A HOME FOR TOMORROW…
     

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108. A HOME FOR TOMORROW…
     …OPEN, SAFE AND CONNECTED.
     

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109. THANK YOU
     B S AT R O M @ G M A I L . C O M | B R E A K I N G T H I N G S . I O
     @ B R A N D O N S A T R O M
     

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