About this episode

Rob Braxman shares his journey of setting up home automation using open source tools with no prior knowledge.

Here's the story of a newbie on Home Automation firing up Home Assistant and various IOT devices with zero knowledge at the beginning. Follow the the experience and now I know what's up! I've avoided Internet of Things (IOT) devices because they are such privacy invaders. But you can do Home Automation the Open Source way with no cloud dependencies of any sort. Follow me on my journey. ---------------------------------- BraX3 Privacy Phone and the Brax Open_Slate is on https://braxtech.net ----------------------------------- Brax Virtual Phone, De-Googled Phones, BytzVPN, BraxMail, BraxRouters are available on https://brax.me ----------------------------------- Merch Store https://my-store-c37a50.creator-spring.com/ ----------------------------------- I'm the Internet Privacy Guy. I'm a public interest technologist. I'm here to educate. You are losing your Internet privacy and Internet security every day if you don't fight for it. Your data is collected with endless permanent data mining. Learn about a TOR router, a VPN , antivirus, spyware, firewalls, IP address, wifi triangulation, data privacy regulation, backups and tech tools, and evading…

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