Home Automation Geek Out with Mads Kristensen
It's 2019, how smart is your home? Time for a Geek Out! Carl and Richard chat with Mads Kristensen about how he's adding automation to his home - and in a way that is tolerable for his significant other and young children. Mads talks about his kids being small enough that they can't reach the light switch - so automation to turn lights on is hugely empowering for them! But how do you make your home automation not so annoying? That's a bit trickier, and a great conversation!
Guests:
Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen is a program manager on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft with the privilege to work with the extension community and ecosystem. He’s an avid extension writer himself, with over a hundred published extensions to the Visual Studio Marketplace. Before joining Microsoft, he spent a decade as a web developer working at both startups and enterprise companies. His wife and two young sons all enjoy and support his adventures in the world of home automation
Links:
- MyCroft https://mycroft.ai/
- Mads' Home Automation Best Practices https://madskristensen.net/blog/home-automation-best-practices/
- Mads' Home Automation Ideas https://madskristensen.net/blog/home-automation-ideas/
- Zigbee https://www.zigbee.org/
- Z-Wave https://www.z-wave.com/
- Smart Things https://www.smartthings.com/