wtadler/home-assistant-community-day-washington-dc
Celebrating the inaugural Home Assistant Community Day in Washington, DC
Home Assistant Community Day • Washington, DC
📅 Saturday, May 24, 2025
🕑 3 - 5pm or later
📍 Looking Glass Lounge (Google Maps listing)
🌮 Food and drinks available for purchase (Menu)
🆓 Free
🙋🏻♂️ Hosted by @wtadler
✅ RSVP at Luma
Agenda
3:00pm • Arriving and socializing
3:30pm • Introductions
3:45pm • Lightning talks
Up to 10 talks, 5 minutes each, sign up by updating one of the slots below. Topic can be anything you want! You favorite automation, your favorite home automation resources, a problem you can't resolve, etc. Sign up here.
- Will Adler - Better Caretaking Through Home Assistant
- Mike Schiller - Sensor Observability with Influx/Grafana
- Allan James Vestal - This is a 7000-series automation: How HA and Node-RED make our family's commutes smarter
- Dylan Barlett - Near Real-Time Natural Gas Consumption Monitoring With RTL-SDR
4:30pm • Marketplace - have gadgets you no longer need? Bring them and find them a new home! Give away for free to your fellow DMV residents, or put a price on it.
5pm • Socializing
About the Home Assistant Community Day
In a nutshell, it's an opportunity to local community members. There is no set agenda by the Home Assistant team. It's up to us what we want to make out of the event.
Learn more at https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/04/24/community-day/.
About the location
Looking Glass Lounge is a lovely Petworth neighborhood bar and restaurant. With the modest venue rental budget that Home Assistant is providing, I've been able to rent out the space, outside of their normal business hours, for the two hours before they open to the public at 5pm. They're also opening the kitchen and the bar for us, so please make sure to support them! There is a projector available for lightning talks--if we have some talks, I'll do my best to get it working! 🤞
About the host
In his day job, Will is a policy wonk with a particular interest in election technology and security. Outside of work, he attempts to maintain a high Home Approval Factor for everyone in his home, such as by enabling his spouse to remotely brew coffee, creating crib pressure sensor-triggered automations, and designing a printable ESPHome-powered cat laser robot. He maintains a Home Assistant HACS integration for Nissan Leaf EV drivers and has made a few other contributions to the Home Assistant community. He is also converting his bike to an ebike, and he takes pinball too seriously.