Privacy, Security, Convenience; when it comes to home automation, can we pick all three?
summary
Shows a practical home-automation stack that keeps control local: VLAN segmentation with an isolated IoT VLAN, end-to-end encrypted payloads signed as JSON web tokens, and a keypair workflow using OpenPGP.js. Tools wired together are ESP32 webserver, Home Assistant, Node-RED + MQTT, and a JSONBox polling bridge. Live demo runs valves-as-LEDs via Node-RED and an MQTT broker; Raspberry Pi died midweek so laptop fallback is used, but encrypted polling, decryption and actuator control succeed (no actual irrigation sprinklers deployed).
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Home automation security
- 1:50Over-engineering privacy
- 3:57Cloud risks
- 6:02Amazon Key flaws
- 10:37Nest breaches
- 11:18Securing commands
- 14:35Encrypt vs sign data
- 18:11VLAN segmentation
- 24:16ESP32 demo
- 29:37Node-RED MQTT flow
- 36:28Encryption for automation
- 43:16Summary resources
- 43:38Q&A
