Mikalai Birukou will give us an update on his platform PrivacySafe.

Khalid Baheyeldin will discuss how he uses Home Assistant to monitor the climate inside his home, including humidity, radon VOC, and CO2. The talk will also include details on how Home Assistant integrates with Mosquitto for MQTT, long-term data storage using InfluxDB, and data visualization with Grafana. 

We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Ethel's Lounge in Uptown Waterloo, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Wednesday.

This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.

The restaurant is located at 114 King Street North in Waterloo, at the corner of King and Young St East. Here is a map. 

You can probably just show up, but the organizers would find it helpful if you RSVPed to dinner@kwlug.org 

Lori Paniak will discuss the WatGPU project, which clusters GPUs together for research computation purposes.

Sam Zhang will discuss Fabric, a commandline-based "open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI".

Khalid Baheyeldin will follow up on his November 2024 presentation on internal climate monitoring with a presentation on using Home Assistant to monitor weather conditions outside his house, such as lightning strikes and thunderstorm distances. He will discuss Home Assistant integration with rtl_433 to decode radio transmissions,  with devices such as La Crosse and AcuRite weather stations, and with WeeWX for statistics.