Last Updated on October 29, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
OpenBCI
- OpenBCI started in 2013
- OpenBCI-official has 3890 subscribers and 24 videos on YouTube
- OpenBCI is a Brooklyn-based company, whose mission is to accelerate innovation in brain science by providing a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with a computer access to their brain waves.
- OpenBCI is a physiological multi-sensor device with up to 16 channels
- OpenBCI is often used with the OpenBCI graphical user interface (OpenBCI GUI)
Home Assistant
- Home Assistant started in 2012
- Home Assistant @home_assistant has 37`100 subscribers and 121 videos on YouTube.
- Home Assistant is an open source home automation platform that puts local control and privacy first.
- It is powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
- It is perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
- Home assistant uses InfluxDB and Grafana, and we often see multi-sensor graphs of house sensors in Home assistant.
- Can we use Home Assistant for physiological sensors as well? Yes, as the example of the Apple watch shows (see this journal).
The Home Assistant community is very large as compared to the OpenBCI community, and still very active. This has cached our interest as physiologists. Users in the OpenBCI forum asked questions wether OpenBCI is still actively developed. Are there any users in the Home Assistant forum who ask if Home Assistant is still actively developed? We do not know of such questions. We have previously discussed how to join sensor data from single physiological sensors in one InfuxDB in Home Assistant following the example of the Apple watch, which is a multi- channel physiological sensor device as well:
An we think it is worth testing if Home Assistant can be used for physiological sensors as well.