Hi, I'm Eric Burmeister.

Growing Like Weeds

My kids are growing like weeds. This is just a simple Metabase dashboard fed by a few Postgres tables fed by a Python/Pandas script that pulls in new rows from Google Sheets fed by Google Forms.

Drive.Refuel.Repeat

This is what happens when you pull out your phone to record gas tank refill data for nearly ten years. Ingestion is handled by Make.com from Google Forms entries into Supabase's PostgreSQL instance, which is then connected to Metabase.

Data cleaning and transformations are handled entirely in SQL.

4Q25 Environment Updates

All servers have been rebuilt in Proxmox VMs, with remote access handled by Tailscale as needed. Next projects will include rebuilding Poolboy Q (before summer), improving AI Lifeguard after some hardware upgrades, and rebuilding BurmHub and BurmGPT with different tools entirely. For now, this is mostly to allow experimentation with AI (AnythingLLM, Dify, MCP server, Moltbot) and make it easier to kick off new projects.

BurmHub

A self-hosted CRM-inspired platform that centralizes family events, schedules, tasks, projects, and home automation. It eliminates reliance on external services (ChatGPT and Google), supporting automated data ingestion and conversational querying of all family data.

Poolboy Q

AI-powered pool chemical testing assistant that transforms emailed PDF reports into normalized, actionable insights. Leveraging a self-hosted LLM, it instantly analyzes pool data and generates step-by-step chemical dosing and maintenance instructions, delivered directly via email.

AI Lifeguard

When done, we will have a reliable AI-driven pool monitoring system that can trigger alerts/alarms when young children are unattended near our pool. LLM training will include drowning detection, but the focus is preventive, not reactive, measures.

PROGRESS: Actively training and refining the vision LLM, chaining multiple reasoning steps (detect people, identify children, check if they're alone, etc) and testing frame-masking to boost accuracy on real pool footage.

BurmGPT

The vision is to build a private, self-hosted app to replace ChatGPT and Google assistant for queries, schedule management, collaboration, tasks, and home automation needs.

PROGRESS: Building custom web search guardrails, document chunking workflows, and data pipelines to support RAG-powered query and task automation.

kWh Dashboard

A simple pipeline that used Python to log into the Evergy account when a new billing notification email was received, extract data from the API and eBill PDFs, and consolidate cost, usage, weather, and solar production metrics for monitoring and analysis. The locally hosted dashboard was powered by Metabase.

Miles To Go

A Tableau story visualizing miles and costs over time between vehicles.

PMR

PMR (Preventive Maintenance Report) is a data visualization tool offering clients a metrics-first report following each contract maintenance visit.

Searcher

Searcher makes it easy to find replacement parts, diagrams, manuals, and manufacturer portals.