Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant Configure, Integrate, and Manage Hardware and Software Systems to Automate Your Home
Picture a home where you can adjust the lighting based on the time of day or when movement is detected. In this same home, you can also detect when a door is unexpectedly opened or an alarm is triggered in response to any suspicious activity. Such automated devices form part of a smart home, and the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Birmingham
Packt Publishing, Limited
2023
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| Edition: | 1st edition |
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Knowing the parts and tools to build your sensor
- Element sensor and signal conditioner 1
- the motion sensor
- Element sensor and signal conditioner 2
- environmental/temperature sensor
- Wireless communication module
- ESP8266
- Power supply and cabling
- Connecting the electronic parts and cables
- Understanding Tasmota and how to install it in our sensor
- What is Tasmota?
- Installing Tasmota in our sensor
- Configuring the software of your sensor
- Getting data from sensor elements
- Device name
- Configuring the MQTT information in the sensor
- Home Assistant installation verification of Raspberry Pi
- Home Assistant initial configuration
- Exploring a Home Assistant installation
- Home Assistant default screen and menu disposition
- Home Assistant sidebar navigation
- Home Assistant basic configurations
- User preference configuration
- General configuration
- People configuration
- MQTT configuration
- Wi-Fi network configuration
- Dashboard cleanup
- Summary
- Part 2: Install, Create, and Hack Sensors and Actuators
- Chapter 3: Hands-On Project 1
- Creating Your Own Sensor
- Technical requirements
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: Introduction to Home Assistant
- Installation and Configuration
- Chapter 1: Understanding Home Automation Systems
- Technical requirements
- Overview of home automation systems
- Benefits of having an automated home
- Saving time
- Feeling comfortable
- Saving money
- Being safe
- Home automation structure
- Home automation server
- Sensors
- Actuators
- Communication media
- Protocols and brokers (MQTT)
- User interface and other clients
- Example of a real home automation system
- History
- Current configuration
- Bill of materials and costs
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Getting Started with Home Assistant
- Technical requirements
- Learning about Home Assistant
- Introduction and evolution
- Home Assistant features and resources
- Important Home Assistant definitions
- Home Assistant availability
- Community and support
- YAML
- Raspberry Pi as a home automation server
- Hardware architecture
- Main Raspberry Pi features used by the home automation system
- Installing Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi
- Preparing the SD card for Home Assistant installation
- Integrating the sensor data into Home Assistant
- Integrating the temperature sensor
- Integrating the motion sensor
- Enclosing, calibrating, and installing the sensor
- Enclosing our sensor
- Calibrating the sensor
- Installing the sensor
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Hacking a Commercial Actuator to Work with Home Assistant
- Technical requirements
- Understanding hacking a sensor or actuator
- How to choose a commercial sensor or actuator to be used with Tasmota
- Using tools and hacking the firmware of a commercial actuator