This is the code repository for Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant, published by Packt.
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 exciting part is that this book teaches you how to create and manage these devices all by yourself. This book helps you create your own ecosystem to automate your home using Home Assistant software. You’ll begin by understanding the components of a home automation system and learn how to create, hack, and configure them to operate seamlessly. Then, you'll set up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi to work as a home automation server, build your own IoT sensors based on ESP32/ESP8266, and set up real-life automation use cases using hands-on examples and projects.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Understand the fundamental concepts of home automation systems
- Set up a home automation system using Home Assistant and Raspberry Pi
- Create and configure ESP8266-based sensors to work with Home Assistant
- Hack a commercial actuator to work with Home Assistant using Tasmota
- Create automations, customize, and use applications with Home Assistant
- Leverage IoT software tools to take your home automation to the next level
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter08.
The code will look like the following:
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt clean
sudo reboot
sudo apt install -y curl
Following is what you need for this book: The book is for engineers, developers, students, makers, and enthusiasts who’re working on or interested in working with electronics and IoT devices, embedded systems, systems integration, computer software, and coding to develop their own smart home automation systems. Technicians, teachers, and other professionals who want to learn home automation–related technologies will also find this book useful. Prior experience of working with Raspberry Pi, creating hardware prototypes, and software programming will be beneficial.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-11).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1-11 | Raspberry Pi 4, ESP8266, ESP32, Home Assistant, Node-RED, InfluxDB | Windows, Raspberry Pi OS, Home Assistant Operating System(HAOS) and Linux (Any) |
| 1-11 | Grafana, TasmoAdmin, Duck DNS, Tasmota, WLED | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
Marco Carvalho He is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.