You're reading from Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant Configure, integrate, and manage hardware and software systems to automate your home

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801815291

Length 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

ESP32

Concepts

Home Automation

Author (1):

Marco Antonio Santuci Carvalho

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Home Assistant – Installation and Configuration

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Home Automation Systems FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Home Assistant

4. Part 2: Install, Create, and Hack Sensors and Actuators

5. Chapter 3: Hands-On Project 1 – Creating Your Own Sensor

6. Chapter 4: Hacking a Commercial Actuator to Work with Home Assistant

7. Part 3: Automations, Customizations, and Integrations Using Home Assistant

8. Chapter 5: Creating Automations Using Home Assistant

9. Chapter 6: Doing More Using Integrations and Customizations

10. Part 4: Expanding Home Assistant’s Capabilities

11. Chapter 7: Extending Home Automation Capabilities Using Add-ons

12. Chapter 8: Installing and Setting Up Home Assistant Container

13. Part 5: Learn by Doing and Future Trends

14. Chapter 9: Hands-On Project 2 – Creating an LED Strip Controller and Adding It to Home Assistant

15. Chapter 10: Hands-On Project 3 – Creating a Five-Zone Temperature Logger for Your Home

16. Chapter 11: The Road Ahead in Home Automation Technologies

17. Index

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Summary

In this chapter, we learned what add-ons are and how they can be used to support the automation of your home. You know understand more about the installation and utilization of the main add-ons that I use in my home.

We learned about Node-RED, a new tool to create automations. InfluxDB and Grafana were discussed, and examples were given so that you could verify how data is stored and monitored using these two tools.

A very important tool to manage your Tasmota devices was introduced, TasmoAdmin, and you saw what it can do.

Finally, we enabled Home Assistant to be accessed remotely by using the Duck DNS add-on.

This chapter gave you an overview of the add-ons available and introduced you to new tools and software so that you can go beyond what Home Assistant offers.

In the next chapter, we will explore another type of Home Assistant installation, showing you additional ways to use more resources of your hardware and software besides using Home Assistant.

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