Summary

In this chapter, we briefly reviewed the history of home automation systems and how they have evolved. I took you through some practical examples based on my experience with home automation.

We also looked at some key benefits of having a home automation system.

We learned about the components of a home automation system and how they are interconnected. The role of each component was explained in some detail.

Then we explored a real example of a home automation system by evaluating how its components are configured and distributed.

I also provided some insights into the materials and costs associated with building my own home automation system.

In the next chapter, we will start to build our home automation system by creating a home automation server using a Raspberry Pi 4 as the base hardware and Home Assistant as the main software. We will also get our first exposure to Home Assistant by learning more about its main features and its basic configuration.