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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Configuring the IOTstack

We will have to do some configurations to put IOTstack to work as a Home Automation Stack. The following configurations will be required:

Raspberry Pi static IP configuration
Accessing and configuring the container software applications
MQTT server configuration in Tasmota devices
Configuring Home Assistant in IOTstack

We will discuss each of them in the next subsections.

Raspberry Pi static IP configuration

The first configuration we will have to do to run the Home Automation Stack properly is to set up a static IP in Raspberry Pi. We will see that making the IP static on Raspberry Pi will help with accessing the software applications and also configuring the MQTT server address for sensors and actuators. To configure the static IP, you have to execute the following steps:

Open a terminal console in your Raspberry Pi and find the IP address of your router by using the following command and hitting Enter:
```
ip r | grep...
```