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Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801815291
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Antonio Santuci Carvalho Marco Antonio Santuci Carvalho
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we covered a very helpful topic, which is how you can create backups for Home Assistant using the Home Assistant operating system installation.

After learning how to do backups, we guided you through how to explore a new type of Home Assistant installation, which is the Home Assistant Container. We did that by using a pre-formatted installation tool called IOTStack. IOTStack is an open source project that not only includes Home Assistant Container installation but also many other types of software that can be used with IoT devices. In our case, it was used to install software to handle Home Automation applications.

We understood how the IOTStack architecture is configured, how to install container applications, and how to configure, use, and manage them.

In the next chapter, we will cover another hands-on project, which is a fun idea to support you during the festive holiday season. I hope you enjoy it!

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