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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

Extending Home Automation Capabilities Using Add-ons

This chapter will present the main add-ons that can be installed with Home Assistant and that I currently use in my home. These add-ons are software applications that will extend the capabilities of Home Assistant, allowing you to go beyond it with the ability to program, present, and store data generated by your home automation system.

The following main topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • What are add-ons in Home Assistant?
  • Performing automations without Home Assistant using Node-RED
  • Using database and chart tools to present data from your home
  • Managing your network of Tasmota devices using TasmoAdmin
  • Accessing Home Assistant remotely

By the end of this chapter, besides Home Assistant, you will know and be able to evaluate the applications for use in your next project for home automation.

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