Summary
In this chapter, we started the journey to create a home automation system using Home Assistant. We learned more about the Home Assistant software by reviewing its history, development purposes, availability, and resources. We prepared an SD card and installed Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi. We learned how to navigate the Home Assistant menus, submenus, and tabs and identified where to find different options available for configuring the system. Talking about configuration, we learned how to configure the basics of the system to prepare it to integrate the first sensors and actuators.
This chapter also gave you an idea about YAML and how to use it to do some configurations in Home Assistant.
Your home automation system now has the first component: the home automation server.
In Chapters 3 and 4, you will learn how to create your own sensor and hack a commercial actuator to be used with Home Assistant. Let’s continue the journey and add more devices to your...
