Home assistant
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The document discusses Home Assistant, an open-source home automation software. It describes how the speaker installed Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi to centrally control devices in their home like lights, switches, cameras and heating. They configured Home Assistant with various components and sensors to automate functions and get readings from devices connected over their local network. The speaker highlights some issues with state verification times and lack of phone/tablet apps but enjoys using Home Assistant to control their smart home setup.
Home assistant
- 2. Who am I? ● Chief System Architect of ● I teach Network Security and Linux System Administration
- 3. ● Why am I talking about home-assistant.io ?
- 4. ● DEMO
- 5. ● I was showing off my interface upgrades in the office
- 9. ● Told me about a software he had been using at home, that: – connects all of his switches – connects all of his video cameras – have motion detection – have vacation mode – have modules for everything he uses
- 10. ● I was like... – OK I have interface for my lighting and heating – I have ZoneMinder for video.. – I DON'T have a nice interface... and my phone experience was NON-EXISTENT ● So I MUST check this out :)
- 11. ● Welcome to Home Assistant:
- 14. Installation Install Hassbian on your Rapsberry Pi 3 Install Home Assistant in your home directory
- 15. home folder setup $ pip3 install homeassistant $ hass --open-ui ● Home Assistent runs in Python VirtualEnv
- 16. Hassbian http://hassbian.local:8123/ /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/ configuration.yaml YUP its YAML configuration file
- 17. homeassistant: # Name of the location where Home Assistant is running name: Sara # Location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets latitude: 00.00 longitude: 00.00 # Impacts weather/sunrise data (altitude above sea level in meters) elevation: 542 # metric for Metric, imperial for Imperial unit_system: metric time_zone: Europe/Sofia frontend: http: updater: discovery: # Enables support for tracking state changes over time. history: logbook:
- 18. Let me show you MY additional configuration :)
- 19. # Track the sun sun: sensor: # Weather Prediction - platform: yr # house temperatures - platform: command_line name: Kitchen temp command: curl -s http://10.2.2.195/arduino/digital/8 2>&1|awk '{gsub(/C/,"",$2);print $2}' unit_of_measurement: "°C" # Text to speech tts: platform: google light: - platform: lifx broadcast: 10.2.2.255 media_player: - platform: kodi name: Bedroom host: 10.2.2.245 - platform: kodi name: Livingroom host: 10.2.2.246
- 20. switch: platform: command_line switches: kitchen_light: friendly_name: Kitchen command_on: curl http://10.2.2.177/1/2 command_off: curl http://10.2.2.177/1/2 kitchen_table: friendly_name: Kitchen table command_on: curl http://10.2.2.177/2/2 command_off: curl http://10.2.2.177/2/2 livingroom_walls: friendly_name: Livingroom walls command_on: curl http://10.2.2.177/3/2 command_off: curl http://10.2.2.177/3/2 livingroom_table: friendly_name: Livingroom table command_on: curl http://10.2.2.177/4/2 command_off: curl http://10.2.2.177/4/2 stairs: friendly_name: Stairs command_on: curl http://10.2.2.177/5/2 command_off: curl http://10.2.2.177/5/2
- 21. heating: friendly_name: Heating command_on: curl http://10.2.2.195/arduino/digital/7/0 command_off: curl http://10.2.2.195/arduino/digital/7/1 command_state: curl -q http://10.2.2.195/arduino/digital/7 | grep -q on underfloor_pump: friendly_name: Heating underfloor pump command_on: curl http://10.2.2.195/arduino/digital/6/0 command_off: curl http://10.2.2.195/arduino/digital/6/1 command_state: curl -q http://10.2.2.195/arduino/digital/6 | grep -q on
- 22. Management ● systemd shit... – when restarted via the web interface, with broken config, systemd does not detect that :( ● some helpful commands: – systemctl reset-failed home- [email protected] – systemctl stop [email protected] – systemctl start [email protected]
- 23. Management - via web
- 24. Management - via web
- 25. Management - via web
- 26. ● Grouping switches and/or lights ● Triggering actions, based on sensors ● Scheduling actions
- 27. Problems ● Almost everything requires a state – the state takes too much time to be verified(if at all possible) ● There is no button functionality ● The kodi component has extremely basic functionality ● Broken configuration crashes the hass daemon ● No native app for phone or tablet
- 28. ● I'm currently – adding powered window blinds – moving the video cameras to HA – adding more temperature sensors – adding the water heating controls
- 29. Thank yoU!