Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant: Configure, integrate, and manage hardware and software systems to automate your home

Picture a home where you can adjust the lighting based on the time of day or when movement is detected. In this same home, you can also detect when a door is unexpectedly opened or an alarm is triggered in response to any suspicious activity. Such automated devices form part of a smart home, and the exciting part is that this book teaches you how to create and manage these devices all by yourself.
This book helps you create your own ecosystem to automate your home using Home Assistant software. You’ll begin by understanding the components of a home automation system and learn how to create, hack, and configure them to operate seamlessly. Then, you'll set up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi to work as a home automation server, build your own IoT sensors based on ESP32/ESP8266, and set up real-life automation use cases using hands-on examples and projects. The chapters will also guide you in using software tools such as Node-RED, InfluxDB, and Grafana to manage, present, and use data collected from your Home Automation devices. Finally, you’ll gain insights into new technologies and trends in the home automation space to help you continue with your learning journey.
By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build your own creative, IoT-based home automation system using different hardware and software technologies.

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Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant: Configure, integrate, and manage hardware and software systems to automate your home

Picture a home where you can adjust the lighting based on the time of day or when movement is detected. In this same home, you can also detect when a door is unexpectedly opened or an alarm is triggered in response to any suspicious activity. Such automated devices form part of a smart home, and the exciting part is that this book teaches you how to create and manage these devices all by yourself.
This book helps you create your own ecosystem to automate your home using Home Assistant software. You’ll begin by understanding the components of a home automation system and learn how to create, hack, and configure them to operate seamlessly. Then, you'll set up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi to work as a home automation server, build your own IoT sensors based on ESP32/ESP8266, and set up real-life automation use cases using hands-on examples and projects. The chapters will also guide you in using software tools such as Node-RED, InfluxDB, and Grafana to manage, present, and use data collected from your Home Automation devices. Finally, you’ll gain insights into new technologies and trends in the home automation space to help you continue with your learning journey.
By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build your own creative, IoT-based home automation system using different hardware and software technologies.

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Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant: Configure, integrate, and manage hardware and software systems to automate your home

Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant: Configure, integrate, and manage hardware and software systems to automate your home

by Marco Carvalho
Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant: Configure, integrate, and manage hardware and software systems to automate your home

Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant: Configure, integrate, and manage hardware and software systems to automate your home

by Marco Carvalho

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Overview

Picture a home where you can adjust the lighting based on the time of day or when movement is detected. In this same home, you can also detect when a door is unexpectedly opened or an alarm is triggered in response to any suspicious activity. Such automated devices form part of a smart home, and the exciting part is that this book teaches you how to create and manage these devices all by yourself.
This book helps you create your own ecosystem to automate your home using Home Assistant software. You’ll begin by understanding the components of a home automation system and learn how to create, hack, and configure them to operate seamlessly. Then, you'll set up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi to work as a home automation server, build your own IoT sensors based on ESP32/ESP8266, and set up real-life automation use cases using hands-on examples and projects. The chapters will also guide you in using software tools such as Node-RED, InfluxDB, and Grafana to manage, present, and use data collected from your Home Automation devices. Finally, you’ll gain insights into new technologies and trends in the home automation space to help you continue with your learning journey.
By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build your own creative, IoT-based home automation system using different hardware and software technologies.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781801817257
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication date: 09/15/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 356
File size: 17 MB
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About the Author

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
  1. Understanding Home Automation Systems
  2. Getting Started with Home Assistant
  3. Hands-On Project 1 – Creating Your Own Sensor
  4. Hacking a Commercial Actuator to Work with Home Assistant
  5. Creating Automations Using Home Assistant
  6. Doing More Using Integrations and Customizations
  7. Extending Home Automation Capabilities Using Add-ons
  8. Installing and Setting Up Home Assistant Container
  9. Hands-On Project 2 – Creating an LED Strip Controller and Adding It to Home Assistant
  10. Hands-On Project 3 – Creating a Five-Zone Temperature Logger for Your Home
  11. The Road Ahead in Home Automation Technologies
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