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What are add-ons in Home Assistant?

The content learned so far has shown that Home Assistant can handle most of the resources required to automate your home. The concept of add-ons was introduced to include more features to Home Assistant besides its main purpose. Add-ons are software applications that extend Home Assistant’s usability. They can be used as part of Home Assistant's functionality or work totally independent to it. We already briefly covered the installation of some add-on software such as the Mosquitto MQTT broker in Chapter 1 and File editor in Chapter 5. All the add-on software provided by Home Assistant is free to use.

Add-ons can be installed in the same way by following the Settings | Add-ons path and then clicking on the ADD-ON Store button in the bottom-right corner of the screen. They are split into two categories – Official add-ons and Home Assistant Community Add-ons. The official add-ons are maintained by the Home Assistant team while...

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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801815291

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Marco Carvalho

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.
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