You're reading from Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant

Product type Book

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801815291

Pages 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Concepts

IoT Development

Author (1):

Marco Carvalho

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Home Assistant – Installation and Configuration

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Home Automation Systems

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

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Understanding Tasmota and how to install it in our sensor

In this section, we will learn what Tasmota is and how to install it in our sensor.

What is Tasmota?

As this book’s main intention is to build a home automation system using Home Assistant, we will not spend time developing a piece of software to handle the sensor’s data. The key secret to easily building your system is to know how to integrate and configure the different parts of it, including the sensor. I learned this lesson after spending a long time learning how to program the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module. After learning how to make basic software programs using tutorials on the internet, I discovered Tasmota (https://tasmota.github.io/). I found Tasmota to be a very useful software tool with plenty of resources for integrating different kinds of sensors and actuators. It can not just be used with Home Assistant but also with other IoT types of ecosystems. I hope you can also enjoy this software.

Tasmota...