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Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant

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
Author (1):
Marco Carvalho Marco Carvalho
Profile icon 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 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating an automation using the LED strip controller

As mentioned, the advantage of having the LED strip controller integrated into Home Assistant is being able to use the WLED integration entities in coordination with other parameters to create an automation.

In the case of our LED strip controller, we will need to consider what we can associate to use the two playlists created for the Halloween and Christmas seasons. The first thing we can associate is daytime. We only need the LED strip controller to be turned on at night and not the entire night – maybe until midnight or for four hours after sunset. So I decided that we need both playlists to be executed after sunset for 4 hours. The second factor to associate and distinguish between the two playlists is the time of the year. The Halloween playlist should be executed in October (or month number 10) and the Christmas playlist should be executed in December (or month number 12). In summary, the automation to be created...

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