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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

Customizing your dashboards

In this section, we will explore one of the most fun activities in this book, which is to customize some dashboards in Home Assistant. The dashboards will be where you will interface with your home, controlling actuators and verifying the status of the sensors, so this will need to be somewhat easy for you to access and manage. The views will be where you can see the cards and badges.

I will provide you with three main approaches to configuring your dashboards with different cards so that you can have an overview of the possibilities that can be used to interface with your home. These approaches are as follows:

  • By home dependencies: The by home dependencies dashboard approach will group devices and entities based on the dependencies of my home. Currently, I have eight dependencies with devices installed, so we will explore different cards that can better be reshown by this configuration.
  • By device type: The by device type dashboard approach...
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