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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

Integrating the LED strip controller into Home Assistant

The WLED integration with Home Assistant is simple. After you execute the steps from the previous section, open the command palette using the C hotkey, type integrations, and select it (or use Settings | Devices & Services), as can be seen in Figure 9.13.

Figure 9.13 – Integrations configuration from the C hotkey

Figure 9.13 – Integrations configuration from the C hotkey

You will see the WLED integration ready to be configured as presented in Figure 9.14.

Figure 9.14 – WLED final configuration screen in Home Assistant

Figure 9.14 – WLED final configuration screen in Home Assistant

Click on the CONFIGURE button to configure the WLED integration within Home Assistant. A pop-up window will be presented asking you if you want to add the WLED to Home Assistant. Click on the SUBMIT button. The screen presented in Figure 9.15 will ask you to assign the WLED to an area. We will leave it blank for now and click on the FINISH button.

Figure 9.15 – WLED final configuration screen in Home Assistant

Figure 9.15 –...

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