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Product type Book

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801815291

Pages 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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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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Learning about Home Assistant

In this section, the idea is to provide some background information about Home Assistant. This information will be useful in the next section when we talk more about the software installation.

Introduction and evolution

The Home Assistant is a software developed to be used as a home automation server. It was first released in 2013 and developed using the Python programming language by Paulus Schoutsen. It is free and open source software licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

In 2017, in order to ease the installation in some compacted devices, an operating system called Hass.io was introduced allowing users to manage, back up, update the local installation, and add some extra functionality by including add-ons. Also in 2017, an optional subscription service was introduced to address questions related to secured remote access and extend Home Assistant access to work with Amazon Alexa and Google Home Assistant. A company called Nabu Casa was created...