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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

Installation of IOTstack

In this section, we will cover how to install IOTstack. As mentioned in the last section, IOTstack runs on Raspberry Pi OS. So, you have to install the Raspberry Pi OS prior to installing IOTstack. I will not explain how to install the Raspberry Pi OS since it is very well covered on the internet; you can find installation instructions by visiting this link: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software. You have to do some basic configuration to use the system, such as setting up your cable or wireless network. The next procedure will assume you have internet access in your Raspberry Pi.

If you already have the Raspberry Pi OS installed, you will need to make sure you have the latest software version. You can do that by running the following commands on the Raspberry Pi terminal console:

  1. Update the list of repository packages using the Advance Package Tool (APT) command:
    sudo apt update
  2. When the preceding command is done, run the update command to get...
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