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

Concepts

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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Exploring a Home Assistant installation

In this section, we will explore the Home Assistant installation performed in the last sections by explaining the screen and menu disposal and then navigating through the menus explaining notable features, system functions, and options. This will help you to understand how Home Assistant is organized and where to find the resources and features to be used and configured.

Home Assistant default screen and menu disposition

If you just configured the system and are following this book sequence, you will not need to proceed with the initial login to the system. It will automatically access the system.

If you have not logged in to the system yet, logged out, or are logging in from your tablet or cell phone for the first time, you will need to fill in some information to initiate Home Assistant. The login process is straightforward: just input your username and password in the fields provided when accessing the http://homeassistant.local:8123...