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

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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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Expanding the Home Assistant automation capabilities

Home Assistant offers more resources to automate your home. If you don’t have many ideas about what to do to automate your home, you can use a pre-formatted automation or import one. You can also create a pre-formatted automation and share it to be used in your home or by the development community. You can use scripts that will help you to execute coordinated actions, increasing the power of your automation. Your automation can be structured by creating scenes that can manage specific areas of your home. We will discuss these options in the next subsections.

Using and creating pre-formatted automations (blueprints)

In the previous sections, we learned how to create our own automations from scratch using the Home Assistant automation editor. You can also use the pre-formatted automations available in Home Assistant or import them. These pre-formatted automations are known as blueprints. If you think your automation can...