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Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant

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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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Author (1):
Marco Carvalho Marco Carvalho
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Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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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

Installing the LED strip controller in your home

As you will have noticed from Figure 9.3 and the Ch9-1 and Ch9-2 videos, I installed the LED strip controller project at the front of my house as a decorative light for Halloween and Christmas. I found a perfect spot for the installation that perfectly fits my entire LED strip and with the possibility of attaching some hooks to it so I can easily remove the LED strip. I used some type of carton paper and put hot glue to attach it to the house. You can see one hook attached to the LED strip in Figure 9.23.

Figure 9.23 – LED strip installation

Figure 9.23 – LED strip installation

On the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module side, I have to make sure to install it to somehow protect it from rain and any type of severe weather. I always keep glasses cases so I can use them in small projects like this. They are usually made of plastic, so it is quite easy to make holes and manipulate them. I made three holes in the glasses case – two to install a cable...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Marco Carvalho
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Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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