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Marco Carvalho
Marco Carvalho
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Marco Carvalho

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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Configuring the IOTstack

We will have to do some configurations to put IOTstack to work as a Home Automation Stack. The following configurations will be required:

  • Raspberry Pi static IP configuration
  • Accessing and configuring the container software applications
  • MQTT server configuration in Tasmota devices
  • Configuring Home Assistant in IOTstack

We will discuss each of them in the next subsections.

Raspberry Pi static IP configuration

The first configuration we will have to do to run the Home Automation Stack properly is to set up a static IP in Raspberry Pi. We will see that making the IP static on Raspberry Pi will help with accessing the software applications and also configuring the MQTT server address for sensors and actuators. To configure the static IP, you have to execute the following steps:

  1. Open a terminal console in your Raspberry Pi and find the IP address of your router by using the following command and hitting Enter:
    ip r | grep...
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Marco Carvalho

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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