Summary

In this chapter, we were exposed to different tools besides Home Assistant to create our second hands-on project, the five-zone temperature logger.

We started the chapter by understanding how the system architecture works. We configured the sensor hardware and software and then moved on to the home automation server, where we detailed how to parse the sensor data and send it to be stored in a database. Then, we did a proper configuration of the database so that the information could be stored correctly. Later, we learned how to configure a chart-based tool to create panels to display the temperature and humidity values from the sensors installed in different rooms at my home. We finished the chapter by showing you how to include the sensors information in Home Assistant by editing the configuration file. We had to do that as a workaround due to a deprecated feature in Home Assistant.

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