7: Why We Love Home Assistant
12/05/19 • 36 min
Home Assistant has changed our families' lives for the better. We share tips for getting started, implementing automation, devices we use, and our favorite integrations.
Plus Alex's thoughts on automating his new LG TV and be sure to check the links!
Links:
- Hard Drive Sales Telegram Group
- Nabu Casa — No longer worry if you left the garage door open. Quickly access your Home Assistant instance from your phone, your favorite coffeeshop or at work. All data is fully encrypted between your device and your Home Assistant instance. No snooping
- Home Assistant Cloud
- Chris' Z-Wave USB Dongle — Z-Wave Plus certified for wide compatibility
- Chris' White Noise Makers — The Original White Noise Machine - Marpac Dohm
- Chris' Fav sensor: Aeotec Multisensor 6 — Z-Wave Plus 6-in1 motion, temperature, humidity, light, UV, vibration sensor
- Chris' Outdoor Z-Wave Power Plugs — GE Enbrighten Z-Wave Plus Smart Plug, 1 On/Off Outlet, Weather-Resistant, Built-in Repeater/Range Extender
- 500-Watt Ceramic Small Space Personal Mini Heater — Compact personal space heater design that is small enough for tables or desktops
- Chris' Portable Oil-Filled Radiator — 1200 watts of heating power, silent operation, Best for small to medium rooms that need constant heat in the colder seasons.
- TP-Link Smart Plug two Pack — Smart WiFi Plug Mini by TP-Link
- Home Assistant Integrations Directory
- Alex's Fav Smart Plug — Teckin Mini Smart Socket with Schedule and Timer Function
- Smart RGB LED strips with Home Assistant — This article will detail how to build a fully open source, 3D printable smart LED strip for $16.38.
- Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker — The MQTT protocol provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for Internet of Things messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers.
- Complete guide on setting up Grafana/InfluxDB with Home Assistant
Home Assistant has changed our families' lives for the better. We share tips for getting started, implementing automation, devices we use, and our favorite integrations.
Plus Alex's thoughts on automating his new LG TV and be sure to check the links!
Links:
- Hard Drive Sales Telegram Group
- Nabu Casa — No longer worry if you left the garage door open. Quickly access your Home Assistant instance from your phone, your favorite coffeeshop or at work. All data is fully encrypted between your device and your Home Assistant instance. No snooping
- Home Assistant Cloud
- Chris' Z-Wave USB Dongle — Z-Wave Plus certified for wide compatibility
- Chris' White Noise Makers — The Original White Noise Machine - Marpac Dohm
- Chris' Fav sensor: Aeotec Multisensor 6 — Z-Wave Plus 6-in1 motion, temperature, humidity, light, UV, vibration sensor
- Chris' Outdoor Z-Wave Power Plugs — GE Enbrighten Z-Wave Plus Smart Plug, 1 On/Off Outlet, Weather-Resistant, Built-in Repeater/Range Extender
- 500-Watt Ceramic Small Space Personal Mini Heater — Compact personal space heater design that is small enough for tables or desktops
- Chris' Portable Oil-Filled Radiator — 1200 watts of heating power, silent operation, Best for small to medium rooms that need constant heat in the colder seasons.
- TP-Link Smart Plug two Pack — Smart WiFi Plug Mini by TP-Link
- Home Assistant Integrations Directory
- Alex's Fav Smart Plug — Teckin Mini Smart Socket with Schedule and Timer Function
- Smart RGB LED strips with Home Assistant — This article will detail how to build a fully open source, 3D printable smart LED strip for $16.38.
- Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker — The MQTT protocol provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for Internet of Things messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers.
- Complete guide on setting up Grafana/InfluxDB with Home Assistant
Previous Episode
6: Low Cost Home Camera System
Chris follows up on his Shinobi troubles and extols the virtues of $25 Wyze Cams to Alex, who has some exciting house news to share.
Links:
- Wyze Cam | 1080p HD Smart Home Camera With Free AWS Cloud
- Wyze Cam RTSP – Wyze
- Shinobi Official Documentation - Get Started
- Shinobi Official Documentation - Motion Detection
- Shinobi Articles - How to use Motion Detection
- Shinobi Articles - How I optimized my RTSP camera
- Nest camera hacked: Hacker spoke to baby
- You should not run your mail server because mail is hard — In this article, I will voluntarily use the term mail because it is vague enough to encompass protocols and software. This is not a very technical article and I don’t want to dive into protocols, I want people who have never worked with mail to understand all of it.
- 12tb Easystore drive for $179.99
Next Episode
8: WLED Changes the Game
Sometimes one project can lead to a hundred more. We celebrate Home Assistant's new release, the inclusion of the WLED integration and fall down the DIY project rabbit hole.
Plus some clever power solutions, cheap LED light strips, and a test drive of Project Off-Grid.
We recorded our first ever live stream to accompany this where we flash an ESP8266 board in seconds using WLED and esptool. This can be found on YouTube.
Links:
- Hass.io - Home Assistant — Hass.io turns your Raspberry Pi (or another device) into the ultimate home automation hub powered by Home Assistant. With Hass.io you can focus on integrating your devices and writing automations.
- Home Assistant Community Store — HACS gives you a powerful UI to handle downloads of custom needs.
- Omni 20c+ 100W USB-C/Wireless Charging — Portable Power Bank with USB Hub
- ESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
- Home Assistant Smart LEDs using WLED and ESP8266 — A platinum level Home Assistant integration for the WLED project was released with version 0.120 on Nov 20th 2019. I'm going to walk you through flashing a D1 Mini (though the same steps apply for a NodeMCU too) using Linux. You can probably expect this process to take about 5-10 minutes.
- WLED: Control WS2812B RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 over WiFi! — A fast and feature-rich implementation of an ESP8266/ESP32 webserver to control NeoPixel (WS2812B, WS2811, SK6812, APA102) LEDs!
- LED strips - Google Sheets
- 0.102: Official Android App, Almond, Scene editor
- Self-Hosted Live Hack Livestream Recording — DIY ESP device based LEDs just got a whole lot easier.
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