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Home Assistant
Open Source Home Automation Platform for IoT (Internet of Things) & more
The guide shows you how to install and configure Home Assistant using real life examples. Lot of images and detailed instructions.
Real life example full setup using Owntracks App!
Included:
* Setup of Owntracks (Iphone, Ipad, Android), track the location of devices and shows them on a map.
* Using Owntracks for location based events and alerting
* Using weather, temperature or sun position based events
* Using the MQTT compomponent
* Debugging with MQTT.fx
* Alerting using SMTP and XMPP
* Customize and secure Home Assistant’s web interface
* Scenes, scripts, sensors and shell commands
Easy understandable for beginners, helpful for professionals.
Easy maintainable – Scalable – Saves you money
Introduction to IoT
IoT (Internet of Things) short info
The Internet of Things (IoT) will massive change the world of IT professionals. Machine-to-machine communication, home automation and other new ways of communication or management will deeply move into the business and private world.
Customers wants to switch heating on or off from their smartphone in the same way as they want to control home or office lights, doors, cams and even the fridge. Not enough, they want the lights go on the time they arrive at home, wants to see the location of family members or business staff on maps and far more.
Machines will communicate with machines to securely drive without a human, order missing food in your home and alert in case of emergency.
Developer, designers and managers already have $ signs in their eyes every time thinking about the M2M (machine-to-machine) market.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Table of Contents
Legal Notes
Introduction to IoT
IoT (Internet of Things) short info 8
Firewall Setup (Optional)
Description of firewall ports 10
Setup of this guide – Our Goal
MQTT network setup 11
Home Assistant setup 12
Install Home Assistant
Install Python 3 14
Install the software 14
Start the software 14
First configuration steps
Prepare the needed SSL certificates 16
We will need the following certificates 16
Configure Home Assistant 17
The YAML Syntax 17
Configuration.yaml 18
Start/Stop Script 18
FreeBSD Start/Stop Script 19
Connect to the web interface 20
Detailed Setup
Copy & paste config files 22
Prepare include files 22
configuration.yaml full setup 22
include_automation.yaml full setup 26
include_customize.yaml full setup 29
include_group.yaml full setup 30
include_notify.yaml full setup 31
include_scene.yaml full setup 33
include_script.yaml full setup 34
include_sensor.yaml full setup 34
include_shell_command.yaml full setup 35
Testing MQTT Setup with MQTT.fx
Introducion to MQTT.fx 37
Black Server(MQTT.FX connection settings) 38
White Server(MQTT.FX connection settings) 39
MQTT.FX tabs 39
Log 39
Broker Status 39
Scripts 40
Subscribe 40
Publish 41
A real life example using Owntracks
Prepare Owntracks setup 44
Install Owntracks on your smartphone 44
More Features
About The Author
Other Books By (Author)
Link List for this e-book
Home Assistant project page 53
Home Assistant available icons 53
Mosquitto project page 53
MQTT.fx project page 53
MQTT.fx download page 53
Authors e-book about MQTT using Mosquitto 53
Authors e-book about SSL Certificates 54
Authors e-book about Openfire 54
MQTT project page 54
Owntracks Project Page 54
FreeBSD Project Page 54
Description of the XMPP protocol 54
Python project page 54
Can I Ask A Favour?
Karl M. Joch is founder of CTS GMBH with more than 30 years experience in national and international projects. He worked in over 15 countries.
ASIN : B01MYAPVWB
Publisher : CTS GMBH; 201701st edition (January 20, 2017)
Publication date : January 20, 2017
Language : English
File size : 1867 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 96 pages
