My Current Home Assistant Setup
If you are looking to get into Home Automation, you should definitely check out http://home-assistant.io.
I originally started with Smarrthings as my main hub and then installed Home Assistant on an old Dell Optiplex I had laying around running Ubuntu. And I haven’t looked back. I eventually wanted something a little more compact, so I recently moved to a RaspberryPi running Hassbian. If you are interested in the journey I wrote about it here.
I’m still in the interate-almost-every-day stage (does that stage end??), but I really like what I have so far. A lot of what I built was inspired by what other people are doing, so in keeping with that philosophy and to pay it forward here is what I currently have setup.
My Current Setup:
- RaspberryPi 3 running Hassbian (version 1.1)
- Mosquitto for various sensors and services
- Smartthings to MQTT Bridge for connecting Smartthings hub to Home Assistant
- HTTP To MQTT for IFTTT and script integration. I used a custom version you can find here
- Home Bridge for iOS HomeKit integration
- Smartthings Hub used as hub for switches and bulbs
- Presence via iPhones (iCloud and Home Assistant App) and Asus Router
Devices:
- Honeywell Wifi Thermostat
- Amazon Echo Dot
- GE Z-Wave Switches
- Aeon Energy Switches
- First Alert Z-Wave Smoke/CO2
- GoControl Z-Wave Bulbs
- Cree Connect Bulbs
- Foscam FI8918W
- ASUS RT-N66U
- GoControl Z-Wave Garage Door Opener
- AppleTv
- ChromeCast
App Integrations:
- Amazon Echo Skill
- IFTTT
- Google Maps (For Traffic and Travel Time)
Automations:
- Location Awareness — Things like close the garage if everyone has left and the garage is still open.
- Sunset — Turn on outside lights.
- Time Based — Dim Lights to use as night lights at 10pm.
- Sunrise — Turn off all outside lights.
- Security — Like turn on all lights if smoke is detected.
There is a lot on my todo list, and I seem to add stuff constantly. So many cool things in the Home Automation space these days.
My current Home Assistant configs are maintained at https://github.com/thejeffreystone/home-assistant-configuration. Feel free to use any part. As I mentioned I was inspired by quite a few of the configs linked to from http://home-assistant.io and some found via Google. But most of my inspiration and a lot of what I have learned has originated from http://www.bruhautomation.com. Ben has a great youtube channel, but be warned. His videos will make you want to automate stuff.
