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This instuctable was written as part of an assignment for the HAN University
of Applied Sciences.

Nowadays more and more devices in our homes become smart. Lights,
switches, vacuums, basically everything electric. Only alle these devices are
either made by different companies, all using different apps and servers. Or
the devices are too expensive for the average user, while they could be easily
made by yourself.

If only we could combine all these devices from different manufacturers, and
also add our own DIY devices… oh wait we can:

Introducing Home Assistant.

Home assistant is an open source, self-hosted software package that runs on

many different platforms, giving you control over all supported smart home
devices at one place, giving you the option to combine multiple different IOT
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Want a text to speech message at 1 pm telling you your favourite cactus

needs more water? Done.

Combining your expensive security camera’s with a cheap wireless camera or

a usb webcam into 1 interface. Done.

The options with home assistant are unlimited, and most products don’t
even require any scary coding. They do however require some configuration.

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Step 1: Installing Home Assistant

Installing home assistant (Hassio) tends to change a bit through the years.
This guide will therefore not explain the full process, it will only point you in
the right directions.

Before going any further it’s wise to read through the official installation
guide from Hassio so you can get a better idea of the possible platforms from
which to choose:

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Installing Hassio can be pretty simple, or pretty hard, depending on which

platform you choose. For most people the choice lies between using either a
raspberry pi (3b+ or 4) or an old laptop . There are also options to install
Hassio on an capable nas or regular daily driver pc, but I won’t cover those
there. Luckily the guys as Home Assistant got you covered and all
information can be found on their respective installation pages.

Keep in mind that home assistant has an excellent backup and transfer
system built in. This means that in case your chosen platform wasn’t as great
as you thought, transferring it to another system only takes a few minutes,
installation not considered.

Choice 1: Raspberry pi flavour (Beginners, non-Linux users)

For beginners and people not familiar with Linux the best way to start with
Home assistant is going with a raspberry pi.

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Simply follow the instructions under “Install home assistant operating

system” and you’re good to go.

Some things to keep in mind:

While the Pi is an excellent starting point, it isn’t exactly a solid solution for all
users over a long time (2+ years). In my experience once your installation
starts to grow as you add more and more devices and services, the pi simply
can’t keep up anymore. Added to the fact that SD cards only have so many
read/write cycles which can run out fast with a setup running 24/7, replacing
the pi with a more robust solution is a must once you’ll get the hang of it.

For the users that only connected a few lights and sensors and aren’t
planning on going large there is also the option to switch out the SD card for
a USB hard drive or SSD as explained over at Tomshardware:
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Choice 2: PC master race (advanced)

A better but more advanced solution is using an old desktop or laptop as

your main system. It can also give a new purpose to your old PC collecting
dust in the corner.

Installing Hassio on a PC however requires some skills and some knowledge

of Linux and its terminal. While installing on windows or MacOS is also
possible, it either uses an inefficient virtual machine running Linux, or the
windows subsystem for Linux.

There are multiple ways to install Hassio on a PC, I however advise to use the
supervised version. While the installation might be a bit harder, it makes
usage later a lot easier as you don’t need to mess with linux settings or
docker containers and get the same exact experience of a raspberry pi
installation with the added benefit of more computing power and storage.

Requirements:

The requirements for this type of installation are a bit more vague, and also
depend on the usage. I suggest a machine with at least:

· Dual-core CPU

· 4 Gb of DDR3 RAM
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An added benefit of installing on a PC is that changing the system is as easy

as swapping the drive.

Once again the installation guide is provided by the Hassio crew at:

https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer

Some things to keep in mind:

In my experience the supervised installation is all you’ll need for Hassio,

without the hassle of using the linux system itself later on. It does however
require some occasional maintenance and updating.

An added benefit of going the PC way it that you can use it for other things
too. As the supervised installation uses docker at its base, you can also install
other docker containers (as long as the system can keep up with the
combined load). I myself have also installed a Plex server on the system for all
my stored movies and series. And before you wonder, yes you can add plex
too as a sensor in Hassio.

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If the installation went successful you’ll now see a pretty interface at either
homeassistant.local:8123 or http://(ip_address_of_device):8123. Follow the
instructions on screen and create a login account, give your installation a
name and select your location on the map. Skip adding devices for now, as
we can do that later. If everything went well you’ll now see the main page.
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configuration.yaml file. This can be found somewhere on the server, but its
easier to add a file editor straight to the dashboard.

Click on the configuration menu(gear icon). This will bring you to the menu.
Select Add-ons, Backups & supervisor. Now click the bottom right “add-on
store” button. This will give you a list of available add-ons. I definitely advise
you to take a look at all the add-ons later on, as explaining them all here will
take days.

To edit the configuration.yaml there are 2 choices of software, the more

simple “file editor” addon and the “studio code server” addon. Both are
perfectly capable of editing files, only the studio code server uses visual
studio code as its base giving it a clearer interface, but comes at the cost of
performance as its quite heavy to run (especially on the pi 4, and it not
supported by the pi 3).

For now the file editor addon will do just fine, so install it by clicking on it and
pressing install.

After installation make sure both start on boot and show in sidebar are
turned on.

To edit the configuration.yaml simply press on the wrench addon on the left
bar, click the map in the top left and select the configuration.yaml

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To make controlling your devices from the interface easy, you can add cards
to your dashboard. This can be done by pressing the 3 dots on the top left of
your main menu -> Edit Dashboard. Now Press the "Add card" button in the
bottom left corner. This will present you with all different card options (Note:
every card can only work with certain entities). for now select the "Entities"
card. Under "Entities (Required)" you can select the desired entities. Press
save after you're done! The card will automatically turn it into a switch or a
state if needed

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Nowadays more and more devices use the ZigBee protocol. It works
somewhat like Wi-Fi, with multiple devices talking to a central receiver, only
the devices can also relay each other’s signals. This means devices can be way
out of reach of the main receiver, as long as there are devices in between.

Zigbee is also built around power efficiency, battery powered devices can
run for months of a single battery, transmitting only when needed.

Setting up the network

To use ZigBee with your home assistant network, you’ll need a receiver. This
can be either an USB-stick connected to your server, or a standalone device
connected to Wi-Fi.

On https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/ (https://www.home-
assistant.io/integrations/zha/) you’ll find a list of supported devices for the
ZigBee integration. Choosing the right receiver is a bit of a personal choice.
The USB-sticks can be easily set up and require no modifications, but are
expensive and their location is dependant on the Hassio servers location. The
standalone devices often require more setting up (some need to be opened
up and reflashed), but are cheaper and can be placed wherever there is
power and wifi.

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menu.

Adding a ZigBee device

If you decided to use zigbee in your home assistant setup I highly advise you
to buy some ZigBee Sonoff motion and temperature/humidity sensors, as
they can be very useful later in automation, and are very cheap and small.

SNZB-02 Temperature and Humidity sensor (€9,27)

SNZB-03 Motion sensor (€10,36)

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To add a new ZigBee device click the configuration button in the integration
menu, then click ‘Add device’ in the bottom left.

Put the device you like to add in pairing mode (this depends on the
manufacturer), For the Sonoff devices this can be done by removing the
battery isolation strip, reinserting the battery, and holding the reset button
for 5 seconds till a red led starts flashing. After a few seconds a new device
should appear on screen and the devices is added to your system. In the
popup you can also assign a room and change the name of the devices.

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Another way to control your smart home devices is by using RFLink. You
already might know devices that use this communication protocol, mostly as
433/868MHz transmitters/receivers like KlikAanKlikUit or those generic
remote controlled power sockets.

These too can be controlled by Home Assistant (with the right equipment),
and you’ll probably already have some in your house right now. And its not
only the sockets that can be used, the remote too can be connected to Home
Assistant to be used for all kind of useful things.

Getting it running

To send and receive RFLink commands you’ll need a transmitter. This will be
achieved by uploading some code to an Arduino Mega, with an appropriate
transmitter/receiver shield.

WARNING: this part requires uploading code and soldering

To build the transmitter, you can either choose to buy a kit provided by the
developers:

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or make your own.

Receiver: aliexpress.com/item/4000065229076.html

Transmitter: aliexpress.com/item/4000018571977.html

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To upload the code to the arduino mega, simply download the latest version
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RFLinkLoader.exe, select the correct Serial Port for your device and press
Upload. After the process is done you can disconnect the transmitter and
connect it to your Home assistant server’s USB-port.

Now, open the configuration.yaml as discussed earlier and add the following:

rflink:
port: **usb-port**
wait_for_ack: false

Replace **usb-port**by the correct usb port for your RFLink. This can be
found by going to Configuration->Add-ons, Backups & supervisor -> System
(top), then press the 3 dots under the “Host section and click hardware. Your
device will be found under ttyUSB.

To reload the configuration.yaml and enable RFLink simply restart the device
(Configuration->settings->restart, or do it manually from the machine itself ).
After this any device that sends a signal and is supported by RFLink will
appear (under a somewhat random name) in the device list. To save the
device to your system, find the name of the signal (configuration -> Devices
& Services -> Entities(top)) and add it to your configuration.yaml like in the
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While it’s fun to have all your devices at one place, in the end you’re only
moving the switch to turn it on. The real fun of Home Automation comes
with, well… automating it.

Introducing automations

Home assistant has a lovely automation system built in. it can be found
under the configuration settings -> Automations & scenes.

To begin your first automation, you can press the add automation button in
the bottom right cornet of the automation menu, after which a popup will
show asking you to either use a blueprint or start with an empty automation.
Select the empty automation.

This will bring you to a new menu with 4 sections, named:

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still running.

· Single Ignore new triggers while running:

· Restart Restart the automation if triggered while running:

· Queued Wait till finished and then run again:

· Parallel Run both old and new instance of automation.

Most cases require only the single mode, so leave it at that.

Triggers

Here you select the trigger what triggers the automation. This can be a
sensor value, time, the sun and a number of other things.

Conditions

This is a condition that needs to be passed before the automation will run.
For example, the automation can be a timeframe, or the state of another
sensor.

Actions

This is what the automation will do if triggered and the conditions are
passed. This can be turning on or off a device, change a colour of a lamp, wait
some time and more.

An example

My bedroom has some quite hard to reach light switches, so I needed

another solution. I combined a Sonoff motion sensor as seen earlier to a light
I made. I only need the light to turn on in the dark, so I limited to night-time
only. After a few minutes on the light slowly fades off.

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Save the config and restart the server.

Now you can add the thermostat by adding a thermostat card to your
dashboard and control the room temperature from there. This system will
now act as a normal house thermostat, keeping a room at the set
temperature.

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While home assistant supports a lot of devices, it still can’t overcome the
main problem with smart home: the price. A simple 5 meter led strip for in
your room can easily cost between 50 upwards to 220 euro (looking at you
Philips). As a person that likes to cover every room in their pretty, purple
light. This is simply too much. So we need a better solution, and what better
solution is there than going DIY.

Introducing ESPHome

ESPHome is a tool built around the Espressif series of microcontrollers, the

ESP8266 and the ESP32. Both are wifi capable microcontrollers, with the
ESP32 also having Bluetooth and BLE capabilities. The possibilities with
ESPHome are endless, so i cant explain them all here. Luckely ESPHome has a
nice list of example projects for you to follow:
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Installing ESPHome

To install ESPHome you simply need go to the add-on menu (Configuration -

> Add-ons, Backups & Supervisor), go to the add on store and find the
ESPHome add-on. Click install, turn on "Start on boot" and "Show in sidebar"
and make sure the add-on is started. From now on the ESPHome interface
can be found on the sidebar.

Getting your first sensor set up can be a bit complex, so it might be useful to
take a look at their examples on:
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To start using ESPHome simply connect your chosen ESP to your computer
and start a new project by pressing the "New device" button in the bottom
left. This gives you a popup where you can give the device a name. After this
press Next, and then connect. ESPHome will then attempt to upload the
basic code to the ESP. A popup will show up where you can select the com
port for the ESP. If installation went well you should now be able to add the
required code to make your sensors work. You can ofter easily find the code
by simply googling the sensor + ESPHome.Once the code is added press
install, then either "wirelessly" or "Plugged into this computer". A bunch of
text should now appear on screen. Wait untill a green text, followed by a
purple text shows up. Should any red errors appear, check if the code is
correct, or the device connected to power and retry. After some time some
blue debug information should appear with the sensor data as seen in the
image. Check if these are within limits so see if your sensors are connected
correctly.

You should now also see a new notification at the bell icon. Click it and select
"Check it out". You should now see the newly discovered device on your
system. Press configure, then submit. Select the room the device will be in (or
skip it), and press finish. The device should now be done and the sensors
should show up.

An example

I bought some Tuya enabled Wi-Fi plugs. Nowadays these come with other
chips which makes then unusable in this case, but back then they used
simple ESP8266 chips inside. To Get them off of the Tuya cloud and into my
local system i reflashed the Chip inside with ESPHome. To get it working i
used the following bits of code:

binary_sensor:
- platform: gpio
pin:
number: GPIO5
mode: INPUT_PULLUP
inverted: True
name: "plug_3_switch"
internal: true
on_press:
- switch.toggle: relay<br>

This creates an binary sensor input on pin 5 of the ESP, which is connected to
a button. The button pulls the pin to ground when pressed, so we invert it
and make the default state positive with a pullup. The name set here is the
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switch:<br> - platform: gpio

pin: 4
name: "Plug_3"
id: relay

This creates an output on pin 4, which is connected to the relay. Here the
name is the external name you'll see in Home Assistant, and id the internal
name used for the binary sensor.

status_led:<br> pin:
number: GPIO13
inverted: yes

This attaches the status led of the device to pin 13. The status led gives
information about the connection of the device.

Adding these 3 bits of code to the .yaml file for your device should turn it into
a simple controllable wifi switch.

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Home Assistant has endless possibilities for home automation, and is in my
opinion the best of its kind. It has lots of support and a large userbase, and is
finding its way into more and more homes all over the world.

Unfortunately even this guide only scratches the surface of Home Assistant,
so i definently recommend taking a look at their website https://www.home-
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Below are some of the other things i definently recommend to take a look at,
that i unfortunately couldn't discuss over here.

Accessing Home assistant beyond your home network:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/duckdns... (https://www.home-
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