Home Assistant: Open Source Home Automation Platform for IoT (Internet of Things) & more (CTS SOLUTIONS IT-PRO E-Books Book 6)

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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