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Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

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Re: Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

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Has the automation scripting improved recently?

Last time I looked into this there was an uninvuative (for a newbie) config file that required a server restart to see changes. Not exactly the easiest way to learn as it was a very slow feedback loop.

Re: Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

#12
Founder of Home Assistant here. If anyone has any questions, let me know!

Besides being able to install it as a Python package on Python 3, you can also install it using our Hass.io OS. Based on ResinOS and powered by Docker, it offers over the air updates and management of your device via the user interface: https://home-assistant.io/hassio/

Re: Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

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Founder of Home Assistant here. If anyone has any questions, let me know! Besides being able to install it as a Python package on Python 3, you can also install it using our Hass.io OS. Based on ResinOS and powered by Docker, it offers over the air updates and management of your device via the user interface: https://home-assistant.io/hassio/

Founder? Is this for-profit? If so, how you gonna make money?

Edit: glad to see the project on Github is APACHE licensed. Any drawbacks from using the software compiled str8 from Github as opposed to downloading the binary blob from the website?

Re: Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

#14
I'm a co-founder of Snips https://snips.ai, we are building a 100% on-device Voice AI platform which protects your privacy as it does not rely on sending voice on servers like Google and Apple do

You can use the platform for free (we will also open-source over time), it can run on Raspberry 3 and we added an integration with the amazing Home Assistant: https://home-assistant.io/components/snips

Re: Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

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Has the automation scripting improved recently? Last time I looked into this there was an uninvuative (for a newbie) config file that required a server restart to see changes. Not exactly the easiest way to learn as it was a very slow feedback loop.

Automations can now be created via the user interface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3isVVpmiq4

(Automations have been able to be reloaded without restarting for a while now by calling the automation/reload service)

[edit: added word "service" at the end]

Re: Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

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Founder of Home Assistant here. If anyone has any questions, let me know! Besides being able to install it as a Python package on Python 3, you can also install it using our Hass.io OS. Based on ResinOS and powered by Docker, it offers over the air updates and management of your device via the user interface: https://home-assistant.io/hassio/

Founder? Is this for-profit? If so, how you gonna make money? Edit: glad to see the project on Github is APACHE licensed. Any drawbacks from using the software compiled str8 from Github as opposed to downloading the binary blob from the website?

No, and it is encouraged for those who are capable of it. Send pull requests if you think anything can be improved please!

Re: Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

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Assuming I have a few lights controllable via GPIO on the Raspberry pi (with custom circuitry to power the lights), what’d be the easiest way to integrate them with Hass? (btw, hass means 'hate' in German)

Feel free to call it Home Assistant instead of hass :)

One of the primary deployment platforms is the Raspberry Pi, so it is very well supported. I believe this would do exactly what you want:

https://home-assistant.io/components/switch.rpi_gpio/

Re: Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

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Founder of Home Assistant here. If anyone has any questions, let me know! Besides being able to install it as a Python package on Python 3, you can also install it using our Hass.io OS. Based on ResinOS and powered by Docker, it offers over the air updates and management of your device via the user interface: https://home-assistant.io/hassio/

Founder? Is this for-profit? If so, how you gonna make money? Edit: glad to see the project on Github is APACHE licensed. Any drawbacks from using the software compiled str8 from Github as opposed to downloading the binary blob from the website?

It is not for-profit. We will soon start a program for people to support the project.

The published version of Home Assistant is 100% what is on GitHub. Home automation is able to gather very private details of your house. It knows when you're home, what TV shows you watch, when you go to sleep. We keep all this data locally in your house, without the cloud. We want to make sure that anyone can check and influence the code that is distributed. No data should leave your house without your permission.

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