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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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Post by SEJeff »

thearn4 wrote: post #3

Looks interesting, can this function as a ZWave controller hub when used on system with a ZWave USB stick?

It sure can! Many of our users (I say our somewhat sarcastically as I'm only an occasional contributor) use this USB zwave stick successfully:

https://aeotec.com/z-wave-usb-stick

See this documentation for more info please:

https://home-assistant.io/docs/z-wave/

And this for the specific controllers officially supported:

https://home-assistant.io/docs/z-wave/controllers/

If you're a new user, hass.io is going to be the most approachable way to get hass up and running while making it easy to install all of the add-ons and configure things securely + upgrade easily. The docs for zwave on hass.io are pretty straightforward as well

https://home-assistant.io/hassio/zwave/

And if you want to learn more about what hass.io does ontop of normal home assistant, please visit this page:

https://home-assistant.io/hassio/

I hope this helps answer your question.

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

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Post by Dowwie »

balloob wrote: post #20
nubela wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 th…

Hey Baloob. I watched you talk at PyCon. How have your experiences been since you switched to asyncio?

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

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Post by an_account »

balloob wrote: post #15
an_account wrote: post #11

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]

Thanks for the reply! I'll check it out again.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

balloob wrote: post #20
nubela wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 th…

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

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Post by balloob »

Dowwie wrote: post #22
balloob wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 th…

Hey Baloob. I watched you talk at PyCon. How have your experiences been since you switched to asyncio?

asyncio is amazing. It has been way faster and more predictable. Home Assistant has a lot of small tasks running all the time with the occasional task taking a long time (ie. trying to reach a device which has been turned off). The number of tasks running simultaneously used to be limited by the size of the thread worker pool, which is no longer the case. A request taking a long time is now just a coroutine pending result in our event loop.

We still offer the old API on top of asyncio, so we have been able to incrementally transition. By now the core and important components are all fully asyncio. Most integrations are not.

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

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Post by halflings »

oulipo wrote: post #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

> which protects your privacy as it does not rely on sending voice on servers like Google and Apple do

And on your website:

> The First On-Device Voice Platform

Android already has on-device voice recognition. Just try getting in airplane mode and saying "OK Google, play music" or something that does not require being online.

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

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Post by CommanderData »

oulipo wrote: post #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

Thank you. What is the accuracy of recognition? Does accuracy improve overtime, if so how?

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

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Post by AnonymousPlanet »

balloob wrote: post #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/

Hass.io? In case you don't know, hass means hatred in German.

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

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Post by ValentineC »

balloob wrote: post #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/

Huge fan of Home Assistant — I'm currently using it with a Broadlink RM3 Mini to control the media setup at a hackerspace.

Thanks everyone for your hard work!

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