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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 eltoozero »

I was able to get Home Assistant spun up via Hass.io on an RPi2 very rapidly, switched to RPi3 for improved UI performance though.

OTA updates have been seamless, but the out-of-box still requires some conf file editing, which may be a turn off for some. It did automatically discover AppleTV, Roku, and Hue (easy pairing).

For integrating "homebrew" sensors I was able to roll MySensors[0] platform with parts lying around in drawers to get house-wide temperature monitoring with a few lines of yaml.

Looking forward to further refinements to the platform!!

[0]: https://www.mysensors.org

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

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Post by kuschku »

SEJeff wrote: post #18
kuschku wrote: post #16

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/

Hm, I can’t do multiple pins with PWM with that, can I? Because I currently have for each LED strip 3 pins with R G B using PWM.

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

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Post by detaro »

SeanDav wrote: post #54
AnonymousPlanet wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

David Hasselhoff will not be pleased to hear that - his surname loosely translates as "Court of Hatred"

If I had to guess, I'd say "Hassel" is related to "Hasel" in this case (as is the case with quite a few similar place names), which would make it more like "David from the farm with the hazel trees" or something.

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

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Post by detaro »

bogomipz wrote: post #59
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/

I apologize if this is silly question but how is the smartphone in the pic on the home page displaying that interface? The control section notes: >"Control all your devices from a single, mobile-friendly, interface." I had a cursory look through the github repo and everything just looked like python, nothing UI wise jumped out at me.

There is an extra repo for the web frontend: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer

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

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Post by JshWright »

kuschku wrote: post #62
SEJeff wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Hm, I can’t do multiple pins with PWM with that, can I? Because I currently have for each LED strip 3 pins with R G B using PWM.

You would likely be better off using some other solution for your light control, and then talking to that over HTTP/MQTT.

I use a version of this: https://www.stavros.io/posts/wifi-enabled-rgb-led-strip-cont...

It integrates nicely with HA via MQTT.

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

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Post by foepys »

SeanDav wrote: post #54
AnonymousPlanet wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

David Hasselhoff will not be pleased to hear that - his surname loosely translates as "Court of Hatred"

"Hassel" is German slang and translates to "hassle".

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

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Post by bigjimmyk3 »

BitNoGo wrote: post #52
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

Z Wave is supported but is zigbee? Zigbee hardware tend to be quite a bitcheaper and have has a wider range of devices.

I'm controlling zigbee devices with hass via a lightify hub, and I know there are other supported methods as well.

EDIT: clarified that I am using homeassistant to talk to the lightify hub.

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

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Post by daveguy »

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

> (we will also open-source over time)

What portion of it is currently open source?

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

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Post by singularity2001 »

oh_sigh wrote: post #53
kobeya wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. It is also a not uncommon last name.

Isn't that usually Haas? I know 3 or 4 independent people with the last name Haas, as well as the Haas business school at berkely, but only know Hass as the avocado brand.

Haas is rabbit

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

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Post by kuschku »

JshWright wrote: post #65
kuschku wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hm, I can’t do multiple pins with PWM with that, can I? Because I currently have for each LED strip 3 pins with R G B using PWM.

You would likely be better off using some other solution for your light control, and then talking to that over HTTP/MQTT. I use a version of this: https://www.stavros.io/posts/wifi-enabled-rgb-led-strip-cont... It integrates nicely with HA via MQTT.

Yeah, I’m trying to switch to an arduino-based solution, but I just really want to avoid WiFi. And building custom protocols isn’t that optimal either.
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