Home Assistant (HA) is a home automation operating system with a focus on local control and privacy. HA includes a custom operating system, HA Core, to run the home automation operations and a supervisor to manage everything, keeping it up to date. ▶
The simplest way to start listening to the wifi spectrum is to install kismet ▶
Ever since I started working with Home Assistant and automating various things around the house I wanted to have a way to control the lights. I looked at smart light bulbs, like Philips Hue, but they are expensive. Also, most solutions use proprietary protocols or cloud services which may leak personal data, or might stop working in the future leaving you with expensive paperweights. The solution: Sonoff wifi switches built by Itead in conjunction with ODROIDs ▶
Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform built on Python 3 that supports over 1100 components ▶
In this article we're going to look at a Home Assistant companion - AppDaemon ▶
In this article, we are going to combine ODROIDs with a little bit of hardware and Home Assistant, so that we can start converting non-smart appliances to "smart" appliances. We'll be working with wires, doing a bit of soldering, connecting relays, and in some cases working with mains voltage, so ▶
In this article, we will delve deeper still into Home Assistant customization, creating our own scripts to collect data from remote sensors and other control devices. We will also look into various ways to communicate with the remote sensors. ▶
Advanced topics related to Home Assistant (HA) using in-depth steps, allowing you to maximize the use of Home Assistant, and also help with experimentation. ▶
This article addresses the creation of an Armbian image using the mainline linux kernel 5.2.0-rc3, and the setup of the popular home automation software, Home Assistant. This exercise was performed targeting the popular Single Board Computer (SBC) ODROID-C1. ▶
This article describes how to install Google Home on the ODROID-C2. ▶
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