About This Book

Start into the world of Open Source Home Automation with an introduction to the Home Assistant platform. Dive into soldering your own smart home sensors for measuring temperature and humidity inside your rooms and attach it to a powerful jet free and open home automation system.

Work through simple yet insightful examples that will get you up and running with home automation, Home Assistant and soldering your own tailor made home automation sensors.

Who This Book Is For

This book is for home automation enthusiasts, makers and tinkerers that are willing to take a step towards soldering and programming their own home automation sensors. The examples given within this book are easy to follow and just require just a very basic level of programming skills.

What You Will Learn

Introduction into the free and Open Source Home Assistant software

How to run your own Home Automation server

How to host a Home Assistant server in Docker

Configure various sensors and actuators

Configure automation scripts to control your home

Send notifications with Telegram

How to solder a sensor on top of a cheap ESP8266 board

How to attach your own sensors to Home Assistant

In Detail

Controlling all the home electronic appliances automatically or from remote is a fascinating topic. Various home automation vendors are offering all kinds of sensors and actuators for controlling your home. Control your lights, heating, pool pump or door cam, there are unlimited possibilities.

By diving into the world of Open Source home automation systems you will break out of the vendor locked into the world of smart home in order to gain a lot of flexibility. This book also shows you how to solder your own little sensors by using the 5$ low cost ESP8266 control board.