Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant: Configure, integrate, and manage hardware and software systems to automate your home

A step-by-step guide to building cost-effective and complete home automation DIY projects using tools such as Home Assistant, Raspberry Pi, IoT devices, the Tasmota sensor, ESP32, and Grafana

Key Features:

• Learn by doing using real-life practical examples to build your own home automation system
• Create, hack, and configure IoT devices through hands-on projects to be used with or without Home Assistant
• Customize your home automation system using Home Assistant, Node-RED, InfluxDB, and Grafana
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description:

Picture a home where you can adjust the lighting based on the time of day or when movement is detected. In this same home, you can also detect when a door is unexpectedly opened or an alarm is triggered in response to any suspicious activity. Such automated devices form part of a smart home, and the exciting part is that this book teaches you how to create and manage these devices all by yourself.

This book helps you create your own ecosystem to automate your home using Home Assistant software. You'll begin by understanding the components of a home automation system and learn how to create, hack, and configure them to operate seamlessly. Then, you'll set up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi to work as a home automation server, build your own IoT sensors based on ESP32/ESP8266, and set up real-life automation use cases using hands-on examples and projects. The chapters will also guide you in using software tools such as Node-RED, InfluxDB, and Grafana to manage, present, and use data collected from your Home Automation devices. Finally, you'll gain insights into new technologies and trends in the home automation space to help you continue with your learning journey.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to build your own creative, IoT-based home automation system using different hardware and software technologies.

What You Will Learn:

• Understand the fundamental concepts of home automation systems
• Set up a home automation system using Home Assistant and Raspberry Pi
• Create and configure ESP8266-based sensors to work with Home Assistant
• Hack a commercial actuator to work with Home Assistant using Tasmota
• Create automations, customize, and use applications with Home Assistant
• Leverage IoT software tools to take your home automation to the next level
• Work on hands-on projects, including LED strip lights and an ESP32 five-zone temperature logger
• Explore home automation FAQs, emerging technologies, and trends

Who this book is for:

The book is for engineers, developers, students, makers, and enthusiasts who're working on or interested in working with electronics and IoT devices, embedded systems, systems integration, computer software, and coding to develop their own smart home automation systems. Technicians, teachers, and other professionals who want to learn home automation-related technologies will also find this book useful. Prior experience of working with Raspberry Pi, creating hardware prototypes, and software programming will be beneficial.

這本書是一本逐步指南，教你如何使用工具如Home Assistant、Raspberry Pi、物聯網設備、Tasmota感應器、ESP32和Grafana，建立成本效益高且完整的家庭自動化DIY項目。

主要特點：
- 通過實際的實例學習，透過動手項目建立自己的家庭自動化系統
- 通過實際項目創建、修改和配置物聯網設備，可與或不與Home Assistant一起使用
- 使用Home Assistant、Node-RED、InfluxDB和Grafana自定義您的家庭自動化系統
- 購買印刷版或Kindle書籍將包括免費的PDF電子書

書籍描述：
想像一個家，您可以根據白天時間或檢測到的運動調整照明。在同一個家中，您還可以檢測到門突然打開或者在任何可疑活動時觸發警報。這些自動化設備是智能家居的一部分，令人興奮的是，這本書教你如何自己創建和管理這些設備。

本書幫助您使用Home Assistant軟件創建自己的生態系統，以實現家庭自動化。您將首先了解家庭自動化系統的組成部分，並學習如何創建、修改和配置它們以實現無縫運作。然後，您將在Raspberry Pi上設置Home Assistant作為家庭自動化服務器，基於ESP32/ESP8266建立自己的物聯網感應器，並使用實際的實例和項目設置真實的自動化用例。本書的章節還將指導您使用Node-RED、InfluxDB和Grafana等軟件工具來管理、展示和使用從您的家庭自動化設備收集的數據。最後，您將獲得有關家庭自動化領域的新技術和趨勢的見解，以幫助您繼續學習。

通過閱讀本書，您將能夠使用不同的硬件和軟件技術構建自己的創意、基於物聯網的家庭自動化系統。

學到的內容：
- 理解家庭自動化系統的基本概念
- 使用Home Assistant和Raspberry Pi設置家庭自動化系統
- 創建和配置基於ESP8266的感應器，以與Home Assistant一起使用
- 使用Tasmota修改商業執行器，以與Home Assistant一起使用
- 創建自動化、自定義和使用Home Assistant應用程序
- 利用物聯網軟件工具將家庭自動化提升到更高水平
- 進行實際項目，包括LED燈帶和ESP32五區溫度記錄器
- 探索家庭自動化常見問題、新興技術和趨勢

適合閱讀對象：
本書適合工程師、開發人員、學生、製造商和對電子和物聯網設備、嵌入式系統、系統集成、計算機軟件和編程感興趣的愛好者。技術人員、教師和其他希望學習家庭自動化相關技術的專業人士也會發現本書很有用。具有使用Raspberry Pi、創建硬件原型和軟件編程的經驗將是有益的。