Home automation for noobs and nerds

teco

A short overview about home automation basics and history as well as a hands on to HomeAssistant and ESPHome on a RaspberryPi. If you ever wanted to get started with home automation you should start here.

I would like to give you a overview about the History of my personal HomeAutomation Experience with good and bad things i had to deal with. In the first part of the Workshop i like to talk a bit about the basics of home automation to ramp up everyone. A rough overview would be

• Home Automation - imagination vs. reality
• Sensor, Actor WTF?
• What hardware to be dealt with
• Evaluation of HomeAutomation hubs
• Which software/standard will cross your way on the component side
• How to bring them all together

In the Second Part of the Workshop i will guide you trough the Initial Setup of HomeAssistant(hass.io) and try to integrate whatever you have at home together with you. Also i will show some tweaks that are not come with the default setup. Topics:

• Hassio Installation
• Hassio Configuration
• Intro to the hassio dashboard
• Intro to HomeAssistant Automations
• NodeRed vs. Builtin Automation capability
• NodeMCU/ESP32/ESP8266 the easy way
• Customisations without any limits
• What else you have in mind for home-automations??

What to Bring to the Workshop? Raspberry PI 3 B/B+ or 4B or a Virtualization that can handle VMDK, VHDX, VDI, QCOW2 or OVA.