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Home Assistant Configuration

This repository contains my elaborate home automation configuration, using Home Assistant.

Introduction

Prior to Home Assistant, I ran my own custom-built home automation software. This got too time consuming to maintain and expand so in the summer of 2017 I migrated everything to Home Assistant. As time went by some of the choices Home Assistant made no longer aligned with mine and I found it too bloated and too GUI-drived, so I started migrating parts back to my new custom-built solution called lighthome. These two now work in tandem and complement another.

I have a main server and various Raspberry Pis distributed through the house (for wiring reasons). The main server runs home assistant and is the nexus of my home automation (it also runs a small lighthome instance), the raspberry pis and various other clients (even my phone) run lighthome.

Goals

  • Automate and integrate as much as possible:
    • Lights
    • TV
    • Audio
    • Cameras
    • Heating and air conditioning
    • Lots of environment sensors for automations
  • Open-source and no third-party cloud solutions, I like to own and safeguard my data!
  • Security/Alarm system

Devices

I have the following devices:

  • Master: Main server (Ubuntu Linux)
    • Quad core
    • 16GB RAM
    • Aeotec Z-Stick
    • Webserver: Nginx
    • MQTT Broker: Mosquitto
    • Audio streaming: Mopidy (MPD) + Modidy-spotify + Iris + Icecast
    • Messaging: XMPP (Prosody)
  • Slave: Raspberry Pi 1 (Raspbian) (GPIO wiring schematic)
  • Slave: Raspberry Pi 2 (Raspbian) (GPIO wiring schematic)
    • GPIO: 433.92Mhz Transmitter for lights
    • GPIO: Door/window sensors (wired, reed contacts)
    • GPIO: Neopixels LED (WS2812B) for ambilight in living room
    • GPIO: IR LED for remote control of TV/audio
    • GPIO: IR Receiver
  • Slave: Raspberry Pi 3 (Raspbian)
  • IP Cams
    • Living room (D-Link 5222-L)
    • Street (Foscam)
    • Garden (Foscam)
  • Webcams
    • Front door
    • Hallway
  • 433 Mhz
    • Many Klik-aan-klik-Uit Adapters or older ELRO adapters for all lights
    • 1x RFLink Transceiver, based on Arduino Mega, connected to Pi2
      • 1x ALECTO WS-4500 Weather Station (mounted outside for wind, rain, temperature)
  • Z-Wave
    • Aeotec Z-Stick
    • 3x Fibaro Motion/light/temperature sensor
    • 3x Neo Coolcam Door/window sensor
    • 2x Nodon Softremote buttons for scene selection/quick remote functionality
    • 1x Philiotech Temperature/Humidity Sensor for bathroom
    • 3x Remotec ZRC-90 remote
  • Other
    • Slimme Meter for power consumption, connected to main server
    • Plugwise Anna thermostat
    • Devantech ETH-008 relais switch for upstairs lights
    • Daitek air conditioning with wifi module
    • Solar panels
    • Speakers throughout the house for text-to-speech notifications
    • Wake up timer through bedroom TV
    • Xiaomi Roborock S2 (rooted, access over ssh with root@$IP, using my normal personal ssh keypair)

Interface

Some screenshots of the interface, featuring home assistant tiles:

Main screenshot

Media controls

Camera