Home automation for noobs and nerds (rc3)

Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 1 p.m.

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. about this event: https://pretalx.rc3.studio/rc3-channels-2020/talk/NBEBSJ/