This repository contains my elaborate home automation configuration, using Home Assistant.
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.
- 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
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)
- GPIO: 433.92Mhz Transmitter for lights (see also https://github.com/proycon/433mhzforrpi/)
- GPIO: Door/doorbell sensors (wired, reed contacts)
- GPIO: IR LED for remote control of TV/audio
- 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)
- GPIO: DH-22 temperature/humidity sensor
- GPIO: Neopixels LED (WS2912B) fireplace (video, sources)
- GPIO: PIR sensor
- 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)
Some screenshots of the interface, featuring home assistant tiles:
