First step into Home Automation: Home Assistant
Science fiction covers the ideal home automation: waling through your house, the house artificial intelligence turning on lights, running security checks, adjusting blinds, notifying you of important things, cooking meals... We're not cooking meals yet. I'm putting together this blog for two reasons. For others, an insight and roadmap into Home Assistant. For me, a diary of what I did, in case I need to do it (or something similar) again. The automation system I'm starting with Home Assistant ( https://www.home-assistant.io/ ). It's running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+, which is the lowest Raspberry Pi that's recommended for this project. I went with HA for a variety of reasons: Runs locally Free/open source - a company won't come along and say "it no longer fits our profit model" Active community of users and developers (probably more developer-users than user-only) Establish goals for what you want It can do a lot of things. So much so, it