Hi Everyone,
I am new to HA. I need some advice regarding the equipments I shall have in order to implement a small project. I need to implement in HA at least these sensors:
Temp/humidity sensor,
PIR sensor,
Smoke Sensor,
Wireless Remote Control Electrical Socket
Broadlink for Air Conditioning and TV
Camera
Except Raspberry Pi 3, what else do I need to connect the sensors? If they are wired sensors? If they are wireless sensors?
If someone has a link for a beginner tutorial with some handzone examples, it will be such a great help,
Do you already have any of those devices (I’m guessing you’ve already got the Broadlink you mention)? If so, what’s the make and model. If not, what’s your budget, and how far from the Pi are they going to be located?
Hi Tinkerer
No, I dont have it. I want to know what products shall I buy. Where to start from? Can you send a list of hardware needed to start?
The budget depends on a solution I believe, if it is wired, wireless or z-wave tecnology, right? I need something which does not require too much work as a begining.
If it is a wired device that can be controlled via IP, you would only need the raspberry pi and the HA software to start. If it is a wireless device you might need a Zwave, zigbee or whatever wireless protocol it runs, adapter to control it.
If you are just starting out, there are much easier Home Automation platforms than Home Assistant like SmartThings, which make it much easier to start off with. The principles about connectivity are the same, however…
If I use HA with Raspberry PI and try to connect ethernet sensors, what hardware do I need between, or just an ethernet switch?
Can you advice some ethernet sensors to be used?
ThAnks
And your budget doesn’t depend on the solution, your solution depends on your budget… If you’ve got a total of $100 USD to spend, that’s very different than if you’ve $500 USD to spend.
Also:
There’s no point in us recommending, say, Z-Wave if they’re going to be hundreds of feet away.
Dear Tinkerer
I live in Albania. I am looking to spend no more than 200$ for the solution, for the basic sensors I mentioned before. The area to be installed is less than 150m2.
I have set up a temp/humidity sensor outside in my greenhouse.
It is basically a Raspberry Pi zero, separate to the machine Im running HASS on. It is a dedicated unit inside the greenhouse with a DHT22 sensor - it reports back to HASS via MQTT
The only other component on your list I have experience with, are cameras. I have several foscams around my house. All of which are natively supported by the component in HASS.
Hi elPaulio. It was very helpful tutorial and information from your side. I just want to ask some info. Can I use Raspberry PI3, the reason, I want to add additional sensors, such as WiFi sensors or camera connections?
Also do you have any tutorial regarding Home Assistant, how to integrate in it and how it looks like ?
Thanks
There are plenty of tutorials on the HA site on how to install on different devices.
Have you got anything installed yet? If not, Id just fire up your Pi3 and get the image and get it working to start with. Get familiar with how it all hangs together and then start customizing it to your needs with additional components.
For example, getting the foscam cameras up and running is easy, follow the standard component guide that is here on the site