HA up-and-running & thank you guys

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Dear all.

Last night I’ve a installed one final ‘component’ in the setup that I wanted. Knowing it’s never done and already new requests are made I’m proud where I stand today, so it’s time to share my setup.

Actually, it’s not really mine. Last november '18 my uncle and aunt (I don’t call them that way, but hey, it’s for this story true) they announced building their home. After seeing my own Domoticz setup, with Google Assistant but not as massive as what I did for them, they wanted to have there own home automation setup including many, many components.

After a tip from a colleague that I definitely should use HA as a base I started to hustle many components from online shops including Ali, Gearbest, Robbshop, Conrad and Amazon (I’m Dutch, actually). In February I started to assemble their home network in my own house and begon installing and configuring their HA Pi.

It’s been a struggle sometimes, many of you (and on Tweakers) helped me out figuring stuff out. It’s not a real big learning curve, but it’s trial and error. Reading other configs, forums, manuals. But it’s stable, and they are really glad acknowledging this is really more then they could have dreamed.

I’ve not only created a home automation system, also a home network, AV-setup, camera’s, etc.
So here it comes, all the components in a list. Maybe, someday, I will be posting it on GitHub. But I’m a little insecure about it…

I want to thank you guys and all the developers of this magnificent product. Also shoot out to @robbiet480 who is developing the 2.0 iOS-companion. You’re pushing it hard, keep up the good work.

Networkcomponents
Ziggo Arris modem
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X
Netgear Nighthawk AC2300
& one simple AP

UPS - Thermostat - Other
APC 950VA
tado Smart Thermostat V3+ - starterkit
tado Smart Thermostat V3+ - extension
DSMR-cable
Logitech Harmony Ultimate
Nest Hello
Google Home Mini

HA base
Raspberry Pi 3b
Z-Wave Stick Aeonlabs
RFlink (no stuff attached)

HA
0.93.1
Google Drive Back-up, SSH-server and Samba share
Custom Lovelace with 7 views/tabs - including streams 6 camera’s
9 Custom cards & custom updater component
‘only’ 13 automations - including alarm
HA Companion on 1 iPad (dashboard) and 2 iPhone’s - current build 59 (beta 2.0)
HA Cloud: Google Assistant & Remote UI

Z-Wave stuff
6 Neo Coolcam Plug
3 Neo Coolcam PIR
8 Neo Coolcam Door/windowsensor
Neo Coolcam Siren
3 Fibaro Single Switch 2
2 Fibaro Double Switch 2
5 Fibaro Dimmer 2
(will be adding 1 single switch & 1 dimmer soon…)

Camera’s
3 Dahua IPC-HFW4431R-Z
2 Dahua IPC-HFW1431S
1 Dahua IPC-A35
Dahua NVR4108-P-4KS2
WD Purple 4TB

That’s it. It’s a list.
Again: thank you.
This is only the start, keep on wondering, keep on developing.

Some Lovelace screenshots

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Let us know how long Home Assistant lasts before it crashes at your relative’s place. I hope it doesn’t, but in my experience, it crashes after a few months. Since I switched to a high endurance SD card and a UPS, a simple unplug/plug of the AC adapter will get it working again.

How does the Raspberry Pi3 handle the camera load?

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Hi @rickje,

Thank you for sharing the highlights with the community ! :slight_smile:

Would you mind sharing a bit more about the implemented the automation, maybe how to did the Alarm automations/rules and how you did organized the Lovelace GUI, which custom cards did you choose.

I understand if you don’t want to share all the details public, so I would be fine with some private messages on these topics.

Actually, your project is exactly what the team behind Home Assistant would like to empower, by making it as easy as possible for everyone to purchase Smart devices (like your shopping list) and make it all work for the exact purpose of implementing a smart home, with Voice Assistant, Smart Lights, Security etc. So maybe your experience and story was of interest for the Home Assistant Podcast team, it would be great to hear your Pro and Cons for Home Assistant. Please consider e-mailing them :wink:

Links and contact information:
[email protected]

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It already crashed once :slight_smile:
Now I’m using ‘better’ SD-cards after some research.
One of the first things I configured was back-up. First to Dropbox, nowadays to Google.
So when it crashed I had it all up and running again in 1 hour, including a 15 minute drive to their home.
I was insecure for a couple of weeks after, so I bought better SD-cards.

I’m already focusing on the ‘next’ level, if needed, a NUC. But if it stays stable, I’m keeping the Pi.

How does the Raspberry Pi3 handle the camera load?

I just checked. Nobody’s home, so 100%.
6 camera’s streaming between 70-80% idle. I’m more worried about their uplink

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Great idea (the podcast), don’t know my setup is fabulous enough haha
I’ve already posted some screenshots, and here some info about the automations.
Maybe I will be posting to GitHub soon.

Would you mind sharing a bit more about the implemented the automation, maybe how to did the Alarm automations/rules and how you did organized the Lovelace GUI, which custom cards did you choose.

Custom cards

  • Slider entity
  • Tracker
  • Compact Custom header
  • Vertical Stack in card
  • Camera Card (not using it properly right now)
  • Simple weather card
  • Simple thermostat
  • Card tools and card-modder

Automations

  • Alarm to armed home or away with Google Assistant
  • Alarm to armed home or away without Google Assistant
  • Alarm to pending when home or away: blink light, let Google Home tell it’s activitated
  • Alarm to triggered when home or away: turn all the lights on, notifications to iOS-devices
  • Alarm from triggered to disarmed: turn all the lights off, except 2, notifications to iOS-devices, let Google Home tell it’s disactivated
  • Lights: Simple outside lamp: after sunset, before sunrise every day
  • Lights: Couple of lamps auto off when sensor is on, off after 5 or 10 minutes (some only when alarm is disarmed and between sunset/sunrise
  • Notifications: Some notifications home/leaving/etc/etc

For now I don’t use any automations with presence detection from iOS, Netgear or other stuff to influence the alarm status. It’s possible but handling the alarm manually gives more acknowledgment of what you’re doing

Soon-list
Advanced notifications alarm triggered, including naming sensor that’s got triggered
Advanced notifications alarm turn off
Lawn mower - yeah, they need one and now asked to integrate it. LOL.
Grass sprinkler, triggered with time/rain/etc

That’s it. Nothing special/fancy seeing and hearing stories here :wink:

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If you haven’t enabled this yet, I would highly recommend ‘Actionable notifications’ for iOS, with live camera steam. I have implemented this and I think it adds a lot of value, cause if the alarm are triggered, first thing you want to do, would be to verify the cameras.

DOC

YOUTUBE
Found this video shows how to configure

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Looks cool, especially the camera integrations. Thanks!