Hello, guys en girls,
Home Assistant forum just said to me, that it is my first anniversary being a member.
So I want to celebrate and share with you, where I’ve got in that time. From nothing, just a very little experience with testing Linux desktop install and in the past a little website building.
Well, this is totally different, so I had to learn from scratch, with no IT background.
But hey, I’m an electrician, I can fix everything…
Many of you remember some of my posts, as I can get quiet frustrated, when something breaks and I’m not the one, who did broke it Slight apologize for that, well, I always say: If I scream, it means I do care
Before showing off my current state, I really want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all developers, who gave me the possibilities to make this happen. You are hero’s!
The setup:
HA supervised with Nabu Casa subscription on dedicated machine
OMV NAS on dedicated machine running also the torrent servers and BuBBle UPNP
Mi-Light lightning system - LimitlessLED integration
Sonoff WiFi hardware with HACS SonoffLAN integration
VLC-TelNet driven TTS Announcer with chime
Z-Wave JS
Sonoff 433 MHz
7" Lenovo android tablet in the bedroom
10" Lenovo android tablet in the kitchen
7" Lenovo android tablet with LTE and GPS built in car dashboard
All of the here under showed runs on a Shuttle mini PC:
The Information page:
Here we look, what what to wear going outside and see some usual stuff as locations, gas prices, travel time’s and a in house temperature’s
OpenWheaterMap
Waze travel time
Neerslag app
Skon’s Dutch gasprice’s integration
HACS Lovelace Clock card
The calendar page:
Here we have our calendar’s combined to see, when we can be together. Both of us work in the hospitals working day/night shift’s, so we see each other much less, than usual. That’s why this is so much needed. Upcoming birthday in the family and some other timers are here.
Google calendar integration (2 accounts merged)
HACS Atomic calender revive
HACS Lovelace Google Keep card
Kitchen page:
We live a lot in the kitchen, our table and kitchen furniture are lighted with RGB light with three predefined scenes. They can be activated with Z-wave button’s. The workspace uses automatically switching white down-lights. There is a shopping list and various timers. Very fine, no mater, what device the timer is activated on, it runs everywhere
Our connected fridge also generates notification’s, when the door not closed properly.
In the kitchen there is our central speaker, attached to an mini amplifier and directly to the HA machine. That is used for the VLC-TelNet powered TTS announcer with a chime.
HACS RGB Light card
HACS Flipdown timer card
HA shopping list
HACS SmartThinQ integration
Living room page:
RGB light’s, Hi-End home theater system by Denon, NAD, Samsung TV and homemade floor-standing loudspeakers and subwoofers, and a Toon thermostat. We love music. If it’s to loud, you are to old… My second half use’s Spotify premium, I do use Qobuz with Linn Kazoo app and Bubble UPNP server, so I can enjoy HiRes streams with all the media player functionality in HA.
HACS RGB Light card
Toon thermostat official
Denon AVR and Denon HEOS
Spotify
Samsung TV
Terras page:
In house room with no window, where we have a homemade Jacuzzi. My next project. I have already started building a panel for the bath with an Z-wave control center to fully automatize the fill, heat, whirl, bubble and empty the bath. The plan is to push a button, set temperature and get an notification, when it’s ready to jump in. After the bath time, just push a button and it will empty it self. My own deadline is next summer… wish me luck.
HACS RGB Light card
Sleeping room page:
Nothing special here, usual stuff - RGB lights and a Denon midi HiFi set accompanied with a DLNA WiFi player. The special thing here is us.
HACS RGB Light card
DLNA integration
Sim Cave page:
HACS RGB Light card
Internet printing protocol integration
Office? Not really. Three screen Hi specs PC with steering wheel and HoTas. Racing, Trucking, Flying and Speedboat simulation is done here mostly. There is an Pioneer AVR to make it all sound real.
A laser printer for the usual stuff.
As the printer and the AVR do like to refuse connection after two, three days, the are equipped with a Sonoff outlet switch being reset every night and able to do that manually too.
Not connected to HA, but mention worthy: A self made Pinball machine with dual screen, main screen 32". Really entertaining…
Raaf cave page:
17 years old gamer. Just a typical kid of today. He only want’s to know, what the ping is today.
HACS RGB Light card
Fritz!box integration
Speedtest
Shower and WC pages:
Really not special. All light goes on and off automatically. That’s it.
Energy page:
All energy and temps together.
Toon integration
Sensors
Androids page:
See, how the phones are doing. And where we are. RX8 is my car, equipped with a always online tablet.
Two wall mounted tablets in home.
HA Android companion app
Fully KiosK app
Garmin page:
We both have Garmin watches. So we can see, how we are doing. And also switch some lamps on and off on the wrist from anywhere
HACS CyberJunkie’s Garmin connect
HassIQ watch app on Garmin Express
Battery page:
All batteries in one place…
p2000 page:
As I’m a active lifesaver, I use this to monitor the situation of Fire departments, ambulance, police and Offshore emergency.
HACS p2000 sensor
Internet systems:
Modem, homemade NAS with OMV software and two torrent services are monitored here.
Fritz!Box integration
HACS OpenMediaVault
Transmission
Qbittorent
Systems:
2 Rasspberry’s. One scans the sky for aircraft’s, part of the ADSB.fi, PiAware and FR24 MLAT networks. Second is a Retro game emulator. And the Shuttle is the machine, where HA runs on.
Mosquitto MQTT server
HACS Rpi monitor card
System monitor
Home Assistant page:
Monitoring the services running in HA.
HACS auto entities card
VLC-TelNet integration
Home Assistant energy page:
Toon integration
The mediabrowser:
HA mounted NAS folders for music and movies
List of all used hardware:
All smart lights are Mi-Light (Miboxer) bulbs, panels or LED strip controllers on it’s own infrastructure with WiFi controllers, the panels and LED strips are powered by a central 24V= power unit and self made 24V whole house grid.
All dumb lights are switched by Sonoff Basic or Sonoff mini WiFi
All wall outlets are Sonoff S26TPF-DE
All wall mounted switches are Sonoff TX 3 way
Movement, Temperature and Illumination by Fibaro or NeoCam Z-wave
Scene triggering buttons Hank 4way Z-wave buttons
Door sensors are Sonoff 433MHz (will be replaced soon by Z-wave sensors because of missing on/off state)
Sonoff 433 MHz Hub
Zwave.me USB stick
Still not in use: Broadlink RM4 mini IR hub, as I still have not found the time to fiddle with it…
So, I hope, this helps someone to see the power of HA. An example made by someone, who were a totally noob a year ago…
That’s all for now, having any questions on how I did it, just fire, I will try to answer.