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Home Assistant Configuration

Currently running on a home media server using unRAID (Home Assistant runs in a docker)

Components Used:

• Weather:
  • wunderground
  • darksky
• Device Tracking:
  • nmap
• Climate:
  • Ecobee Version 3 with one remote sensor
• Lights:
  • Phillips Hue
    • 5x 2nd Gen Color Ambience Bulbs
    • 8x White Ambience Bulbs
• Zwave:
  • Aeotec Z-wave Stick
    • 2x GE Z-wave Switches
    • 1x Leviton Z-wave+ Switch
    • 1x Aeotec Smart Switch
    • 3x First Alert ZCOMBO Smoke/CO2 detectors
• Media Players:
  • Plex
  • Emby
  • Google Cast
    • NVIDIA Shield TV
    • 2x Google
    • 1x Chromecast
• Emulated Hue
  • 1x Amazon Echo
  • 2x Amazon Echo Dot
  • 2x Google Home
• Notifications:
  • HTML5 Push Notifications
• Other Components:
  • Blink Camera
  • Google Wifi
  • PiHole
  • Netdata
  • Speedtest
  • Fast.com
• Databases:
  • MySQL for default recorder
  • Influx and Grafana for more long-term trend plotting

Automations:

• Light control based on device presence and sun status
• Theromstat control based on outside temperature and device presence
• HA Reset notifications and memory leak notifications
• Nightly data storage for daily average/max/min to be displayed as a graph in the front end (to get long-term history)

Notes:

1. I use secrets.yaml to hide sensitive information (like API keys)
2. Currently, Home Assistant has local control over only Hue and Z-wave devices (Ecobee talks to cloud). My goal is to force everything to be local so if the interenet goes out, my home will still be automated.

• Most likely I'll just slowly phase out Wink and get a zwave stick for future ZWAVE components. I'll have to just live with the ecobee cloud-only BS for now...

Future Improvements:

• Automation override switches (added 8/21/2016)
• Rapberry pi status monitoring (added 8/27/2016)
• Integrate Alexa (added 10/23/2016)
• Selectable scenes (added 11/6/2016)
• Vacation Mode
• Thermostat automations (instead of using built-in Ecobee scheduling) (added 7/8/2017)
• Full local control (Ecobee does not allow local only)
• Intents
• More components:
  • Z-wave stick (for future Wink removal) (added 11/25/2016)
  • Home weather station
  • More Lights/switches
  • Door/window sensors
  • IP Cameras
  • Sprinkler/Irrigation automation
  • Washer status
  • Dishwasher status (custom sensor, probably)

(Images last updated July 23, 2017, may not reflect current configuration)