Home Automation

Every new Home Assistant release brings breaking changes.

Article removed as content is meant for older version of HASS and will no longer work in 0.8 and above.

In our previous Home Automation tutorials - our Home Assistant traffic traverses through the Internet un-encrypted.

I'm running my Home Assistant in my home lab. This is overkill for most people - a cheap US $35 Raspberry Pi has enough processing power to automate your house.

This tutorial is a quick HOWTO on  the basics of a Raspberry Pi, and how to install Home Assistant on one.

Using IFTTT and Voice Control to control lights isn't as effective as initially anticipated - Google Home kept mis-interpreting what I said and go off som