This is a super concise, instructional guide to start automating your home and life using Home Assistant. It will walk you through how to build and configure a Home Assistant instance, sensors, and automations using specific hardware. Please refer to the Home Assistant docs to learn more on any of the topics and terms discussed.
The guide consists of a five sections:
This section provides an introduction to Home Automation and Home Assistant.
This section describes how to install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi or Intel NUC and then configure it for use.
- Installing on a Raspberry Pi
- Installing on an Intel NUC
- Setting up your instance
- Configuring the GUI
This section describes how to secure, backup, and remotely connect to your Home Assistant instance.
This section describes how to create your own LED strips and motion+temperature+humidity WIFI sensors, manage them through ESPHome, and automate them through Home Assistant.
- Introduction
- Installing ESPHome
- Building the sensor
- Configuring the sensor
- Creating simple sensor automations
This sections describes how to install and use Node-RED to create simple and advanced automations.