You're reading from Building Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant Configure, integrate, and manage hardware and software systems to automate your home

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801815291

Length 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

ESP32

Concepts

Home Automation

Author (1):

Marco Antonio Santuci Carvalho

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Home Assistant – Installation and Configuration

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Home Automation Systems FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Home Assistant

4. Part 2: Install, Create, and Hack Sensors and Actuators

5. Chapter 3: Hands-On Project 1 – Creating Your Own Sensor

6. Chapter 4: Hacking a Commercial Actuator to Work with Home Assistant

7. Part 3: Automations, Customizations, and Integrations Using Home Assistant

8. Chapter 5: Creating Automations Using Home Assistant

9. Chapter 6: Doing More Using Integrations and Customizations

10. Part 4: Expanding Home Assistant’s Capabilities

11. Chapter 7: Extending Home Automation Capabilities Using Add-ons

12. Chapter 8: Installing and Setting Up Home Assistant Container

13. Part 5: Learn by Doing and Future Trends

14. Chapter 9: Hands-On Project 2 – Creating an LED Strip Controller and Adding It to Home Assistant

15. Chapter 10: Hands-On Project 3 – Creating a Five-Zone Temperature Logger for Your Home

16. Chapter 11: The Road Ahead in Home Automation Technologies

17. Index

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The Road Ahead in Home Automation Technologies

We have explored Home Assistant in this book, which will open a lot of doors in the Home Automation world. Home Automation is much more than Home Assistant though. This last chapter is a wrap-up providing an overview of new technologies, trends, and other aspects that will contribute to the future of the Home Automation area. New concepts and information will help you be motivated, informed, and tuned into what is coming up in the area and how it might affect you.

I will review some of the common questions asked in forums and discussion lists related to Home Assistant and Home Automation. I will share how you can get new ideas for future projects to be implemented in your home.

I will compile a list of links you can follow for more information in the Home Automation area so you can extend your research and learn much more beyond this book. So, in summary, the following topics will be covered in this chapter: