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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Configuring your hacked actuator

The actuator with the new firmware needs to be configured to work as expected. We will do this configuration first on the actuator side. After configuring the actuator side, we will do the Home Assistant configuration so Home Assistant can handle it. After this section, your actuator will be ready to be managed by Home Assistant.

Configuring the Tasmota firmware in your actuator

To configure your actuator, you will need to follow Figure 4.11.

Figure 4.11 – Sequence to install the AC wires to the Sonoff Basic R2

These steps will be required:

First, according to item 1 in Figure 4.11, you will need to make sure the connector lid on the input side is open. If it is not, unscrew the lid of the Sonoff Basic R2 actuator.
Second, according to item 2 in Figure 4.11, you will need to put wires in the actuator input. This is needed because we removed the DC power supply connected to the actuator and now...