This is my configuration of Home Assistant. It may serve as a cookbook from which recipes can be taken.
It is a package based configuration. The configuration is grouped into packages that can be easily reused. In any case, you'll need to adapt the configuration to suit your needs and the name of your sensors and objects.
Scripts and configuration applied to other devices is also included, like the configuration of my laptop to work with Home Assistant.
A Makefile is included. I use it to deploy the configuration to my Raspberry Pi, and also to deploy Home Assistant itself too.
Note that I do not own any sensors or switches, so some are simulated. The main features of this configuration are automation, integration with media players, and device tracking. See below.
This is still a work in progress. Some features are missing, but for now it is the configuration I use.
- Alarm Clock
- Calendars (Google Calendar)
- Device monitoring (Android mobile, Ubuntu laptop, Raspberry Pi)
- Media player management (TV, Linux player)
- Text to Speech audio in separate players (music keeps playing in background)
- Notifications engine: messages sent via speech or Telegram as per configuration
- Automation Profiles and Config Controls: easy management of automation settings
- Distance to home tracking and common travel distances
- Traffic cameras (URLs not provided)
- Internet external IP monitoring, with notification
- Presence automations: welcome home music, welcome home report, welcome work report
- Personal / work email pending count
- "Home report" feature: provides a TTS overview of the data
- Random / funny quote (shown in UI and reports)
- Weather information
- Hourly time report
- Voice commands via API.AI (from browser)
- Fine-tuned history and logbook keeping
You can take recipes from this repository or you can use it as a basis to start your own Home Assistant configuration.
If you wish to use this configuration as a base for yours, just fork the project at GitHub. Clone your new repository.
In either case, you then need to review each of the packages and adapt it to meet your needs. Remove everything you don't need and adapt names ot match your sensors and objects.
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Run make test to test the configuration.
In my case I deploy Home Assistant to a Raspberry Pi.
To deploy the software, I use the command below. This installs a virtual environment and home assistant. It also installs home assistant as a service, creating a user for it. Do this at your own risk. In order to use it, review the Makefile and update the addresses for your deployment.
make deploy-hass
You can then manage Home Assistant service using:
service home-assistant@homeassistant stop
service home-assistant@homeassistant start
In order to deploy configuration:
make deploy-config
make deploy-secrets
You need to restart Home Assistant after deploying a new configuration.
You can see the log files using:
tail -f /var/log/syslog
...or:
tail -f /srv/home-assistant/config/home-assistant.log
Clementine Player
In order to have Clementine Music Player available, user session needs to be set up for automatic log on.
Add a copy of the Clementine desktop link (/usr/share/applications/) to ~/.config/autostart so it starts automatically.
MPD
In order to have a separate stream for Text-to-Speech notifications, MPD has to be installed and configured.
Install GPSLogger as explained in Home Assistant: https://home-assistant.io/components/device_tracker.gpslogger/
Feel free to ask any question using GitHub Issues.