lstoll/home-assistant repository overview

⁠Home Assistant

Home Assistant is a home automation platform running on Python 3. The goal of Home Assistant is to be able to track and control all devices at home and offer a platform for automating control.

To get started:

python3 -m pip install homeassistant
hass --open-ui

Check out the website⁠ for a demo⁠, installation instructions, tutorials and documentation.

Examples of devices it can interface it:

• Monitoring connected devices to a wireless router: OpenWrt⁠, Tomato⁠, Netgear⁠, DD-WRT⁠, TPLink⁠, ASUSWRT⁠ and any SNMP capable Linksys WAP/WRT
• Philips Hue⁠ lights, WeMo⁠ switches, Edimax⁠ switches, Efergy⁠ energy monitoring, RFXtrx sensors, and Tellstick⁠ devices and sensors
• Google Chromecasts⁠, Music Player Daemon⁠, Logitech Squeezebox⁠, Plex⁠, Kodi (XBMC)⁠, iTunes (by way of itunes-api⁠), and Amazon Fire TV (by way of python-firetv⁠)
• Support for ISY994⁠ (Insteon and X10 devices), Z-Wave⁠, Nest Thermostats⁠, RFXtrx⁠, Arduino⁠, Raspberry Pi⁠, and Modbus⁠
• Interaction with IFTTT⁠
• Integrate data from the Bitcoin⁠ network, meteorological data from OpenWeatherMap⁠ and Forecast.io⁠, Transmission⁠, or SABnzbd⁠.
• See full list of supported devices⁠

Built home automation on top of your devices:

• Keep a precise history of every change to the state of your house
• Turn on the lights when people get home after sun set
• Turn on lights slowly during sun set to compensate for less light
• Turn off all lights and devices when everybody leaves the house
• Offers a REST API⁠ and can interface with MQTT for easy integration with other projects like OwnTracks⁠
• Allow sending notifications using Instapush⁠, Notify My Android (NMA)⁠, PushBullet⁠, PushOver⁠, Slack⁠, Telegram⁠, and Jabber (XMPP)⁠

The system is built modular so support for other devices or actions can be implemented easily. See also the section on architecture⁠ and the section on creating your own components⁠.

If you run into issues while using Home Assistant or during development of a component, check the Home Assistant help section⁠ how to reach us.