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Alex's Home Assistant documentation

This website contains reference documentation to my Home Assistant installation. I will try and contain all my IMHO extensive Home Assistant knowledge within this repo. Hopefully it can be as a reference to you.

Issues, questions and pull requests are welcome!

History

Before starting with Home Assistant in november 2018, I used a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with Domoticz for a fairly simple home automation setup. Although it worked great, Domoticz was quite lacking with new integrations and updates. So I dived, head first into Home Assistant on version 0.81.

The initial migration was quite tricky, but after a long week of trial and error, I haven't looked back since...

Since than I migrated to an Intel NUC like device, expanded my Z-Wave network and added Zigbee devices, contributed to Home Assistant and even created my own Home Assistant add-ons.

Hardware

Over the last few years I collected and succesfully implemented multiple devices which are essential to my home automation. I will try and list all of these devices and provide more information where necessary.

Host system

Since my Raspberry Pi 3B+, I've migrated to a Intel NUC-like device, the Gigabyte Brix GB-BLCE-4105. I've elaborated on why I chose this system and how to install this on a dedicated page.

Wi-Fi devices

tbd.

Zigbee devices

tbd.

Z-Wave devices

tbd.

Software

Home assistant custom components

tbd.

Home Assistant add-ons

Home Assistant integrations

tbd.