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| Participants | Dennis |
| Skills | 1337 Skillz |
| Status | Active |
| Niche | Electronics |
| Purpose | Fun |
| Tool | No |
| Location | Niz |
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The brain: Banana Pro with Home Assistant
My Pi 2's micro sd card broke very quickly, so I've been working on a more stable replacement in the form of a Banana Pro board. I installed Bananian on the sd card and then moved the installation to a real hard disk (yay spindles o/) connected to the SATA port. Hopefully this will survive longer.
Home Assistant
I followed this Installation instructions. This worked fine once I installed some dependencies for the discovery component (I don't know which one did the trick):
apt-get install build-essential checkinstall python3-dev
To get device tracking with nmap working, nmap needed to be installed and a symlink for arp needed to be made:
apt-get install nmap ln -s /usr/sbin/arp /usr/bin/arp
To have home assistant autostart after reboot, I put this line in /etc/crontab:
@reboot homeassistant /home/homeassistant/start_homeassistant.sh
With start_homeassistant.sh containing:
#!/bin/bash virtualenv -p python3 /srv/homeassistant && source /srv/homeassistant/bin/activate && hass
Sensors
NRF nodes
Most probably I will use the hardware designed by User:Zarya as mentioned in NrfSensorNode. They will run the library from https://www.mysensors.org/.
Lights
Philips Hue
Got some Philips Hue stuff for cheap. Hue integrates with Home Assistant very easily: https://home-assistant.io/components/light.hue/. Lights are automatically found once you give HA access to the bridge (push button on bridge when HA ask for it).
Hue Bridge v1
Talks to the lights over Zigbee Light Link and connects to the network over UTP
Hue color lamps
3 LED lights that work just fine, although 2 of them are missing the glass bit. They do whites and colors \o/.
Living Colors Aura
Does colors and whites.
Hue white
Do white light only, but are still dimmable. Got 2 of them.
