Home Assistant

**My smart home journey started years ago with a simple Philips Hue configuration. After integrating Home Assistant, I wanted to have some door/window sensors and temperature sensors. I bought the Xiaomi Aqara bridge and implemented all the sensors into Home Assistant. I quickly realized I now have two Zigbee bridges due to the fact that both Philips and Xiaomi want a ‘customized’ standard. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I needed to do something…** I was using multiple bridges because I heard some stories about connection losses around some USB bridges. ...

The Dutch Government is aiming on providing smart meters to every household before Q4 2020. All the smart meters need to comply to DSMR (Dutch Smart Meter Requirements). DSMR allows us to read data from the smart meter by using a cable. In this guide, I will explain how I got this to work with Home Assistant. Prerequisites Home Assistant (Hass.io) running on a Raspberry Pi One of the supported smart meters. I’m using the Landis+Gyr ZMF110 with DSMR 4.2 from Liander A cable to connect from USB on your Pi to the smart meter (Optionally) a second Raspberry Pi running on a Linux distro to send the data over the network to your Hass.io Pi Connect your Raspberry Pi to the smart meter Insert the USB cable in the Raspberry Pi and the other side of the cable into your smart meter. A data connection should now be established. ...

My last blog post was all about getting Hass.io (or HassIO) installed on the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. This guide starts right where we left off: configuring Home Assistant to work with the configuration files we already have from Home Assistant running on Raspbian. Below are the steps I took in a nutshell. Install and open the Configurator Add-on on Hass.io to make sure you can always open the web UI to change your configurations. Create a snapshot so you can always go back to this point in time. Cut/paste the BaseURL and SSL settings from the configuration.yaml on your old Pi to the new configuration.yaml on your new Pi by using the Configurator add-on. Make sure that you have an SSH session open to the old Pi on the IP address of the old Pi, so you can still copy/paste the contents of various configurations. Also stop the Home Assistant service on your old Raspberry Pi and change any port forwarding rules in your firewall or DNS settings. (Depending on your old setup) Got your Home Assistant ready under the original URL? Create a new snapshot, just to be sure. Start copying the contents of your configuration.yaml and other relevant YAML configurations by grabbing it from SSH and pasting it in the Configurator Add-on. I was surprised to see that all the modules I’ve used before on Raspbian are working fine on Hass.io! So don’t worry too much about that. Go to your Hass.io URL and confirm the dashboard is back to where it was before. Let me know if this guide helped you out! Cheers!

Home Assistant recently announced a brand new image of Hass.IO running on HassOS. I instantly ordered a new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ to replace my older Raspberry Pi Model B, which was running Raspbian and Home Assistant. The guide below helps you with installing your new Hass.IO instance! Prerequisites Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ 32 GB **Micro-**SD card (I ordered a SanDisk Micro-SDHC 32GB Extreme U3 100MB/s) Ethernet cable (if not using WiFi) Micro USB power supply (2.1 A - very important! I’m using an iPad charger) A Windows 10 machine (This guide might work on a MacBook Pro or a Linux distro too) Installation Guide - Step-by-Step Download the 64-bit version of Hass.IO from Hass.IO. (File was named hassos_rpi3-64-1.7.img.gz) Download and install Etcher. I’ve used the Win32DiskImager tool before, but just installed Etcher to ensure that I’m following the right process. Open Etcher, open the image file you just downloaded and select the SD card. Hit the Flash button! Wait until it’s completed. It took me a couple of minutes. Optional - If you want to setup WiFi or set a static IP: On a USB stick, create the network/my-network file and follow the howto from HassOS. Safely remove the SD card (and optional USB stick) from the computer. Insert the SD card (and optional USB stick) into the Raspberry Pi and turn it on. Make sure you connect the LAN cable if you don’t use WiFi! On first boot, it downloads the latest version of Home Assistant which takes about 20 minutes. This gives you enough time to remove Etcher from your PC if you don’t need it anymore. You can now check your router/DHCP server to find the IP address of the Raspberry Pi. You can also reach the Raspberry Pi at http://hassio.local:8123. In the next blog post, we will take about configuring Home Assistant in Hass.io with the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. Cheers!