In my Home i use Home Assistant for different jobs. On this page i will publish multiple posts to show how i solved some problems.
in my current environment, i do several tasks:
- Energy Monitoring
- Electricity
- Gas
- Water
- manage
- multiple power plugs
- Window Screen depending of the weather
- Firewall to control the Internet usage of the kids
- several media players in the house
- ventilation system
- my Ikea BEKANT desk, through MegaDesk companion
- oven from AEG / Electrolux
- next passages of our next public buses / tram
- monitor
- Gas sensor
- multiple Temperature/Humidity/Pressure sensors
- water tank level
- rain fall sensor
- health of several plants
- next weeks waste collection
- swimming pool sensors
i use devices, connected:
- directly to Home Assistant
- through custom integrations
- ZigBee
- Matter
- ESPHome
- Bluetooth Proxy
my Home Assistant instance runs in a virtualized environment as a HyperV vm. Cause of this, i can’t use any direct attached devices. the HyperV host self runs on a Mini PC Intel NUC10i7FNHN2, which consumes very little energy.
i will publish several articles about my experiences in above scenarios.
All posts over Home Assistant will be visible in the same category.
Are above mentioned solutions the best? no, sometimes i don’t follow best practices, cause it’s simpler or there are other reasons. sometimes i don’t know it better. I won’t be offended if you show me your solution to a stated problem and perhaps we can find together ingenious solutions.