Tag: home assistant

• #Home Assistant: DIY Smart Home - tips and tricks (SSL, HAProxy & Let's Encrypt)

  Home Automation, Raspberry Pi | 12 min | 130125

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  raspberry pi

  home automation

  home assistant

  zigbee

  hass.io

  reverse proxy

  google assistant

  In the last years, I wrote several articles about Home Assistant (HA) and the possibility to replace the Zigbee hubs from different companies in your home using Zigbee2MQTT. Some of those articles are listed here (don't visit the links, they are outdated):

  • Zigbee: Xiaomi Sensors using Raspberry Pi (without ...

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• #Raspberry Pi: Controlling Philips HUE Lights (ZigBee & CC2531)

  Home Automation, Raspberry Pi | 6 min | 32481

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  docker

  home automation

  wireless communication

  home assistant

  mqtt

  zigbee

  cc2531

  philips hue

  This article extends the tutorial about Hass.io and the Xiaomi Aqara Sensors that I've published months ago. That tutorial is part of the series of articles about Zigbee and the Rasbperry Pi using the CC2531 USB dongle. Here are the links:

  • Zigbee: Xiaomi Sensors using Raspberry Pi (without Gateway!)
  • Zigbee: Flashing a CC2531 dongle using a Raspberry Pi
  • Raspberry Pi: Xiaomi Sensors & Home Assistant (Hass.io)
  • Zigbee: Reading Xiaomi Sensors with a Raspberry Pi (no Xiaomi gateway ...

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• #Zigbee: Flashing a CC2531 dongle using a Raspberry Pi

  Home Automation, Raspberry Pi | 3 min | 69278

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  raspberry pi

  home assistant

  mqtt

  xiaomi sensors

  xiaomi gateway

  aqara

  pir

  door sensor

  zigbee

  aqara sensors

  Last April, I published a tutorial about connecting the Aqara sensors to a Raspberry Pi without using the Xiaomi Gateway. To make that possible, I needed a CC Debugger to flash the TI CC2531 Zigbee Dongle. This debugger was used only one time, and then the Zigbee-USB dongle worked without any problem.

  In this article, I will cover a way to flash the CC2531 without the CC Debugger. This reduces project costs (about $10 for debugger + cable adapters) and waitin...

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• #Zigbee: Reading Xiaomi Sensors with a Raspberry Pi (no Xiaomi gateway needed!)

  Home Automation, Product Reviews, Raspberry Pi | 2 min | 21915

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  docker

  home automation

  raspberry pi 3 B plus

  product review

  home assistant

  xiaomi sensors

  xiaomi gateway

  aqara

  hass.io

  I've been very busy the last weeks. I moved to a new apartment and I was living between moving boxes. Four days ago, I managed to put my desk together and now I have some time (not a lot) to write a new article.

  Last month I've received from GearBest two Aqara sensors:

  • Aqara Cube - internal motion sensors (gyro + accelerometers)
  • Aqara humidity, temperature and air pressure

  These sensors use Zigbee and I connected them to a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian OS and a dockerized version o...

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• #Raspberry Pi: Xiaomi Sensors & Home Assistant (Hass.io)

  Home Automation, Raspberry Pi | 5 min | 26218

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  raspberry pi

  docker

  sensors

  home automation

  home assistant

  zigbee

  xiaomi

  hass.io

  embedded

  Last week, I published an article about using Xiaomi sensors without a Xiaomi Gateway. The gateway/hub can be replaced with a Raspberry Pi and a USB-ZigBee dongle. You find the instructions here: #ZigBee: Xiaomi Sensors using Raspberry Pi (without Gateway!).

  As you can read in that article, two repositories are available to connect and process the data from the Xiaomi sensors. Additionally, Zigbee2mqtt can be connected to Hass.io. Well, I didn't want to use HassOS (the OS on which hass.io runs), but I wanted to use Hass.io running on Raspbian, otherwise with Home Assistant running as an appli...

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• #Zigbee: Xiaomi Sensors using Raspberry Pi (without Gateway!)

  Home Automation, Raspberry Pi | 6 min | 108447

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  raspberry pi

  home automation

  home assistant

  mqtt

  xiaomi sensors

  xiaomi gateway

  aqara

  pir

  door sensor

  zigbee

  This tutorial allows you to connect Xiaomi (or Aqara) sensors (e.g. door, pir, temperature, water, switch) to a Raspberry Pi or similar system without using any Xiaomi Gateway.

  This is what I will try to accomplish in this tutorial:

  1. Flash the USB-Zigbee Dongle with the correct FW
  2. Install a broker to connect to the sensors
  3. Configure the sensors using the...

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• #MicroPython: Home Automation using Blynk connected to a WiPy 3.0 / 2.0

  Home Automation, MicroPython | 2 min | 9750

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  micropython

  esp32

  android

  home automation

  wipy 3.0

  blynk

  ios

  home assistant

  mqtt

  This time a quick tutorial to control your WiPy 3.0 / 2.0 or an ESP32 using Blynk.

  Blynk is the most popular mobile app for the IOT. Works with anything: ESP8266, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, SparkFun and others.

  I found a library to connect MicroPython to Blynk but it is only compatible with the WiPy 1.0. Thus, I modified it and made it compatible with the WiPy 3.0 / 2.0 and with the ESP32 running MicroPython. If you do not have any idea about MicroPython, I rec...

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