What a great experience with Home Assistant! Just after 1h I had a couple of integrations working „out of the box“ just by configuring user names, API-keys, or passwords:
- AVM Fritz for two fritz!boxes: UPnP and Fritz!SmartHome
- Denon working great for Marantz SR7007
- Elgato Keylight
- Google Cast for Google Chromecast
- IPP for HP printer
- Luftdaten for my Feinstaubsensor
- Meteorologisk institutt
- Mobile App
- Panasonic Viera for TV
- hue for lamps, former Phillips
- smappee my energy monitor
and after installing HACS, which is an additional integration marketplace of the Home Assistant developer community and not part of the Home Assistant standard release, I got these integrations running:
- Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
- JLR for our Jaguar
- Renault for our „Zoe“
and for some „Things“ I had to install custom components manually
- Weather Underground PWS as the standard Home Assistant integration does not work any more due to an API change!
- Miele, now also part of HACS
- OZW672 for Brötje heating and my own fork – requires lot of research and debugging
- Running MQTT broker add-in within Home Assistant – though quite easy: not straight forward, as documentation is confusing
- MQTT integration with WeeWx – required a lot of configuration and debugging
- MQTT integration with IoT Octopus – required some configuration
It is really close to the „one to rule them all“ 😉 in my #IoT house. That’s why I love Open Source communities 😉
The UI extensions are really huge. I dived deeper into the Lovelace Mini Graph Card, which is lot more than „mini“:
I miss only very few devices:
- Mennekes amtron integration
- Amphiro integration
- Jura integration
- Velux windows and shades integration
But then, my microSD-card SanDisk 16GB (Type 10 A1) crashed and I looked into the alternative for running Home Assistant more reliable on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. This is solved in my next post.