Home Assistant

My home assistant setup.

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About The Project

This is my personal home assistant setup so it probably won't have much use for others. However, it may help someone.

Setup from scratch

1. Follow Customization

2. Install all dependencies using hacs-package-manager

   hpm ci --haConfigPath="homeAssistantCore/"

3. Configure home assistant

4. Login to cloud

5. Setup backup or restore from backup

6. Enable advanced mode under profile settings

7. Configure MQTT with:

   Variable	Value
   Broker	eclipse-mosquitto
   Port	1883
   Username	mqtt
   Password	Use value of MQTT_PASSWORD from Customization

8. Open Zigbee2mqtt dashboard on port 8124 and rejoin all devices listed in configuration.yaml (Host differs from the Home assistant instance)

• For EnOcean switches press the button corisponding to the zigbee channel (default should be upper right) for 10 seconds.

9. Add all ESP Home intregrations listed here. The hostname is the project name

10. Add digital-alchemy user and create a long live token and add it to env.

11. Add all desired autodiscovered integrations:

• Google Cast

• Mobile App

  1. Go to Mobile App setting

  2. Add Homenetwork SSID

  3. Setup URLs

• OctoPrint

• Sonos

• CO2 Signal

  Variable	Value
  Access Token	See
  ...	Defaults

• UniFi Networks

  Variable	Value
  Track network clients	true
  Include wired network clients	false
  Track network devices (Ubiquiti devices)	false
  ...	Defaults

12. Add all devices to areas

13. Restart that homeassistant configurations take effect

14. Configure persons to your liking:

• Profile picture

• Device tracking

  • device_tracker.oneplus_a5000

  • device_tracker.oneplus5

15. delete unused areas

16. Setup Google Assistant

17. Setup BLE devices

Customization

1. Create a .env file

touch .env

2. Overwrite variables as you like (format: {variable name}={variable value})

Variable	Description	Default value	Required
POSTGRES_USER	Postgres user	homeAssistantCore	false
POSTGRES_PASSWORD	Postgres password	none	true
POSTGRES_DB	Postgres DB name	homeAssistantCore	false
HOME_ASSISTANT_IP	Ip of the home assistant instance matching to SUBNET	none	true
MDNS_REFLECTOR_IP	Ip of the mDNS reflector matching to SUBNET	none	true
LAN_NETWORK_DEVICE	Network device to use for macvlan driver	none	true
SUBNET	Subnet for host network	none	true
ZIGBEE_KEY	See Change Zigbee network encryption key	none	true
ZIGBEE2MQTT_AUTH_TOKEN	Auth token for the Zigbee2MQTT frontend. See advanced-configuration	none	true
ZIGBEE_USB_DEVICE	USB Zigbee dongle	/dev/ttyACM0	false
LATITUDE	See	none	true
LONGITUDE	See	none	true
MQTT_PASSWORD	MQTT broker password	none	true
HASS_TOKEN	HomeAssistant Long Live Token token	none	true