Home Assistant Config by onegneissguy

This is my Home Assistant configuration which is running on a Raspberry PI 3 running Hassbian.

Home Assistant Version: 0.60.1

0. Setup Hardware

• Setup your Raspberry Pi like this

1. Platform

• Raspberry Pi 3 model B
• SanDisk Ultra 32GB microSDHC
• Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5

2. Devices

• Lights
  • GoControl Z-Wave Dimmable LED Light Bulb, LB60Z-1 (x3)
• Switches
  • GE 14291 Z-Wave Plus In-Wall Paddle Smart ON/OFF Switch (x3)
  • GE Z-Wave Plus Dimmer 14294 (x1)
  • Wemo® Switch Smart Plug (x2)
  • Wemo® Insight Smart Plug (x1)
• Door/Window
  • Aeotec by Aeon Labs ZW120 Door / Window Sensor (x2)
• Motion
  • BeSense ZWave Ceiling PIR Motion Detector
  • Zooz Z-Wave Plus 2-in-1 Motion and Light Mini Sensor ZSE09
• Cameras
  • Amcrest IP2M-842 HD WiFi Camera
• Climate
  • Honeywell Lyric T5
• Media
  • Amazon Echo (1st Gen)
  • Amazon Echo Dot (1st Gen)
  • Xbox One S
• Network
  • Netgear Nighthawk X4S Router
• Location
  • Owntracks MQTT
• Other
  • Adafruit Feather HUZZAH ESP8266 running MQTT
    • Adafruit BME280 I2C or SPI Temperature Humidity Pressure Sensor

3. Useful commands

• Config the raspberry pi (things like keyboard layout, timezone, etc.)

sudo raspi-config

• Change the default password (for user username)

sudo passwd username

• Prevent the wifi device from going to sleep

sudo iw dev wlan0 set power_save off

• Turn off the pi's wifi device

sudo ifwconfig wlan0 txpower off

• Give homeassistant access to the Pi's GPIO pins

sudo usermod -G gpio -a homeassistant

• Update hassbian

sudo hassbian-config upgrade hassbian

• Update homeassistant

sudo hassbian-config upgrade home-assistant

• Restart homeassistant

sudo systemctl restart home-assistant@homeassistant

• List the available install scripts for some useful services

sudo hassbian-config show

• Install some useful services

# Install a mosquitto MQTT server
sudo hassbian-config install mosquitto
# Install samba to view and edit config files as a network location on a PC
sudo hassbian-config install samba

• Edit the wifi configuration

sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

• List connected USB devices

lsusb

• Install hassctl to more easily control home-assistant

sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/hassctl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dale3h/hassctl/master/hassctl && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hassctl

• hassctl method to update home-assistant

hassctl update-hass && hassctl config && hassctl restart

• install appdaemon for home-assistant

sudo hassbian-conf install appdaemon

• Reboot the pi

sudo reboot now