Deploy Home Assistant and My Home Automation Adventure.
Automating my home or at least trying to.
At MMS this year one of the sessions, in fact the very last session I attended was about Home Automation using Home Assistant. I have been itching to get started playing with Home Assistant but just haven’t had the time. However, I have a need now to do some home automation and now it has become important.
My Use case
I have a T9 Honeywell Thermostat at home that is connected to the Resideo app to control my A/C. I also have kids and a wife that can’t seem to shut the front door. So I need a way to shut off the A/C if someone leaves the door open for more than 1 minute or so. I also have some “Smart” fans in every room of my house. I put Smart in quotes because the app that manages them isn’t the best but I did read that there are ways that Home Assistant can control these fans as well. So my goal here, is to get window and door sensors that I can use to tell when a window or door is open, and if it is open for more than a minute, turn off the A/C. I don’t want to cool off the Texas heat this summer.