Home Assistant: a way to home automation

There are multiple opensource home automation packages available on the market. I chose for home assistant, it has a big community with every other week an update and is Python based. It is the hub that interconnects all the following components:

• MQTT Broker
• Google Assistant
• Apple Homekist
• SONOS
• Playstation 4
• Spotify
• IR Blaster to control old IR appliances
• Lamps
• Phoscon from Dresden Electronics (zigbee gateway)
• Automations

Home-assistant.io

Docker container

Phoscon

Lamps

• [WiFi] Sonoff Bulb with custom firmware installed controlled using MQTT
• [WiFi] Xiaomi Philips zhirui e27 smart led lamp,

Sensors

• [Zigbee] Xiaomi Aqara Human Motion Sensor
• [Zigbee] Xiaomi Aqara Temperature Humidity Sensor

Button

• [Zigbee] Xiaomi Aqare Magic Cube