Home automation for noobs and nerds (rc3)

A short overview about home automation basics and history as well as a hands on to HomeAssistant and ESPHome on a RaspberryPi.<b> If you ever wanted to get started with home automation you should start here.</b> I would like to give you a overview about the History of my personal HomeAutomation Experience </br> with good and bad things i had to deal with. </br> </br> In the first part of the Workshop i like to talk a bit about the basics of home automation to ramp up everyone.</br> </br> A rough overview would be</br> <ul> <li>Home Automation - imagination vs. reality</li> <li>Sensor, Actor WTF?</li> <li>What hardware to be dealt with</li> <li>Evaluation of HomeAutomation hubs</li> <li>Which software/standard will cross your way on the component side</li> <li>How to bring them all together</li> </ul> </br></br> In the Second Part of the Workshop i will guide you trough the Initial Setup of HomeAssistant(hass.io)</br> and try to integrate whatever you have at home together with you.</br> Also i will show some tweaks that are not come with the default setup. </br></br> Topics:</br> <ul> <li>Hassio Installation</li> <li>Hassio Configuration</li> <li>Intro to the hassio dashboard</li> <li>Intro to HomeAssistant Automations</li> <li>NodeRed vs. Builtin Automation capability</li> <li>NodeMCU/ESP32/ESP8266 the easy way</li> <li>Customisations without any limits</li> <li>What else you have in mind for home-automations??</li> </ul> </br></br></br> What to Bring to the Workshop?</br> Raspberry PI 3 B/B+ or 4B </br> or a Virtualization that can handle VMDK, VHDX, VDI, QCOW2 or OVA. about this event: https://pretalx.rc3.studio/rc3-channels-2020/talk/NBEBSJ/