I decided to give Home Assistant a try to see what can be learned from it, and perhaps use it for some home automation tasks. Home Assistant (referred to as HA in this thread) seems to be one of the more popular open home automation platforms with 100’s of integrations. The rPI3, 64-bit image was downloaded and installed. When booting up, there UART console is not enabled, so I had to plug in a HDMI display to watch progress. It took a long time to boot, and it appears HA is started in a docker container.
After I got mDNS working on my workstations, I was able to load the web UI and saw the following:
Stay tuned for the next installment …
