As you already know, Sonoff has a marvel of devices, with which we can control everything we can think of, in this post we will see how to use the Sonoff Touch, a Wifi switch that we can put in our homes, replacing traditional switches. Apart from having an aesthetic that I personally love, we can change the firmware to integrate it with our Home Assistant installation and be able to control any light in the house / office.
In this post we can see another of the wonderful integrations that we can do with Home Assistant, since we will be able to geolocate our family in the simplest way. We can have a map and see where everyone is, define zones as Work, Gymnasium, Mother-in-law's House, Ikastola… as well as with automations receive alerts when someone enters/leaves an area and much more!
Another possibility that we can give Home Assistant is to install smoke detectors, These are wireless, powered by a small battery and communicate any notification by radio frequency., There are many types and quite cheap, For just €5 you can make sure that nothing burns in your home or office! This is how cheap we protect ourselves, and in the end we will see how to alert with Telegram in case there is smoke.
If we want to place motion sensors and perform actions based on detecting movements, we will be able to use some cheap Chinese IR sensors that are powered by a couple of batteries, they are small and disguised… In this document we will see how to add them in Home Assistant and how to configure some actions, For example, If we're not at home, Well, send us a Telegram message notifying us of a movement, or at a certain time turn on some LEDs to illuminate.
In this post we will see everything you need for your Home Assistant or Hassio to send you notifications to your mobile phone through Telegram. Something super interesting if you are putting motion detectors or door/window opening sensors and you want to get notices, For example.
In this post we are going to see how to control the blinds of our home or office, we start with traditional PVC blinds (in my case) to which we want to put a motor to automate something else and make a Smart Home. It will be super simple, We'll do it all with a Shelly 2.5 to control the upload or download wirelessly, and all integrated with Home Assistant!
Start the march! The first step in my case (after having Home Assistant installed), will centralize and receive all radio frequency signals with the fabulous Sonoff Bridge RF; and then send the sensor data to the MQTT Broker that we will mount in Home Assistant. That is, the Sonoff Bridge in this case will listen by RF and transmit by Wifi to the Hassio any data that interests us.
Call me meticulous, but I usually put the Home Assistant database on an external server with MariaDB or MySQL, since I usually make remote queries to the DB with some system, or for the issue of backup, robustness, etc… It is not something usual to do, But I'll leave you the steps in case you need it!
We started a series of super interesting posts, where in this first one we will see the installation of Hassio or Home Assistant on a Debian machine as a container will be quick and easy, From there, it will be time to grow and centralize all our devices so that we can manage them from here. Home Assistant is going to become the brain of our home automation system, From here we will know the status of each device and carry out the corresponding actions that interest us.
Well, after a while tinkering with these wonderful devices, I wanted to share with you some steps that you may need. The SonOffs are small Wifi modules based on ESP8266 with a relay. Ideal for remotely controlling a lamp… or whatever we need to turn off and on remotely. In this post we will see how to flash them and change the firmware and install Tasmota with a Raspberry Pi; sincerely, I found it to be the simplest option of all the ones I tried and it works with all SonOffs.
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