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My Home Assistant Configuration

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This is my personal home assistant configuration. I'm sharing it to provide the community ideas on how to organize one's files and on which kind of automations are feasible and how.

Disclamer: While I don't think it changes anything regarding how I manage my home automations and what I'm sharing here, I prefer to be transparent and reveal that I've recently starting to work for Google Nest and might be biaised towards the Nest products. Taht said I was already using my Nest Doorbell and my nest speakers/screens before joining so it's not like it changes anything.

Organization of this GitHub

After staring like everybody with everything in my configuration file, I started to split it to better keep track of the changes using GitHub. I followed the example of @jonathanadams and split (or actually tried to since it's a work in progress) all the configuration this way:

  • basic configuration will stay in configuration.yaml

  • every integration has its own yaml file in the integrations folder

  • when an integration corresponds to multiple entities (lights for ex.), then they each have their own YAML file in the corresponding folder located in the entities folder.

  • scripts, automations and scenes are grouped by "theme" (everything related to a room or a device for ex.) in their corresponding folder. Each folder has or will have its own documentation to explain what each automation/script/scene does.

With things moving to the UI more and more it's becoming more and more complicated to keep things organized but I'm trying my best.

My devices

Security

Name Type Brand Link Integration Connectivity Fully works? Comment
Nest Doorbell with battery Doorbell Nest Google Nest - Home Assistant WiFi Not really, you can't activate the camera by yourself If you can, avoid the battery one because charging it every 1/2 months is a hasle
E1 Zoom Camera Reolink Reolink IP NVR/Camera WiFi Yes, except you can't turn it on/off (I plan to use a plug instead) Be careful, the old model has the same name but doesn't have AI recognition so every bug passing by is triggering the motion detection. Also the cheaper E1 model cannot be integrated into HA.
Shelly Flood Flood sensor Shelly Shelly WiFi Yes, but not for long As much as I love shelly devices this one is really not good since the battery is being drained very fast:
Tile Mate Tracker Tile Tile Bluetooth Yes I love the devices but you need enough users around so taht it works and at the moment there isn't as many as for AirTags
Wyze Cam v2 Camera Wyze Wyze WiFi Yes! I really liked it, especially being able to switch it on/off, but it's harder to procure at a regular price in Europe so I had to switch to Reolink
Dafang Camera Xiaomi

Energy

Name Type Brand Link Integration Connectivity Fully works? Comment
Smart Radiator Valve Radiator Valve Netatmo https://www.netatmo.com/en-eu/smart-radiator-valves Netatmo / Homekit WiFi Yes, except you can only see the temperature with a .5 degree precision My wife finds it a bit noisy
Shelly plug S Shelly Shelly WiFi Yes! Great devices, affordable

Lighting

Name Type Brand Link Integration Connectivity Fully works? Comment
Nanoleaf Shapes Lights Nanoleaf Nanoleaf / Rest WiFi / Thread Yes, with custom Rest command I love them, especially the fact that I can trigger the sound reactive mode
Hue lightstrip plus Lightstrip Philips Hue Philips Hue Zigbee through the Philipps hue gateways (which is pluges with ethernet) Yes
Hue Smart button Remote Philips Hue Philips Hue Zigbee through the Philipps hue gateways (which is pluges with ethernet) Yes
Hue Tap Switch Remote Philips Hue Philips Hue Zigbee through the Philipps hue gateways (which is pluges with ethernet) Yes Rarery it somehow doesn"t work but when it does it's great to think that it doesn't have any battery

Multimedia

Name Type Brand Link Integration Connectivity Fully works? Comment
Google TV TV Android TV remote WiFi Yes, except the OSK I think the integration prevents you from using the on-screen keyboard which is annoying
Chromecast Ultra Set top box Google Nest Google Cast / Google Home WiFi Yes
Google Home Smart Speaker Google Nest Google Cast / Google Home WiFi Yes
Google Home Mini Smart speaker Google Nest Google Cast / Google Home WiFi Yes
Nest Audio Smart Speaker Google Nest Google Cast / Google Home WiFi Yes
Nest Hub Smart screen Google Nest Google Cast / Google Home WiFi Yes
Pixel Tablet Tablet Google Pixel Google Cast / Google Home WiFi Yes
Player Pop Set top box Freebox Google Cast / Google Home WiFi Yes
Smart Clock Smart screen Lenovo Google Cast / Google Home WiFi Yes

Other

Name Type Brand Link Integration Connectivity Fully works? Comment
Brother L2710DW Printer Brother Brother Printer WiFi I guess I'm not really using it TBH
Freebox delta Modem Freebox Freebox Ethernet Yes
EV6 Car Kia Hyundai / Kia Connect 4G Yes but flaky The integration is bit flaky but when it works it's great!
My android phones Phones Mostly Pixels :) Mobile App 4G Yes The integration is great, I'm just unsre about how much it drains the battery
Mutesync "Presence detection" Mutesync Mutesync WiFi Yes This is a nice device to expose whether you are in a virtual conference and oif your mic is on. That's just a pain to have to keeep the app open to do so.
Genius X Toothbrush Oral-B Oral-B Bluetooth No, but I think it's my fault The bathroom is very far from my raspberry Pi so I think the bluettoth connection doesn't always work
Connected washing machine Washing machine Samsung SmartThings WiFi Yes Let's be honnest, except for the power consumtion it's fairly useless at the moment
Withings Scale Scale Withings Withings WiFi No It works well but it forces me to renew the acess, for each person every 1 or 2 months which is way too much trouble
Mi Air purifier 3C Air purifier Xiaomi Xiaomi Miio WiFi Yes I'm really happy with it, I was worried it would be noisy but it's very quiet
Roborock S5 Robot Vaccum Roborock Xiaomi Miio WiFi Yes I just love it, but by the S7 if you can since cleaning it is way easier
Roborock S7 Robot Vaccum Roborock Xiaomi Miio WiFi Yes I love it

Custom integrations

Mobile app

After some time using Ariela I then switched to HassKit. While it has a bit too much an iOS-feel for me, I find it more convenient to be able to create specific views for the mobile. Ariela was also not liking all the custom components and the more I was customizing Lovelace, the more Ariela was becoming unusable. That said, in the future, I might reuse Ariela to refurbish an old Android phone into a new connected device.

Recently I've moved back to using the offical app since it also gives you the opportunity to expose a lot of data from the phone to Home Assistant. My only worry is that the battery consumption semms quite high, especially on my watch. But maybe that's just an impression, I haven't really investigated.

Continuous integration

I'm using CircleCI to check the configuration of every pull request or every time something is pushed to the master branch. This is configured in the .cicleci/config.yml file but it's still far from perfect checking lint raises way too many errors at the moment (likely due to all the custom integrations, but I'm worried it won't work otherwise). It was based on @mhaak work.

I used to use Travis because it was free for open source. But since it's not the case I've move top to CircleCI. That said you can still have a look at my Travis configuration in the .travis.yml file.

Tracking work

I'm a former video game producer so I love Jira :D To keep my habits, I'm using Jira to keep track of what I plan to do. It's integrated with github (my commits and PR are linked to the Jira issues), slack (for notifications) and circleCI for continuous integration.

Useful links and thanks