Home Automation

Python based automation system which uses mqtt to handle intra-component communication (was formally just for use of ESP8266 devices)

Requirements

libcurl4-openssl-dev
python3-pip
python3.4
git
screen

Installation

Note: These installation instructions are for Ubuntu 14.04

Install prerequisits

sudo -i
apt-get install mosquitto
pip install virtualenv

Setup home_automation

cd /
git clone https://github.com/mbainrot/home_automation.git
cd /home_automation
virtualenv env -p `which python3.4`
source env/bin/activiate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Configure home automation

cp config.example.py config.py
cp lifx_config.example.py lifx_config.py

You then have to edit those files accordingly, config.py generally doesn't need it but for lifx_config.py you will need to specify your API key.

Start home_automation

cd /home_automation
./start.sh