/smarthome-config

My Home Assistant and related configurations.

Primary LanguageShell

Smart Home Configuration

This repository contains the configurations that power my smart home.

My smart home is primarily powered by Home Assistant running on an Intel NUC 7 Mini-PC. Home Assistant interfaces with all of my devices and provides a central software-based "hub" to integrate and automate them. By having all of my devices integrated there, I can perform automations that are otherwise not supported on the devices' native platforms.

I update my configurations fairly regularly. I'm either adding new devices, creating new automations, or refining the ones that already exist. You can see my current Home Assistant version here.

Software

While Home Assistant is the primary component of my smart home, there are other pieces of software that help:

  • Home Assistant: As covered, this is the software-based smart home hub.
  • PostgreSQL: HA defaults to a SQLite-based database backend, but I found this to be more performant. Plus, I'm already quite familiar with it from my job.
  • Docker: I run all of this inside of Docker containers to make them all self-contained.
  • Debian: The Linxu distribution running on my NUC that runs all the Docker containers.

Hardware