{"id":40147,"date":"2019-03-24T21:29:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T19:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=40147"},"modified":"2019-03-24T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T19:29:48","slug":"home-assistant-open-source-home-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/24\/home-assistant-open-source-home-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Assistant &#8211; Open Source Home Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"318\" data-attachment-id=\"40148\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/24\/home-assistant-open-source-home-automation\/home-assistant\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/home-assistant.png?fit=1886%2C908&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1886,908\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"home assistant\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/home-assistant.png?fit=660%2C318&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/home-assistant-1024x493.png?resize=660%2C318&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/home-assistant.png?resize=1024%2C493&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/home-assistant.png?resize=500%2C241&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/home-assistant.png?resize=768%2C370&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/home-assistant.png?w=1886&amp;ssl=1 1886w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/home-assistant.png?w=1320 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One day I will get to this whole subject of home automation.  Or office automation.  Or some other premises automation.  That day, I&#8217;ll probably need to look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.home-assistant.io\/\">Home Assistant<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Open Source, locally hosted, and private &#8211; that&#8217;s nice.  It runs on a variety of hardware, like Raspberry Pie or Amazon Fire HD tablet,  which can be mounted on the wall with 3M wall stickers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s also a whole lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.home-assistant.io\/components\/\">ready components<\/a> ready to use.  And new ones, I hear, are easy to develop in Python.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>One day I will get to this whole subject of home automation. Or office automation. Or some other premises automation. That day, I&#8217;ll probably need to look at Home Assistant: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/24\/home-assistant-open-source-home-automation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home Assistant &#8211; Open Source Home Automation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Home Assistant - Open Source Home Automation #SmartHome #tablets #Amazon #RaspberryPi","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[3632,3243,3188,3633],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-40147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-amazon-fire","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-smart-home","tag-tablets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22303,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/30\/terraform-infrastructure-automation-and-management-tool\/","url_meta":{"origin":40147,"position":0},"title":"Terraform &#8211; infrastructure automation and management tool","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 30, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"Terraform - infrastructure automation and management tool. \u00a0It complements\u00a0configuration management tools like Puppet and Chef, as well as infrastructure building tools like CloudFormation. \u00a0The beauty of it is that it is tool and cloud agnostic. \u00a0You can use it to build and maintain infrastructure across multiple clouds.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28248,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/28\/mautic-open-source-marketing-automation\/","url_meta":{"origin":40147,"position":1},"title":"Mautic &#8211; Open Source Marketing Automation","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Mautic is an Open Source marketing automation solution.\u00a0 It features contact management, social media marketing, email marketing, forms, campaigns, reports, and pretty much everything else you'd expect from a tool like this. 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