For setting up Home Assistant, there
are several choices:
Home Assistant OS, Home Assistant Container, Home Assistant Supervised, and
Home Assistant Core.
I chose Home Assistant OS for a few reasons.
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Withings Sleep Tracking Mat with Home Assistant
Background
I have really been wanting to get bed occupancy working with Home Assistant for a while. I have some lights around the house that are triggered by motion detectors. Especially for the one in the bedroom, I thought it would be nice if I could disable the motion-activated light whenever someone is in bed.
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My Story with Home Automation and Home Assistant
Background
So, my Home Automation journey starts like may others: I bought one smart plug.
Some of the wiring decisions made while building my house make no sense. In my family room, the light switch controlled an outlet in the very back of the room. But that wasn't a good place for the lamp for the room. The lamp needed to be way across the room where there is no switch-controlled-outlet.
I bought a Wemo Mini Smart Plug 3-pack. I removed the long-ass extension cable I had running along the wall (and across a doorway) from the lamp to the switched-outlet. Then we could turn on the lamp with, "Hey Google, turn on the lamp." And it was glorious!
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