{"id":981,"date":"2021-02-15T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robotsbench.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2023-12-18T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T03:24:13","slug":"home-automation-build-home-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robotsbench.com\/home-automation-build-home-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"My home automation build with Home Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"
Over the summer I’ve started automating my home and can’t stop automating! It’s been running for a few months now and I’m pretty satisfied with the result, so it was now the time to share it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What got me started is that here in Quebec, our heat is mostly electrical with baseboards, so one thermostat for each of them is needed. I previously had Aube programmable thermostat<\/a> : they’re not bad, but the scheduling you can do is limited. Another problem is that they are plugged to the main power, so they will lose their programming if the power goes off. There are internal batteries in them, but those are not good forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The solution I settled on was rolling out my own system with Home Assistant, and controlling the whole thing from a Raspberry Pi cluster. That way, if the power goes down, the programming is still in the Raspberry Pi and won’t just disappear into thin air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In a few months I only had to reboot it once due to a bug, and it never lost power since it’s on the same UPS as my computer.<\/p>\n<\/div>