It seems to be the application of choice and it ticks a lot of boxes for me. Troy Hunt), Home Assistant was a recurring theme. In the research I've done previously into roll-your-own home automation, and in a number of tweets from people I respect (e.g.

It was a bit fiddly getting the case together but I managed it without breaking anything, so happy days! Installing Home Assistant They also provide very good instructions for assembling the case (the jumble of plastic in the bottom right of the image).

Hats off to The Pi Hut at this point, who delivered my goodies in good time. The hardware for my Home Assistant controller, pre-assembly. I had heard the Pi 4 gets quite hot so I ordered a case with a fan and a large heat sink (the red rectangle in the picture). This device will be running full time so it's good that the Raspberry Pi draws very little power. The Raspberry Pi 4B really is a game changer in terms of bang for your buck computing power, so I ordered the 8 GB RAM version to be the host for my Home Assistant instance. To begin this series of posts I'm going to talk about getting Home Assistant set up on a Raspberry Pi 4. I could have just installed a basic humidity sensor in the under sink cupboard but I was after justification to play with Home Assistant and, to my mind, I'd found it.

That idea came when my wife discovered the leak under the kitchen sink, that we thought was fixed, actually turned out to be a second leak - one that had probably been there for months. The idea of home automation still intrigues me and, as I commented in October 2019 I was looking for a reason to justify playing with this.

As regular readers will recall, I have written previously about smart homes and home automation (also part two) before.

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