📄️ Introduction
- Video Demo:
📄️ Installing Home Assistant
The first step to using Home Assistant is to install it on your device. This chapter provides multiple installation methods for users to choose from.
📄️ Initial Configuration
Connecting to the Network
📄️ Concepts and Terminology
Having completed the installation and configuration, we've successfully entered Home Assistant. Let's now look at some of the most important concepts in Home Assistant. Understanding these concepts will greatly help with subsequent use. For now, just get a general idea — detailed explanations will be provided in later tutorials during actual usage.
📄️ Dashboard
The dashboard is the homepage you see after logging into Home Assistant. It is used to display various types of information, and users can customize the page. By default, there are Overview and Energy interfaces. The most commonly used is the Overview page. Upon first login, you will see that the page is almost empty.
🗃️ MQTT Integration
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📄️ Camera Surveillance
Home Assistant integrates the MJPEG IP Camera integration, which can interface with the WalnutPi USB camera usage methods introduced earlier, enabling surveillance monitoring from the Home Assistant interface.
📄️ Automation
In the previous sections, we added many devices and entities. The Automation feature in this section is used to create coordinated actions between these devices, entities, and events.
📄️ Adding Commercial Products
Xiaomi Temperature and Humidity Sensor
📄️ Connecting to Apple HomeKit
Apple HomeKit is the built-in smart home app on iPhones. Simply add the HomeKit Bridge integration in WalnutPi Home Assistant to bind specific devices and control them on your iPhone.