Home Automation with “Awesome” HASS.IO — Part I

Let me begin by saying that I am a newbie when it comes to home automation. During the past few months, I have come across so many tools and devices that I am absolutely fascinated with the potential that home automation projects have. I will start by charting a course in my home automation journey, which isn’t much, but nevertheless, is a good beginning. This is a three part series. In each post, I have tried to focus only on the integration of the systems and have deliberately tried to veer away from information that can be easily followed from other sources. At the same time,I have tried to provide the relevant links for this kind of available information.

Device Map

Below is a map of the devices I have at home:

Balcony — There are couple of Ikea Trädfri bulbs in the balcony that are connected to a common Trädfri Remote Control. There is also a Trädfri Gateway that enables controlling the lights using Ikea’s Smart Home App. Using the smartphone app, I can set custom timers to turn these lights ON and OFF respectively. However I cannot configure the lights to turn ON automatically at sunset or turn OFF automatically at sunrise.

Top Floor — There is a temperature and humidity sensor in one of the bathrooms. This is a Xiaomi Sensor that uses BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) to advertise…