My Home Assistant Config

My rule is no cloud based apps, everything must run local, no subscription fees, and the hardware must have Home Assistant integration. I don't want 20 different apps to manage 20 different devices, I don't want my house to become unusable when my internet is offline, and I don't want devices that can be bricked when a manufacturer decides to turn off their servers or not renew a certificate.

My HA installation runs on a Pi 3 with the following:

Software

• Plex Media Server
• Homebridge for Apple HomeKit Support
• Pi-hole for network-wide adblocker
• PiVPN for VPN into my house from anywhere
• LetsEncrypt for the SSL on my HA domain

Hardware

• 1 x Foscam FI8918W for a PTZ camera in my toddler's room which I've then configured using HA scripts to allow me to point at three different locations in the room
• 2 x Foscam FI9800P - one for the front of the house, one for the back
• 1 x Foscam C1 Lite for the landing
• 1 x Foscam C1 for the hallway
• 2 x Fibaro FGMS-001 Motion Sensor (manual) for motion and temperature (it does brightness too but I'm not making use of that yet)
• 1 x Aeotec USB Z-Stick S5 plugged into the Pi to interface with the z-wave devices
• Ikea Tradfri lighting - dimmers and bulbs for the living room TV are and play area, downstairs toilet, hallway, dining room, and master bedroom
• 2 x TP-Link HS110, one for the Xmas lights and one for the wife's electric blanket

Floorplan

• Dark grey rooms can't be controlled as they have no controllable lights in yet
• Light grey rooms mean they've got controllable lights, and a tap on the room will toggle them
• Yellow rooms are rooms with lights already turned on
• The diagonally hatched rooms are rooms with currently detected motion

Automation

// todo: document

High level overview:

• My office lights are automated. When I walk in the room they turn on, and after 10 minutes of no motion they turn off
• When neither my wife or I am home, my internal cameras begin recording and my motion sensors will send a Slack alert when motion is detected
• The underlights on my bed turn on automatically at 7pm and off at 7am
• My wife's electric blanket turns on at 6:30pm and off at 11pm
• The Christmas lights on the front of the house turn on at sunset and off at 7am
• When my wife or I arrive home the internal camera recording is disabled, the motion sensors stop alerting, and the dining room light turns on (it's the closest to the driveway)
• Slack notifications when a new HA update is available

Whenever any automation fires I get a Slack update to let me know what's going on.