666 consejos sobre Home Assistant

A ver, si puedo aconsejar a alguien sobre Home Assistant no es porque sea el más listo del lugar, al contrario.

Pero si a estas alturas lo puedo hacer es por dos motivos.

El primero es porque he comprobado en mi propio sistema domótico cual es la forma más fácil, sencilla y útil de automatizar una casa. Lo digo porque tengo dos hijos, un negocio que atender y eso de complicarme la vida, en estos momentos, no va conmigo.

Y lo segundo y más importante aún, sé de primera mano qué no funciona y qué no deberías tocar ni con un palo.

Esta es la razón por la que en este capítulo no voy a dar 351 consejos sobre Home Assistant, porque son 7 + 1, como los enanitos y Blancanieves.

Y atento al +1 porque es quizás el dolor de cabeza más grande que puedes llegar a tener con Home Assistant.

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Episode Transcript

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Let' s see if I cangive advice on homas urge. It'
s not because I' m thesmartest guy in the place. On the
contrary, I' m rather lazyand very clumsy, but if I can
do it by now, it's for two reasons. The first is
because I have checked in my ownaupmotic system what is the easiest, easiest
and most useful way to automate ahouse, specifically mine. I' m

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saying this because I have two kids, a business to attend to, and
that' s complicated my life rightnow, because the truth isn' t
with me. And second and mostimportantly, I still know first hand what
doesn' t work and what shouldn' t touch with a stick. This
is why in this chapter I amnot going to give three hundred and fifty
- one advices on Homa urge,because they are only seven plus one,

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like dwarfs and white snows. Andlook out for the plus one because it
' s maybe the biggest headache youcan get with Hume. Welcome to a
new chapter on technology for all.The podcast where I speak of ardui and
a home automation programming and everything relatedto the maker movement. My name is

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the same as in the other chaptersyou call it Luis del Valle and you
can find me in programming easy comThe first advice I' m going to
give is to think about hardware.Without a doubt, a rasverry Pie is
the simplest and most economical way toenter the world of home automation and homa.
If you have one at home,don' t hesitate, take it
out of the drawer and use it. Yes, if you' ve started

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on this Eastan Homa thing from nowon, you' ll probably start adding
more and more devices. At firstit won' t be many, but
since this gets you hooked you're going to want to automate even your
kids to get the trash out.Come on, in two Christmases, they
' ve got the house full ofpots. In this sense, you have
to consider two things, the serverand the data network. With respect to

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the server, incorporating more and moredevices into your home automation network means that
Eastan Homas will have more devices,entities, script automations and more components.
If your server has limitations. Asfor performance, how can you get to
have a Rasberry Pine, your homeautomation system will start going slow or directly

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to not working well. Doesn't mean you' re not gonna take
advantage of the Pine rasverry. It' s not that. What I'
m saying is that over time youhave to be aware that sooner or later
you' ll have to switch machinesand buy a more powerful machine. It
' s a matter of time.I' m telling you for now.
If you' ve got a rasverryfoot still with her, but keep this
in mind. On the other hand, we have the WITHID data network that

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have limitations and are given by therouter we are using. In theory,
a household rutter can manage up totwo hundred and fifty- four connected devices
simultaneously. This is due to thelimit of addresses and pes. For example,
in my case, the range isone, one of two, one,
six, eight, eighteen zero totwo hundred and fifty- five.

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Not all can be used, asthe rutter reserves some for internal use.
The hipe range is almost every rootercan be different, depending on the type
of rutter and the model and howit is configured. In my case,
that' s the case, andin addition, reserve the zero and the
one. This gives me two hundredand fifty- two and p available and,
in theory, I could connect allthese devices. I say in theory

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because, as we will see later, it doesn' t just depend on
the IPS to know all this information. In your specific case, you have
to look within the rutter configuration,which is usually provided by the Internet operator,
which you have hired. If youdon' t know how to do
it, I recommend you get intouch with it. However, if you
can as far as possible, Itry to use your own rooter. This

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will prevent when you change the operator, something very common, as your IP
range changes and everything that involves reconfiguringthe rutter or the adopted system. Also
regarding addresses and PS there is anotherpossibility and it is doing the same,
but at the software level creating yourown DNSS server. In that sense,
there are applications such as p HALLor d NS. The more we get

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into all this in other chapters.Although, as we have seen, the
limitation with respect to IPS addressing allowsus to connect many devices, the reality
is that the vast majority of ruttershave technical limitations. As for hardware,
you can know what they are ifyou look at the technical features sheet of
your Rutter model and not just takeinto account the automated devices connected to Homasis

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Other devices like phone, stable,smart speakers or TVs. Or smart TVs
also intervene in network saturation. Therefore, the limitations come in terms of the
number of addresses and pes that wehave available that provides the rutter and the
Rutter itself, i e the hardware. This makes the Wi- Fi network

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a great bottleneck. The solution,therefore, involves using other data networks such
as ZEWAP zipb or bluetooth. Iwill talk about this in other chapters as
well. I' ll talk aboutthese technologies. My advice is that at
first you pull what you have andgradually add other network technologies. In other

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words, don' t go intothe typical analysis paralysis syndrome to see if
the WIFY network is going to giveme enough devices, because if you want
to start with Eastan Homas, thefirst thing you have to do is get
into a nation and you have topull with the WITHI network you have.
In relation to the previous point,it is essential to use fixed ip on

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all elements of your home automation system. I' m talking about the server
and any device that connects to yourhome automation system. To see unless there
is a prolonged power outage, somethingserious happens on the net doesn' t
have to happen at all. However, you can avoid many headaches and it
can be done easily through the ruttersettings, although you can also do it
at the software level, for example, with tasmota or mirror allow you to

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put a fixed IP on the nodes. And last but not least, try
to have an ester sheet with allthe IPS of the devices and their names,
and also their location within the house. Another tip custom components. I
mean, when I talk about customcomponents, I mean devices made by ourselves.

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We are very handy and we loveto do things and connect them to
homas instam. This is a double- edged weapon if you don' t
use Jomasista' s official integrations.I mean complements like Jacks. Many people
publish their own integrations and share themon the Internet, even if they are
in official forums, they are stillintegrations made by third parties, and most

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importantly, they are not official.The biggest problem you can find is that
when you upgrade to a new version, two, three or four new versions
come out each month. The customcomponent or integration may stop working. As
I have to assume, this willmake devices that depend on this custom component

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or this integration also stop working.So, experiments with sodas whenever you can
use official integrations And if it doesn' t exist, there' s another
solution, and it' s usingstandard protocols like MQTT and using its official
integration. Let' s talk aboutthe release notes. I know it'
s only on one roll, butit' s very important because if there

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' s one thing that defines HomaEastar it' s its ability to improve
every month because every month a newversion comes out with bug fixes and important
changes. That is why it isvery important to be on the parrot of
all changes that occur. Enough withthe latest versions. They' ve added
repairs that' s a section wherethey inform you of things that will stop

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working or that just don' twork anymore, but don' t trust
them. It' s best togo to the launch notes, and I
' m telling you, sometimes they' re a pain in the ass.
But it' s indispensable. Myadvice is to update each month to the
new version of Homas urges. I' m saying this because less important versions,
minor versions come out in between,and maybe it' s not worth

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updating at the time, but,of course, looking at the release notes.
But with each version of the monthI recommend that you look at the
notes and update them and as wecouldn' t talk about backups, backups
and backups. If there' sone thing in this life that' s
safe is that we' re allgoing to die memento mori and this includes

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your SD card, your hard driveor your Pendrive. That' s why
it' s important that you keepa backup of Stan homas and the entire
adomotic system. If you use lockercom poss, also make copies of the
configuration files, apart from all Homassissistantand all the other tools. One thing
the database is also interesting, althoughit is not the most important thing in
my view. I' m sayingthat because the historical or default storage of

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Homa Eastan is only ten days ofthat. Just be clear how to do
backups and also how to restore abackup. And finally, even if you
already have a backup system, withproof that the copies are doing well to
see this we' ve all done. I' m talking about installing integrations
to see how they work. It' s normal to try new things.

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We all like to poop, butif you have integrations that you don'
t use remove them, nothing reallyhappens to have them. It' s
not going to stop Jomastic and moreand they' re officers. However,
when restarting integration, you may belooking for a device or service, and
if you do not find it,try to do so until the waiting time
runs out. Let' s gothe typical time out to avoid this and

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that your homasis so go faster eliminatesall those that you don' t use
or that don' t work properly. If God created the automations within the
Eastan Homas it is for a reasonto use them, because they are the
pachamama of home automation. However,there are many ways to do things.
I' m saying that because sooneror later, you' ll find an
automation, with a lot of triggersof conditions and one action after another action,

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turning into automation. Mrs Barbuda.In these cases, when you think
that an automation has overcome you becauseof its complexity, I recommend that you
step back and think about how youcould do the same in a simpler way.
And this implies that, in certaincases, a large automation can be
divided into two much simpler automations and, above all, for your mental health,

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keep things simple. So you'll be much happier and eat partridge.
And we come to the last recommendationand the one that can give you
the most headaches. Or, atleast I' ve been given the policy
or convention of names. The onlyrule with regard to how to name devices,
entities and automations and other components withinHomard exist is that there is no

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rule that each can manage as well. And so it happens that you find
domotic systems where the lights are calledlight one, light two, and so
until light three hundred and fifty-one. Then to see who is the
handsome one who knows which light ofthe house corresponds to the light seventeen And
what is the best name policy forJomasista, because it depends. I have

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my own and speak of it longand stretched into the course of doopotics.
My students know what it is andthey also have their own. What the
IWATE may Fen should be clear aboutis that, as you don' t
apply a name policy from the start, sooner or later, it will be
your turn to rename all the componentswith the resulting mess of balls that causes

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all this. That' s it. Today' s chapter you know that,
speaking in Silver and being a littlesoed, I sweat it if you
give five stars or none to thispodcast, because if you really want to
continue learning about Domótti, Carduino andmarried in general, the best thing is
that you sign up for the easyschedule list, com can also do nothing.

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It' s another option. Anyway, I don' t know if
next week we' ll listen becauseI' m going to be on vacation,
hooked up with the kids, withthe house and as a beautiful wife,
but don' t miss the appointmentin the next chapter, whenever,
and remember happy set