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Home Assistant Articles & Tutorials

Home Assistant

Home Assistant is an open-source home automation project powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. It can run on various computer platforms, including the Raspberry Pi. For more information on Home Assistant, you can visit the at Home Assistant website.

We support the Raspberry Pi edition of Home Assistant with the following expansion boards.

ADC Differential Pi
8 Channel 18-bit Differential Analogue to Digital converter

ADC Pi
8 Channel 17-bit Single-Ended Analogue to Digital converter

IO Pi Plus
32 channel MCP23017 digital I/O expander for the Raspberry Pi

Custom components for the supported expansion boards can be found on our GitHub Repository.

You can use the following tutorials to assist you with setting up your Home Assistant home automation project.

Using 1 Wire with Home Assistant and the Raspberry Pi OS

This tutorial is for using 1 Wire devices with Home Assistant running in a docker container on the Raspberry Pi computer. ...

Using I2C Devices on the Raspberry Pi with Home Assistant

In this Home Assistant tutorial we will install the Home Assistant Operation System on your Raspberry Pi and enable the I2C bus ...

Using the ADC Differential Pi with Home Assistant on the Raspberry Pi

Home Assistant Tutorial for adding up to analogue inputs to Home Assistant using an ADC Differential Pi expansion board on your Raspberry Pi ...

Using the ADC Pi with Home Assistant on the Raspberry Pi

Home Assistant Tutorial showing how to add up to 32 analogue inputs to Home Assistant using the ADC Pi on your Raspberry Pi ...

Using the IO Pi Plus with Home Assistant on the Raspberry Pi

Home Assistant Tutorial for adding up to 128 GPIO channels to Home Assistant using an IO Pi Plus expansion board on your Raspberry Pi ...