🏠 What is Home Assistant?

Home Assistant is an open-source smart home hub that lets you connect and control devices from different brands and protocols all in one place. Manage lights, climate, security systems, sensors, and more — all through a single platform. Its key advantage is local operation, meaning your data stays in your home for faster performance and greater privacy.

✨ What It Can Do

Feature Description
📡 Centralized Device Management Supports 3,300+ integrations. Control lights, locks, cameras, climate systems, and more from one interface.
⚙️ Powerful Automation Trigger devices by time, environmental conditions, or actions — like turning on lights and disabling alarms when you arrive home.
🎙️ Voice Control Works with Alexa and Google Assistant, or use the built-in private voice assistant, Assist.
🔋 Energy Monitoring Track real-time energy usage, optimize consumption, and reduce your bills.
🎨 Highly Customizable Tailor dashboards and automation logic to match your lifestyle.

Step 1 — Choose Your Hardware

Home Assistant Green

Home Assistant Green

Plug‑and‑play smart home hub with Home Assistant OS pre‑installed — perfect for beginners.

Skills Required:
Interest in setting up a smart home

Tools Required:
Ethernet connection

Price: €129.95

Raspberry Pi 4

Raspberry Pi 4

Great budget gateway for light‑to‑medium smart homes. Runs Home Assistant OS smoothly for typical automations and Zigbee/Matter bridges.

Skills Required:
Assembling a Raspberry Pi setup
Flashing a Raspberry Pi

Tools Required:
Raspberry Pi 4 with 5V 3A power supply
microSD card or USB 3.0 SSD
Ethernet connection

Price: €63.95

Raspberry Pi 5 Starter Kit

Raspberry Pi 5 Starter Kit

Install Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi — a low‑cost DIY route to get started and gain hands‑on experience.

Skills Required:
Assembling a Raspberry Pi setup
Flashing a Raspberry Pi

Tools Required:
Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 with power supply
MicroSD card
Ethernet connection

Price: €149.95

Step 2 – Install ESPHome

⚡ ESPHome is an open‑source firmware framework that simplifies turning ESP32, ESP8266, or RP2040 boards into powerful, locally‑controlled smart home devices. Using simple 📝 YAML configuration files instead of complex C++ code, you can:

• 🛠️ Create custom smart home devices tailored to your needs
• 🔗 Integrate seamlessly with Home Assistant for a unified experience
• 🌐 Control and monitor devices via web, API, or MQTT
• 🤖 Automate with powerful on‑device logic
• 📡 Update firmware wirelessly with Over‑The‑Air (OTA) updates

With support for 📊 hundreds of sensors, displays, and components — and ☁️❌ no cloud dependency — ESPHome lets you focus on building your smart home exactly how you want it.

Ingen kodning kræves

Enkle YAML-konfigurationsfiler i stedet for kompleks C++-kode

Trådløse opdateringer

Opdater dine enheder trådløst uden fysisk adgang

Modulært design

Support for hundredevis af sensorer, displays og andre komponenter

Lokal kontrol

Enheder fungerer lokalt uden afhængighed af skyen

How to Install ESPHome

🧩
Install Add‑on
Settings → Add‑on Store → search “ESPHome” → Install → Start → Open Web UI
🔌
Connect Your Board
Plug ESP32/8266/RP2040 via USB for the first flash.
📝
Create Device
Name → select board → enter Wi‑Fi → generate YAML.
📡
Flash & Go
Flash via USB → device joins Wi‑Fi → OTA updates next time.

Step 3 — Choose Your Controller (Control‑side Devices)

Step 4 — Choose Your Sensors (Sensing‑side Devices)

Products for Home Assistant

Home Assistant FAQ

Meshtastic er en open-source platform designet til at muliggøre langdistance, lavstrøm kommunikation ved hjælp af LoRa-teknologi. Den gør det muligt for Meshtastic-enheder at udveksle data problemfrit uden at være afhængige af konventionel infrastruktur som mobilnetværk eller Wi-Fi, hvilket gør den ideel til off-grid forbindelse i fjerntliggende områder.
Meshtastic er tilgængelig for både brugere uden licens og licenserede amatør-radiooperatører, hvilket muliggør problemfri kommunikation gennem dets open-source, langtrækkende LoRa mesh-netværk.
Ja, Meshtastic er et gratis og open-source projekt. Du behøver kun at købe Meshtastic-kompatible hardwareenheder, da softwaren, firmwaren og den officielle dokumentation er helt gratis. Hvis du finder Meshtastic værdifuldt, kan du overveje at støtte udviklerne med en donation for at hjælpe med at opretholde projektet.
Meshtastic udmærker sig med sit avancerede mesh-netværk, langdistance tekstbeskeder, GPS- og telemetrideling samt energieffektiv drift. Til sammenligning tilbyder PMR walkie-talkies enkel, realtids stemmekommunikation, brugervenlig funktionalitet og bred tilgængelighed.
No. Core features such as automations, voice control, and energy monitoring can run entirely offline, boosting stability and safeguarding privacy.

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