Basic Kit with Power Supply: A Yellow board with no included Pi nor PoE, for $115.

There are actually three major versions of the Home Assistant Yellow: (Note: in the above picture, I've also added on a Samsung 970 NVMe SSD for faster and more reliable data storage.) I posted a video on YouTube about how I control my office lighting with Yellow and some Zigbee accessories.īut in this blog post, I'll give a few more details on the hardware itself, along with more impressions and test results than would fit in a YouTube video.įull disclosure: Nabu Casa sent me the PoE version of the Home Assistant Yellow, but did not offer any additional compensation, nor have input into the contents of this blog post or the linked YouTube video. They wanted to send me a Home Assistant Yellow to try out, after seeing my many adventures with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. When I was setting up CO2 indoor air quality monitoring last year, I got an offer from Nabu Casa-the company behind the open source Home Assistant and ESPHome projects.

Luckily, on my long journey towards finally choosing 'one hub to rule them all', I found out about Home Assistant. However, many smart devices require a persistent Internet connection to use them, and that I cannot abide.

I don't want Logitech to start controlling other aspects of my house, or to give intruders an avenue by which they could invade my home's network.

Typically I approach 'smart' and 'IoT' devices as a solution to one simple problem, instead of trying to do 'all the things'.įor example, I wanted to make it easy for my kids to control a home theater with four different devices and complex audio/visual routing, so I bought a Harmony remote and programmed it to control TV, a game console, an Apple TV, and radio. I've dipped my toes in 'smart home' automation in the past.

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