Here is my future home automation setup I'm working on. Everything is managed by a Home Assistant. I'm planning on using Sonoff Basic switches flashed with a custom firmware I'll soon make available on Github.

This project will be hosted on a Raspberry Pi made available through NAT/PAT rules and a dynamic DNS on my router.

What you'll need to successfuly install and run this project is :

• Git
• Ansible
• Python 3.x
• A registered domain name which points to your server running Home Assistant

Start by cloning the project

git clone https://github.com/k2r79/home-automation.git

Before launching the main playbook, start by tweaking the configuration files in the ansible/config/ folder.
Sample files are given to guide you, they must be copied without the .sample extension to be used as a configuration baseline.

Edit the /etc/ansible/hostsfile to add your Home Assistant server as so :

[home-assistant]
<server_ip> ansible_user=root home_assistant_password=<frontend_password> domain_name=<your_domain_name> letsencrypt_email=<your_letsencrypt_email> [telegram_api_key=<telegram_api_key>]

For the two last Telegram parameters see this tutorial.

Before launching the Ansible playbooks you must setup a dynamic DNS and some NAT/PAT rules on your router.

You'll need to map the following ports to your server :

• 8123 -> 443 for HTTPS
• 1883 -> 1883 for the MQTT Broker

By running the following command ansible-playbook ansible/playbooks/main.yml from the project's root directory.