Advanced Smart Home Automation Solutions with Home Assistant. Elevate your home automation system with AI, Zigbee, MQTT, ESPHome, and Golioth (ebook) Zawadzkie

Advanced smart home setups often require more than standard configurations to achieve performance, security, and flexibility. This book helps electronics engineers and advanced home automation enthusiasts extend Home Assistant with deeper control over devices, networks, and integrations.You’ll begin with performance tuning and advanced YAML and Jinja2 configurations, then move on to secure network design using Zigbee and cloud integration with Golioth. You’ll build custom IoT devices with ESPHome, use MQTT for communication, and develop ESP32-based touchscreen displays and camera systems.By the end of this book, you will also have covered advanced automation patterns using Node-RED and AppDaemon, along with AI-driven techniques to analyse user behaviour and optimize automation workflows. Written by an expert with over 25 years of experience, this book provides practical methods to design, secure, and scale modern smart home systems.*Email sign-up and proof of purchase required Spis treści: 1. Home Assistant Architecture and Performance Optimization 2. Mastering YAML for Complex Home Assistant Configurations 3. Unleashing the Power of Jinja2 Templating in Home Assistant 4. Securing Your Smart Home Network: Best Practices and Threat Mitigation 5. Zigbee Networks: Building a Robust and Scalable Mesh 6. Integrating Cloud IoT Platforms: Golioth and Beyond 7. ESPHome: Custom Firmware for Ultimate Control 8. The MQTT Ecosystem: Broker and development tools 9. Hands-on Project: Using ESPHome and MQTT Tools to Integrate a touchscreen Display and Camera 10. Advanced Automation Patterns, Scripting, and External Logic 11. Extending Home Assistant with Advanced HACS Integrations 12. Hands-on Project: AI-Driven Home Automation: Learning Habits and Suggesting Optimizations O autorze: Marco Carvalho has over ten years experience in the software development and IT industry. He started working with Axapta in 2003 and has since been working exclusively developing and implementing solutions for Dynamics AX. Amongst other things, Marco along with Microsoft and various ISVs, has pioneered the integration of Dynamics AX with proprietary and third-party systems. He has also developed unique solutions that integrate Dynamics AX with Mobile and .NET technologies. Additionally, Marco enjoys educating organizations and training developers on Dynamics AX. He has held senior and management-level positions but serves as the CTO of Ingnomics Solutions, LLC an upcoming Microsoft VAR.