Let' s see if I can give advice on homas urge. It'
s not because I' m the smartest guy in the place. On the
contrary, I' m rather lazy and very clumsy, but if I can
do it by now, it' s for two reasons. The first is
because I have checked in my own aupmotic system what is the easiest, easiest
and most useful way to automate a house, specifically mine. I' m
saying this because I have two kids, a business to attend to, and
that' s complicated my life right now, because the truth isn' t
with me. And second and most importantly, I still know first hand what
doesn' t work and what shouldn' t touch with a stick. This
is why in this chapter I am not going to give three hundred and fifty
- one advices on Homa urge, because they are only seven plus one,
like dwarfs and white snows. And look out for the plus one because it
' s maybe the biggest headache you can get with Hume. Welcome to a
new chapter on technology for all. The podcast where I speak of ardui and
a home automation programming and everything related to the maker movement. My name is
the same as in the other chapters you call it Luis del Valle and you
can find me in programming easy com The first advice I' m going to
give is to think about hardware. Without a doubt, a rasverry Pie is
the simplest and most economical way to enter the world of home automation and homa.
If you have one at home, don' t hesitate, take it
out of the drawer and use it. Yes, if you' ve started
on this Eastan Homa thing from now on, you' ll probably start adding
more and more devices. At first it won' t be many, but
since this gets you hooked you' re going to want to automate even your
kids to get the trash out. Come on, in two Christmases, they
' ve got the house full of pots. In this sense, you have
to consider two things, the server and the data network. With respect to
the server, incorporating more and more devices into your home automation network means that
Eastan Homas will have more devices, entities, script automations and more components.
If your server has limitations. As for performance, how can you get to
have a Rasberry Pine, your home automation system will start going slow or directly
to not working well. Doesn' t mean you' re not gonna take
advantage of the Pine rasverry. It' s not that. What I'
m saying is that over time you have to be aware that sooner or later
you' ll have to switch machines and buy a more powerful machine. It
' s a matter of time. I' m telling you for now.
If you' ve got a rasverry foot still with her, but keep this
in mind. On the other hand, we have the WITHID data network that
have limitations and are given by the router we are using. In theory,
a household rutter can manage up to two hundred and fifty- four connected devices
simultaneously. This is due to the limit of addresses and pes. For example,
in my case, the range is one, one of two, one,
six, eight, eighteen zero to two hundred and fifty- five.
Not all can be used, as the rutter reserves some for internal use.
The hipe range is almost every rooter can be different, depending on the type
of rutter and the model and how it is configured. In my case,
that' s the case, and in addition, reserve the zero and the
one. This gives me two hundred and fifty- two and p available and,
in theory, I could connect all these devices. I say in theory
because, as we will see later, it doesn' t just depend on
the IPS to know all this information. In your specific case, you have
to look within the rutter configuration, which is usually provided by the Internet operator,
which you have hired. If you don' t know how to do
it, I recommend you get in touch with it. However, if you
can as far as possible, I try to use your own rooter. This
will prevent when you change the operator, something very common, as your IP
range changes and everything that involves reconfiguring the rutter or the adopted system. Also
regarding addresses and PS there is another possibility and it is doing the same,
but at the software level creating your own DNSS server. In that sense,
there are applications such as p HALL or d NS. The more we get
into all this in other chapters. Although, as we have seen, the
limitation with respect to IPS addressing allows us to connect many devices, the reality
is that the vast majority of rutters have technical limitations. As for hardware,
you can know what they are if you look at the technical features sheet of
your Rutter model and not just take into account the automated devices connected to Homasis
Other devices like phone, stable, smart speakers or TVs. Or smart TVs
also intervene in network saturation. Therefore, the limitations come in terms of the
number of addresses and pes that we have available that provides the rutter and the
Rutter itself, i e the hardware. This makes the Wi- Fi network
a great bottleneck. The solution, therefore, involves using other data networks such
as ZEWAP zipb or bluetooth. I will talk about this in other chapters as
well. I' ll talk about these technologies. My advice is that at
first you pull what you have and gradually add other network technologies. In other
words, don' t go into the typical analysis paralysis syndrome to see if
the WIFY network is going to give me enough devices, because if you want
to start with Eastan Homas, the first thing you have to do is get
into a nation and you have to pull with the WITHI network you have.
In relation to the previous point, it is essential to use fixed ip on
all elements of your home automation system. I' m talking about the server
and any device that connects to your home automation system. To see unless there
is a prolonged power outage, something serious happens on the net doesn' t
have to happen at all. However, you can avoid many headaches and it
can be done easily through the rutter settings, although you can also do it
at the software level, for example, with tasmota or mirror allow you to
put a fixed IP on the nodes. And last but not least, try
to have an ester sheet with all the IPS of the devices and their names,
and also their location within the house. Another tip custom components. I
mean, when I talk about custom components, I mean devices made by ourselves.
We are very handy and we love to do things and connect them to
homas instam. This is a double- edged weapon if you don' t
use Jomasista' s official integrations. I mean complements like Jacks. Many people
publish their own integrations and share them on the Internet, even if they are
in official forums, they are still integrations made by third parties, and most
importantly, they are not official. The biggest problem you can find is that
when you upgrade to a new version, two, three or four new versions
come out each month. The custom component or integration may stop working. As
I have to assume, this will make devices that depend on this custom component
or this integration also stop working. So, experiments with sodas whenever you can
use official integrations And if it doesn' t exist, there' s another
solution, and it' s using standard protocols like MQTT and using its official
integration. Let' s talk about the release notes. I know it'
s only on one roll, but it' s very important because if there
' s one thing that defines Homa Eastar it' s its ability to improve
every month because every month a new version comes out with bug fixes and important
changes. That is why it is very important to be on the parrot of
all changes that occur. Enough with the latest versions. They' ve added
repairs that' s a section where they inform you of things that will stop
working or that just don' t work anymore, but don' t trust
them. It' s best to go to the launch notes, and I
' m telling you, sometimes they' re a pain in the ass.
But it' s indispensable. My advice is to update each month to the
new version of Homas urges. I' m saying this because less important versions,
minor versions come out in between, and maybe it' s not worth
updating at the time, but, of course, looking at the release notes.
But with each version of the month I recommend that you look at the
notes and update them and as we couldn' t talk about backups, backups
and backups. If there' s one thing in this life that' s
safe is that we' re all going to die memento mori and this includes
your SD card, your hard drive or your Pendrive. That' s why
it' s important that you keep a backup of Stan homas and the entire
adomotic system. If you use locker com poss, also make copies of the
configuration files, apart from all Homassissistant and all the other tools. One thing
the database is also interesting, although it is not the most important thing in
my view. I' m saying that because the historical or default storage of
Homa Eastan is only ten days of that. Just be clear how to do
backups and also how to restore a backup. And finally, even if you
already have a backup system, with proof that the copies are doing well to
see this we' ve all done. I' m talking about installing integrations
to see how they work. It' s normal to try new things.
We all like to poop, but if you have integrations that you don'
t use remove them, nothing really happens to have them. It' s
not going to stop Jomastic and more and they' re officers. However,
when restarting integration, you may be looking for a device or service, and
if you do not find it, try to do so until the waiting time
runs out. Let' s go the typical time out to avoid this and
that your homasis so go faster eliminates all those that you don' t use
or that don' t work properly. If God created the automations within the
Eastan Homas it is for a reason to use them, because they are the
pachamama of home automation. However, there are many ways to do things.
I' m saying that because sooner or later, you' ll find an
automation, with a lot of triggers of conditions and one action after another action,
turning into automation. Mrs Barbuda. In these cases, when you think
that an automation has overcome you because of its complexity, I recommend that you
step back and think about how you could do the same in a simpler way.
And this implies that, in certain cases, a large automation can be
divided into two much simpler automations and, above all, for your mental health,
keep things simple. So you' ll be much happier and eat partridge.
And we come to the last recommendation and the one that can give you
the most headaches. Or, at least I' ve been given the policy
or convention of names. The only rule with regard to how to name devices,
entities and automations and other components within Homard exist is that there is no
rule that each can manage as well. And so it happens that you find
domotic systems where the lights are called light one, light two, and so
until light three hundred and fifty- one. Then to see who is the
handsome one who knows which light of the house corresponds to the light seventeen And
what is the best name policy for Jomasista, because it depends. I have
my own and speak of it long and stretched into the course of doopotics.
My students know what it is and they also have their own. What the
IWATE may Fen should be clear about is that, as you don' t
apply a name policy from the start, sooner or later, it will be
your turn to rename all the components with the resulting mess of balls that causes
all this. That' s it. Today' s chapter you know that,
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