In previous chapters. The most important parts of a home automation system are you
' re the main piece and your goal is to lie on the couch while
your house works alone as if it were haunted. Then there' s the
domotic controller unless you' ve been through the last few years. In Mars
you' ll have found out what' s messing with Joker somewhere. We
' ll have to install a Joker. This is not where the server comes
into play and you don' t have to extend the mortgage to have one
at home, because you can opt for one of these four options, use
a virtual machine on your personal computer, use an old computer, it'
s not worth a four eight six. Use a barry foot ras that you
' ve been stuck in the drawer for months. Or my favorite to use
one of those mini PECS that are so fashionable and a server. It is
nothing without a stable, reliable and secure operating system, features that completely discard
Windows and put Linux in the spotlight. Finally, you need to talk about
the domestic devices, where there is more fabric to cut than in the czar
factories, but this will leave you for another chapter. Well, then what
I' m going to talk about In today' s chapter I' m
going to talk about the first step that anyone who wants to automate their home
with homas urge should take, because this is like making a paella. It
is not enough to compose the ingredients in the stove to achieve it. You
' re gonna have to row, crack your fingers and pound the keyboard.
I mean, you' re gonna have to install homas and they' re
on your server, whatever server it is,' cause of course, you
get in action and start sautéing the rice. You' re gonna have a
fucking still life, but you' re gonna starve more than a mosquito at
the wax museum. And this is why in this chapter I will explain the
four official methods. Eye south lightning the officers of installing homas urge and maybe
if you' re thinking about setting up a home automation system, you'
re interested or not that you already know that I don' t know you
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the first thing, and before you start, you need to clarify certain concepts
to understand the different methods of installing homa assist, because one thing has to
be clear. Light watermay fred The methods don' t describe the application you
' re going to install on your doumotic system, because all the methods don
' t matter what you choose. They have the same objective to install Homa
install on a server. What the different methods describe is the way it is
installed and the extras that accompany the homasist. But, I repeat, the
goal of all these methods is to have homas installed and they are on your
server. And to understand what each method provides, it is essential to know
the three modules on which it is based on the Homasississistance platform. These modules
are homas stan core homas are operating you in system sonmas are supervised. But
before we explain what these modules are and what they do, let' s
look at it with an example. Imagine that you have a company that buys
an order program from where you manage customers. It is an application such as
World Photoshop or the Google Chrome browser and although you can install the order program
on any computer, this company offers you its own computer, which is already
well optimized for this specific software. However, from the company they tell you
outright that you will only be able to assign the computer to this program.
Let' s go if you want to install a program to manage the warehouse,
to do the accounting or to download torrent files because you won' t
be able to do it. In addition, the same company TE offers an
extra add- on module with which you will be able to automatically update the
program over the Internet, back up orders and add functionality. How to integrate
this software with your email, create alerts or keep them is pons to the
updated products. They are three distinct modules. On the one hand, we
have the order program, on the other hand, the computer adapted to that
order program exclusively and the extra module with add- ons and more or less.
This is how Homasista works, because Homas and stan Core makes the function
of the Homas order program install operat in system es. The computer adapted to
this sonmasista order program in supervisor is the extra module with add- ons.
Let' s see each of these modules in detail. We start with homen
assist Core is. The program or application of Homas stan It is what you
see once lois sizes on a server. This is an application written in Bython
and cost of the graphical interface and logic behind it to manage the home automation
system, i e automations, devices, entities and other components. In the
end it is an application like any other, but written and Mpiythone and as
such, you can install it on any computer that has the minimum version of
Python required. Precisely, the objective of the methods of the official installation is
to install Homastan Core on a server or computer. Then, depending on the
method, you will add more or less plugins but this module is always installed,
either one or the other, the method chosen. Let' s see
what the Homas Insta in Operato is about They insist that more and more people
with no knowledge came to this home automation controller, those of Homas and Instan
decided to take out their own Linus- based operating system. Formerly known as
Jussos, he was changed to Homas and Instan Operating System in the last remodeling
of the Naiming. This is a minimal distribution of Linus optimized for the use
of Homas Eastan on servers such as Rasberry Pie or Droid or thinger Board,
although it is also valid for generic systems such as personal computers or mini PCs.
This operating system uses Docker below, that is, it allows you to
install certain applications then we will see what they are. And this does it
through Docker images that are adapted to this operating system. When you install this
operating system on a server it is intended exclusively for Homas Eystan and does not
allow you to install other applications. On your own, this is a minimal
version of Linus for Homastan to work optimally. In the end it is like
that server that provides us with order software company exclusive for that software. Let
' s see what this is about Homas and Instan Supervisor. It is a
complement also known as integration, which is installed together with Homas install core and,
whose mission is to be able to manage the system from the application itself.
When installed with Homas they are operating insists on supervisor. It is one
more container of Docker and what I mean by managing the application, since its
main functions are, on the one hand, to update Homas insta and Core.
That is, it allows you to update when a new version is available.
Everything is done from the graphical interface. It also allows you to manage
backups. That' s right. It allows you to make copies and then
you are in charge of downloading it to store it in a safe place outside
the server. Homas, if they' re supervisors, they don' t
automate backups, they just do them. And it also allows you to add
add add- ons also known as ADOMS, which include applications such as non
- mosquito network, MQTT proque or BEM' s maniad database. Actually,
all this is done through Dogger, as I said. Therefore, choosing one
method or another of installation, all it entails is deciding whether the homas and
so operated insist or Homa Sistan Supervisor, because all the methods install home asistan
Coren. Let' s see what these methods are, making it clear that
the goal is to install Homas instan core whatever method it is. The goal
is to install this component within a server. There are four official methods recommended
by the official Homas Nston website. The two recommended methods are, on the
one hand, Homas urges in Operating System and Homas Eistan Container, and then
two alternative methods for expert users, which are Homas Eastan Superviset and its Homa
and Instan Coren. Watch not confuse the names of the installation methods with the
names of the modules of the homasstan platform because even if they are called the
same, each of them refers to something different, to a different thing.
Let' s start with the most basic and maybe it' s the one
we' ve all started, which is homas insta in operato. They insist
on this installation mode. It is recommended for people who have no experience,
because it allows you to install. Homas are through an iso image. It
' s as easy as downloading the image and so and depending if you use
a Rasvery pie, a computer, a mini PC. Install it on your
server. You can install it as an operating system, or you can also
install it as if it were a virtual machine, using Virtual Box or vmware.
This installation includes everything i e, Homas install core and never if they
are supervisor, which are the two components, the two software modules that can
go in either of the two installations. This one installs both of you.
The biggest disadvantage is that you lose control. If you want to install a
control panel like Homar or a private cloud such as nesclout or file browser tomorrow,
you' ll feel like it because they' re not compatible, you
won' t be able to do it in a simple way, apart from
depending on whether the app you want to install is in the add- ons
repository or not. You do everything through the home assist interface. This means
that if Homas Instan stops working. You run out of those apps won'
t work, that is, if homas, if it doesn' t work
and you' ve installed the mosquito MQTT broque, it won' t work
much. Look at this, though, I repeat it is a very advisable
option to take the first steps, we go with the second option, or
the second recommended installation method, which is Eastan Container homema. It' s
probably my favorite and the one I' ve always used, my home automation
system. Well, since always, not because I started with Instan operate homas
insist, but seeing the limitations I quickly moved on to this installation. The
biggest advantage is that it is installed with Docker. That is, all you
need is to have Docker installed on your computer give the same operating system,
although you know, if you want it to be reliable, scalable and safe,
there is no operating system better than the Linus. Another advantage is that
you decide which apps you want to install without limitations, apart from what it
means to have several containers of homas are running at once. I mean you
can have one version for production and another one for testing on the same server,
which with jomassistant opera you insist, you can' t. But if
I have to keep an advantage is control, because I choose how to make
backups, which application I want to use to automate them and I r n
or depend on whether homas are booted or not. I' m telling you,
full control. And one thing not many people know is that when official
application containers are executed through their official images, they get much faster in execution
than if they are executed through supervisor homasists. Because I remind you with the
supervisor what you cut are containers adapted to the operating system of Hom assist Ojo
that, although it seems more complicated, this method of installation to the homas
eystan Container, is actually quite simpler than it appears, especially if we use
Docker co post. But of all this I mean The Doger and Docker Compost.
I' ll talk in another chapter of the podcast. Maybe the only
disadvantage, if you can say it' s a disadvantage, is that it
doesn' t add supervisor and it touches you. Managing updates to you backups
and installing complementary applications is the only thing, although, as I mentioned before,
working with official images makes applications faster. Also something a clarification, something
very important. In some blogs and YouTube videos they teach how to install Homas
instas supervisor with Docker i e by installing Homas Eastan Container. I don'
t recommend it under any circumstances, because I' ve already seen cases where
this makes your adopted system fail and not stable. Always have to quarrel with
the official facilities that recommend from the official website of Home Assist we will continue
to see Homassista in super Viset or super Bset. The first thing I have
to say is that this installation can only be done with Linus operating systems,
apart from that you have to have advanced knowledge. These are essential requirements.
From there, you have to follow the instructions that indicate in the installation and
you must meet the minimum software requirements. In the end, you get to
install Homas Instan Corey and Homas Eastan Supervisor on your server, with very few
exceptions, I do not recommend to anyone this type of eistallante action under any
circumstances, apart from that you will have to have advanced knowledge in Linux is
a milk mess. The same thing happens with Homas and they install Core,
because if the previous installation was complex, this is still less, because what
you do install Homas install runs like a Python script through Python' s Fish
script manager. Peep let' s go you have to hook up one with
dependencies, users and milk file systems. Besides, the only thing you do
install hoffmas instan Corre does not include the supervisor. Except for very rare sensations,
I also do not recommend this type of installation under any circumstances. I
' m going to make a summary of everything that hemorrhage pisto. The four
official and recommended forms of Maxistan installation on a server are as follows. Two
of them are recommended, say, recommended from the official website and is Homas
Están operate insist son masisn Container. The two genos should not touch with a
stick are Homas Instan Supervisit and Homastan Core. Either way, installation methods don
' t determine what kind of application you' re going to install on your
server. They only define the way it is installed. For this it is
important to understand what are the three modules that form the homa sista platform.
There are Homas and Instan Core It is the app itself of Homas Eastan and
it is written in Python. Then there are Homas Eastan operato Insisten is the
operating system that includes Homas stan Core and Homasstan super Vishor, which is not
without being a linus adapted for this application and Homas is in supervisor is a
complement to be able to manage Homas Eastan run from the interface of the application
all installations, whatever its objective, is very clear. Instalam horme assist core
A. From there there are different installation methods. Kohomas Instan operate insist,
get its installation simple and easy. To start going, include Homa Easta as
a supervisor. The biggest disadvantage is that they lose a lot of control.
Control is theirs and you depend entirely on this operating system. Kohomas Eastan containert
has the advantage that you decide which apps you want to install and have control
over your home automation system. The biggest disadvantage of this installation of jmás is
already in container is that officially you do not count with Eastan super Visor homas.
You' re in charge of updating and maintaining the system, and both
the Eastas super Viset and Instan core homas method are not recommended, unless you
' re an expert and want to get into a good general ber. And
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