Home Assistant

This section is about Home Assistant (HA), the open-source home automation platform, as it runs at home on a Raspberry Pi. The pages are practical notes: what is set up, how it fits together, and what to watch for.

What this section covers

• The platform. Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, the base that everything else in this section builds on.
• Voice control with Assist. A Seeed Studio reSpeaker XVF3800 USB 4-mic array attached to the Pi, used as the microphone for Assist, Home Assistant's built-in voice assistant (wake word, speech-to-text, commands, and spoken replies).
• Energy. Bringing Enphase solar, a FranklinWH home battery, and Reliant electric service into Home Assistant's Energy dashboard: what data each source can provide and how it maps to solar production, battery charge and discharge, and grid use.

New to Home Assistant? Start with the beginner's explainer, What is Home Assistant?, then follow the Raspberry Pi setup guide. The Voice satellite project (in progress) follows a do-it-yourself voice satellite for Assist, built from the reSpeaker XVF3800 and a XIAO ESP32-S3 board. More pages will be added as each piece is written up.