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Home Assistant
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Home Assistant automatically switches the lights on and off based on nearby devices and the position of the sun.
Home Assistant provides a platform for home automation. It does so by having modules that observe and trigger actors to do various tasks.
It is currently able to do the following things:
* Turn on the lights when one of the tracked devices is nearby
* Turn off the lights when everybody leaves
* Turn on the lights when the sun sets and one of the tracked devices is home
* Track if devices are home by monitoring connected devices to a wireless router
* Turn on the lights when people get home when it is dark
* Slowly turn on the lights to compensate for light loss when the sun sets
* Turn off the lights when everybody leaves the house
* Start YouTube video's on the Chromecast
* Download files to the host
* Open a url in the default browser on the host
It currently works with any wireless router with [Tomato firmware](http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) in combination with [Philips Hue](http://meethue.com). The system is built modular so support for other wireless routers or other actions can be implemented easily.
It currently works with any wireless router with [Tomato firmware](http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) in combination with [Philips Hue](http://meethue.com) and the [Google Chromecast](http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast). The system is built modular so support for other wireless routers, other devices or actions can be implemented easily.
Installation instructions
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* install python modules [python-dateutil](http://labix.org/python-dateutil), [PyEphem](http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/), [Requests](http://python-requests.org) and [PHue](https://github.com/studioimaginaire/phue): `pip install python-dateutil pyephem requests phue`
* Install python modules [python-dateutil](http://labix.org/python-dateutil), [PyEphem](http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/), [Requests](http://python-requests.org) and [PHue](https://github.com/studioimaginaire/phue): `pip install python-dateutil pyephem requests phue`
* Clone the repository and pull in the submodules `git clone --recursive https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant.git`
* Copy home-assistant.conf.default to home-assistant.conf and adjust the config values to match your setup.
* For Tomato you will have to not only setup your host, username and password but also a http_id. The http_id can be retrieved by going to the admin console of your router, view the source of any of the pages and search for `http_id`.
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Using [Tasker for Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm) I built an Android app that:
* provides buttons to control the lights and the chromecast
* sent updates every 30 minutes on the battery status
* sent updates when the phone is being charged via usb or wireless
* Provides buttons to control the lights and the chromecast
* Sent updates every 30 minutes on the battery status
* Sent updates when the phone is being charged via usb or wireless
The [APK](https://raw.github.com/balloob/home-assistant/master/android-tasker/Home_Assistant.apk) and [Tasker project XML](https://raw.github.com/balloob/home-assistant/master/android-tasker/Home_Assistant.prj.xml) can be found in [/android-tasker/](https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant/tree/master/android-tasker)