Home Automation Stack 🏡

🔗 Home Assistant Intro

A good intro/background to our setup can be found here

🔗 Home Assistant Automation Summaries

A categorized breakdown of key automations in this Home Assistant setup:

• 📈 Energy Automations
  High-level automations for managing battery charging, grid import/export settings, and tariff-based behavior using Octopus Flux and PV forecasts to limit overnight charge levels using .

• ⏰ Schedules Automations
  Time-based routines for indoor and outdoor lighting, appliances (e.g. dishwasher, Firestick), and seasonal behaviors like Christmas lights.

• 💡 Switches Automations
  Motion-activated and context-aware control of lights, fans, and other smart switches throughout the home, often with dynamic brightness or temperature-based logic.

• 💡 Scripts
  Making the most of Free Electricity sessions or handy tasks like turning off the garden lights at bedtime.

🔗 Notes

• 💡 Entities Config example No longer required but helpful to keep where manual config may not be available through the UI.

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Home Assistant, Mosquitto MQTT, and Zigbee2MQTT Setup

This project runs a Home Automation stack using Docker Compose.
It includes:

• 🏡 Home Assistant – Main home automation platform
• 📡 Mosquitto – MQTT broker
• 🧠 Zigbee2MQTT – Zigbee network manager and bridge

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🐳 Docker Compose Services

Service	Purpose	URL
Home Assistant	Main dashboard and automations	http://farmington:8123
Mosquitto MQTT	MQTT broker for Zigbee and HA	MQTT on farmington:1883
Zigbee2MQTT	Zigbee device controller + UI	http://farmington:8080

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📋 How to Use

# Start everything
docker compose up -d

# Stop everything
docker compose down

# See running containers
docker compose ps

# View logs (live follow)
docker compose logs -f

# Pull updated images
docker compose pull

# Restart a single service
docker compose restart zigbee2mqtt