HomeAssistant is an open source home automation platform. It is able to track and control thousands of smart devices and offer a platform for automating control. Details on https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.
HA supports only Windows, Linux, Mac and Raspberry offically. While this project is to install the HomeAssistant on an OpenWRT OS. So that you can run a HomeAssistant on a router without having to run a 24-hours PC or Raspberry.
Note that OpenWRT is not an officially supported platform by HomeAssistant and so not all integrations (e.g. Zigbee binaries) will work in this system.
A complete installation of HomeAssistant will take nearly 350 MB Flash and 130 MB RAM. More components require more storage.
Recommend device is GL-S1300. It has a 8G emmc, 512 MB RAM and a Quad-core CPU. It is enough for running HA and its routing function is also completely unaffected.
Firmware version 3.023 for GL-S1300 or above.
We recommend strongly that using our gl-homeassistant.ipk to install the HA. It provides an One-click installation script and has add HA into the system boot program.
You can install the gl-homeassistant easily through the Web. Just search "gl-homeassistant" in the "plug-ins" and clik "install".
Or you can manually install it in the SSH terminal typing this:
opkg update
opkg install gl-homeassistant
After finished installing gl-homeassistant. You can using command in the SSH terminal to start the installation of HomeAssistant
hass-install
Wait for the installation finished. Usually it takes 20~30 minutes.
If you didn't install gl-homeassistant. There is no command named "hass-install". You have to clone this project and excute it manually.
Open the OpenWRT interface through SSH. Using putty or xshell or some other tools.
And then get into the root path and clone this project.
cd /root/
git clone https://github.com/gl-inet/home-assistant-on-openwrt.git
Note that maybe you'd install the git, use command like this
opkg install git git-http
Get into the project folder and start the installation. Make sure your device has connected to the Internet.
cd home-assistant-on-openwrt
./install.sh
It will take 20~30 minutes. After finished, it will print "HomeAssistant installation finished. Use command "hass -c /data/.homeassistant" to start the HA."
After installation finished, use command hass -c /data/.homeassistant to start.
Note that firstly start will download and install some python modules. Make sure the network is connected while first starting. It will take about 20 minutes. If it stuck or print some error messages, don't worry, interupt it and retry hass -c /data/.homeassistant usually works.
It has fully started when print messages like:
Starting Home Assistant
Timer:starting
Connet to the S1300 through lan ports or wifi using your PC or Phone. Visit the address 192.168.8.1:8123 , that's the web page for HomeAssistant.
Now you can link your smart devices together with HA.
Questions and discussion about HA on https://community.home-assistant.io/