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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Home Assistant for Beginners: 30 Hands-On Projects to Build Your Private, Local Smart Home - No Coding Required

Home Assistant for Beginners: 30 Hands-On Projects to Build Your Private, Local Smart Home - No Coding Required

Kohler, Markus

Paperback

General ComputersNetworking

ISBN13: 9798177554402
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 28 2026
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.30 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Your smart home was supposed to make life easier. So why does it feel like a second job?

You bought the plugs, the bulbs, maybe a sensor or two. But every device demands its own app. Half of them quietly send your data to a company you've never met. And every beginner tutorial online turns into walls of code, confusing YAML files, and jargon that assumes you already know what you're doing.

So the motion-activated light never gets built. The energy savings never arrive. Your family still can't tell if the front door is locked. Meanwhile the subscriptions stack up, the brands refuse to work together, and you start to wonder if a truly private, automated home is reserved only for programmers. It's frustrating, it's expensive, and it leaves you locked out of your own house.

Home Assistant for Beginners changes all of that.

This is the calm, plain-English, screenshot-guided handbook that takes you from a blank screen to a home that runs itself, using Home Assistant, the free and open-source platform that keeps everything local and private. No coding. No cloud lock-in. No guesswork.

Through 30 hands-on projects, you'll build real skills one confident step at a time:

  • Install and set up Home Assistant the right way, even if you have never done it before
  • Connect almost any device across Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, and Thread, no matter the brand
  • Design clean dashboards your whole family will actually use
  • Create no-code automations: motion-activated lights, sunset routines, and instant phone alerts
  • Set up voice control, presence detection, and a live energy dashboard that helps cut your bills
  • Protect your home with secure remote access, automatic backups, and away-from-home security alerts
  • Finish with 3 capstone projects that tie everything into a smart, private, self-running home

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