Basic home automation using Home Assistant, MQTT broker, and Zigbee2MQTT running on Docker Compose.

1. Clone this repo.

   git clone [email protected]:seredot/home-automation.git

2. Install docker -and if compose not part of docker installation- docker-compose.
3. Create configuration files using the example files in data folder:

   cp data/zigbee2mqtt/configuration.yaml.example data/zigbee2mqtt/configuration.yaml
   cp data/mqtt/mosquitto.conf.example data/mqtt/mosquitto.conf

4. Run compose

   sudo docker compose up -d

5. Create Home Assistant login at http://localhost:8123.
6. Shut down compose

   sudo docker compose down

7. Add below lines into newly created Home Assistant configuration file data/home-assistant/configuration.yaml:

   mqtt:
     broker: mqtt
     discovery: true
     birth_message:
       topic: 'hass/status'
       payload: 'online'
     will_message:
       topic: 'hass/status'
       payload: 'offline'

8. Run compose

   sudo docker compose up -d

9. Check tooling
   • Home Assistant: http://localhost:8123
   • Zigbee2MQTT: http://localhost:8080

To view the logs, run

sudo docker compose logs

To check the processes, run

sudo docker compose ps

The full state resides in data folder. Please consider setting up daily automated backups.