EASY_BACKBONE

How to get the backbone running of the Energy Analysis Sensor-it Yourself, EASY, project. After following the steps in this guide you will have:

• A hardware Hub that's installed with Home Assistant
• A running Home Assistant dashboard
• (Optional) Power usage of a whole household and single devices

Hardware

• Hardware hub, (e.g. ODroid M1, OrangiPi 5)
  • 12V DC Power Supply (Barrel Plug)
  • Ethernet Cable
• Smart plug (optional)
  • The used smart plug
• P1 reader (optional)
  • The used open source P1 reader

Hardware Hub installation

Home Assistant installation methods

Home Assistant has a couple installation methods. The biggest difference between these methods is the addition of the "Add-on store". The Add-on store can be used to quickly install additional software/applications to the Home Assistant installation. The first prototype (ODroid M1) used this Home Assistant OS, this is because of the addition of the add-on store and general ease of use. To install a containered, Core or Supervised installation, the hardware hub needs an installed Linux Distro (preferably Ubuntu or Debian/Armbian).

Installation

Use the installation page of Home Assistant to get the most up-to-date images and more information regarding installation. Which images (and method of installation) you need depends on the used hardware.

Installation page of Home Assistant

ODroid

ODroid hardware is directly supported by the Home Assistant community. This means that there is a Home Assistant OS image available. It's also possible to use the generic Linux installation.

ODroid M1 Home Assistant OS image

OrangePi 5

The OrangePi 5 isn't directly supported by the Home Assistant community, so there is no official Home Assistant OS image available. The best option is to flash the OrangePi 5 with a (supported) Linux distro and run Home Assistant containered, or use Virtual Machine software to run Home Assistant OS.

OrangePi 5 Supported Linux distro download page Guide for installing Home Assistant Containered on an OrangePi 5

Rock64

The Rock64 isn't directly supported by Home Assistant community, so there is no official Home Assistant OS image available. The best option is to flash the Rock64 with a (supported) Linux distro and run Home Assistant containered, or use Virtual Machine software to run Home Assistant OS.

Rock64 supported Linux distro wiki page

Installation of optional hardware

Smart Plug (individual power reading)

Video guide: how to install the Shelly Plug S (Smart Plug) in Home Assistant

P1 reader (house-wide power reading)[

Text guide: how to install the P1 reader in Home Assistant