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You can completely remove the low voltage board and connect as shown below. GPIO0 needs to be pulled to ground on power up (it can be left grounded during flashing) to enter programming mode. Power the device from your FTDI programmer set to 3.3V . The Sonoff Touch is a nice glass touch panel based on an ESP 8285 with 1MB of integrated flash that can be quite easily flashed with a self compiled version of ESP Easy.  You need to compile yourself as the builds available online are all made for the ESP8266 and will not work with the Sonoff Touch.

The videos prior to 1st Feb 2017 like Ben's one below all indicate the following instructions for installing Samba but if you use the HASSBian image like I've now done, the path to 'Home Assistant' in the samba.conf file is wrong.   [HOME ASSISTANT] path = /var/opt/homeassistant becomes

The Home Assistant image HASSbian has the Mosquitto MQTT broker integrated into the image but it is not enabled by default. To get it working and persistent on reboot, perform the following: sudo systemctl enable mosquitto sudo systemctl start mosquitto sudo reboot To test, once your system is back up, type sudo systemctl status mosquitto.service and you should get back the following:

For those that want 4 relays cheaply using a clone of the Seeed studio V2.0 relay board available on AliExpress here , this is how it's configured in HA. Simply follow the Arduino instructions to load the Firmata firmware on your board then plug the Arduino board into your Raspberry Pi.

HADashboard is a very cool dashboard for use with Home Assistant. I’ve tested the installation process on a Raspberry Pi1 version B (yes I know) and although it took nearly a whole day to get working, work it does and by golly, does it look good. More info on GitHub here https://github.com/home-assistant/hadashboard First step is to install docker on your Raspberry Pi if you have never done that before: curl -sSL get.docker.com | sh If you would like to use Docker as a non-root user, you should now consider adding your user to the "docker" group with something like: sudo usermod -aG docker pi Set Docker to auto-start: sudo systemctl enable docker More info here and credit to Alex Ellis http://blog.alexellis.io/getting-started-with-docker-on-raspberry-pi/

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EDIT: Updated 14th June 2017 to reflect version 4.5.5. Default port is now 80 to keep Google Home happy and service now supports MQTT! Advice on backups also added 7th Feb. Version 4x also supports adding a Home Assistant instance which is great! Want to control your Vera, Harmony hub or Home Assistant entities with your Amazon echo or Google Home? ha-bridge is the best way to achieve that and installation is actually quite easy and takes less than 5 minutes. Here are the steps.