Last Updated on September 18, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org
- Another candidate device: Home Assitant Yellow:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/nabu-casa/home-assistant-yellow
is presented by
HA founder and Computer Scientist Paulus Schoutsen, USA:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/schoutsen
- HA is the second most active Python project of all
- the HA dashboard looks similar to the Equivital Lifemonitor Black Ghost dashboard
- HA is 100 % local, without anything in the cloud
- HA is 8 years old
- HA Yellow is the easiest way to get started with Home Assistant
- It uses a Rasperri PI CM4
- It runs the Home Assistant Operating System
- Unfortunately, the Rasperri PI CM4 has an ARM processor, and it is not possible to edit the HA YAML file in an easy way in this configuration. So we have to live with our HP 4100 Elite Tower Home Assistant installation:
until we find a better solution.
- To stream sensor data from a Polar H10 into our setup, we already found an instruction, how to stream it into a balena cloud:
https://www.balena.io/blog/build-heartrate-monitor-using-raspberry-pi-and-balena/
- We need to find now a path to Home Assistant. Unfortunately, there is no balena integration for HA, but only a Rasperri Pi with balena Home Assistant:
https://github.com/balenalabs-incubator/balena-homeassistant
So our setup:
currently consists of:
- A LattePanda for Python LSL, OpenBCI LSL, Muse LSL & Bitalino LSL
- a HP 4100 Elite Tower with Home Assistant OS with x86, on which HA YAML easily can be edited
3. A Rasperri Pi running balena Health with Polar H10 chest strap sensor data:
https://www.balena.io/blog/build-heartrate-monitor-using-raspberry-pi-and-balena/
4. Another Rasperri PI running Home Assistant on balena to get balena data into HA. We suppose balena data can be streamed from one Rasperri Pi to another Rasperri Pi:
https://github.com/balenalabs-incubator/balena-homeassistant