Setup Raspbian on a Raspberry

I use a Raspberry for home automation. Because I love automation, I want to have my Rapsberry setup in an automated fashion. Using ansible, I'm able to transform manual steps that need to be repeated many times when setting up devices and systems into automated repeatable and idempotent tasks.

Testing Ansible playbook

For testing and development, I use Vagrant a lot. Although Vagrant, respectively VirtualBox does not support ARM architectures, "cross compiling" to a Debian Jessie running on VirtualBox seems viable to me.

Install tools and all dependencies

Run Playbook on each available hosts

To execute the playbook on each and every Raspberry, simply run ansible-playbook -i inventory raspberry.yml

Run Playbook on one host

ansible-playbook -i inventory --limit raspi raspberry.yml

deCONZ

Control zigbee compatible networks

HomeKit support

Install homebridge to be able to talk to HomeKit API

HomeBridge Plugins

• HomeBridge Hue To be able to control IKEA's Trådfri devices, I use HomeBridge Hue