Home Assistant is a powerful open source smart home platform that provides hundreds of integrations of smart home and IoT devices, with high degree of customization of dashboards, event trigger rule engines and controls to achieve ultimate home automation. This session will provide a brief introduction to Home Assistant, how you can try it out on a Raspberry Pi or computer, what integrations it supports, the practical use cases it can achieve, and the resources that can help you out along the journey. My presentation at Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwZ6Jxvi0Rk&t=8200s Presentation deck with links: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UlTX8kQvsK2mwuRZbVwWUgAIr5VkTUyl4Dcoq0LcqqQ/edit?usp=sharing