Imagine a bustling city with millions of people going about their daily lives. Now, picture a network of interconnected roads, each representing a data point, capturing the pulse of the city in real-time. This is the essence of data lakes and data warehouses, where vast amounts of information flow in and out, shaping the decisions that drive businesses forward. However, to harness the power of these architectures, real-time analytics is essential.
InfluxDB, the leading time series database, and AWS, the leading web services vendor, have a long-standing partnership. InfluxDB has been available as a SaaS product on AWS for many years. And as InfluxDB has grown and matured, most notably with the release of InfluxDB 3.0 this year, so has our partnership with AWS. That’s why we’re excited to announce that InfluxData achieved AWS Data and Analytics Competency status in the Data Analytics Platforms and NoSQL/New SQL categories.
In this post, we’ll be taking a closer look at Home Assistant, an open source platform for connecting your smart devices at home. We’ll walk through every important section of Home Assistant: dashboards, integrations, add-ons, devices and entities, automation, scripts, and scenes. In addition, we’ll be walking through how to set up your Home Assistant and create automation using Home Assistant’s graphical user interface.