KNX-Home Assistant Primer

Create and configure a cover entity in Home Assistant via YAML, using official documentation and copy-paste sample code, then verify with the KNX integration and group addresses.

Learn to create a knx blind cover in home assistant by configuring lamella angle and height with angle address 203 and angle state address 205.

Create and configure KNX binary sensors in Home Assistant to monitor remote access and VPN status, customize device class visuals, and manage sync state and read telegrams for reliable automations.

Learn to configure analog KNX sensors like temperature and humidity in Home Assistant, mapping data point types (such as 9.001) and applying correct state and device classes.

Configure the KNX weather entity and its sensors, compare it with the standard sensor and binary sensor entities, and preview organizing YAML into multiple files.

Explore the fundamentals of YAML as a configuration file format, including key-value pairs, data types, lists and objects, and the importance of indentation.

Learn YAML indentation by using consistent spaces to form objects and lists, avoid tabs, and understand how mis-indentation creates nulls or errors, with VS Code Server in Home Assistant.

Discover how to enter text in YAML using keys, multi-line blocks, and block styles '>' and '|'. Learn how YAML line breaks convert to JSON and how empty lines behave.

Explore how the button entity in Home Assistant sends diverse data point types to KNX, using YAML, group addresses, payloads, and encoded values like 70% and true.

Learn how the KNX number entity sends analog values via group addresses, enabling thresholds like wind speed, with min/max, step, and slider or box display in Home Assistant.

Explore the knx select entity to choose values via a drop down, enabling priority switching and modes. Learn about data type 2.001 with c and v bits hvac mode 20.102.

Learn how the text and notify entities in KNX and Home Assistant handle user input and notifications, using group addresses like 0700 and 701 and choosing text or notify configurations.

Configure knx-ip tunneling in home assistant by selecting the desired interface and tunnel, switching from automatic to manual tunneling, and monitoring telegrams and errors.

Explain the difference between knx ip routing and tunneling, including how multicast delivers telegrams in knx twisted pair and how routing uses a filter table while tunneling uses direct unicast.

Compare routing and tunneling in KNX IP networks, and show when routing via KNX IP routers reduces traffic in multi-line setups, while tunneling suits simple single-line interfaces.

Configure KNX IP routing in Home Assistant by switching from tunneling to routing, using a dummy interface, and mapping group addresses via the IP router filter tables.

Enable knx ip secure by activating secure commissioning on the ip routers and exporting the interface for Home Assistant. Ip secure protects the ip layer, but knx telegrams remain unencrypted.

Enable knx data secure and knx ip secure on compatible devices, export interface info, reimport the knx keys in Home Assistant, and verify secured telegrams and group addresses via diagnostics.

Enable secure tunneling between the KNX IP interface and Home Assistant, enable KNX data secure, then select a secure interface, map secure group addresses, and import KNX keys.

Explore how to integrate KNX heating control with Home Assistant. Lay the foundations of KNX heating systems, including heating actuators, room temperature controllers, and necessary group addresses.

Explain how setpoint calculation works in relative and absolute temperature control, using base setpoints and setpoint correction under comfort, standby, night, and frost protection modes in Home Assistant.

Configure a climate entity in Home Assistant to control a KNX heating actuator using relative setpoint shift and preset modes like standby and economy.

Set up a climate entity with absolute temperature control using target temperature and target temperature state addresses, enabling direct adjustments and standby mode in Home Assistant.

Configure a climate entity in Home Assistant using KNX with heat/cool, on/off, and optional fan control, guided by data point types, addresses, and controller settings.

Explore configuring a KNX fan in Home Assistant, including name, address, state address, and a one‑bit oscillation object, with max step size and percentage states for low, medium, and high.

Explore how the KNX home assistant integration uses sync state with multiple state addresses to issue read requests after restart and to expire or schedule updates.

Explore how KNX flags C, R, W, T, and U control group objects for communication, reading, writing, transmitting, and updating, and how limiting the read flag prevents ghost switching.

Learn the difference between state and state attributes for Home Assistant entities, illustrating how on/off, brightness, color, and other attributes describe device status and enable automations with KNX.

Automate KNX components by using Home Assistant as a time and date server, exposing time, date, and date-time to the KNX bus via YAML expose entries with type and address.

Expose zigbee sensor data to the KNX bus via Home Assistant, configuring binary and analog sensors, group addresses, and attributes to transmit voltage, temperature, and humidity.

Create Home Assistant automations that react to living room light state changes and send KNX telegrams with true or false payloads, using or blocks and conditional logic.

Learn to create a Home Assistant automation triggered by a KNX telegram, using a group address, direction filters, and a template condition to turn the socket on or off.

Extend Home Assistant automations to answer group value read requests, differentiate between state change and read telegram triggers, and send correct telegram types for reliable KNX device feedback.

Explore how templating in Home Assistant uses Jinja2 to assess if living room lights are on, and expose a template binary sensor to KNX via 11 0 1.

Create an automation to send tomorrow's weather forecast from Home Assistant to the KNX bus, using forecast daily data and a saved variable to transmit temperature and humidity.

Learn how to use Home Assistant blueprints to simplify automations, import community templates, and configure actions like low-battery notifications for battery sensors.

Create an automation blueprint to connect a Zigbee RGB light to KNX group addresses using Home Assistant, enabling on/off, dimming, color temperature, and RGB color control.

Connect any media player to KNX using the media player control blueprint, mapping play, pause, volume, and scenes to group addresses for dynamic Sonos control.

Explore how to create and use KNX scenes in Home Assistant by mapping scene numbers to dimming, switch, and blinds, and activate scenes via YAML configuration and the dashboard.

save knx scenes in home assistant by creating a button entity to store scenes via a group address, using a payload and data point type 18 001, with diagnostics.

Sync KNX and Home Assistant scenes by creating party KNX and TV KNX scenes and linking them with automations triggered by telegram, using wait and single mode to avoid loops.