Microsoft Fabric real-time analytics exploration: Home Assistant integration (Christmas edition)

Christmas time seems to be the most wonderful time of the year for IoT Developers.

The combination of both having some spare time and getting geeky gifts (or buying them for yourself) makes it the perfect moment to do some home automation.

Home automation means connecting everything in your home, your garden, etc. Why? Because we can!

So, let’s combine your home automation with Microsoft Fabric!

Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics solution for enterprises that covers everything from data movement to data science, Real-Time Analytics, and business intelligence.

For IoT Developers, this is a great addition to our Azure IoT resources toolkit because ingesting streams of IoT data is supported too.

What if we could record and query home automation events:

Home Assistant is one of the most popular Open source home automation platforms to automate your own crib.

Let’s see how we can enrich this platform using the Azure Event Hub support.

Can we connect to Microsoft Fabric?