So you may have heard of the Adafruit FunHouse and you want to get started with building a project using CircuitPython. As the name implies, the FunHouse was designed to make House or Home Automation fun. The FunHouse library makes it really easy to get started with creating a new project, using this board, but it also supports a variety of other hardware pieces to make creating projects. It also makes it very easy to interface with Home Automation software or create a standalone project. The FunHouse doesn't need to be used as a Home Automation project either. Use your imagination and create something with the available features.
This library is built on top of the PortalBase library, which in turn is built on top of displayio which is included as part of CircuitPython. It also makes use of the ESP32-S2 wifi module, along with some lower-level dependencies, to communicate with server over the internet.
One of the features that we added to this library to make it easy to interface with Home Automation software is the integration of the CircuitPython MiniMQTT library. This library makes it very easy to send and receive messages with a couple of the popular Home Automation Software packages. We will go over that plus more in this guide.
