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So I want the opposite I think. I have a device in Alexa that I want to expose in HomeKit. Will this work?

Great tutorial, the scripting menu has changed a bit since this was created, but the concept is the same

Excellent explanation, major kudo's for putting the copy/pastes in the description. Thanks!

Not sure how I feel about giving some random person on a website an inventory of my devices, let alone access to those devices. May as well pay the 5 bucks a month or whatever it is now to have nabucasa. At least then you know there’s a base level of accountability in the handling of your privacy. Considering there’s already services for these functions in aws, why doesn’t he just create a contrib utilizing it directly without passing it through his hands? At least then the users can audit the code.

thanx, great video. light and switches works, but for me the scripts do not get discovered on alexa?

@SmartHomeTheory what about the Alexa Smart Home Skill? In my opinion my Alexa doesn't even try to search for new devices. When I ask to discover devices, Alexa replies right away saying it could not discover any new smart home devices and finally is giving the advice to enable Smart Home skill in the Alexa App. Looks like in order to enable SMART Home Skill an AWS account is needed which is free for the first 12 month only. Do I need Smart Home skill enabled or there is another way to do it? BTW I got the first Alexa edition (echo), don't know if matters or not.

Can someone.help.how to Set up with nginx already running on Port 443?

I have two accounts with NABUCASA and have nothing but trouble with it on my boat. It might be due to the Starlink connection but still working on it.

so, it means that I can control any Wi-Fi device without need to Alexa compatible? and for example when i try to add a Wi-Fi switch to Alexa what should I do? like it can automatically recognize?

Great video. I have been using Emulated Hue to turn on and off lights/switches from Alexa. I have also incorporated input booleans to toggle scripts to run. While this has been ok, you still need to remember to say "turn on" or "turn off" to Alexa. I am interested in switching to node red but if I already have an entity setup in Emulated Hue, how to I switch it over to node red? Do I need to wipe out the emulated hue and clear the Alexa cache?

4 Months later, is Pi 5 compatible? This is my first Pi and my intended use. Didn't know they sorta of start over at each new iteration :)

Thanks,that saved me lot of time after messing with emulated hue or that damn alexa skill dev panel. work flawlessly

my HA (June2024 edition) is running on port 8123 - Docker... I tried both 80 and 8123 - rebooting HA every time after saving the yaml file - no difference... xxx.xxx.x.x:8123 or coures works but xxx.xxx.x.x:8123/api/v2/lights produces an error 404 in the browser.... i.e. nothing

Would you please provide a link to your recommended SSD?

Hi, great video. I got a problem qhen using additional commands. Everytime I invoke Alexa i get :"I seems that "device x" is not responding" but the order is executed. Can you help me? Thanks

Great Video!

do you have a solution for RF blaster also ? because i jsut found out many of the chinese aftermarket uses RF instead of IR

I dont often comment but I really appreciate your easy to follow instructions. Cheers mate!

Hello, how do we connect? I have a smart home product that is looking for experiencers, I would like to make a business cooperation with you:)

This is an informative video. It filled in some blanks for me. I just ordered a Raspberry Pi 5 to be dedicated to Home Assistant. My interest in HA is the ESP32Home add-on.

Hi, handsome bro, I watched your video and think your video is very high quality and it can be a great reference for some people who are curious about smart home but don't know much about it.🥰 We have a similar product, but we are smarter and added temperature and humidity display, so our product can control devices such as air conditioner or humidifier by real time temperature and humidity change. Are you interested in experiencing it and taking videos? I believe your opinion can not only help customers, but also help us to improve and upgrade our products to make us better.😘

Easy indeed, until your micro SD card fails. Find a better boot drive first.

Thank you. Excellent entry into Home Assistant. I tried to add the Google Drive Addon however it gives an error.

I'm currently utilizing Emulated Hue and am able to expose everything I want, especially if I need unique control by utilizing Input_booleans. However! One Issue I constantly run into with emulated hue is when I add new devices to the configuration.yaml file. Of the like 10+ times I've done it, every single time when I go to add a new device or add a new input boolean I expose to run different automations, Alexa wont discover the new device. I ended up unplugging echos, deleting the file, adding it again, tons of stuff, sometimes i Just wait a day or two and all sudden NOW Alexa will discover it. I DO HAVE ONE Question, I'm considering switch to Nabu Casa for the simplicity to avoid running into the constant issues with Emulated hue. Is the the control through Nabu Casa to Alexa CLOUD all the time? Like if I'm home, and I've got Z-wave devices that I use Nabu Casa to expose to Alexa, does it got to go out to the Cloud then back to turn the Zwave device on? Or is it local like when Utilizing Emulated Hue?

Please how do you manage alexa to turn on/off the tv. I have been trying everything but Alexa is not seeing the TV. When I ask alexa to turn on the TV, I get this message: "Sorry I cannot find a device or group name TV" I will appreciate your assistance on this. Thank you

Works very well. Thanks a lot !

Wow - this is very cool. I was actually thinking about building my own, but then figured someone might already have made the product. :-) Thanks for the guide.

Can these also be used in reverse? Like using a default IR remote to trigger automations/actions. IF yes this would be amazing if you need tons of buttons for your smarthome/remote

I use port forwarding to Caddy Server, which runs a reverse proxy. This needs only a few lines of config to get working. It gives HTTPS encryption via the free Let's Encrypt service. Using a reverse proxy removed the SSL termination function from HA, so this aspect is a bit more robust than when simply connecting directly to HA across the internet.

Didn't integrate Alexa like this yet but want to say thank you for a great video already. I understand all and I bet it works next week when I find time :)

I don't have any Zigbee devices (I don't think) but I'm using all types of smart home brands, from Tapo to TCP smart to WIZ etc. will these automatically be visible once I've set up home assistant as they're already on the network? great video and thanks for the help

Can i set this up on my phone remotely?

One last thing to consider that i just discovered the hard way: because devices and scripts are exposed and seen as lights by alexa/google, it will turn the "all lights on/off" commands to be useless / dangerous, but its a necessary compromise

Please are you able to use alexa to turn the tv on/off without using the tuya app pls.

Hi, I am looking to connect HA to Alexa, but the other way around. Instead of controlling my HA devices from the Alexa App, I like to control and automate Alexa with my HA. I am talking about the gazillion of devices which don't integrate locally with HA but connect via a proprietary cloud and are controllable with Alexa. So for these devices I like to get and modify their state with HA. Is this possible?

i've tried to do this before with and old video and wasted 5 days... hopefully your video gets me there and if not, i'm doing somethin wrong

It is frustrating though, I am trying to set it up and none of the codes generated works haha. I tried placing my blaster everywhere in the room too

Thanks, it worked at first attempt after getting crazy for 2 days. It was easier than I thought!

Is there a database somewhere where the infrared codes are collected?

nah the VPN get's all your traffic. No thanks

This simple setup won’t work. I cannot connect to homeassistant.local:8123 I’ve tried using the up and still says site cannot be reached. This is my first project using a Raspberry Pi and so far I’m not very impressed. Can’t even get the thing going. So frustrating.

It Doesn't work for me. I tried everything. I can access it via port 80 and I can see the xml. Alexa just wont discover it.

I absolutely agree with your statement that security and convenience are opposing goals. We can't have it both ways. If we rely on companies like the Big 3 to process our data, we know they have their own financial interests in mind either by benefiting themselves directly, or by selling our data to some other interest. I unplugged my Google Home speakers a year ago because they regularly tried to enter conversations I was having with my wife even though we hadn't engaged them in any way. We weren't relying heavily on voice assistance so we've not suffered much since. I am now a Home Assistant user, recently converting from Hubitat. I am interested to see how the Home Assistant voice technology matures and may decide to introduce it to my home at some point in the future. Thank you for the video.

can I use this with air conditioner home assistant cards? Bad thing about this is that I would never know if the AC is on or OFF or the temperature :/

Prezentare foarte frumoasa. Am reusit sa fac exact cum ai prezentat tu si acum pot controla cu Alexa, prizele mele zigbee. Imi era frica ca comenzile ar fi avut intarziere dar spre surprinderea mea comanda soseste instantaneu la priza. Un salut din Romania si multe multumiri.

Excellent tutorial! Fortunately for this noob, you hit all the important points while explaining *why* you made the choices/settings/assumptions you did. As a career teacher, I've gotten pretty good at spotting teachers who really know what they're doing as teachers, and you, sir, have the gift. You're *excellent* at anticipating what your viewers need to know (and, thankfully, what they don't!!) while clearly explaining the concepts and settings necessary to make it all work. The pace of the video was perfect, and the "Final Tips" section was a great way to finish. Thank you very much! (BTW, I mashed that Subscribe button within the first 30 seconds!)

Thanks again! I gave up using the emulated hue method because Alexa set all devices at full brightness. Also state (on/off) didn't work and needed to refresh many times. But with node red is working flawlessly! Do you know how to activate scenes using this method? For example I have created a scene called "white light" that turns a smart bulb in white color at a certain temp/brightness level. Could I say "White light On" to Alexa and activate this scene? I'm asking because the color and temp properties are only available in US and UK as per the documentation. I live in Greece so I'm looking for a workaround, if possible...

First thing first you should avoid HA as much as possible. Still plenty of security issues in hacks. Constant lack of stability. What is the point of this platform? Asking for money ? Stop ruining IOT space with this defective and unsafe platform and that is already YEARS. This is just risk for home safety and legitimizing dodgy "development" and strange politically involved individuals. .

Window cleaning: My MIL bought one of those window cleaning robots for our family summer house. It was loud, slow and needed constant attention to be moved between the 18 or so windows. I think if you could integrate a wiper that moves along rails while spraying the window, that would be a really sleek solution. Toilet tech: Analyzing your toilet doings could have some great benefits, like sending that data to a health monitoring software to give you real time information on your current condition. You could get alerts of bad indications or nutritional recommendations. Automated ordering: Someone was on Home Assistant Podcast talking about how he automated his pantry items by adding an NFC reader to a kitchen scale and tags on the bottom of each item. So when he was done with an item, he would just weigh it and HA would know that there was 84 grams of sugar left in the bag. Then send that to a shopping list if necessary. Flexible vacuum cleaners: My first idea was to put stairclimber wheels on a robo vac, but that would make it a chunky boi. But some kind of telescopic wheels that extend from inside could work? AI voice assistants: Fully local AI is actually a thing. Ollama for example. Although you need a pretty good gaming computer running 24/7 in order for it to give you fast and intelligent responses. And probably a bit of machine learning to suit your needs.

Thank you for this video very straight forward! Question Once I've sync all WIFI IOT devices to SD Card and Home Assistant and Created an account, Can i remove Raspberry Pi? or does it require to be plugged into WIFI Router permanently?