Getting Started With Home Assistant In 2024: The Ultimate Guide
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- In this video I'll take you through the process of setting Home Assistant up on a Raspberry Pi. I’ll also cover the basics when it comes to automations, integrations and dashboards, and go over my must-have add-ons. Trust me, it’s not as hard as you think it is.
Was trying real hard not to crack 20 minutes on this one but there was simply too much to cover and I wasn't able to fit it all into a shorter video. Hopefully it's still helpful for you all!
Questions? Let me know in the comments, and I'll be happy to help you out.
LINKS!
Raspberry Pi Imager: www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Buy a Raspberry Pi here: www.raspberrypi.com/products/
Case for RPi 3B+: www.amazon.com/Miuzei-Raspber...
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00:00 - Intro
01:25 - What Is Home Assistant?
02:43 - The Advantage of Local Control
03:44 - What You'll Need
06:19 - Download Raspberry Pi Imager
06:46 - Flash Home Assistant Image
08:28 - Accessing the UI
08:42 - First Time Setup
11:56 - Adding Devices / Integrations
12:50 - Creating Automations
15:00 - Must Have Add-ons
18:36 - Dashboards
21:15 - Outro
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First person that has been honest about HA. "It ain't always going to be easy", "know what you're getting into", "It's not for the faint of heart at all". Problem is, you don't realize any of these facts until AFTER money is spent. Wish I would have seen your video before all the others.
You deserve way more views on your videos man. They are pro level quality. Keep up the awesome work!
Great video and very well explained! Watching this and following along I was able to get my Raspberry Pi4 up and running with no issues. Thank you!
Your explanations are truly fantastic! Thank you!
awesome job. llve your cautions .. and warnings .. key to our being successful
At last someone is explaining perfect for the total noobs who want to have a smart home! Great video!
Can I use iPad
Hey. Cool video! Keep up the good work 👍
Please do a tutorial of your smartphone dashboard!
Great video! What are some of your favorite dashboards for HA?
great intro video
Great and v.useful video. Out of interest, do you use the PI in parallel for anything else other than as a Home Assistant?
No, raspberry pi's don't have many resources and as a result aren't really suitable for running multiple services in parallel. Glad you found the video useful 😄
thats cool idea ，use pie as Gateway
Hi, is MINIX Z100-0dB suitable for running Home Assistant on Proxmox, Linux?
Do u have a video for home assistance on a x86 computer with no ethernet port
What camera do you use?
Not headphone friendly. Constant low frequency banging sound.
What puck lights were you using with your home assistant through switch bot? I haven't been able to find any and thats exactly what I'm looking to do.
These are the ones I use: www.amazon.com/Battery-Operated-Lighting-GANA-Changing/dp/B08NDCR53D/
You should be able to use any IR compatible lights though, you'll just need a switchbot hub mini/hub 2 to send out those IR signals.
You said that if the internet goes down that HA would still connect to my devices, how exactly? My devices are connected to my router via wifi. I'm currently using Google Assistant with a Hub Max, Hub, a Nest Thermostat, and a few Mini's. The I have Wyze App for my cameras and a different app for my lights because Google no longer recognizes them. I want to control everything in one place whether I'm at home or somewhere else. Looking for a solution. Also I'm hoping to be able to not have Google always listening to what goes on in my home. I feel like its always spying on me.
1. "How does HA connect to devices without internet?" - This honestly depends on the specific device in question, but in a lot of cases these devices have ways of letting other things on your local network to command them about. Sometimes it's an advertised feature (HomeKit, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Matter are all built around this), sometimes there's ways to do it that are undocumented that smart people found out, and sometimes you have to trick the devices into talking to your Home Assistant server instead of whatever cloud server they actually want to talk to. Either way, the people who work on the software for all of those devices figured out how to do it and tied it into Home Assistant. This isn't always the case with every device, but you'd be surprised how much you can do it with.
2. "I want to control it everywhere, whether I'm home or somewhere else." - Home Assistant isn't the best at this, admittedly. At home it'll do it beautifully no questions asked, but if you want to do it away from home you've got three options.
* The first is to pay the company that (formerly) ran the Home Assistant project $5 a month and they'll set everything up so you can access your install remotely, as well as integrate it into Alexa and Google Home as you wish. This is the easiest option but it's also a paid option, which isn't always ideal.
* The second option only works if you use iPhones and have a HomePod, Apple TV, or iPad that stays at home, and that's to set up Apple Home remote access. Home Assistant can take all of your stuff and expose it to Apple Home, which you can then act as an intermediary. This is a pretty easy to set up option, but it requires additional hardware and really is focused on Apple users, so results may vary.
* The last option is to spend some time and expose your Home Assistant install to the internet yourself (this part is easyish, depending on how comfortable you are with tech). Integrating HA back into Alexa and Google Home (should you want to use them as voice assistants) is a pain in the ass too and requires a laundry list of steps. Bad news is it's a bunch of up front work, but the good news is once it all works it should just continue to work without issue. Additionally, these are pretty well documented processes here on RUclips, so you'll be able to find step by step guides.
I personally use a combination of options 2 and 3, and I'm quite happy with the results. I can control everything via Apple Home, and if I need more info or need to do something else I can hop into the HA app.
You can mqtt. Certain devices like tuya work offline in HA, there's also quite a few "local" integrations.
I also did a firmware flash on my wyze cam but AFAIK the flash has been discontinued.
There's also a Google Cloud which should work with Nest gear haven't got thermostat but full control of my Google Cast devices.
Like the comment above: it takes alot of work -Weeks or even Months if you have a life- before you're happy with it, by then you're addicted and do it all over again for fun
I had to laugh when you decided not to pronounce "Beverwijk" 😂
Do you absolutely need a Raspberry Pi to setup Home Assistant or is there another route or option?
Can run a vm on your pc if it has resources
Very good [;oD
so this home Assistant does have zigbee and z wave sorry im new to this
HA doesn't ship with native zigbee/z wave capabilities but you can buy external adapters that plug into your server and give it the ability to talk to zigbee/z wave devices, without the need for an external hub.
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Video has some odd bass sounds throughout, makes my sub boom while nothing happens.
So if I don’t know Yaml there’s no way I could use Home assistant basically?😭
I hear him say you don’t need yaml to get started with HA. You would only need it if you want more advanced and customized stuff. I think the Home Assistant Green might be a good option for people with no coding knowledge, as it’s plug and play and you don’t have to mess with yaml if you don’t want to.
Definitely don't need to know how to read and write YAML to use HA. Some stuff, especially community made integrations, might require you to use it here and there, and there is some advanced functionality you can unlock once you learn it, but it's by no means required.
5yrs in I'm too lazy to yaml there's more than enough cards you can edit visually
So great that you don't tell anyone how to get the Google Drive Backup addon. It's NOT in the Community Store.
How do you feel he owes you anything? The attitude.
If the address isn't shared then why do they ask for it?
it's used for location-based automations, for example turning on your lights + thermostat when you arrive home
Just an observation. Your mouse movements are at Mach2, can't follow without numerous replays, save gave up.
I do not recommend a Raspberry Pi just frustrating to beginners and not reliable. It runs much better off an old PC with an SSD or NVME. Don't use an SD card or flash drive (aka ssd inside a plastic stick) they fail too easily. Linux version is best but windows works okay as well.
I take issue with the "Advantage of Local Cloud" section. Using Home Assistant DOES NOT magically make your home "Local" or "Offline". If all of your devices don't support local control, and only support Cloud APIs, you're still in trouble. You've just eliminated Google/Alexa/HomeKit being a middle man - that's it.
I wouldn't recommend a RPi. There are more capable computers with more reliable storage than USB drives and SD cards. Spend the money on a second hand micro PC from eBay. I have also found a couple custom ESPHome projects that fail to compile on ARM based CPU's.
Tbh nowadays more capable pcs cost less then rpi am using 70$ hp elitedesk with 8gb and 256 ssd
Only drawback I can notice is it doesn't auto start like rpi so after power cycle you have to manually turn it on ( but it's once in blue moon situation)
Check your bios settings. On my Dell Optiplex 7050 there was an option to auto boot up after power is restored from a power loss.
@@taylorlightfoot thanks let me have a look
@@taylorlightfoot thanks for the suggestion , was able to find that option in bios 🥳
Agreed. I was about to buy a HA Green but ended up getting an 8th Gen NUC from eBay for $60.
you don't need to learn YAML
yet another "basic" intro video that doesn't tell you what to do if entering that info in your browser...is it the browser on the RPi? or another machine in the network?, for example.
Browser would be on another computer on the network. Once you install and plug in the Pi, all of your work is done from other computers.
@@TheAppleFreak +thanks for clarifying!
Don't think I'll take advice from someone who can't buy a beer yet. 👣