Only 250k subscribers!? You deserve a lot more for everything you do for the homelab community. I thought I was smart, then I started watching your videos.. some of your tutorials go waay over my head 😅😂 You are an incredibly smart dude, thank you for everything you've taught me to date 🍻
Graffana would probably be better for visualization & data tracking. But having it in home assistant is nice for triggering automations too. Like when temperatures get too hot, you can also cook down the room and even see the room temp. Flash some lights for emergencies.
The HASS agent is also really good where it uses MQTT and allows for both control and sensors on PCs. I use that agent to shutdown and lock it and then Wake on Lan to start it. I'll have to try the other integration, Proxmox, Truenas and Unifi Network sometime.
@@Steeleraddict101 thanks. I'll likely do something similar in 6 months or so. Give Tim credit and do it more as an update as there will no doubt be some changes (plus there are some things I'd add specific to my setup)
Tim, I appreciate you so much right now. After spending days pulling together information, boom! this video containing everything I needed. Thanks mate!
Awesome vid!! Its like you been watching my google searches for more HA dashboard ideas!!! Recently found integration for my ionic 5 and for my solar setup! Looking forward to your next vid!!
Long time watcher, first time commenter. I can't thank you enough for this. I just started using HA and the timing of this video was absolutely perfect. Thank you for the great content!
Tim:"You can install HA anyway you like!" Me with an HAOS supervised running in a VM: "And I did" (Context, running HAOS supervised in a VM is NOT recommended!)
i've had home assistant setup in my homelab for quite some time now but i haven't used it to its full potential. it's so overwhelming with all the entiti so right now i'm only using it to control my iot devices.
Love that nervous laugh in your voice whenever you mention your wife and Plex in the same sentence 😅. If any of my homelab services go down I go hide in the bathroom very quickly 😂
@TechnoTim man, I love your content. I have a ton of devices and all of it is just sitting in a spare room, because im not sure what to do with it. I want a homelab, but space is an issue. I thought about my garage, but here in Texas it's just too hot in the summer to have equipment in the garage. However, I think im going to copy your Pi mini rack build. Im going to take bits and pieces from both you and RaidOwl. Im a desktop support guy, but never got into the networking/admin side of things. You guys make it seem so fun that now that's all im thinking about.
If I may, I’d suggest a video about things like the IPMI addons, NUT, WoL, and other similar utilities that can help administer a homelab…other generic integrations like the Kasa one allows for power monitoring via the Kasa TP link KP125M smart switch… honestly the idea has been one I’ve been experimenting with and it would be interesting to see how someone of your expertise might find new ways to integrate a homelab either personally or with suggestions from your fan base
As a note I run two instances of home assistant. 1 for iot home things and 2 for administration on separate vlans neither over lap as they play separate roles
Great video! Makes me want to try monitoring through hass again. I have had TrueNAS in hass couple of times, but for some reason it made Home Assistant really unstable and it started crashing. Maybe it was some config error or something.
Good video for those who might be new to HA. Perhaps mention the backend DB of HA will be hammered with events and might fill up even if automatically purged periodically. Switching to MariaDB and setting up data retention are good practices and actually offload historical/archival data to InfluxDB.
MariaDB was a good recommendation, but a lot of stability and performance improvements have been made over the last year. It's definitely no longer recommended to switch to MariaDB. There is a guide on the community forum how to switch back.
I really like what you showed. The problem with Home Assistant is I want to implement features like you describe. The issue is I go down a rabbit hole for weeks at a time and end up with missing pieces. As an example, I was able to add the integration for my UDM Pro. It shows up. Unlike in your video, my hidden entities are just things like WAN latency and no port number information at all and no exposure of Port 10 which is my WAN port. This is what causes me to keep doing everything in Hubitat. Even simple automations in HA end up being 30 settings and then only parts of them work. I am sure HA is a great product. Sadly, I have studied and played with it for two years and I still have nothing useful other than my 150 switches which I can automate in seconds from Hubitat instead of weeks with HA. I've watched at least 100 HA videos. My knowledge level has gotten pretty good. The issue is there are at least 100 ways to do any one thing with HA and only ONE EXACT combination actually works and it takes weeks to find it. Really great video Tim. I am glad you got it working. One day I hope to decipher HA to the point that I can do anything useful and not have it take weeks and sometimes even months with hundreds of tries.
@@TechnoTim Yup, I do enjoy delving into HA because I like the architecture. It's just that until it is more streamlined, I haven't covered it on my channel or used it for anything other than play.
This is really interesting and thanks for the idea. Up to this point, I've been using Prometheus with cAdvisor, node exporter, etc. to extract all the info on my containers (including Home Assistant), and then pull that into a Grafana dashboard, which is available as a single card (webpage) in Home Assistant. This would have been a lot easier if I had known about it from the start. With that said, Grafana's UI is pretty cool. Is the method you describe above now your preferred approach or do you still prefer pulling everything to a TSDB and building Grafana dashboards?
How can you "toggle" Pi-Hole off? Once you turn it off, don't you lose DNS resolution since all your devices should be pointing at the Pi-Hole for DNS? If you have multiple DNS servers specified, then that defeats the purpose of Pi-Hole, since DNS server choice will then be "random", and won't always use the Pi-Hole...
Because you like Dark mode make a video about new WinBox for Mikrotik. It works in Linux natively and has dark mode. I already installed it and it is fantastic.
Tim, you'll want to revisit this again in the not-too-distant future, as Home Assistant is undergoing a lot of development on the dashboard front. I'm expecting dashboards for most people, especially those who haven't made anything terribly custom yet, are going to be made with HA's new "Sections" layout engine.
Love the flexibility of HA but man is it ALOT. Was there any "trick" to get HA to see the SPF and WAN ports from the UDMSE? Mine is only seeing ports 1-8. It is the same on my 16 Pro Max, Only 16 ports no SPF.
I just setup homepage fully. It's pretty great. I do use Home Assistant much more than any of my other services though. So, I will definitely try adding an extra page that I can use to monitor my servers while I am already on there. It would be cool to setup automations to tell me when different things happen too.
That looks really interesting but I wonder if it has the ability to monitor systems other than the one its running on. I have Home Assistant, but it's running on its own dedicated machine that I don't use for anything else. Anything I'd want to monitor runs on other systems...
LOL... 5 days after finding and installing the pi Hole Add On... Instead of an "ON/OFF switch", I use a script for deactivating PiHole for a certain time... Would like so see, how to implement the docker monitoring when using dockers in unraid,.. any idea? Thx for your content!
I did the same for AdGuard Home. An InputNumber to select the amount of minutes and the a start a timer. Otherwise I would forget to turn it on again 😁
Very cool. I use a configuration of grafana+cadvisor+prometheus+influxdb+node_exporter to monitor all things proxmox/docker related. This looks much simpler to set up and use. What's the pros/cons?
will it auto add new entities to the dashboard? for example for true nas if you added a few more disks into the server would they show up automatically?
I'm running home assistant in a docker container and the system monitor doesn't appear to work. Is that a known limitation of homeassistant running in docker?
Had the same issue. Look at the GitHub link as shown in the video, manual go there, click the add to assistant link, and then it'll add the repository. Hope this helps!
Even if I use Home Assistant, I prefer Zabbix for my monitoring. Just setup a free VPS with VPN. If there is an issue on your hosts it's better to have a dedicated server or host for your monitoring
Thanks. I was using HACS for a long time, but just did not dig so deeply to find out that monitoring is possible. Nice. Basically I use Grafana and netdata. I also have Zabbix. But for sure will try this one.
I can't believe I have had this functionality in HomeAssistant the whole time! Thank you, Tim.
I never would have thought either. I'm going to dig in. I love Home Assistant's data retention.
Only 250k subscribers!? You deserve a lot more for everything you do for the homelab community. I thought I was smart, then I started watching your videos.. some of your tutorials go waay over my head 😅😂 You are an incredibly smart dude, thank you for everything you've taught me to date 🍻
@@jonnie0rtiz thank you so much! I am grateful for the 250!
i tend to keep this stuff in grafana, dedicating HA to actually Home stuff. great video nonetheless so far
@@Pzdrs thanks! I do however it’s nice to have a mobile app to take actions.
@@TechnoTim plus it streamlines notifications which is nice
Graffana would probably be better for visualization & data tracking. But having it in home assistant is nice for triggering automations too. Like when temperatures get too hot, you can also cook down the room and even see the room temp. Flash some lights for emergencies.
And you can send all the data to Graphana/Influx nonetheless for better analysis
The HASS agent is also really good where it uses MQTT and allows for both control and sensors on PCs. I use that agent to shutdown and lock it and then Wake on Lan to start it. I'll have to try the other integration, Proxmox, Truenas and Unifi Network sometime.
Great video, Tim. I've been meaning to do something similar for far too long. I'll use this as my cheat sheet.
@@Jims-Garage thank you! Good to see you here!
I'd love to see your version of this!
@@Steeleraddict101 thanks. I'll likely do something similar in 6 months or so. Give Tim credit and do it more as an update as there will no doubt be some changes (plus there are some things I'd add specific to my setup)
Damn you Tim, every video you either cost me money or add a new todo project to my growing list.
Awesome video as usual.
Man, I just finished configuring Homepage per your other video. You got the oven running 24/7 my guy!
Tim, I appreciate you so much right now. After spending days pulling together information, boom! this video containing everything I needed. Thanks mate!
Goated video
love your video's man. Youve helped shape my homelab and how to install multiple services you defenitly deserve more than 240k subs
Thank you, Tim, I didn't expect Home Assistant to be able to monitor virtual machines as well, that's really great!
Awesome vid!! Its like you been watching my google searches for more HA dashboard ideas!!! Recently found integration for my ionic 5 and for my solar setup! Looking forward to your next vid!!
Thank you Tim! I'm still learning HA and videos like this helps a lot. Please create more HA videos if possible.
Thank you!
Long time watcher, first time commenter. I can't thank you enough for this. I just started using HA and the timing of this video was absolutely perfect. Thank you for the great content!
Tim:"You can install HA anyway you like!"
Me with an HAOS supervised running in a VM: "And I did"
(Context, running HAOS supervised in a VM is NOT recommended!)
Magical! I finally have an excuse to install Home Assistant since all that time I am meant to do it. Cheers Tim X
Great video! It's been so long since I've done anything on HA that I forgot some of the things I could do. Thanks for the inspiration!
i've had home assistant setup in my homelab for quite some time now but i haven't used it to its full potential. it's so overwhelming with all the entiti so right now i'm only using it to control my iot devices.
I always thought HA was for just IOT type things. Thanks Tim for showing me otherwise! I now have another future project added to my list.
Love that nervous laugh in your voice whenever you mention your wife and Plex in the same sentence 😅. If any of my homelab services go down I go hide in the bathroom very quickly 😂
@TechnoTim man, I love your content. I have a ton of devices and all of it is just sitting in a spare room, because im not sure what to do with it. I want a homelab, but space is an issue. I thought about my garage, but here in Texas it's just too hot in the summer to have equipment in the garage. However, I think im going to copy your Pi mini rack build. Im going to take bits and pieces from both you and RaidOwl. Im a desktop support guy, but never got into the networking/admin side of things. You guys make it seem so fun that now that's all im thinking about.
are you running HA and docker directly on the rPoxmox os?
Obviously not in a VM?
If I may, I’d suggest a video about things like the IPMI addons, NUT, WoL, and other similar utilities that can help administer a homelab…other generic integrations like the Kasa one allows for power monitoring via the Kasa TP link KP125M smart switch… honestly the idea has been one I’ve been experimenting with and it would be interesting to see how someone of your expertise might find new ways to integrate a homelab either personally or with suggestions from your fan base
As a note I run two instances of home assistant. 1 for iot home things and 2 for administration on separate vlans neither over lap as they play separate roles
Great video! Makes me want to try monitoring through hass again. I have had TrueNAS in hass couple of times, but for some reason it made Home Assistant really unstable and it started crashing. Maybe it was some config error or something.
Good video for those who might be new to HA. Perhaps mention the backend DB of HA will be hammered with events and might fill up even if automatically purged periodically. Switching to MariaDB and setting up data retention are good practices and actually offload historical/archival data to InfluxDB.
I’ve recently started using Victoria Metrics (wire compatible with Influx) because it has a less annoying license and if you so desire can do HA.
MariaDB was a good recommendation, but a lot of stability and performance improvements have been made over the last year.
It's definitely no longer recommended to switch to MariaDB. There is a guide on the community forum how to switch back.
MariaDB still works better for me
@@jaap7374 thanks. I’ll read up on it. Haven’t touched the backend of my HA instances for a few years.
I really like what you showed. The problem with Home Assistant is I want to implement features like you describe. The issue is I go down a rabbit hole for weeks at a time and end up with missing pieces. As an example, I was able to add the integration for my UDM Pro. It shows up. Unlike in your video, my hidden entities are just things like WAN latency and no port number information at all and no exposure of Port 10 which is my WAN port. This is what causes me to keep doing everything in Hubitat. Even simple automations in HA end up being 30 settings and then only parts of them work. I am sure HA is a great product. Sadly, I have studied and played with it for two years and I still have nothing useful other than my 150 switches which I can automate in seconds from Hubitat instead of weeks with HA. I've watched at least 100 HA videos. My knowledge level has gotten pretty good. The issue is there are at least 100 ways to do any one thing with HA and only ONE EXACT combination actually works and it takes weeks to find it. Really great video Tim. I am glad you got it working. One day I hope to decipher HA to the point that I can do anything useful and not have it take weeks and sometimes even months with hundreds of tries.
@@scottibyte I hear you loud and clear. This is probably my 4th attempt at HA and it finally stuck.
@@TechnoTim Yup, I do enjoy delving into HA because I like the architecture. It's just that until it is more streamlined, I haven't covered it on my channel or used it for anything other than play.
This is really interesting and thanks for the idea. Up to this point, I've been using Prometheus with cAdvisor, node exporter, etc. to extract all the info on my containers (including Home Assistant), and then pull that into a Grafana dashboard, which is available as a single card (webpage) in Home Assistant. This would have been a lot easier if I had known about it from the start. With that said, Grafana's UI is pretty cool. Is the method you describe above now your preferred approach or do you still prefer pulling everything to a TSDB and building Grafana dashboards?
Oh I have not heard of System Bridge. I have been using Open Hardware Monitor. Should I look at switching?
Wow this is pretty incredible.
Love this since grafana is such a nightmare to setup
@@matte909 agreed! I’ve used grafana, loki, prometheus, and alert manager a ton in the past but didn’t want to mange a simple dashboard with them
How can you "toggle" Pi-Hole off? Once you turn it off, don't you lose DNS resolution since all your devices should be pointing at the Pi-Hole for DNS?
If you have multiple DNS servers specified, then that defeats the purpose of Pi-Hole, since DNS server choice will then be "random", and won't always use the Pi-Hole...
would be great to have this in a blog format too.
Because you like Dark mode make a video about new WinBox for Mikrotik. It works in Linux natively and has dark mode. I already installed it and it is fantastic.
Tim, you'll want to revisit this again in the not-too-distant future, as Home Assistant is undergoing a lot of development on the dashboard front. I'm expecting dashboards for most people, especially those who haven't made anything terribly custom yet, are going to be made with HA's new "Sections" layout engine.
Love the flexibility of HA but man is it ALOT. Was there any "trick" to get HA to see the SPF and WAN ports from the UDMSE? Mine is only seeing ports 1-8. It is the same on my 16 Pro Max, Only 16 ports no SPF.
I just setup homepage fully. It's pretty great. I do use Home Assistant much more than any of my other services though. So, I will definitely try adding an extra page that I can use to monitor my servers while I am already on there. It would be cool to setup automations to tell me when different things happen too.
That looks really interesting but I wonder if it has the ability to monitor systems other than the one its running on.
I have Home Assistant, but it's running on its own dedicated machine that I don't use for anything else. Anything I'd want to monitor runs on other systems...
@@Flackon it can, yes
You've just hit upon one of my early observations about various IoT APIs: they've reinvented SNMP, but haphazardly and bloated.
LOL... 5 days after finding and installing the pi Hole Add On... Instead of an "ON/OFF switch", I use a script for deactivating PiHole for a certain time...
Would like so see, how to implement the docker monitoring when using dockers in unraid,.. any idea?
Thx for your content!
I did the same for AdGuard Home. An InputNumber to select the amount of minutes and the a start a timer. Otherwise I would forget to turn it on again 😁
I use the Glances integration to monitor my servers in Home Assistant
Nice t-shirt, but a bit redundant...
Soon Home Assistant will do everything in your home lab and you'll just need one computer.
Hi Tim. Is there any possibility you are compromising security by exposing your services on HA?
I am only exposing it internally. To connect to Home Assitant I use a VPN back to home.
Very cool. I use a configuration of grafana+cadvisor+prometheus+influxdb+node_exporter to monitor all things proxmox/docker related. This looks much simpler to set up and use. What's the pros/cons?
will it auto add new entities to the dashboard? for example for true nas if you added a few more disks into the server would they show up automatically?
generally the more I use home assistant the less production ready it feels, hopefully this doesn't turn out the same way.
what do you guys use to manage aand monitor multiple servers on the cloud and web servers in general?
Great vid - my HACS doesn't have Proxmox-VE. Is that a custom repository?
Never mind. Yes, it is a custom repository. Didn't quite follow that from your vid. My thick skull got in the way.
how are you using hacs on docker? i thought only ISO version of HA has hacs
hey i want to know what devices(smart) are you running and do you use zigbee or z wave
Can this info be scraped from Prometheus/Grafana that is already running? There's no point in doubling it.
I'm running home assistant in a docker container and the system monitor doesn't appear to work. Is that a known limitation of homeassistant running in docker?
I've also got an issue running the System Monitor. I set up Home Assistant as an LXC, but I'm wondering if I should run it as a VM instead.
Im wondering how system monitor will monitor the host system, wouldn't it monitor the ha vm rather than the proxmox os.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it does (monitor the VM)
Wait i have my HA on my HA Green device and i have a media server running unraid, how do i expose my unraid server data to use HA on my green device
I find glances the easiest sysmon integration
Interesting alternative to Grafana. Alarms, data experation and prometheus integeration would be something to check thought.
22:08 So should I just make a pve user, who only have permissions to those parts I want to add to monitoring list?
@@Monarchias that’s right!
@@TechnoTim Thank you.
For whatever reason, Proxmox VE isn't showing in HACS
same for me
@@AnotherMaker Not here for me either.
I done it for years 😂
Toggles Pi-Hole switch and it immediately toggles back.
? He toggled it back?
@@bunkeeXSFX i think that’s a bug they are fixing. If you refresh it after toggling off you’ll see that it’s still disabled. Happened to me once too.
Been using this for a hot minute. Great reference, Tim.🎉
proxmox doesnt show up in my machine ;p
Yeah, I just tried in HACS and not showing.
Same here, no HACS Proxmox
Had the same issue. Look at the GitHub link as shown in the video, manual go there, click the add to assistant link, and then it'll add the repository. Hope this helps!
Dude....InfluxDB and Grafana....lol. make those history stats much prettier 😉!!!!
Where can In buy this shirt?
You can buy it here! Thank you!
shop.technotim.live/
@@TechnoTim I can only see the Dark Mode Shirt in your shop, but I'm looking for the backup shirt.
hi i dont know if you will respond but its possible an alternative for unraid please ?
really apreciate if you reply , have a good day :)
Dang... i use TpLink Omada and bunch of mikrotiks ... :S
How do you find omada, I think it's poorly implemented and tp-link are using hardware versions to payfor the software
Looking for the documentation page. Great channel.
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I agree with the first comment
HOME ASSISTANT ❌ HOME AIO✅
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it died already!
1st
This trend should die
Even if I use Home Assistant, I prefer Zabbix for my monitoring. Just setup a free VPS with VPN. If there is an issue on your hosts it's better to have a dedicated server or host for your monitoring
Thanks. I was using HACS for a long time, but just did not dig so deeply to find out that monitoring is possible. Nice. Basically I use Grafana and netdata. I also have Zabbix. But for sure will try this one.
This seems much easier then trying to build/ find a dashboard in grafana todo this