Yes!!! Newbies like me loving it. Saved it! Been new to HA since Sept 2023 and today I learned from you. I did not know adding my Unifi I could use my mobile phones when I leave home....Zones in HA sucks and testing your method works better with the phones. I did not know about Google Drive backup and so much more. Thank you for the hard work!
@@mymoldydonut6 He stated in the video he needs the extra power for the USB sticks. If you are like me and just using the extended order with the BT USB that comes with it no power cord is needed. He is using a device that has more USB ports and USB sticks needs more power for the extra ports...My HA Green, using his device, would need some external extra power.
THANK YOU!!! I'm an old geek and a lot of this is new to me. I've struggled with HA for years. I've learned more today then all my past research Will send this to many of my contacts THANK YOU!!!
HA! Thanks Reed. I've been using HA for years. I never realized I could turn off the pile of unused menu items in Profile Settings! That's why I don't always think I'm "past" a beginners tutorial. You can always learn something!
I finally decided to give HA a try. For several years I have been too imtimidated to. Following step by step along with your video I installed it onto my NAS. I am now taking first baby steps in adding automations. Thanks for the help. The video, although brief was concise and easy to follow. I look forward to your next HA 'how to' video.
Wow I literally just started setting up Home Assistant 2 days ago and watched your video from 7 months ago where you linked 2 recommended videos on setting it up and was bummed you didn't have a guide and now here it is with perfect timing! Thank you!
Absolutely perfect video for us in the starting phases of smart home and automation. Perfect level of detail and complexity. Looking forward to both more knowledge and videos! 👏🏻
I bought the green when it came…. Unpacked it started It… start to cry and then locket it in the basement with holy water around it throw away the key…. So thank you for the time it took you to make this video, now I will try to start this project.🎉
This video helped me setup a slick new dashboard for my existing HA! I was wondering how my friends were doing that. And I laughed hard at the ad in the back of the video! Great sense of humor!
I just want to say thanks. I've used so much of your content to get me started down this smar home slipper slope and I learn something new from each of you videos. I took awhile to finish this one cause when you talked about setting up your own dashboard, I went down that rabbit trail and started to see wha was possible with customization. Thanks again for all the great content!
Hey Reed! Your videos are so usefull, thanks a lot. I started HA a few months ago but i was afraid to play with the dashboards, now watching this video i will give it a try a make a better one. Watching from Venezuela
Out of all videos I watched over the past few weeks since starting HAOS project at home, this one kills them all. I wish your next one will take you less than another few month... I need your brain and experience sir, you are true inspiration and outstanding mentor
This video is what i needed to make the decision to buy the home assistant stuff, i always felt i was too complicated and all the tutorials where so different. thanks! awesome work.
This video comes out at the perfect time for me, just bought my first home and am very excited to dabble into the world of HA. This makes me glad to know that I will have a flexible and scalable framework with Home assistant! Cheers from Quebec, Canada!
Hello there! I recently installed Home Assistant on a UXX mini PC and I was a bit unsure about where to go next. Your video made the process seem quite straightforward and less intimidating. I truly appreciate your efforts in creating such an informative and helpful video. Thank you very much!
This is a fantastic video, Reed. I've been using home assistant for a while, but I still learned a couple of new things that I wasn't aware of. Loved the part with Aly at the end lol! Thanks!
Great job Reed! We all know Aly writes the scripts, the jokes, runs the cameras and edits the video, but you look great reading the teleprompter!😅 I'm not new to HA, but I learned a couple of great new things today! Thanks We're living the off-grid dream across the Mogollon in nowhere Concho! Cheers Eric
The ending really hit home! lol My wife would say the same thing about home assistant but she knows the more free time i have would just lead to me getting on her nerves.
I've been using Home Assistant since 0.41, I've run it on a Pi, a Ubuntu Server Supervised install and a NUC on bare metal and I'm still going to watch this video from start to finish....
Oh my god the outro is so GREAT, make it into a Short and/or instagram clip, its such a professional grade stuff that needs more attention! Pretty sure nabu casa will make a note of that outro too.
Talk about good timing. I just installed HA earlier this week and was thinking it would be great to have a nice setup video with recommendations. Thanks for doing this!
Yayyyyyy. I have literally just checked to see if it was uploaded 😊😊😊. Even though I am a HA user for a while now. It's still great to learn something more.
Thank you for this, I just bought the HA green, and a TON sensors and lights, plus I have a bunch of ST appliances and fire TVs. I’ve been searching for weeks for a an upgraded HA basics video! I’m still trying to figure out some switch and mesh wiring and setting up the network cabinet with all the stuff I need. And the cameras too but this helped so much! Again thank you!
WOW, RUclips says 8 minutes, NEVER been earlier Edit: I just want to say thanks reed for helping LOADs of people including me with their smart home journeys, I love watching your content with stuff like automation ideas (i have loads of your ideas in my own install)
Love the reference to Paul. Touches like this and the outros are why I love your videos. I would be interested in a video on how you set up your notification scripts. Having had to switch a couple of. Mobile devices this year, a video on how to set that up would have saved me a lot of work. Great video, learned a couple of little tricks today.
What are the odds that I installed HA in a Docker Container last night just to mess around, and Reed puts out a beginner's guide to HA the next day? Get out of my head, sir! Great video!
I know you have and will be hearing this but I’ve been looking for this solution to all the disjointed automation ecosystem and compatibility challenges. I will absolutely order a HA Green tonight. Thanks so much Reed for the due diligence.
This comes as a surprise, I am using these exact Sonoff motion detectors and have zero issues with them. In fact they behave super reliably, unlike the IKEA stuff for example. Also Sonoff temperature and humidity sensors (the round, chip like ones) - zero issues...
This must have been a lot of work to put together. Fantastically comprehensive video for anyone starting out. I think you covered pretty much all the basics and a bit more. As an "old timer" now, it actually made me realise how far things have come for newbies in the last few years and how simple it is to get started now. I will be passing this onto a number of people as it will save me having to explain all this to them. 🤣 Great job. Even though I don't need instruction, it's wonderful to point others to. ,👍
Thank you so much for this. Excellent 👌 work, we all appreciate the effort! I've worked with HA for a while to get a feel for it, now about to start from scratch...
Great introduction tutorial Reed. Thanks for your hard work. I got lost with Scripts and Blueprints, but I will get back to them later. I'm using HA for 3 days now (migrating from ST), and I'm both impressed, sometimes puzzled how things work and somewhat a bit scared.
Hi! I love your videos! I can’t build my own smart home because there is no space and I can’t afford it! I enjoy watching your videos anyway though. P.S. I only typed “Hi!” so I could get my comment up quick! Call it first beggar if you want.
You explain things so clearly! This video really helped me understand create a custom dashboard [14:01]. I’m also working on videos about this topic, would love to learn from you!
i think i'm going to keep the default overview dashboard but this video had some tips that should help me plus inspired me again to start creating more focused dashboards. as for home assistant being difficult, i set mine up on a linux server i already run in my basement which made adding my z-wave usb stick more difficult but backups and secure access over the internet easier. the most annoying difficulty i run into though is what integration i need for my devices. sometimes there are 3 that sound equally right, or sometimes i don't find anything at all. of course with my less obscure devices it's usually easy.
Really hope this is the video for me. Seen a few beginner videos and still felt lost. Will watch this tomorrow (and hopefully feel like I can get started on HA.)
While HA automations have got a lot better recently, because they used to be so bad I setup a dedicated NodeRed installation ages ago and now use that for all of my automations. I find NodeRed far more flexible. I might take a look at HA again after seeing this. I really struggle with YAML though so I find debugging really difficult. This is a good video for demonstrating what HA can now do.
Based on your report, here, I purchased a green HA and attempted to bring in my OmniPro Homeseer echo Ring devices with great difficulty. As most of my lights are UPB I had to try integrating it and came up against a mishmash of difficulty. Home Assistant is far from being ready for prime time with its difficulty of integration like UPB. So I am returning the green and it’s Zigby Z wave dongles maybe I’ll try again in a couple years.
This looks like a video to come back to after I get my Home Assistant. Also I find it interesting that Amazon charges $130 for the HA green but most of to other vendors do sell it for just $99. I had hoped the HA Green might show up as a deal for Prime Day.
Absolutely superb, very well done. Now can you give a tutorial to all those that have got some of the good 'ol Tasmota basic switch devices running perfectly but with or without the Tasmota 'integration', HA can't find/see a single one. In my case 15 x Tasmota devices, 9 the basic light switch, been running via node-red & mqtt for 6+ years 24/7 perfectly. I was told HA was THE answer to controlling just about any device out there. Well here I am 3 years on with many different attempts with HA, trying just to get one Tasmota device to be seen, that would be a start, in this wonderful HA. You sir, seem to be a guru with this HA, I guess if you don't know then I should give up. HA has been one of the biggest nightmares to get anything running of almost any s/w I have played with in the last 40+ years, and yet every vid implies it is wonderful, it just see everything, or there is a 'integration' for everything, but not that I have found so far. Any pointers/answers would be more that greatly appreciated. PS your section the dashboard was really excellent. Kind Rgds.
This is the video I wish was available a few years ago when I started with Home Assistant on a RaspberryPi with a SD card 😉 Now i would probably go with a Green or a Yellow. HA has gone such a long way since then both in term of software and hardware!
I bought hubitat c8 to integrate all the radios and HA to control everything, also allows me to integrate with Alexa and Google for free without needing their sub.
A great video and a timely reminder to take a back up :) I'm excited to see how you set up your dashboard. I'm a bit confused with the many different ways to display data. Which cards do you favour, any you avoid?
This video was a beast! I worked on it for months, so I really hope it helps. Check out Home Assistant Green here: amzn.to/3XUuMNA
How does HA compare to HE??
Yes!!! Newbies like me loving it. Saved it! Been new to HA since Sept 2023 and today I learned from you. I did not know adding my Unifi I could use my mobile phones when I leave home....Zones in HA sucks and testing your method works better with the phones. I did not know about Google Drive backup and so much more. Thank you for the hard work!
@smarthomesolver why do you do powered usb extender vs the extender cord that comes with the signee dongle?
@@mymoldydonut6 He stated in the video he needs the extra power for the USB sticks. If you are like me and just using the extended order with the BT USB that comes with it no power cord is needed. He is using a device that has more USB ports and USB sticks needs more power for the extra ports...My HA Green, using his device, would need some external extra power.
You absolute legend !
Thanks for the hard work.
I'm a HA user but still watched this you covered things I wish I knew when I started
In all the years of seeing videos mention home assistant, this is the first one that made me actually consider using it.
This is my first ever watched video on Home Assistant. Diving in at the deep end!
Who else has been waiting for this? 🙋♂️
I’m 😍😍😍
Me for sure. I’ve been looking at hoobs. But I really wanna know about home assistant too
Kinda made me sleepy....
THANK YOU!!! I'm an old geek and a lot of this is new to me. I've struggled with HA for years. I've learned more today then all my past research Will send this to many of my contacts THANK YOU!!!
I'm glad to hear that!
Same. I get frustrated, but this makes it all make sense and is easy to follow
Major thank you for this and also for the eventual advanced video!!
Wow thank you so much!
Thanks for the Ultimate HA Beginner’s Guide. Awesome! 👍🏼
Wow thank you so much! I’m glad it was helpful!
HA! Thanks Reed. I've been using HA for years. I never realized I could turn off the pile of unused menu items in Profile Settings! That's why I don't always think I'm "past" a beginners tutorial. You can always learn something!
I finally decided to give HA a try. For several years I have been too imtimidated to. Following step by step along with your video I installed it onto my NAS. I am now taking first baby steps in adding automations.
Thanks for the help. The video, although brief was concise and easy to follow. I look forward to your next HA 'how to' video.
Wow I literally just started setting up Home Assistant 2 days ago and watched your video from 7 months ago where you linked 2 recommended videos on setting it up and was bummed you didn't have a guide and now here it is with perfect timing! Thank you!
Perfectly timed! Just got my home assistant green and trying to get to grips with it. This video has been a great help! Thanks
Absolutely perfect video for us in the starting phases of smart home and automation. Perfect level of detail and complexity. Looking forward to both more knowledge and videos! 👏🏻
I bought the green when it came…. Unpacked it started It… start to cry and then locket it in the basement with holy water around it throw away the key….
So thank you for the time it took you to make this video, now I will try to start this project.🎉
This video helped me setup a slick new dashboard for my existing HA! I was wondering how my friends were doing that.
And I laughed hard at the ad in the back of the video! Great sense of humor!
I just want to say thanks. I've used so much of your content to get me started down this smar home slipper slope and I learn something new from each of you videos. I took awhile to finish this one cause when you talked about setting up your own dashboard, I went down that rabbit trail and started to see wha was possible with customization. Thanks again for all the great content!
I'm using Home Assistant since 4 years in quite advanced fashion. Still Iearnt some new things from this tutorial! Thanks a lot Reed! Great job!
Love the way you trolled Hibbert! Allie bringing it home at the end was classic!
Hey Reed! Your videos are so usefull, thanks a lot. I started HA a few months ago but i was afraid to play with the dashboards, now watching this video i will give it a try a make a better one. Watching from Venezuela
Complete rookie on HA here, so thanks you ever so much for sharing this! It got me started and I came further already, than I imagined.
Out of all videos I watched over the past few weeks since starting HAOS project at home, this one kills them all. I wish your next one will take you less than another few month... I need your brain and experience sir, you are true inspiration and outstanding mentor
How to name your smart home device _properly_ is one of the most important conventions to learn first. People should follow Reed's examples.
Loved that segment at the end with the wife advertising home assistant 😂😂
This video is what i needed to make the decision to buy the home assistant stuff, i always felt i was too complicated and all the tutorials where so different. thanks! awesome work.
Thanks for taking the time to actually go over the relevant parts of home assistant in a way that makes sense!
I’ve been waiting for this! Love that Home Assistant Green exists! I am learning this for the first time. Very excited!
Ultimate video 🎉🎉🎉 Ultimate tips 🎉 Ultimate information AMAZING WORK 🎉🎉🎉🎉 I have been waitting for this video
This video comes out at the perfect time for me, just bought my first home and am very excited to dabble into the world of HA. This makes me glad to know that I will have a flexible and scalable framework with Home assistant! Cheers from Quebec, Canada!
35 minutes; I’m absolutely thrilled!
I always got asked on how to start using home assistant and there's no single video with the whole setup, so THANK YOU!!!
Hello there! I recently installed Home Assistant on a UXX mini PC and I was a bit unsure about where to go next. Your video made the process seem quite straightforward and less intimidating. I truly appreciate your efforts in creating such an informative and helpful video. Thank you very much!
Thanks!
I appreciate that!
This is such crazy timing because I literally was looking for this type of video today when looking for Ring sensor alternatives!
Lets goooooooooo!!! Thank you!
I been waiting for this didn't want to watch anyone else because your the GOAT!
This is a fantastic video, Reed. I've been using home assistant for a while, but I still learned a couple of new things that I wasn't aware of. Loved the part with Aly at the end lol! Thanks!
Great job Reed!
We all know Aly writes the scripts, the jokes, runs the cameras and edits the video, but you look great reading the teleprompter!😅
I'm not new to HA, but I learned a couple of great new things today!
Thanks
We're living the off-grid dream across the Mogollon in nowhere Concho!
Cheers
Eric
The ending really hit home! lol My wife would say the same thing about home assistant but she knows the more free time i have would just lead to me getting on her nerves.
I've been using Home Assistant since 0.41, I've run it on a Pi, a Ubuntu Server Supervised install and a NUC on bare metal and I'm still going to watch this video from start to finish....
Oh my god the outro is so GREAT, make it into a Short and/or instagram clip, its such a professional grade stuff that needs more attention! Pretty sure nabu casa will make a note of that outro too.
Talk about good timing. I just installed HA earlier this week and was thinking it would be great to have a nice setup video with recommendations.
Thanks for doing this!
Up and running! Thanks Reed! Finally gave me the kick to make the plunge. Really excited for this.
Yayyyyyy. I have literally just checked to see if it was uploaded 😊😊😊. Even though I am a HA user for a while now. It's still great to learn something more.
Perfect timing!
This is an exceptionally well done home assistant video. What an amazing resource. Thank you!
Thank you for this, I just bought the HA green, and a TON sensors and lights, plus I have a bunch of ST appliances and fire TVs. I’ve been searching for weeks for a an upgraded HA basics video! I’m still trying to figure out some switch and mesh wiring and setting up the network cabinet with all the stuff I need. And the cameras too but this helped so much! Again thank you!
Perfect starting point for a beginner! Quality content
WOW, RUclips says 8 minutes, NEVER been earlier
Edit:
I just want to say thanks reed for helping LOADs of people including me with their smart home journeys, I love watching your content with stuff like automation ideas (i have loads of your ideas in my own install)
I appreciate the kind words!
Reed makes some of the best Home automation videos out there.
Could saved me tons of hours few months ago when I started my smart home journey! Amazing video, watched it anyway and still learned new things ❤️
Love the reference to Paul. Touches like this and the outros are why I love your videos. I would be interested in a video on how you set up your notification scripts. Having had to switch a couple of. Mobile devices this year, a video on how to set that up would have saved me a lot of work. Great video, learned a couple of little tricks today.
Wow! Thank you for the overview and the general how to. I've been waiting for this.
Excellent video! Can't wait for subsequent videos. Thanks!
Whoa! So much info and super straightforward explanations. Thanks Reed!
Very nice video. I just got HA up and running and a lot in this video helped a lot. I was waiting for you to create a video like this
What are the odds that I installed HA in a Docker Container last night just to mess around, and Reed puts out a beginner's guide to HA the next day? Get out of my head, sir! Great video!
Wow! Best beginners guide to home assistant. The world thanks you!
🙌 Finally got my hands on this video after decades! Now, I am waiting for the advanced version? My smart home plans depend on it! 💡🏠
I know you have and will be hearing this but I’ve been looking for this solution to all the disjointed automation ecosystem and compatibility challenges. I will absolutely order a HA Green tonight. Thanks so much Reed for the due diligence.
Just getting into HA so this video was great! Keep em coming!
This comes as a surprise, I am using these exact Sonoff motion detectors and have zero issues with them. In fact they behave super reliably, unlike the IKEA stuff for example. Also Sonoff temperature and humidity sensors (the round, chip like ones) - zero issues...
This must have been a lot of work to put together.
Fantastically comprehensive video for anyone starting out. I think you covered pretty much all the basics and a bit more.
As an "old timer" now, it actually made me realise how far things have come for newbies in the last few years and how simple it is to get started now.
I will be passing this onto a number of people as it will save me having to explain all this to them. 🤣
Great job. Even though I don't need instruction, it's wonderful to point others to.
,👍
Thank you so much for this. Excellent 👌 work, we all appreciate the effort! I've worked with HA for a while to get a feel for it, now about to start from scratch...
Keep up the great work, looking forward to more tech videos from you!
Love it Reed! Thanks for all your amazing tips! You are the best.
Thanks for the demo and info, this is great, now I can take my HASS setup to the next level.
it’s cool Reed, I guess i need to watch it again after automation. Definitely need more time to developed this. Love it!!
Thanks for this, it’s helped me understand home assistant a lot more now. 🙏🏻
Thank you so much this has been very helpful and have been waiting for someone to explain the basics. Looking forward to the advanced version video.
Shared this one with our Ukrainian HA community and everyone loves it! Thank you!
Great introduction tutorial Reed. Thanks for your hard work. I got lost with Scripts and Blueprints, but I will get back to them later. I'm using HA for 3 days now (migrating from ST), and I'm both impressed, sometimes puzzled how things work and somewhat a bit scared.
Great video, I learned precious stuff!! ❤ Just moved from Smartthings to HA, still learning but I already love it!
Thanks so much! Been waiting for this video :)
This is the video I've been waiting for!
Such a helpful info at [8:15]. Thank you for making this so easy to follow!
Thanks Reed! I‘m thinking about buying Home Assistent Green. I see forward to future videos about Home Assistent
Hi! I love your videos! I can’t build my own smart home because there is no space and I can’t afford it! I enjoy watching your videos anyway though. P.S. I only typed “Hi!” so I could get my comment up quick! Call it first beggar if you want.
Well I really appreciate that and it means so much to hear that! Thank you!
@@SmartHomeSolver You’re welcome!
Having no space is actually a benefit: A smaller network so no need for a bunch access points and other various range extending pieces!
Lmao that ending 😂 . Great video, definitely made me want to take a dive into home assistant
Great video Reed! Well done! This will definitely help the newer folks
You explain things so clearly! This video really helped me understand create a custom dashboard [14:01]. I’m also working on videos about this topic, would love to learn from you!
i think i'm going to keep the default overview dashboard but this video had some tips that should help me plus inspired me again to start creating more focused dashboards. as for home assistant being difficult, i set mine up on a linux server i already run in my basement which made adding my z-wave usb stick more difficult but backups and secure access over the internet easier. the most annoying difficulty i run into though is what integration i need for my devices. sometimes there are 3 that sound equally right, or sometimes i don't find anything at all. of course with my less obscure devices it's usually easy.
What a great video! I love Homekit but this really has me thinking about trying HA!
Really hope this is the video for me. Seen a few beginner videos and still felt lost. Will watch this tomorrow (and hopefully feel like I can get started on HA.)
I think between HA becoming simpler, and this video, I may be able to dive in. Feeling just comfortable enough to drown. 😂
While HA automations have got a lot better recently, because they used to be so bad I setup a dedicated NodeRed installation ages ago and now use that for all of my automations.
I find NodeRed far more flexible. I might take a look at HA again after seeing this. I really struggle with YAML though so I find debugging really difficult.
This is a good video for demonstrating what HA can now do.
great video. love the last 30 sec humor. sometime I just watch the video just for that humor :D
Great video Reed, looking forward to the advanced video now 😃
6:57 Of course it’s Paul complaining!
Based on your report, here, I purchased a green HA and attempted to bring in my OmniPro Homeseer echo Ring devices with great difficulty. As most of my lights are UPB I had to try integrating it and came up against a mishmash of difficulty. Home Assistant is far from being ready for prime time with its difficulty of integration like UPB. So I am returning the green and it’s Zigby Z wave dongles maybe I’ll try again in a couple years.
This looks like a video to come back to after I get my Home Assistant. Also I find it interesting that Amazon charges $130 for the HA green but most of to other vendors do sell it for just $99. I had hoped the HA Green might show up as a deal for Prime Day.
Awesome Video! I use HA everyday and I even learned things from this video!
Absolutely superb, very well done. Now can you give a tutorial to all those that have got some of the good 'ol Tasmota basic switch devices running perfectly but with or without the Tasmota 'integration', HA can't find/see a single one. In my case 15 x Tasmota devices, 9 the basic light switch, been running via node-red & mqtt for 6+ years 24/7 perfectly. I was told HA was THE answer to controlling just about any device out there. Well here I am 3 years on with many different attempts with HA, trying just to get one Tasmota device to be seen, that would be a start, in this wonderful HA. You sir, seem to be a guru with this HA, I guess if you don't know then I should give up. HA has been one of the biggest nightmares to get anything running of almost any s/w I have played with in the last 40+ years, and yet every vid implies it is wonderful, it just see everything, or there is a 'integration' for everything, but not that I have found so far. Any pointers/answers would be more that greatly appreciated. PS your section the dashboard was really excellent. Kind Rgds.
Just as I ordered my new raspberry pi. Thank you
This is the video I wish was available a few years ago when I started with Home Assistant on a RaspberryPi with a SD card 😉
Now i would probably go with a Green or a Yellow.
HA has gone such a long way since then both in term of software and hardware!
Reed, this is a great video. Good job dude!
Glad to hear, thanks!
what's that beautiful lamp you have there in the background? and the lightsaber going op the wall in the background. I love it!
Definitely would love for you to show us how to do a wall-mounted tablet
Great guide Reed!
I bought hubitat c8 to integrate all the radios and HA to control everything, also allows me to integrate with Alexa and Google for free without needing their sub.
Great video, please keep going with the tutorials.... especially dashboards! Thanks (a n00b)
Bought HA after watching this video. My entire home utilizes Govee Lights. HA does not connect to any of my Govee lights. Any help?
Did you ever figure this out?
@@colehowie2134Nope. Ended up going to Homey. Still figuring that out. As of right now Google Home controls all my automations.
A great video and a timely reminder to take a back up :)
I'm excited to see how you set up your dashboard. I'm a bit confused with the many different ways to display data. Which cards do you favour, any you avoid?
Thank you 🙏🏾 subscribed ❤ and about to use the 🔗 links you deserve it 😊
Great Video! Can please make a detail video on how to set the away mode using the Unifi integration?
Good video. Makes me want to get one. Wish Amazon didn't jack the price up. Even "on sale" it's $20 more than MSRP.
Thanks for this, Reed! 🙂