Access Home Assistant (and your house) from anywhere (free): ntck.co/twingate_zerotrust I’ve got a problem only home automation can fix. My youngest daughter keeps throwing entire rolls of toilet paper into the toilet because people keep leaving the lid and bathroom door open! So, I turned to Home Assistant to solve it. In this video, I’ll show you how I tackled this problem and walk you through setting up Home Assistant for your own home. 📄📄📄Link/Guide/Documentation: academy.networkchuck.com/blog/home-assistant 🛒Supplies List: ➡Raspberry Pi 5 (kit): geni.us/z0BVIc ➡Raspberry Pi 4 (kit): geni.us/mzJF55 ➡Plug and Play - Home Assistant Green: geni.us/XF8r7AH ➡Zigbee Adapter (Ethernet): geni.us/ufDk8 ➡Zigbee Adapter (USB): geni.us/HfPvU IoT Devices (recommended) Light Bulbs (Zigbee): geni.us/pjr0BB Contact Sensor (Zigbee): geni.us/ufdgFx Proximity (motion) Sensor (Zigbee): geni.us/GPfLHN Phillips Hue: geni.us/x4PERqP 🔥🔥Join the NetworkChuck Academy!: ntck.co/NCAcademy **Sponsored by Twingate #homeassistant #raspberrypi #homeautomation
@NetworkChuck I would use natural casa.. yes it's not free it's 7 bucks a month or you can save and pay yearly. It helps support the awesome team behind HA so we can enjoy a free local smart home.
My favorite automation that I currently use is: If someone is standing in front of my entrance door for longer than 10 seconds without ringing the doorbell, my entryway sonos speaker will play one of the wav files from the "big dog" folder randomly and repeat that every 10 seconds until the doorbell is rang or untill that someone has left. The "big dog" folder has 30-ish recordings of my good boy (rottweiler Carlos who passed away last year) barking and growling.
I've been planning on doing this for the same reason for about a year or so. Problem is, I don't have a dog. Any chance you'd be willing to share those recordings please?
@@HunterGeophysicsAustralia No problem, man. I will be happy to hear Carlos defending homes worldwide. Not sure that links are allowed in the comments, though. I will reply to this comment with a link, and if it's not there, then I guess it's not allowed. In that case tell me how to send it to you. The folder is about 30 MB in size. EDIT: I added the Google Drive link to my RUclips page. Just click on my name and it's there in the description.
Good. Waiting for (or contributing to) FOSS solutions that don't invade your privacy is the way to go. Home assistant is not new but it is work to set up.
@MichaelAbramo it isn't alot of work to set up things. Use Chatgbt with questions for instant answers. I had no knowledge at all about tech or network or anything like that when I started. Now less then a year later I don't use chatgbt alot anymore but there is times I do. Also there is a whole word of people willing to help with any issue for free!!! No bs like calling Amazon about your alexa issues.
I'm the same way. I'm a software developer. Everything is hard enough already without home automation stuff that will probably just be broken from day one and take days to weeks to get working only for it to not work as advertised. I'll stick with physical buttons I can press that open and close circuits that aren't tied to some network.
@@privacyvalued4134 I'm also a software engineer. Just like a mechanic doesn't want to work on their car after work, I don't want to deal with tech unless it truly is a great benefit to my life. Smart lightbulbs are not it. And smart lightbulbs that can be hacked outside the network is definitely not it. I like the idea of home assistant but there's value in being forced to interact with the world not through your phone/home control panel from the couch
only automation I have right now is my furnace and it's a relay controller and I coded a script to control it, and a C++ program with php front end. Been meaning to expand and create a platform of PoE devices that can talk to a central server. I might look to see how hard it would be to make this custom solution work as a HA integration as it would save me from coding a front end.
@@TrentMaher I changed the access rights to Super Admin instead of Viewer and it picked up the firewall port forwards. Unfortunately the Policy Based Routing doesn't show. 😕
Home assistant has been great for me. I run it in a virtual machine in my homelab. I've barely scratched the surface with automation but one of the most useful things I've done is control a WLED indicator light on my office door... if my laptop microphone is active, the light automatically turns red to let my family know I'm on the phone.
@@dev.sharifI actually could use that at work. Our door bell button isn't loud enough for a big shop so I been thinking about making a HA system at work.
I'm moving to Home Assistant. I've been on Samsung's SmartThings for several years now and I'm done with them. Almost every time my firmware is updated on the hubs, I lose connection and/or control of my lights and sensors sometimes for over a week for some reason. I've also had Samsung turn all my lights on in the home at 3am several times now, waking everyone up. Instead of a pi though, I'm running Home Assistant on an HP T730 Thin Client, they're cheap around $25 on ebay. Add a zigbee+zwave dongle for another $30 and the HP machine even has an internal USB 3.0 plug on the motherboard so nothing sticking out of the unit. They use little power, only a few watts, and they're old enterprise equipment, so they're built solid and should last forever. Now, I just need to make the time to move everything over to Home Assistant.
Right, he will pick up tens of thousands from going into Home Automation. There's lots to know, and his expertise would be a welcome addition to the community.
One of my biggest recommendations for automation creation is keeping in mind of when you want automations to NOT run. That can save a lot of headaches in the future. There are plenty of youtubers who have tons of videos and tutorials, but I'm looking forwarding to seeing more creative networking side of things.
My home assistant tracks my phones location and disables and enables specific automations based on where it is. Like my porch light. It'll turn off at 1am, but if I am not home, it'll wait until I get home and then turn off 30 mins later.
You have to continue doing home assistant videos cause there's so much to it that seeing multiple videos for different projects will really help people learn this better cause I can imagine people trying to do their own things and getting frustrated
Fun video. I have done something similar with a few doors in my own house. A couple lights turn on orange color, a push notification goes out to the adult family members devices, and a speaker announces which door has been left open. But the easiest solution was to install a US$10 BigA brand self closing hinge on each door that I wanted to keep closed. This hinge depends on a door that can be easily closed, but it’s a very effective cheap, analog solution.
I've been using HA for years (running in a Proxmox VM on HP EliteDesk mini-PC). I figured, it was only a 'matter' (pun intended) of time before you two got together. The wait was a bit longer than I expected, but I'm glad it finally happened. It can be a rabbit hole, but the support community is amazing and in the past 5 years I've never had an issue or a question that I couldn't resolve/get an answer to. Can't wait to see your future videos on HA.
Home Assistant is amazing. Ive been messing with it for over a year and its got so much functionality. i recently turned my garage door opener smart with an esp32, magnetic reed switch and i 5v relay. Cant wait to see more videos you make of this amazing application
A network chuck video on home assistant! I've been using home assistant for years and it's awesome! The automation possibilities are endless...especially with your expertise. Make a series!
what if i wanted my house water supply to switch from mains town water, to tank water when the tank was 80% full, and back to town water when 5% full? Know of any IoT devices for the job?
@@PulsechainProfits I don't know your plumbing setup but firstly, get a motorized 3 way ball valve for controlling the flow( mains town water to home and tank water to home). As for the water tank level monitoring side of things, see @LarsKlintTech channel. He has a video on monitoring water tank level using some iot devices and HA.
My kind of home automation 😂 Made a teenage alarmclock 2 years ago that is similar to your trigger there. Kids wakes up to smooth music and dimming lights... Unless they dont open the door in 15 minutes the alarm selects between metal, metal or metal at max volume and at that point they regret wanting rgb ceiling lights....
The image of said teenager sitting bolt upright in bed like they've been electrified (complete with spikey hair) and RGB lights like a rave party with audio at 100db really did make me chuckle... 😂😂😂
@@nikenbole back in my day.. it was a bucket of cold water and a cold soggy pillow the following night.. and kids think they're hard done by today. Military boot camp next? 🤭🤭🤭
You have the cutest girls, enjoy these moments and problems, after they grow up you will come to miss this kind of stuff. Best wishes, happines toggle on, automate smile!
This is great... But you failed to show the part where the raspberry pie replaces the main function of Alexa.. which is voice activated control of your devices without sending recordings of everything that happens in your home to the tech companies.
Try having a dementia patient living with you.... every light switch in the house has a routine, doors, windows, outlets, motion sensor, human presence, alarm panel, thermostats, lights, cabinet doors, electrical sub panels to monitor current draw (alert to things like the stove being turned on at 1am), the entire house is connected to HA now to automate and remedy dumb things like turning off lights after being left on during the night.. Next on the list is 60GHz mmWave Fall Detection Sensors.
If you get a fall detection sensor working reliably, please let me know what you used. I've been trying for the same reason for about a year without success. Not reliably, anyway.
@@HunterGeophysicsAustralia Will do! What sensor are you using? My plan is to get a couple of these "DFROBOT - C1001 mmWave Human Detection Sensor" can't post a link, but Amazon has them for $40. The SeedStudio branded ones are tough to find in the US.
@@HunterGeophysicsAustralia This might be a private AI problem. Instead of trying to use a sensor, you might consider using cameras and object recognition. It would be easier to create rules that if they don't move from certain regions in the camera's FOV (the excluded regions would be chairs or a table), to trigger an alert to manually verify that they aren't laid out. It's also likely that an AI could be trained to recognize a fall by the dramatic increase in movement speed (due to gravity) and the sudden stop that follows (hitting the floor) and trigger a more accurate warning.
Home Assistant rabbit hole - check. Been on that train for many years. I really appreciate your video because with HA there is no one right way and so many ways to accomplish the same goal. I love seeing how others solve their automation problems! Thanks!
My son is 10 years old, got his own Google TV on his room, watching RUclips until way to late in the weekend. Your video actually helped me with a 'wtf' moment when i saw you could use home assistant to toggle firewall rules. I checked it out and created a rule that blocks all internet on all my kids devices (Switch/iPads/phones and Google TV). Now all that is left for me to do is create an automation based on a custom schedule ;) THNX!
In home assistant there is an option to create a voice assistant, including support for LLM models and prompts. And yes, you can even call him via SIP =). I bought an old desk phone, connected it via the grandstream ht801 gateway. Now I can call the assistant from this phone and ask him to turn on my light =). And if you connect an AI command handler, then it will be able to execute long commands with conditions (for example: turn on the light, and if the room is warmer than 25 degrees, turn on the air conditioner). This is literally a separate universe Love HA ❤
Could you please elaborate how did you achieve that? I just ordered my first raspberry pi with a sound card and a microphone so I can get similar results. Basically, I want a replacement for my Alexa, because I'm the only one using from my family and no one else in my family speak English. I really want to integrate Raspberry pi, some LLM and Home Assistant together but I have no idea where to start from... Any clues?
@@alexeycherkashin6251 The Home Assistant has an official Openal add-on that allows you to connect to ChatGPT. In the settings of the voice assistant, you can select this addon as a dialog system. If more settings are required, the Extended OpenAI Conversation community addon will appear
My first play with these IoT was setting an SOS light in my porch to a shortcut on mobile in case I ever wanted to alert the outside world (street) to an internal (home) emergency. It's useful as peace of mind like any visual alarm system and super simple. A flashing red and blue light. Great to see more in depth utilities in your videos.
One improvement you might be able to make is to save the states of all of your devices so they can be returned to the condition they were in before the alert went off. So if your lights or tv 43:49 were off, they would go back to off instead of being left on.
Your timing on this video is perfect. I've been in a rut, I've been wanting something technical to do, and this is perfect. I have a half-smart home, plenty of hardware, lots of IoT devices, and I have recently had power and network outages due to storms. This would have been a huge benefit. Now I have a project! Thank you!
My wife wanted a new couch next time it was on sale, so i added an automation in home assistant to get the price from their website, and when price was below a set value we got notification on our phones that the couch was on sale. this is one of many automations my wife really like from my Home Assistant setup.
I've only recently begun my home automation journey with Home Assistant. Super excited for this video and any potential future vids you post on the topic! Much appreciated Chuck! (I am also Chuck. Always good to meet another Chuck.)
Awesome to see you getting on the Home Assistant train... I have been using it since 2016 and it has improved so much. I truly believe it is more powerful than any professionally installed system out there and now its incredibly easy to use
This is the best video on Home Assistant that I ever saw. Easy to understand (also if I have to watch again something, because your explanation is very fast), but is how I want to approach to this kind of stuff. Thank you
I've been using Home Assistant for a few years now. It started with that I wanted a smart doorbell with a camera, but I didn't want to rely on just an app on my phone and didn't want to use the hardware chime because it jump scares me. To get rid off the jump scares I already replaced the original doorbell with a simple doorbell that, when pressed, sends out an RF signal. Throughout my house I have several receivers that play a sound when they receive the RF signal from the doorbell. So what I've done is adding an RF emitter to Home Assistant, recorded the RF signal emitted by the doorbell and have Home Assistant send out that same RF signal to have the receivers play their sound. Next I got a Unifi doorbell (because those are local and I already had Protect running), added the Unifi Protect integration to Home Assistant and added an automation to send out the RF signal when somebody presses the doorbell. But only between certain times, so I won't wake up when people press my doorbell in the middle of the night. And that was the beginning of a very, very, deep rabbit hole.
There's a caveat in your automation: you don't actually restore the lights and TVs to a condition they were before the OPT was activated - you just turn on the light to be white and turn off TVs. Your family will be unhappy with things not returning back to normal 😅
There is a way to save the state of a number of devices as a scene, and just recall the scene after the automation has run it's course! That's the way I have done it on my automations that have flashing alert lights and such.
It's there a way to capture current environment, store it, then recall it after the switch is turned off???? That would solve this problem wouldn't it?
@@jlalvarado024 I don't use HA yet. but there is an api that should allow you to get the state of devices. Get the color/intensity/powered state of lights and other entity states of other devices. the TV would be tough to return to what they were watching but the rest should be easy enough.
I was thinking that too. I also wonder what happens if they're in the middle of watching a movie does it just cut them right off or can they start the movie back where it left off?
@@redsquirrelftw in my experience, it doesn't put you back in the same app even. You have to go back and resume it. Even the scene trick I use doesn't work for some systems that well: on my Roku, it puts me back in the right app, but doesn't resume what I was playing.
Home assistant is awesome, I'm currently using it with temperature sensors and ir blasters to turn on and off the aircon when me or my wife are at home and temperature reaches a certain range. Longer term I'm hooking up my solar system to it so during the day for my excess power outside of buybacks it'll use that energy to cool or warm the house. Got standard lights and other automations like blocking kids wifi devices and also remotely shuts down their PC's . Handy when they are on them too late. 15 second message then boom off they go. Absolutely beast of open source software.
Everything was awesome, but I'd suggest looking into "Create scene" where you can save the state of everything before activating an temporary automation like this. And after it is done, go back to the previous state. This would for instance help with someone watching the TV, getting the message and fixing the door/lid and then not having to start the TV because it is turned off. Same with lights that was already turned on/off getting restored to the last state instead of a hard coded state.
The sheer joy on that babies face as she was filling that toilet :D -- literally had me in tears. Something else to consider is using PoE Hat for RaspPi and save some cabling. Also means it is online so long as the UPS for my Switch is allowing me to start doing managed power downs of my lab and sending text to my phone letting me know power is out. Love Home Assist.
DAMN MAN! Your best video ever - welcome to the HA family, you're now trapped! 😃 I've been using it for 5 years straight and still playing with its automations to this date! My wife is desperate 🤣Your kids look so cute by the way! Way to go NetworkChuck. Regards from Spain!
Love your enthusiasm. I'm at 40:23, and this is Almost perfect. Not one more thing to do - but five. Because if you don't, people are going to start to get P.O.'d over this and it won't be fun anymore. 1. You need to capture the properties of every light you are taking action on before the action is taken 2. You need to capture what the televisions are currently playing, the timestamp and volume 3. You need to set the properties of those lights back to what they were 4. You need to return the televisions to what they were doing. 5., whatever that one thing is you're about to say...
This use case is legit. My bathroom door automation triggers a smart speaker in the bathroom that starts playing a music playlist called “Music to Poo To”. The music stops the moment the bathroom door opens again. My absolute favorite sensors are any mmWave presence sensor running ESPhome. You can make your own if you want, or buy them ready to go from Athom.
I love it! I might have to implement something like this for when my kids won't go to sleep and sneakily turn on their lights late at night to read. Totally unnecessary side note: Uncle Jeff left Amazon years ago and handed the reigns over to Andrew Jassy. So it's really Uncle Andrew who's all up in your business now days. :)
Thanks Chuck! Best 'use case' scenario to explain why everybody needs a smart home... Guess I have to get me some kids. Jokes aside, very clear explanation of the power of Home Automation in general and Home Assistant specfically. Keep em coming!
for the price of a Pi you could get a N100 mini pc and run HAOS on a VM on Proxmox as well. Way better setup, more and faster storage, connectivity options.
@@MiamiJamrockSpice you can pick up a N100 Mini PC with 16GB RAM, 500GB NVMe and 2.6Gbe for under 160€ (including tax, heck in the US for even less!), and that's massive overkill for HAOS, you could add a few VMs and LXC containers on Proxmox on top and still not break too much of a sweat. What Pi, once you've kitted it out, can complete with that?
@@PolarRed You said for the price of a Pi, which isn't accurate. Pis still start at $35 and go up to $80. That N100 you described is still over $100. And like you said, those specs are overkill for this kind of project. Why pay $160 for something that you're not going to make full use of when you can pay a lot less for a set it and forget it device focused on doing one task? Depends on if you plan to do more with that computer, I guess. I have other servers that can be utilized for multipurpose projects. But sometimes, I'll just have one system do one thing. For example, I got a HP Elitedesk mini PC with an i7 and 16GB RAM for $130 which is better than any N100 and it's being used as a dedicated media server since the transcoding is better for 4K streaming over a Pi and N100 for example. You can always find something better.
@@MiamiJamrockSpice good luck getting it to run on a Pi without buying anything else! I would have thought that it was obvious I was talking about the whole setup! I did mention storage, memory and ethernet, but obviously, not obvious enough! BTW good for you you can get a Pi for $35! Where I am they start at around 60€ just for the Pi and a starter kit is between 100€ to 160€ for the 4, and upwards from that for the 5, and that's with just a measly SD card for storage! So you haven't convinced me, Mini PC N100 still the better deal for using out of the box, and by far the better deal for scalability! Again, good for you with the Elitedesk, obviously better than a N100, but what's your point? You've just put holes in your argument for the Pi yourself from what I can see! I can only wish deals like that could be had in my region, for even second hand or refurbished, let alone new! I run HAOS, Adguard, Traefik, Cloudflared, Loads of Docker containers and LXC containers all on a N100, cost me less than 90€ in a Amazon sale (I got 3 and run as a HA cluster on Proxmox, works a treat and cheap as chips). But you are right, you can always find something better, but N100 is a great cost effective place to start, and way better than the Pi 😀
@@MiamiJamrockSpice Black Friday is coming in a month. Those refurbished Elitedesk Minis are great, but I question whether one you're buying for $130 (G2 or G3 maybe?) can transcode better than an N100. The CPU on the N100 actually has better Quick Sync onboard for encoding and decoding than those older Intel CPUs. They also draw less power, but in most places that difference in energy cost is negligible. The N100 is actually really good as a media server (I'm impressed by how well it transcodes), but it does have limitations for more advanced requirement, such as limited PCIe lanes and single channel memory. I think they were intentionally hobbled by Intel, because they're too good. Either way, the Elitedesk is a great choice if you're not trying to decode/encode multiple newer codecs often, and it's probably more versatile.
Upon completion, you should've had another video like "Good girls" or "Thank you for avoiding another toilet roll disaster", but this is absolutely AWESOME!!!!
Welcome to the fun of Home Assistant. I have used it as a hobby for a while now and I love it. I have two favourite automation's. The first is because I have my laundry machines in the shed at the end of the garden I am monitoring the power usage of them and when the washing or the dryer finishes I get an announcement on google hub. The second is I have a box at the front door for delivery's (because it rains a bit here in Ireland). When the box is opened I get a WhatsApp message to tell me that something has been delivered. Love looking at your videos keep up the good work.
yes, my home automation sucks, the door bell is analog, the locks are analog, the garage opens manually, things are only connected to power supply and nothing else. internet router is on a shelf within a kick's range and the pc is at my desk near the baseball bat.
This would be the best thing for me and my best friend as he forgets to close the toilet, but he does close the bathroom door. I like my bathroom door open and the toilet closed. You got me thinking best idea on how to get him to remember. Thanks and now another coffee.
Just scored a 91% on my A+ practice exam, scheduling my actual exam. Would love to see an updated “Certs [you] Recommend” video! I’m switching careers, trying to get into IT.
Home Assistant Green is a great alternative to setting up a VM or Pi for $99. It's plug and play and eliminates Pi SD card issues. The Sonoff Zigbee dongle (Ti) and a long usb cable for communication instead of wifi and you're all set without proprietary tech. I use MQTT instead of ZHA. Node Red is also a great flow, BPM style, way to do the logic instead of HA automations.
I'll throw my 2C in the ring here as an advocate for RPi installations rather than VM. Why? Well the thing about home automation systems is that once everyone is used to the way it works, you want it to be online, always, no matter what and AFAIK, there is no native support for High Availability methods , especially if you have a Zigbee/Z-Wave USB dongle rather than that snazzy POE one in the video. If for any reason you need to take a server down for any kind of upgrades or maintenance, then it will drive everyone in the house absolutely crazy if its longer than the time of a reboot. Whatever level you are at with your home server/lab, I would strongly recommend, for everyone's sake, to treat Home assistant differently to anything you like to experiment with. Personally I keep a spare RPi kicking about, and if for some reason my existing one fails, I just stick the SD in another one and plug it in. They're already pretty reliable though.
Nice. I have been running Home Assistant for about 2 years now. And i LOVE IT! I running Home Assistant OS on a HP Elitedesk G4 800 that i bought used. Cheaper then a Raspberry PI. And alot more horspower.
Once a friend got me to look at HA I also got kind of addicted. Even with limited time it's just too amazing to automate stuff, keep an eye on energy consumption / PV production. Motion sensor lights, integrate smart door bell into HA, and much more! When there is much electric power left over during summer, a 3KW heat resistance heats up water in the boiler. Soo much possibilities 😀
I love this guy's way of thinking! He is my kind of Tech Dad. He has inspired me to a new level. It's time for me to cut the Alexa cord and move to Home Assistant. Thanks, Chuck for this great video!!
Would love to see more Home Assistant videos! I too have been relying on Alexa but am left very...underwhelmed. I've been avoiding Home Assistant because a new setup is so involved but I'd really like to get it done. I know there are many other videos out there on the topic, but I really enjoy your take on things and would love to hear it from your perspective!
I think one advantage of having it in something like raspberry pi is they sre cheap enough that you can buy 2 so if there is a failure you can be back up and running quickly. If you have some off the shelf system if something breaks its most likely gonna be a while to get up and running again.
Idk what I was expecting, but I'm 1 minute in and this is diabolical.. I've been out of the home automation game for a bit, but saw this video after watching one about a Unifi Dream Machine, determining whether or not I needed one (yes) and after this video I'm reinstalling Home Assistant and brining this same energy to my space.
An essential automation for us is when the whole house fan is running via a smart plug at night it will turn off if the AQI of our PurpleAir goes above a certain level. This is key when the air is smoky from wildfires. I have a few more I use around our homestead. HA stands for Homestead Assistant.
Get a Denon Amplifier with Heos or Sonos for the more expensive option, and you can add speakers though the house, and have whole home audio control from HA. There is so much more man. I am so glad you reviewed HA.
My mom use the automation of the belt on my brother and he stopped filling the toilet with random stuff after the first day haha. This is the approach I'm going to take, it's kind of passive aggressive, but it's a great way to learn and have fun with the kids. Thanks for the vid and cheers to your family!
I have to say I’m addicted to your content by now. Sucks i didn’t discover your vídeos sooner! Love the structured way you present the content, how easy is to follow and how accessible you make look things that probably without this content in would have never tried before. Embracing open source where possible! Seriously I wish there was way more content like yours out there, maybe there is but I don’t know about it 😂
Nice video Chuck. Quick tip, before you change the state of any TV or Bulb you can create a scene with the actual states of the TVs and Bulbs you will change, and then when back to normal activate the scene created. This way is the lights and tv are off they will continue off. ;)
I cannot believe it. I was looking for this kinf of video. So I am finally be able to do the things I wanted with my raspberry pi 4 and home assistant. Thank you very much. Even tho it looks kinda scary to set it up 😅
That is awesome. One thing, could you write the status of all devices to a file before activating, then, on deactivation, return devices to previous state. This is in case someone is watching a film, with ‘mood lighting’ before activating, then on deactivation, the tv turns off and the lights turn up. They then have to relaunch the foil to get back to where they were. Basically, rather than returning to a default state, return to the previous state?
Been lurking your channel for a while, subscribed just now., like you, I've been tossing around the idea of running home assistant. Honestly, I was waiting for it to become more refined. When I was first looking into it, it was nowhere near what you've shown in this video. It's looking way better. I haven't finished watching this video yet but one thing I remember being terrible before, was the voice command capabilities. They were extremely crude if not downright unusable before.
Very cool. My 'kids' have already moved, so I don't think I'll include the toilet alarm. I've just set up my first homeassistant installation and was searching for some inspiration what kind of 'automagic' HomeAssistant can do. This video was very entertaining, thank you!
best "home automation" is when noone knows it exists on a normal day. i still use alexa, but only to change things verbally, not to actually get things done on a normal day. love your content, right up my ally, i spend days setting up my house doing impossible stuff without anyone knowing it exists .. thats the best way of automation ;)
39:25 This gives me an idea about one of me computer clients that is deaf, if a person could set this up when someone is at the door or if the door is opened it could put a message on their TV and change the lights depending if it is the doorbell or someone coming in.
Great video. I've been a novice Home Assistant user for a couple years, and this video explained some things I've been confused about. Instead of choosing some other state (color, brightness, etc) of the lights you're flashing red, how about when just before the trigger activates the OPT automation, Home Assistance checks the current state of the lights and then sets them back to the way they were before the automation started? This way everything is back the way it was instead of some other color or brightness level people in the room didn't want?
I'm a SamSung/Aeotec SmartThings geek who is also, recently, playing with AI. I now have a reason to play with Home Assistant. I'll have to buy one or two new Raspberry Pis though since my older Pis, most likely, aren't suitable for this project. Thanks Chuck!!!
Man at the start I was thinking this video is full of hidden Harry Potter references, but then you just straight up mentioned the Weasley clock! I love it!!
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I’ve got a problem only home automation can fix. My youngest daughter keeps throwing entire rolls of toilet paper into the toilet because people keep leaving the lid and bathroom door open! So, I turned to Home Assistant to solve it. In this video, I’ll show you how I tackled this problem and walk you through setting up Home Assistant for your own home.
📄📄📄Link/Guide/Documentation: academy.networkchuck.com/blog/home-assistant
🛒Supplies List:
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➡Raspberry Pi 4 (kit): geni.us/mzJF55
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➡Zigbee Adapter (USB): geni.us/HfPvU
IoT Devices (recommended)
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You have got beauitful family! All the best to you all guys!
6:22 there is one frame that is uncensored
it says amsterdam on openstreetmap
Could you tell me how to hack wifi password
Jeff is more secure than twingate :D fafdafadfads
@NetworkChuck I would use natural casa.. yes it's not free it's 7 bucks a month or you can save and pay yearly. It helps support the awesome team behind HA so we can enjoy a free local smart home.
Necessary chaos
Super necessary
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😂 bro summed literally raspberry
My favorite automation that I currently use is:
If someone is standing in front of my entrance door for longer than 10 seconds without ringing the doorbell, my entryway sonos speaker will play one of the wav files from the "big dog" folder randomly and repeat that every 10 seconds until the doorbell is rang or untill that someone has left.
The "big dog" folder has 30-ish recordings of my good boy (rottweiler Carlos who passed away last year) barking and growling.
So big boy is still protecting your home 🤩
This is all sorts of fantastic.
I've been planning on doing this for the same reason for about a year or so. Problem is, I don't have a dog.
Any chance you'd be willing to share those recordings please?
I was also thinking this. Please let your good boye also protect our homes!@HunterGeophysicsAustralia
@@HunterGeophysicsAustralia No problem, man. I will be happy to hear Carlos defending homes worldwide.
Not sure that links are allowed in the comments, though.
I will reply to this comment with a link, and if it's not there, then I guess it's not allowed.
In that case tell me how to send it to you. The folder is about 30 MB in size.
EDIT: I added the Google Drive link to my RUclips page. Just click on my name and it's there in the description.
"You probably have some of these iot devices in your home"
*looks around and begins to realize I've never made it out of the dark ages*
Good. Waiting for (or contributing to) FOSS solutions that don't invade your privacy is the way to go. Home assistant is not new but it is work to set up.
@MichaelAbramo it isn't alot of work to set up things. Use Chatgbt with questions for instant answers. I had no knowledge at all about tech or network or anything like that when I started. Now less then a year later I don't use chatgbt alot anymore but there is times I do. Also there is a whole word of people willing to help with any issue for free!!! No bs like calling Amazon about your alexa issues.
I'm the same way. I'm a software developer. Everything is hard enough already without home automation stuff that will probably just be broken from day one and take days to weeks to get working only for it to not work as advertised. I'll stick with physical buttons I can press that open and close circuits that aren't tied to some network.
@@privacyvalued4134 I'm also a software engineer. Just like a mechanic doesn't want to work on their car after work, I don't want to deal with tech unless it truly is a great benefit to my life. Smart lightbulbs are not it. And smart lightbulbs that can be hacked outside the network is definitely not it. I like the idea of home assistant but there's value in being forced to interact with the world not through your phone/home control panel from the couch
only automation I have right now is my furnace and it's a relay controller and I coded a script to control it, and a C++ program with php front end. Been meaning to expand and create a platform of PoE devices that can talk to a central server. I might look to see how hard it would be to make this custom solution work as a HA integration as it would save me from coding a front end.
Hey! I helped write the unifi traffic rule integration and got it merged into HA a few months ago. It's awesome to see it being used!
Does it work with Policy Based Routing ? I'm not seeing anything using a UDM using Unifi Network Version: 8.5.6
@@markloughtonUKI had the same issue then I just deleted and re did the UniFi integration and everything showed up.
awesome contribution!!!
@@TrentMaher I changed the access rights to Super Admin instead of Viewer and it picked up the firewall port forwards. Unfortunately the Policy Based Routing doesn't show. 😕
@@markloughtonUK I don't see anything for policy routes in the aiounifi python library, which is what the HA integration uses, but I didn't dive deep
Home assistant has been great for me. I run it in a virtual machine in my homelab. I've barely scratched the surface with automation but one of the most useful things I've done is control a WLED indicator light on my office door... if my laptop microphone is active, the light automatically turns red to let my family know I'm on the phone.
Nice creative use for automation. I love that!
Thats an awesome use case!
Nice use case thanks for letting us know that I may need one like your's 😂
That is awesome bro!! Do you have a github account with yamls?
@@dev.sharifI actually could use that at work. Our door bell button isn't loud enough for a big shop so I been thinking about making a HA system at work.
So happy you are starting Home Assistant content! Love your networking videos and cant wait to see more HA stuff. Keep it up mate!
Home assistant got me into home networks and that how I found you. Glad you’re doing home assistant content!!
@@Mazsul hey !
Can anybody help me please.
My Gmail account was hacked 😥😫
YESS FINALY. CHUCK MAKING A VIDEO ON HOMEASSISTENT
I'm moving to Home Assistant. I've been on Samsung's SmartThings for several years now and I'm done with them. Almost every time my firmware is updated on the hubs, I lose connection and/or control of my lights and sensors sometimes for over a week for some reason. I've also had Samsung turn all my lights on in the home at 3am several times now, waking everyone up.
Instead of a pi though, I'm running Home Assistant on an HP T730 Thin Client, they're cheap around $25 on ebay. Add a zigbee+zwave dongle for another $30 and the HP machine even has an internal USB 3.0 plug on the motherboard so nothing sticking out of the unit. They use little power, only a few watts, and they're old enterprise equipment, so they're built solid and should last forever.
Now, I just need to make the time to move everything over to Home Assistant.
The hype is real! 🎉🎉
assistant tho
Right, he will pick up tens of thousands from going into Home Automation. There's lots to know, and his expertise would be a welcome addition to the community.
@@PhilBlancett yeah. I mean my smart home ha been pending fo rthe last 9 mounths
One of my biggest recommendations for automation creation is keeping in mind of when you want automations to NOT run. That can save a lot of headaches in the future. There are plenty of youtubers who have tons of videos and tutorials, but I'm looking forwarding to seeing more creative networking side of things.
My home assistant tracks my phones location and disables and enables specific automations based on where it is. Like my porch light. It'll turn off at 1am, but if I am not home, it'll wait until I get home and then turn off 30 mins later.
The level of work and detail in this video (and all your videos) is commendable.
I am 43 years old and I remember my mom had the same problems you have now, but she solved them with a couple of slaps
nah
automation ❌
manualmation ✅🤣👌
Spent 82.5 hours figuring all this out.. they learned their lesson the first time.
Thank goodness people have learned better than that by now! This guy's just making it fun
😂
Ah yes the good old days.
Was really fun & interesting! And with all those integrations supported, I can't wait playing with Home Assistant Rest API
nice
This deserves attention
You have to continue doing home assistant videos cause there's so much to it that seeing multiple videos for different projects will really help people learn this better cause I can imagine people trying to do their own things and getting frustrated
@@jacktringoli3299 can you help me please.
My Gmail account was hacked 😥😫
Fun video. I have done something similar with a few doors in my own house. A couple lights turn on orange color, a push notification goes out to the adult family members devices, and a speaker announces which door has been left open. But the easiest solution was to install a US$10 BigA brand self closing hinge on each door that I wanted to keep closed. This hinge depends on a door that can be easily closed, but it’s a very effective cheap, analog solution.
I've been using HA for years (running in a Proxmox VM on HP EliteDesk mini-PC). I figured, it was only a 'matter' (pun intended) of time before you two got together.
The wait was a bit longer than I expected, but I'm glad it finally happened. It can be a rabbit hole, but the support community is amazing and in the past 5 years I've never had an issue or a question that I couldn't resolve/get an answer to. Can't wait to see your future videos on HA.
Totally a resonable response. Who needs communication when you're an engineer?
Well, he is talking to them through the TV...
@@RyanHenrie999 hey !
Can anybody help me please.
My Gmail account was hacked 😭🙏
Home Assistant is amazing. Ive been messing with it for over a year and its got so much functionality. i recently turned my garage door opener smart with an esp32, magnetic reed switch and i 5v relay. Cant wait to see more videos you make of this amazing application
A network chuck video on home assistant!
I've been using home assistant for years and it's awesome! The automation possibilities are endless...especially with your expertise. Make a series!
what if i wanted my house water supply to switch from mains town water, to tank water when the tank was 80% full, and back to town water when 5% full? Know of any IoT devices for the job?
@@PulsechainProfits I don't know your plumbing setup but firstly, get a motorized 3 way ball valve for controlling the flow( mains town water to home and tank water to home). As for the water tank level monitoring side of things, see @LarsKlintTech channel. He has a video on monitoring water tank level using some iot devices and HA.
@@cameronhill2true hey!
Can anybody help me please.
My Gmail account was hacked 😭🙏
My kind of home automation 😂
Made a teenage alarmclock 2 years ago that is similar to your trigger there.
Kids wakes up to smooth music and dimming lights... Unless they dont open the door in 15 minutes the alarm selects between metal, metal or metal at max volume and at that point they regret wanting rgb ceiling lights....
The image of said teenager sitting bolt upright in bed like they've been electrified (complete with spikey hair) and RGB lights like a rave party with audio at 100db really did make me chuckle... 😂😂😂
@se9225 Makes me chuckle every day they try to snooze 😁
@@nikenbole back in my day.. it was a bucket of cold water and a cold soggy pillow the following night.. and kids think they're hard done by today. Military boot camp next? 🤭🤭🤭
You have the cutest girls, enjoy these moments and problems, after they grow up you will come to miss this kind of stuff. Best wishes, happines toggle on, automate smile!
I miss my kids when they were that age, now grown up and moved out, never visit, but then that was me at the age..
@@razvanilea hey !
Can anybody help me please.
My Gmail account was hacked 😥😫
This is great... But you failed to show the part where the raspberry pie replaces the main function of Alexa.. which is voice activated control of your devices without sending recordings of everything that happens in your home to the tech companies.
Try having a dementia patient living with you.... every light switch in the house has a routine, doors, windows, outlets, motion sensor, human presence, alarm panel, thermostats, lights, cabinet doors, electrical sub panels to monitor current draw (alert to things like the stove being turned on at 1am), the entire house is connected to HA now to automate and remedy dumb things like turning off lights after being left on during the night.. Next on the list is 60GHz mmWave Fall Detection Sensors.
If you get a fall detection sensor working reliably, please let me know what you used. I've been trying for the same reason for about a year without success. Not reliably, anyway.
@@HunterGeophysicsAustralia Will do! What sensor are you using? My plan is to get a couple of these "DFROBOT - C1001 mmWave Human Detection Sensor" can't post a link, but Amazon has them for $40. The SeedStudio branded ones are tough to find in the US.
Sounds like you got an opportunity for a RUclips career here buddy…
@@thegreyfuzz I was using the Apollo MSR-1 and MTR-1 mmWave radars, but couldn't get them to work reliably.
@@HunterGeophysicsAustralia This might be a private AI problem. Instead of trying to use a sensor, you might consider using cameras and object recognition. It would be easier to create rules that if they don't move from certain regions in the camera's FOV (the excluded regions would be chairs or a table), to trigger an alert to manually verify that they aren't laid out.
It's also likely that an AI could be trained to recognize a fall by the dramatic increase in movement speed (due to gravity) and the sudden stop that follows (hitting the floor) and trigger a more accurate warning.
Home Assistant rabbit hole - check. Been on that train for many years. I really appreciate your video because with HA there is no one right way and so many ways to accomplish the same goal. I love seeing how others solve their automation problems! Thanks!
Been using HA for a couple of years, but this opened my eyes to many, many more uses! Thanks Chuck!
My son is 10 years old, got his own Google TV on his room, watching RUclips until way to late in the weekend. Your video actually helped me with a 'wtf' moment when i saw you could use home assistant to toggle firewall rules. I checked it out and created a rule that blocks all internet on all my kids devices (Switch/iPads/phones and Google TV). Now all that is left for me to do is create an automation based on a custom schedule ;) THNX!
Just let ur son do wbat he wants please
In home assistant there is an option to create a voice assistant, including support for LLM models and prompts. And yes, you can even call him via SIP =). I bought an old desk phone, connected it via the grandstream ht801 gateway. Now I can call the assistant from this phone and ask him to turn on my light =). And if you connect an AI command handler, then it will be able to execute long commands with conditions (for example: turn on the light, and if the room is warmer than 25 degrees, turn on the air conditioner). This is literally a separate universe
Love HA ❤
Could you please elaborate how did you achieve that? I just ordered my first raspberry pi with a sound card and a microphone so I can get similar results. Basically, I want a replacement for my Alexa, because I'm the only one using from my family and no one else in my family speak English. I really want to integrate Raspberry pi, some LLM and Home Assistant together but I have no idea where to start from... Any clues?
@@alexeycherkashin6251 The Home Assistant has an official Openal add-on that allows you to connect to ChatGPT. In the settings of the voice assistant, you can select this addon as a dialog system. If more settings are required, the Extended OpenAI Conversation community addon will appear
@@rockforever-h6k He did this in his latest video! Though he did it with llama 3.2 not ChatGPT
I think it would be more convenient to go into the app and press the button. Still fun though
My first play with these IoT was setting an SOS light in my porch to a shortcut on mobile in case I ever wanted to alert the outside world (street) to an internal (home) emergency. It's useful as peace of mind like any visual alarm system and super simple. A flashing red and blue light. Great to see more in depth utilities in your videos.
One improvement you might be able to make is to save the states of all of your devices so they can be returned to the condition they were in before the alert went off. So if your lights or tv 43:49 were off, they would go back to off instead of being left on.
Great idea
Your timing on this video is perfect. I've been in a rut, I've been wanting something technical to do, and this is perfect. I have a half-smart home, plenty of hardware, lots of IoT devices, and I have recently had power and network outages due to storms. This would have been a huge benefit. Now I have a project! Thank you!
My wife wanted a new couch next time it was on sale, so i added an automation in home assistant to get the price from their website, and when price was below a set value we got notification on our phones that the couch was on sale. this is one of many automations my wife really like from my Home Assistant setup.
This sounds awesome. Can you explain how you did this. Thanks
@@imranghafoor7639 To advanced to explain, search youtube on "Home assistant scrape". there is many different videos how to scrape data from websites.
@@imranghafoor7639there is plenty of videos about this subject and about advanced, search for “home assistant scrape”
Its to advanced to describe here, search on youtube "Home assistant scrape" there is alot of videos about this subject.
I've only recently begun my home automation journey with Home Assistant. Super excited for this video and any potential future vids you post on the topic! Much appreciated Chuck! (I am also Chuck. Always good to meet another Chuck.)
HOME ASSISTANT....HOME ASSISTANT....HOOOOOME ASSISTANT. Thanks to Paul Hibbert I need Therapy 🤣😂😅
same 🤣
Bespoke .yaml files
Don't you bait me into making a penis joke. What are you? Some sort of master baiter?
While dry humping the air
ooohhh the zigbee!
Awesome to see you getting on the Home Assistant train... I have been using it since 2016 and it has improved so much. I truly believe it is more powerful than any professionally installed system out there and now its incredibly easy to use
IoT Security & OT Sec needs to be addressed more!! Keep up the great vids Chuck!
More IoT!!
This is the best video on Home Assistant that I ever saw. Easy to understand (also if I have to watch again something, because your explanation is very fast), but is how I want to approach to this kind of stuff. Thank you
I've been using Home Assistant for a few years now. It started with that I wanted a smart doorbell with a camera, but I didn't want to rely on just an app on my phone and didn't want to use the hardware chime because it jump scares me. To get rid off the jump scares I already replaced the original doorbell with a simple doorbell that, when pressed, sends out an RF signal. Throughout my house I have several receivers that play a sound when they receive the RF signal from the doorbell. So what I've done is adding an RF emitter to Home Assistant, recorded the RF signal emitted by the doorbell and have Home Assistant send out that same RF signal to have the receivers play their sound. Next I got a Unifi doorbell (because those are local and I already had Protect running), added the Unifi Protect integration to Home Assistant and added an automation to send out the RF signal when somebody presses the doorbell. But only between certain times, so I won't wake up when people press my doorbell in the middle of the night. And that was the beginning of a very, very, deep rabbit hole.
I love this video, especially how the kid smiles knowing what she did. This is how innovation is born!!
There's a caveat in your automation: you don't actually restore the lights and TVs to a condition they were before the OPT was activated - you just turn on the light to be white and turn off TVs. Your family will be unhappy with things not returning back to normal 😅
There is a way to save the state of a number of devices as a scene, and just recall the scene after the automation has run it's course! That's the way I have done it on my automations that have flashing alert lights and such.
It's there a way to capture current environment, store it, then recall it after the switch is turned off????
That would solve this problem wouldn't it?
@@jlalvarado024 I don't use HA yet. but there is an api that should allow you to get the state of devices. Get the color/intensity/powered state of lights and other entity states of other devices. the TV would be tough to return to what they were watching but the rest should be easy enough.
I was thinking that too. I also wonder what happens if they're in the middle of watching a movie does it just cut them right off or can they start the movie back where it left off?
@@redsquirrelftw in my experience, it doesn't put you back in the same app even. You have to go back and resume it. Even the scene trick I use doesn't work for some systems that well: on my Roku, it puts me back in the right app, but doesn't resume what I was playing.
Home assistant is awesome, I'm currently using it with temperature sensors and ir blasters to turn on and off the aircon when me or my wife are at home and temperature reaches a certain range. Longer term I'm hooking up my solar system to it so during the day for my excess power outside of buybacks it'll use that energy to cool or warm the house. Got standard lights and other automations like blocking kids wifi devices and also remotely shuts down their PC's . Handy when they are on them too late. 15 second message then boom off they go. Absolutely beast of open source software.
Everything was awesome, but I'd suggest looking into "Create scene" where you can save the state of everything before activating an temporary automation like this. And after it is done, go back to the previous state.
This would for instance help with someone watching the TV, getting the message and fixing the door/lid and then not having to start the TV because it is turned off.
Same with lights that was already turned on/off getting restored to the last state instead of a hard coded state.
snapshot_entities is a very handy tool.
The sheer joy on that babies face as she was filling that toilet :D -- literally had me in tears. Something else to consider is using PoE Hat for RaspPi and save some cabling. Also means it is online so long as the UPS for my Switch is allowing me to start doing managed power downs of my lab and sending text to my phone letting me know power is out. Love Home Assist.
DAMN MAN! Your best video ever - welcome to the HA family, you're now trapped! 😃 I've been using it for 5 years straight and still playing with its automations to this date! My wife is desperate 🤣Your kids look so cute by the way! Way to go NetworkChuck. Regards from Spain!
Man, your videos is mindblowing! Love how you draw and explain about Home Assistant. This is a must in a technical home. Thanks for the video!
Love your enthusiasm. I'm at 40:23, and this is Almost perfect. Not one more thing to do - but five. Because if you don't, people are going to start to get P.O.'d over this and it won't be fun anymore.
1. You need to capture the properties of every light you are taking action on before the action is taken
2. You need to capture what the televisions are currently playing, the timestamp and volume
3. You need to set the properties of those lights back to what they were
4. You need to return the televisions to what they were doing.
5., whatever that one thing is you're about to say...
Can't believe it took me this long to watch a detailed video on Home Assistant. It's freaking nutz! Thanks for the video Chuck.
Ha Ha Ha !!!! Thanks for featuring Home Assistant. It's great and it runs on almost anything that will compute, not just a Raspberry Pi!
Been running HA on a Raspberry Pi 5 for months no issues.
Chuck did you make this just for me? I literally asked you about automation early this week. You are the best.
I was actually referring to excel reports using VMs but this is good.
Thanks!
This use case is legit.
My bathroom door automation triggers a smart speaker in the bathroom that starts playing a music playlist called “Music to Poo To”. The music stops the moment the bathroom door opens again.
My absolute favorite sensors are any mmWave presence sensor running ESPhome. You can make your own if you want, or buy them ready to go from Athom.
One of the best videos in this channel.. implementing HA at home already now.
I love it! I might have to implement something like this for when my kids won't go to sleep and sneakily turn on their lights late at night to read.
Totally unnecessary side note: Uncle Jeff left Amazon years ago and handed the reigns over to Andrew Jassy. So it's really Uncle Andrew who's all up in your business now days. :)
Thanks Chuck! Best 'use case' scenario to explain why everybody needs a smart home... Guess I have to get me some kids. Jokes aside, very clear explanation of the power of Home Automation in general and Home Assistant specfically. Keep em coming!
for the price of a Pi you could get a N100 mini pc and run HAOS on a VM on Proxmox as well. Way better setup, more and faster storage, connectivity options.
Pi prices are back down to < $100. You'll be pressed to find a N100 at that price these days.
@@MiamiJamrockSpice you can pick up a N100 Mini PC with 16GB RAM, 500GB NVMe and 2.6Gbe for under 160€ (including tax, heck in the US for even less!), and that's massive overkill for HAOS, you could add a few VMs and LXC containers on Proxmox on top and still not break too much of a sweat. What Pi, once you've kitted it out, can complete with that?
@@PolarRed You said for the price of a Pi, which isn't accurate. Pis still start at $35 and go up to $80.
That N100 you described is still over $100. And like you said, those specs are overkill for this kind of project.
Why pay $160 for something that you're not going to make full use of when you can pay a lot less for a set it and forget it device focused on doing one task?
Depends on if you plan to do more with that computer, I guess. I have other servers that can be utilized for multipurpose projects. But sometimes, I'll just have one system do one thing.
For example, I got a HP Elitedesk mini PC with an i7 and 16GB RAM for $130 which is better than any N100 and it's being used as a dedicated media server since the transcoding is better for 4K streaming over a Pi and N100 for example.
You can always find something better.
@@MiamiJamrockSpice good luck getting it to run on a Pi without buying anything else! I would have thought that it was obvious I was talking about the whole setup! I did mention storage, memory and ethernet, but obviously, not obvious enough! BTW good for you you can get a Pi for $35! Where I am they start at around 60€ just for the Pi and a starter kit is between 100€ to 160€ for the 4, and upwards from that for the 5, and that's with just a measly SD card for storage! So you haven't convinced me, Mini PC N100 still the better deal for using out of the box, and by far the better deal for scalability!
Again, good for you with the Elitedesk, obviously better than a N100, but what's your point? You've just put holes in your argument for the Pi yourself from what I can see! I can only wish deals like that could be had in my region, for even second hand or refurbished, let alone new! I run HAOS, Adguard, Traefik, Cloudflared, Loads of Docker containers and LXC containers all on a N100, cost me less than 90€ in a Amazon sale (I got 3 and run as a HA cluster on Proxmox, works a treat and cheap as chips). But you are right, you can always find something better, but N100 is a great cost effective place to start, and way better than the Pi 😀
@@MiamiJamrockSpice Black Friday is coming in a month. Those refurbished Elitedesk Minis are great, but I question whether one you're buying for $130 (G2 or G3 maybe?) can transcode better than an N100. The CPU on the N100 actually has better Quick Sync onboard for encoding and decoding than those older Intel CPUs. They also draw less power, but in most places that difference in energy cost is negligible. The N100 is actually really good as a media server (I'm impressed by how well it transcodes), but it does have limitations for more advanced requirement, such as limited PCIe lanes and single channel memory. I think they were intentionally hobbled by Intel, because they're too good. Either way, the Elitedesk is a great choice if you're not trying to decode/encode multiple newer codecs often, and it's probably more versatile.
Upon completion, you should've had another video like "Good girls" or "Thank you for avoiding another toilet roll disaster", but this is absolutely AWESOME!!!!
Me: So what made you finally pull the trigger on home assistant?
Co-Worker: The toilet needed monitoring.
Welcome to the fun of Home Assistant. I have used it as a hobby for a while now and I love it. I have two favourite automation's. The first is because I have my laundry machines in the shed at the end of the garden I am monitoring the power usage of them and when the washing or the dryer finishes I get an announcement on google hub. The second is I have a box at the front door for delivery's (because it rains a bit here in Ireland). When the box is opened I get a WhatsApp message to tell me that something has been delivered. Love looking at your videos keep up the good work.
yes, my home automation sucks, the door bell is analog, the locks are analog, the garage opens manually, things are only connected to power supply and nothing else. internet router is on a shelf within a kick's range and the pc is at my desk near the baseball bat.
This would be the best thing for me and my best friend as he forgets to close the toilet, but he does close the bathroom door. I like my bathroom door open and the toilet closed.
You got me thinking best idea on how to get him to remember.
Thanks and now another coffee.
Just scored a 91% on my A+ practice exam, scheduling my actual exam. Would love to see an updated “Certs [you] Recommend” video! I’m switching careers, trying to get into IT.
Good luck. I'm at the same point!
Home Assistant Green is a great alternative to setting up a VM or Pi for $99. It's plug and play and eliminates Pi SD card issues.
The Sonoff Zigbee dongle (Ti) and a long usb cable for communication instead of wifi and you're all set without proprietary tech. I use MQTT instead of ZHA.
Node Red is also a great flow, BPM style, way to do the logic instead of HA automations.
More of this Please.
when you said "I know the solution is obvious" at 0:15 in and then you didn't follow up with 'give your daughter a swirly,' I was surprised!
Word has it that Network Chuck is still busy falling down the home assistant rabbit hole. Home assistant is everything I ever wanted!
I'll throw my 2C in the ring here as an advocate for RPi installations rather than VM.
Why? Well the thing about home automation systems is that once everyone is used to the way it works, you want it to be online, always, no matter what and AFAIK, there is no native support for High Availability methods , especially if you have a Zigbee/Z-Wave USB dongle rather than that snazzy POE one in the video.
If for any reason you need to take a server down for any kind of upgrades or maintenance, then it will drive everyone in the house absolutely crazy if its longer than the time of a reboot. Whatever level you are at with your home server/lab, I would strongly recommend, for everyone's sake, to treat Home assistant differently to anything you like to experiment with.
Personally I keep a spare RPi kicking about, and if for some reason my existing one fails, I just stick the SD in another one and plug it in. They're already pretty reliable though.
I agree on the dedicated machine, but I use a thin client with HA loaded.
Nice. I have been running Home Assistant for about 2 years now. And i LOVE IT!
I running Home Assistant OS on a HP Elitedesk G4 800 that i bought used. Cheaper then a Raspberry PI. And alot more horspower.
Welcome to the HA world! You might want to blur your Plex tokens around 38 minutes in 👍🏻
Once a friend got me to look at HA I also got kind of addicted. Even with limited time it's just too amazing to automate stuff, keep an eye on energy consumption / PV production.
Motion sensor lights, integrate smart door bell into HA, and much more! When there is much electric power left over during summer, a 3KW heat resistance heats up water in the boiler.
Soo much possibilities 😀
4:22 bro switched to light mode
I love this guy's way of thinking! He is my kind of Tech Dad. He has inspired me to a new level. It's time for me to cut the Alexa cord and move to Home Assistant. Thanks, Chuck for this great video!!
Super Home automation 😅
Would love to see more Home Assistant videos! I too have been relying on Alexa but am left very...underwhelmed. I've been avoiding Home Assistant because a new setup is so involved but I'd really like to get it done. I know there are many other videos out there on the topic, but I really enjoy your take on things and would love to hear it from your perspective!
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Brilliant video! Yes, I love Home Assistant too. Its so powerful and fast to create automations.
Scolding works too, but yeah ig this is cool too!
I think one advantage of having it in something like raspberry pi is they sre cheap enough that you can buy 2 so if there is a failure you can be back up and running quickly. If you have some off the shelf system if something breaks its most likely gonna be a while to get up and running again.
until you held the chip properly I could not watch the video. Thanks at @2:40 :D
Idk what I was expecting, but I'm 1 minute in and this is diabolical..
I've been out of the home automation game for a bit, but saw this video after watching one about a Unifi Dream Machine, determining whether or not I needed one (yes) and after this video I'm reinstalling Home Assistant and brining this same energy to my space.
dude this every 4 sec frame changing might cause a seizure
An essential automation for us is when the whole house fan is running via a smart plug at night it will turn off if the AQI of our PurpleAir goes above a certain level. This is key when the air is smoky from wildfires. I have a few more I use around our homestead. HA stands for Homestead Assistant.
Get a Denon Amplifier with Heos or Sonos for the more expensive option, and you can add speakers though the house, and have whole home audio control from HA. There is so much more man. I am so glad you reviewed HA.
My mom use the automation of the belt on my brother and he stopped filling the toilet with random stuff after the first day haha. This is the approach I'm going to take, it's kind of passive aggressive, but it's a great way to learn and have fun with the kids. Thanks for the vid and cheers to your family!
I have to say I’m addicted to your content by now. Sucks i didn’t discover your vídeos sooner!
Love the structured way you present the content, how easy is to follow and how accessible you make look things that probably without this content in would have never tried before. Embracing open source where possible!
Seriously I wish there was way more content like yours out there, maybe there is but I don’t know about it 😂
This is like a comprehensive course on home automation. Loved it.
You really are a good teacher man. No joke.
Nice video Chuck. Quick tip, before you change the state of any TV or Bulb you can create a scene with the actual states of the TVs and Bulbs you will change, and then when back to normal activate the scene created. This way is the lights and tv are off they will continue off. ;)
I cannot believe it. I was looking for this kinf of video. So I am finally be able to do the things I wanted with my raspberry pi 4 and home assistant. Thank you very much. Even tho it looks kinda scary to set it up 😅
That is awesome. One thing, could you write the status of all devices to a file before activating, then, on deactivation, return devices to previous state. This is in case someone is watching a film, with ‘mood lighting’ before activating, then on deactivation, the tv turns off and the lights turn up. They then have to relaunch the foil to get back to where they were. Basically, rather than returning to a default state, return to the previous state?
Been lurking your channel for a while, subscribed just now., like you, I've been tossing around the idea of running home assistant. Honestly, I was waiting for it to become more refined. When I was first looking into it, it was nowhere near what you've shown in this video. It's looking way better. I haven't finished watching this video yet but one thing I remember being terrible before, was the voice command capabilities. They were extremely crude if not downright unusable before.
Of all the youtube videos ive seen lately this my friend wins, hands down!!! Amazing!!!
Very cool. My 'kids' have already moved, so I don't think I'll include the toilet alarm. I've just set up my first homeassistant installation and was searching for some inspiration what kind of 'automagic' HomeAssistant can do.
This video was very entertaining, thank you!
best "home automation" is when noone knows it exists on a normal day.
i still use alexa, but only to change things verbally, not to actually get things done on a normal day.
love your content, right up my ally, i spend days setting up my house doing impossible stuff without anyone knowing it exists .. thats the best way of automation ;)
Been using HA for a while, but learnt loads here chuck - cheers
39:25 This gives me an idea about one of me computer clients that is deaf, if a person could set this up when someone is at the door or if the door is opened it could put a message on their TV and change the lights depending if it is the doorbell or someone coming in.
Great video. I've been a novice Home Assistant user for a couple years, and this video explained some things I've been confused about.
Instead of choosing some other state (color, brightness, etc) of the lights you're flashing red, how about when just before the trigger activates the OPT automation, Home Assistance checks the current state of the lights and then sets them back to the way they were before the automation started? This way everything is back the way it was instead of some other color or brightness level people in the room didn't want?
I love your videos man! You definitely put the fun in fundamentals
this is the best home assistant guide video so far.thnak you so much...
Awesome plan. This is the very best use of home automation. Thank you for your service!
I'm a SamSung/Aeotec SmartThings geek who is also, recently, playing with AI. I now have a reason to play with Home Assistant. I'll have to buy one or two new Raspberry Pis though since my older Pis, most likely, aren't suitable for this project. Thanks Chuck!!!
Man at the start I was thinking this video is full of hidden Harry Potter references, but then you just straight up mentioned the Weasley clock! I love it!!
This was so good I’ve already set up home assistant but watched the whole thing anyway.