Just staring down the rabbit hole of Home Assistant and your videos are BRILLIANT! I'm binge watching and following all the beginers tutorials (playing as I go) after playing for WEEKS and getting nowhere. I've added a few intergrations (and have no idea where from) but I really needed to start from the ground up. Keep up the good work and here's to an easter weekend of more tutorials and a working HA system. Now I've repaired my Unify system I can intergrate that soon (he hopes lol!)
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen on how to set up HA if you’re not a technical expert. And I’ve watched lots of HA videos! I love that you show what it looks like when things don’t go as expected and how to work your way out of the hole.
Great video, very helpful. One thing irked me: you say we should check all the boxes before HACS can be installed, because we know what it all means 'because we're smart'. We may or may not be smart, but one thing is certain: we're 'BEGINNERS': your video title invited us specifically! One checkbox I did not understand, is the one saying there are no add-ons in HACS. Whilst I can dimly make a guess that this means there's no official Home Assistant add-ons in HACS, that very same guess seems invalidated by the next checkbox which is kind of redundant to the previous one, if I indeed guessed the meaning of the previous one. So yeah: would really have appreciated a little explanation there.
GREAT presentation and content. I am new to HA and just installed 2022-12 on a NUC. The SUPERVISOR and CONFIGURATIONS options are NOT in the SIDEBAR! How do I fix this? Thanks David
All 5 installed! Thanks! Ready for more videos. I'd really like to learn about how to properly name Z-Wave/Zigbee entities in HA, and how to setup groups. So far all my devices have weird ID names so I don't even want to start on groups yet, and if I rename them, what breaks? Why so many places to name?
Another brilliant video! All my SSH and Samba share stuff set up easily. You've come along at just the right time for my HomeAssistant journey. Any chance you could try to cover setting up ZWave devices on HA? Zigbee seems to be quite straightforward, but Zwave seems a bit opaque.
I loved the video. I tried to duplicate the HA Monitor card but it does not show any of the stats regarding the temperature, usage or processor, etc. On top of that File Editor won't start. So bummed.
Thats hacs server down or delay message is nerve racking. Everything achieved and then you read a line that they do not provide the service for 40 minutes or so ... but even 2 hours later nothing has changed. So a bit disappointing. What to do ? Log out again to login or just wait and hope?
Thank you! Video is great. I logged into the home assistant local and installed it, when I turn on "open web ui" or turn on the file editor from the sidebar, the error "401: Unauthorized" occurs. If you log in to your home assistant from your domain, it's ok. Why so? Please help!
Amazingly few steps to install HACS as opposed to a link I was given on FB that made you run a whole lot more commands before ever getting to the point you did with fewer steps. Must have been a script either way thank you.
I am enjoying the videos and looking forward to more. I am having trouble getting the SSH and Web terminal to work. It eventually says 502: Bad Gateway in the screen. Looking at the log I find this near the end Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address in use. Bind to port 22 on :: failed: Address in use. Cannot bind any address.
@@MarkWattTech Not yet, but I think it may be because I have already have OpenSSH installed on the server, I am going to change the OpenSSH port and see if Home assistant works, bIt busy at the moment with a leaking water tank in the loft :-( so will try later.
Tried the Google backup setup but on authorising my account and selecting the correct google account it loads a web page with error 401 not authorised any ideas, ps loving the new videos
Thanks for the feedback. Try clearing your browser cookies? What browser are you using? A couple of people have said they have had issues using Firefox and Safari. Maybe give it a whirl with Chrome or the new MS Edge? Give me a shout if your still stuck :)
I had an issue: right after dowloading the files, I checked config and restarted the HA but Hacs has never been found. So I cleaned cache and logged back to HA. Now the Hacs shown on th integration list to be added. Were you aware of that step?
Great video Mark! In the ‘Samba’ section of your video you said you can use secrets when specifying the password...I’m currently stuck as it’s saying invalid config e.g.: username: homeassistant password: !secret samba_password Then specifying ‘samba_password: password’ in the secrets file. Is this the right layout? Cheers!
@@MarkWattTech no problem, thanks for replying anyway! I actually haven’t got round to sorting it yet but I was still getting the ‘invalid config’ error. Will try again tomorrow.
It depends what route you want to go down to be honest. Do you want local only control? And what protocols do you want to use? (WiFi / Zigbee). A couple of example of bulbs I personally make use of : Shelly bulbs. Shelly do some great bulbs which HA automatically detect. They use WiFi and can be local or optionally use Shelly cloud. Novostella do some good Full RGB bulbs which are fairly cheap and use Tuya or Local tuya to connect them in HA. Phillps Hue via huebridge and HA integration, or use a Zigbee usb gateway such as the conbee II and connect directly to the bulb (i use conbee for my hue bulbs).
Hey thanks Bruno. The HA terminal is a little limited and I don’t think you can add htop and other bits like that (more packages etc). I haven’t tried doing a huge amount in the HA terminal so I could be wrong. Best place to start would be checking the terminal documentation for what it supports. If you find anything cool let me know :D
@@MarkWattTech thank for sujestion (www.home-assistant.io/common-tasks/os#home-assistant-via-the-command-line) ....I will study a way to use docker maybe ;) for specifics
Hi Mark. I just can see "Official add-ons". There is no "Home Assistant Comunity add-ons" and no "Google drive backup repository"... even when I have both repositories added. I´m missing something.
So, just curious, why did you choose the Home Assistant community add-on of SSH with the security score of 1 vs the Official add-on SSH with the security score of 6. That would seem to be counter-intuitive unless there is some other reason that you didn't mention.
@@andreoppermann6709but without highlighting what more powerful things will be done, it still doesn't make sense to make it as a suggestion. Especially without the caveat that one is inherently more dangerous than the other.
Hi Mark, I installed HACS and I get a message " WARN: HACS directory already exist, cleaning up..." but I can't see HACS in my integrations. My Home Assistant ver is Frontend version: 20220405.0 - latest. any pointers? help please. Mohan. ( I am new to HS & RPi absolute novice. Cheers, Mohan.
Thanks for all these videos, really useful. I've got a bit of an issue with HACS though as I seem to be in an endless loop of "HACS is disabled (ratelimited)" for the Github API calls, or HACS not loaded. I've seen in the HACS guide something about the intiial install will trigger the Github limit but I've had it installed now for about 3 days and I've restarted HA probably 10-12 times for other things in that time. Sometimes it seems to be running but as soon as I try and do anything in HACS like install an Integration, the integration installs pending reboot and then I reboot and HACS is disabled again. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
i broke my home assistant completely dont know how on restart after hacs wget and restart. then first thing i did is google how to make google or any drive auto backups since i needed to make everything again. so i installed HA and added google drive backup first and then followed through. I think guys thats the first thing that should be done
Presentation sounds nice, but the very first click is already a problem: There is no SUPERVISOR. I installed HA docker in Synology. I think you skipped a large part of the installation and maybe several other types of HA. Now this whole video is completely useless for many people, sorry.
Im sorry, but these instructions would be much better if you add the steps you need without refering to your other videos because I just got refered from local tuya to this hacs instruction and now beeing send to another video, this is hilarious. please fix this in your next videos. just show the steps you need.
Thanks for the feedback. I don’t do this in newer videos. This is one of the videos from when Originally started YT. I’d like to think I have improved a lot since then 😋
Just staring down the rabbit hole of Home Assistant and your videos are BRILLIANT! I'm binge watching and following all the beginers tutorials (playing as I go) after playing for WEEKS and getting nowhere.
I've added a few intergrations (and have no idea where from) but I really needed to start from the ground up. Keep up the good work and here's to an easter weekend of more tutorials and a working HA system. Now I've repaired my Unify system I can intergrate that soon (he hopes lol!)
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen on how to set up HA if you’re not a technical expert. And I’ve watched lots of HA videos! I love that you show what it looks like when things don’t go as expected and how to work your way out of the hole.
FINALLY! I've been able to set up SAMBA correctly after watching your video. MANY MANY THANKS!
Great video mate, really appreciate the content. Jumped in and done my first automation today. Keep up the good work very concise and easy to follow
Thank you for the feedback :D
Thank you so much i am brand new to Home Assistant and your tutorials have been great in the learning process.
Thank you for the simple and clear walk-through!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video, very helpful. One thing irked me: you say we should check all the boxes before HACS can be installed, because we know what it all means 'because we're smart'.
We may or may not be smart, but one thing is certain: we're 'BEGINNERS': your video title invited us specifically! One checkbox I did not understand, is the one saying there are no add-ons in HACS. Whilst I can dimly make a guess that this means there's no official Home Assistant add-ons in HACS, that very same guess seems invalidated by the next checkbox which is kind of redundant to the previous one, if I indeed guessed the meaning of the previous one. So yeah: would really have appreciated a little explanation there.
In docker container world you have no supervisor - where do I get the add ons in that case ?
GREAT presentation and content. I am new to HA and just installed 2022-12 on a NUC. The SUPERVISOR and CONFIGURATIONS options are NOT in the SIDEBAR! How do I fix this? Thanks David
Thank you very much for such great Home Assistant related videos!!!
Thanks for the feedback. Glad you have enjoyed the videos! Plenty more to come 😁
All 5 installed! Thanks! Ready for more videos. I'd really like to learn about how to properly name Z-Wave/Zigbee entities in HA, and how to setup groups. So far all my devices have weird ID names so I don't even want to start on groups yet, and if I rename them, what breaks? Why so many places to name?
Nice one Jason :) I will be covering YAML, customization and entities in a video which should help clear all of this up.
Another brilliant video! All my SSH and Samba share stuff set up easily. You've come along at just the right time for my HomeAssistant journey.
Any chance you could try to cover setting up ZWave devices on HA? Zigbee seems to be quite straightforward, but Zwave seems a bit opaque.
Thank you for the feedback! It’s on my list :)
Great content and step-by-step instructions...thank you so much!
Glad it was of some use :) Happy New Year!
I loved the video. I tried to duplicate the HA Monitor card but it does not show any of the stats regarding the temperature, usage or processor, etc. On top of that File Editor won't start. So bummed.
Love your Contents!!!
Thank you! :)
Great HASSIO walkthrough Mark!
Thanks guys :D
Nicely done. High quality. Thanks.
Thank you 😁
Thats hacs server down or delay message is nerve racking. Everything achieved and then you read a line that they do not provide the service for 40 minutes or so ... but even 2 hours later nothing has changed. So a bit disappointing.
What to do ? Log out again to login or just wait and hope?
Thank you, Mark. Helpful and entertaining.
Thank you! Video is great. I logged into the home assistant local and installed it, when I turn on "open web ui" or turn on the file editor from the sidebar, the error "401: Unauthorized" occurs. If you log in to your home assistant from your domain, it's ok. Why so? Please help!
How are you copy and pasting into the terminal. For the life of me I cant!
Great vids btw
great video, I like Your humor 😆 . Subscribed !
Amazingly few steps to install HACS as opposed to a link I was given on FB that made you run a whole lot more commands before ever getting to the point you did with fewer steps. Must have been a script either way thank you.
Glad you got it working :) so many great add-ons in HACS!
To have SSH show up you have to enable advanced mode in the settings first
I am enjoying the videos and looking forward to more.
I am having trouble getting the SSH and Web terminal to work.
It eventually says 502: Bad Gateway in the screen.
Looking at the log I find this near the end
Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address in use.
Bind to port 22 on :: failed: Address in use.
Cannot bind any address.
Hey Scott. Have you managed to resolve your issue now?
@@MarkWattTech Not yet, but I think it may be because I have already have OpenSSH installed on the server, I am going to change the OpenSSH port and see if Home assistant works, bIt busy at the moment with a leaking water tank in the loft :-( so will try later.
@@AmateurTechno That sound's like it's the issue. Oh no! Hopefully you sort your water tank. Let us know how you get on :)
Very useful, thanks Mark
Tried the Google backup setup but on authorising my account and selecting the correct google account it loads a web page with error 401 not authorised any ideas, ps loving the new videos
Thanks for the feedback. Try clearing your browser cookies? What browser are you using? A couple of people have said they have had issues using Firefox and Safari. Maybe give it a whirl with Chrome or the new MS Edge? Give me a shout if your still stuck :)
Thank's men, great tutorial! Cheers ;)
Gtear videa.. super helpfull to get oriented and used to Homeassistant
Very good and helpful video. Thanks
Glad to have helped :)
I had an issue: right after dowloading the files, I checked config and restarted the HA but Hacs has never been found. So I cleaned cache and logged back to HA. Now the Hacs shown on th integration list to be added. Were you aware of that step?
This can happen sometimes yes. But thanks for sharing to let others know.
Your guides are really helpful thankyou 😊
Thanks for the feedback. Glad you found it helpful :)
Great video Mark! In the ‘Samba’ section of your video you said you can use secrets when specifying the password...I’m currently stuck as it’s saying invalid config e.g.:
username: homeassistant
password: !secret samba_password
Then specifying ‘samba_password: password’ in the secrets file. Is this the right layout? Cheers!
Hey sorry for the delay! Your comment was stuck in the review section. That is correct but I guess you may have resolved the issue yourself now?
@@MarkWattTech no problem, thanks for replying anyway! I actually haven’t got round to sorting it yet but I was still getting the ‘invalid config’ error. Will try again tomorrow.
Great video. Some of the links referencing the App need to be updated.
What are the best bulbs to purchase so that hone assistant can detect them?
It depends what route you want to go down to be honest. Do you want local only control? And what protocols do you want to use? (WiFi / Zigbee).
A couple of example of bulbs I personally make use of :
Shelly bulbs. Shelly do some great bulbs which HA automatically detect. They use WiFi and can be local or optionally use Shelly cloud.
Novostella do some good Full RGB bulbs which are fairly cheap and use Tuya or Local tuya to connect them in HA.
Phillps Hue via huebridge and HA integration, or use a Zigbee usb gateway such as the conbee II and connect directly to the bulb (i use conbee for my hue bulbs).
What kind of wizardry was that at the end when you lost the sweater??
😂😂😂 well spotted 👍🏻
Love your video. Always very helpful :D Do you know why I cannot install htop for exemple using the terminal (sudo apt install htop) ?
Hey thanks Bruno. The HA terminal is a little limited and I don’t think you can add htop and other bits like that (more packages etc). I haven’t tried doing a huge amount in the HA terminal so I could be wrong.
Best place to start would be checking the terminal documentation for what it supports. If you find anything cool let me know :D
@@MarkWattTech thank for sujestion (www.home-assistant.io/common-tasks/os#home-assistant-via-the-command-line) ....I will study a way to use docker maybe ;) for specifics
Thanks for all your content, very helpful
Your audio is so quiet in this video I had to use a headset to hear you.
Thank you for the feedback. I think I fixed this in newer videos.
@@MarkWattTech ya, your new videos sound great!
Hi Mark.
I just can see "Official add-ons".
There is no "Home Assistant Comunity add-ons" and no "Google drive backup repository"... even when I have both repositories added.
I´m missing something.
If you have added both it sounds like a browser cache issue. Clear your browser cache and refresh HA. You should then hopefully see both :)
hi, excellent video. You mentioned something about a secrets file ... could you shed some light on this?
Thank you 😁.
I created a short video on secrets which you might find helpful? th-cam.com/video/juy8U06_Dlg/w-d-xo.html
I do not have supervisor how can i install file editor?
So, just curious, why did you choose the Home Assistant community add-on of SSH with the security score of 1 vs the Official add-on SSH with the security score of 6. That would seem to be counter-intuitive unless there is some other reason that you didn't mention.
The community add on is more powerful. If you do sth wrong with it you could damage your systems. Hence the lower security score.
@@andreoppermann6709but without highlighting what more powerful things will be done, it still doesn't make sense to make it as a suggestion. Especially without the caveat that one is inherently more dangerous than the other.
Can i add external storage via usb on my oDROID n2+ running HASS and access it via samba addon?
Hi Mark, I installed HACS and I get a message " WARN: HACS directory already exist, cleaning up..." but I can't see HACS in my integrations. My Home Assistant ver is Frontend version: 20220405.0 - latest. any pointers? help please. Mohan. ( I am new to HS & RPi absolute novice. Cheers, Mohan.
Love it! Thanks a lot!!!!
Thanks for all these videos, really useful. I've got a bit of an issue with HACS though as I seem to be in an endless loop of "HACS is disabled (ratelimited)" for the Github API calls, or HACS not loaded. I've seen in the HACS guide something about the intiial install will trigger the Github limit but I've had it installed now for about 3 days and I've restarted HA probably 10-12 times for other things in that time. Sometimes it seems to be running but as soon as I try and do anything in HACS like install an Integration, the integration installs pending reboot and then I reboot and HACS is disabled again. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Just to say it did eventually sort itself out so I guess it was just getting over that initial config phase.
Thank you great video.
Glad you liked it! :)
brilliant video, thanks
Glad it was helpful!
nice video! why didn't i see SSH ?
Fantástico.
Obrigado.
Thank you!
Awesome thanks
Welcome 😊
How to solve 401: Unauthorized. Tried but unable to start
hacs -
Error
Config flow could not be loaded
Hey Beni, did you resolve your issue?
@@MarkWattTech yes !!! I DONT NOW HOW BUT TO DAYS AFTER IT RESLOVE
Thanks,Thanks
Yeah I could not get Samba Share to work at all.
HACS wont install. And Samba wont save network scope. HA in PI
i broke my home assistant completely dont know how on restart after hacs wget and restart. then first thing i did is google how to make google or any drive auto backups since i needed to make everything again. so i installed HA and added google drive backup first and then followed through. I think guys thats the first thing that should be done
Good video !! I hope you will continue with a lot of video about home assistant ! Good job
#subscribenow
Plenty more to come 😁
also: SSH requires advanced mode to be turned on
Error
Config flow could not be loaded
first place we need to go is .. err .. where? .. what supervisor?
This is Home Assistant OS (that has the supervisor).
Presentation sounds nice, but the very first click is already a problem: There is no SUPERVISOR. I installed HA docker in Synology. I think you skipped a large part of the installation and maybe several other types of HA.
Now this whole video is completely useless for many people, sorry.
Im sorry, but these instructions would be much better if you add the steps you need without refering to your other videos because I just got refered from local tuya to this hacs instruction and now beeing send to another video, this is hilarious. please fix this in your next videos. just show the steps you need.
Thanks for the feedback. I don’t do this in newer videos. This is one of the videos from when Originally started YT. I’d like to think I have improved a lot since then 😋
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