Apple Home AND HOME ASSISTANT… Here’s why I use both

Home assistant opens up a whole new world for home automations, especially for Apple Homekit users. In this video, see why I use Home assistant even as an Apple Home user and what you can do with it that you can't do natively in Homekit.
🔗 Links:
- 4 Layers of Home Automation video - • How to create SMART HO...
- Sweet Home 3D for custom Layout Cards - www.sweethome3d.com
- Home Maintenance Card creation -@FutureSmartHome • I Made Home Maintenanc...
@ShaneCreates recently talked about another homekit dashboard in this short 👉🏻 • Dashboard App for Appl...
And @GeorgeLangabeer mentions one in his most recent smart home tour 👉🏻 • The Ultimate Smart Hom...
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[@Dr_Cole]

Yes to both! There’s not much coverage on dashboards, so having some more content here would be great. I’m still wanting to bring in Home Assistant (vs. HOOBs which I was running on Windows before buying a Mac over the holidays), so more ways to entice me to taking the plunge are good.

[@EricWelander]

Great video! I think there are a lot of ways that Home assistant can really start to change how we manage our Apple homes. I love some of the examples you bring up around dashboards.

[@Delyn]

Thanks Eric!

[@TerraMagnus]

Home Assistant is like God Mode for home automation. And it happily brings Apple Home along for the ride.

[@JohnHagan13]

Very impressive floor plans. You have definitely put a lot of thought and work into this.

[@garylobdell2825]

Thanks for this video. I would love a video on detail of how you created your house plan dashboard. I currently use SmartThings but am considering moving to Home Assistant and this is a big part of my decision. I really need a house plan dashboard for my wife to understand how to control the smart home device I have.

[@Delyn]

Hey Gary! This video got me started th-cam.com/video/6QbtU9ID47A/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3jIjEoz5B5Yui72O
I also saw that smartthings was showing off some mapping features at CES that should be coming soon if you stick it out!

[@FirstNameLastName-ok4xf]

I’m installing a NAS soon and have starting to reach the limits of Apple Home so naturally I’ve been researching Home Assistant. Thanks for the overview.

[@Delyn]

I think that’s what I love about HA, once you feel like you’re outgrowing the basic functionality of HK, it opens a new world of possibilities! Have fun!

[@FirstNameLastName-ok4xf]

@@Delyn …seems to be the case. I’m looking forward to getting deeper into complexity. Thanks!

[@FutureSmartHome]

Great video! Thanks for the shoutout 🙌

[@Delyn]

Thanks for the idea!

[@dkNian]

Hi. Love the video! I’m also exploring the world of smart home especially Home Assistant. Since I don’t have a huge budget and with my pi4 running HAOS linking to tplink tapo products. Works like a charm even linking it to HomeKit via the HA HomeKit bridge integration.
But one question, is it a must to have homehub device(Apple TV/Apple HomePod) then I just can invite/share my current HA in Homeapp to others? Or there’s a workaround.

[@Delyn]

I might be wrong but I believe you would need a home hub

[@kirksteinklauber260]

Nice!!! do you need an Apple TV or Homepod to create the HomeKit instance as well? or just your iPhone and Home Assistant?

[@Delyn]

You do still need a home hub to be able to utilize Apple Home

[@kirksteinklauber260]

Thanks! @@Delyn

[@opiatesmile]

I’ve never used HA before but was thinking of picking up the green and diving in. You mentioned adding the devices to HA before adding them to HomeKit I already have dozens of devices in my apple home. Is that going to be a problem?

[@Delyn]

If they’re already there, you would just have to remove them and set them up again from home assistant. I just posted a new video on how to do this!

[@c130cc6]

Just got HA on a Raspberry Pi. I have a billion Aqara devices, how the heck do I get these into HA? I’m trying to add devices to HA first and then once done will create a new HK house to import all devices

[@Delyn]

Step 1: grab the HomeKit pairing code from the Aqara HUB you want to add to HA
Step 2: add the HomeKit bridge service and the HomeKit device service integrations to HA
Step 3: open your integrations page on HA
Step 4: remove the Aqara hub from your HomeKit home and then immediately click the newly discovered device that will pop up in HA
Step 5: enter the HK pairing code in this exact format XXX-XX-XXX
It should start pairing.
Next to get them back in HomeKit, you’ll use the HomeKit Bridge integration

[@c130cc6]

Man thanks for that! Sounds terrifying to delete it out of HK. Break automations but that’s the life of a smarthome huh haha. Last question I promise, does this bring in Aqara cameras and U100 as well?

[@JayMartinez]

do you create your automations in home assistant or HomeKit or both?

[@Delyn]

I use both! Check out my video on the four layers of automation with the Aqara fp2