OMG - as a new HA user, even finding how to shut down or restart HA is hard. For example, I had to slow step through your guide to see what screen you were on when you clicked the three dots to the top right to bring up the menu that included restart. In the Settings screen it's there. Click on Devices and Services and the 3 dots on that screen (IDENTICAL SYMBOL IN IDENTICAL LOCATION) bring up a different menu. It just isn't intuitive. I end up thinking "I've seen that SOMEWHERE, but for the life of me I can't remember where". I would never have been able to install HACS without slow stepping through this, thank you!
I've painted myself into a bit of a corner with HA. It is now mission critical and controls the off-grid power system loads and equipment cooling at my home. I stopped upgrading the HA OS at release 2024.1.2 because i just got sick of losing functionality or even losing some integrations altogether, or ending up with logs full of warnings and problems. Fortunately, I run HA on a VM in Proxmox, so as long as I back-up before making changes, it is no big deal to go into reverse. But it is a big deal trying to sort out the issues that come with OS updates. I think that I will probably have to spin up a new HA instance and run the non-mission critical stuff on that and leave the mission critical stuff alone on the existing instance. Then I'll have a play with the new HACS and see if it is worth it.
I’m a novice at this. Is there a list of the HAC’s integrations, if that’s what they are called, or do I need to install and then search if what I’m trying to control has already been done. Specifically, I would like to automate my outdoor zip roller shades by Dooya, which uses a Zigbee 3.0 protocol with a hand held remote. Am I the first one to want to do this in HA?
6:34 - it means that, v1 would provide a sensor you could add to your dashboard to see how many pending updates there are. Since v2, you see that in the regular HA panel, and the sensor frm v1 is no longer there. Therefore, any automations and dashboard cards related to the old sensor is now broken and will appear as a Repair item in HA.
I’m still on the fence about it. I was used to the old frigate layout, so this one is very different. Almost feels like the change from windows 3.1 to 95.
Honestly, I very rarely use the Frigate UI. I get notifications sent to me via Home Assistant for things that are interesting and I use the Unifi UI for scrubbing through camera footage if required. I only used the Frigate UI for configuration
I have been using Frigate for some years, including object recognition (cars, people) and it works… ok.… I’m also an Unifi owner and have just recently upgraded a few of my cameras to latest generation, meaning that the cameras now supports Unifi’s object recognition and I’ll tell you that works perfectly !!!! and with the HA official Unity Protect integration for camera stream and notification etc I’m now planning to phase out frigate and well purchase/upgrade the old Unifi cameras and change the non-Unifi to Unifi. I can highly recommend Unifi especially when it integrates with HA. 👌🏽
Moonraker for my Klipper based 3d Printer to be integrated into it for automations and to monitor the prints whilst I'm out and so I can emergency stop a print if I need to do that
Can you do one on how you actually use this now? I can't figure out how to only show my installed components, can't figure out how to only show those with updates available since I last updated them, and don't understand how this UI improves anything... I'm not a hater... I accept it must improve things, but it's just not clear to ME. Can you help educate?
I use HA in Casaos with zigbee2mqtt and mosquito in containers. Drives me crazy as zigbee2mqtt is prone to ending its communication with HA days later with no errors. A nice early morning surprise 😂 But zigbee2mqtt is much easier to write conversion files for. With new items, using data points, than with the inbuilt Ziggy support of HA. Mainly because I found the libraries used for HA often had no way of expressing certain outputs found on new sensors. So I had to use items with similar ranges and then edit them to make sense once installed. But then I'm no programmer.
OMG - as a new HA user, even finding how to shut down or restart HA is hard. For example, I had to slow step through your guide to see what screen you were on when you clicked the three dots to the top right to bring up the menu that included restart. In the Settings screen it's there. Click on Devices and Services and the 3 dots on that screen (IDENTICAL SYMBOL IN IDENTICAL LOCATION) bring up a different menu. It just isn't intuitive. I end up thinking "I've seen that SOMEWHERE, but for the life of me I can't remember where". I would never have been able to install HACS without slow stepping through this, thank you!
Adaptive lighting is the best integration
The old hacs sensor that reported how many updates were available has gone. There are now individual update sensors - one for each hacs item added.
That's what I assumed too
You are a KING!!! Thank you.
Not a king, just a nerd. But thank you!
I've painted myself into a bit of a corner with HA. It is now mission critical and controls the off-grid power system loads and equipment cooling at my home. I stopped upgrading the HA OS at release 2024.1.2 because i just got sick of losing functionality or even losing some integrations altogether, or ending up with logs full of warnings and problems. Fortunately, I run HA on a VM in Proxmox, so as long as I back-up before making changes, it is no big deal to go into reverse. But it is a big deal trying to sort out the issues that come with OS updates.
I think that I will probably have to spin up a new HA instance and run the non-mission critical stuff on that and leave the mission critical stuff alone on the existing instance. Then I'll have a play with the new HACS and see if it is worth it.
Great Video as always! Thank you for your time and effort
Thank you!
Thanks for this, still getting settled into HA.
You're welcome! Enjoy falling down the HA rabbit hole - it's a doozy!
Thank you.
You are most welcome!
The only question while I was using new HACS is where the update button hides? Do I have to click "redownload" instead of "update"?
I found where its now, updates for HACS modules are now located in HA settings.
I’m a novice at this. Is there a list of the HAC’s integrations, if that’s what they are called, or do I need to install and then search if what I’m trying to control has already been done. Specifically, I would like to automate my outdoor zip roller shades by Dooya, which uses a Zigbee 3.0 protocol with a hand held remote. Am I the first one to want to do this in HA?
6:34 - it means that, v1 would provide a sensor you could add to your dashboard to see how many pending updates there are. Since v2, you see that in the regular HA panel, and the sensor frm v1 is no longer there. Therefore, any automations and dashboard cards related to the old sensor is now broken and will appear as a Repair item in HA.
Thank you! 🙏
Thanks for the video. very helpful
You're welcome! 🤗
Do you like the new frigate addon? Somehow It feels not right to me.
What about it doesn't feel right? I haven't messed with it yet, but I'm curious what is giving you that impression.
I’m still on the fence about it. I was used to the old frigate layout, so this one is very different.
Almost feels like the change from windows 3.1 to 95.
Honestly, I very rarely use the Frigate UI. I get notifications sent to me via Home Assistant for things that are interesting and I use the Unifi UI for scrubbing through camera footage if required. I only used the Frigate UI for configuration
@jabadoo5307: Agreed! Same here! @@Obtuse94 : The UI is bit messy. Reviewing bit difficult
I have been using Frigate for some years, including object recognition (cars, people) and it works… ok.… I’m also an Unifi owner and have just recently upgraded a few of my cameras to latest generation, meaning that the cameras now supports Unifi’s object recognition and I’ll tell you that works perfectly !!!! and with the HA official Unity Protect integration for camera stream and notification etc I’m now planning to phase out frigate and well purchase/upgrade the old Unifi cameras and change the non-Unifi to Unifi. I can highly recommend Unifi especially when it integrates with HA. 👌🏽
Moonraker for my Klipper based 3d Printer to be integrated into it for automations and to monitor the prints whilst I'm out and so I can emergency stop a print if I need to do that
I assume the "Get HACS" addon can be removed once you have HACS 2.0 running, right?
I assumed that too, but it wasn't documented anywhere so I didn't want to say it out loud!
after installing, do you remove the addon?
I assume so, but the documentation doesn't mention it so I didn't want to mention it either 😕
Can you do one on how you actually use this now? I can't figure out how to only show my installed components, can't figure out how to only show those with updates available since I last updated them, and don't understand how this UI improves anything... I'm not a hater... I accept it must improve things, but it's just not clear to ME. Can you help educate?
I do also not liké the new interface.
Shift+F5 clears the page cache before it reloads the page which is faster and let the rest of your cache untouched.
Which browser(s)?
@@vicb2389 chrome, but i guess it works with any
Can you use HACS with normal add-ons included with HA by default?
Yes, you can and that's actually the recommended way to do it as HACS augments what you can install on top of the official add-ons etc
Pls with docker and portainer
you don’t need it, you can just run the services as other containers
optionally you can add the links to you HA dashboard too
I use HA in Casaos with zigbee2mqtt and mosquito in containers. Drives me crazy as zigbee2mqtt is prone to ending its communication with HA days later with no errors. A nice early morning surprise 😂
But zigbee2mqtt is much easier to write conversion files for. With new items, using data points, than with the inbuilt Ziggy support of HA.
Mainly because I found the libraries used for HA often had no way of expressing certain outputs found on new sensors. So I had to use items with similar ranges and then edit them to make sense once installed. But then I'm no programmer.
“Whilst you’re down there…”
That’s what she said.
😉
Cash? Caysh? Cash-ay? 🤔Storage 😊
"Stuff stored locally"
speak to much
Yes, I try to speak to things