Brilliant video. I'm so glad you arent afraid to rip through it knowing that people should pause as they go. Soooooooo maaaaaaaanyyyyyy videos run for 20 minutes for 5 mins of content
After watching a number of videos to help me get started on this, I must tell you that I enjoy the pace of your guide, the clarity, and the willingness to not explain things multiple times. It's easy enough to replay things. Well done!
Thanks for these videos, just bought a newly built home. They tried to hook me for a "smart home" using a device pre-installed in home, it uses Z-wave, required hundreds of dollars in installation costs to make it actually work, they gave me about three "smart switches" as the free gateway drug to get me hooked. Then wanted expensive installation fee to finish making the home a "smart home" and then, on top of all that, yup, you guessed it, a monthly fee of at least $75, for the base installation. Your video is saving me a bundle. Thank you very much! Your style of instruction is perfect! Videos are the right length, no BS fluff crap to eat up my time, just the fact and straight to the point!
Never knew this existed, certainly makes integration and automation so much easier! Previously, I have done things the hard way by creating custom applications and hardware. This really simplifies the interconnectivity side of things. I can say this for sure - I am DAMN glad my parents were never smart enough to do anything like this... I cannot imagine growing up where my every action would not only be monitored, but potentially controlled.
Have to say thank you very much. I just spent about 5 hours trying to install HA via different TH-cam videos and online tutorials. Yours is the only one that has worked. Much appreciated.
Thanks for the video! We need more HA content that is recent. I am about 3 months into HA and my biggest issue is following outdated information. Even some of the HA documentation and integrations have outdated info.
I have the same problem. New software and features are constantly being added. I add them and they are almost always quickly out of date. I think that the videos you make are wonderful because you show the best of what is out there at a given time.
@@TheHookUp That tends to be one drawback when working with open-source software as open-source projects tend to have rapid update cycles. Though this is both a blessing and a curse, frequent updates lead to bug fixes being pushed sooner and more rapid support for new devices etc but it is a significant headache keeping any kind of documentation and such current.
One thing not mentioned when installing MQTT broker is that if you don't turn on advanced mode under your profile first then you will not see users under configuration. I am following the guide to install HA 5.12. So far so good if you keep pausing the video :-)
Best video so far, I’ve been tinkering and struggling with home assistant for a couple of weeks, now I know why. Most videos are outdated and the info in them is also outdated, when you read it or look at screen shots, tech moves at such a pace it’s hard to keep up.
Disagree - way, way too quick for beginners! I would much prefer that the video was a lot longer if he spoke and showed screen content a lot slower so that we could actually follow what he was saying and doing.
@@luvs2golf2010 Have you also tried to read the screens? They are very blurry even when you pause the video. And the video is going so fast that you have be Speedy Gonzales to press stop and play every few seconds.
Jouke Nienhuis yes sir. And not just this video but also several others from The Hook Up. I will grant you that it is quick but these days not many people have the attention span to sit through a 1-2 hr live stream like Dr. Zzzs but to each his own.
This video kick started my own version of home automation here in the Philippines. I remember 2 years back, I have zero knowledge of HA and compatible devices that can be integrated, I just know programming arduinos and plcs. Thaks man!
Just got my first Sonoff flashed, and I'm literally minutes away from installing it in my kids' bathroom, where it'll shut off the bathroom fan after it's been on for 30 minutes. This video, along with Ben (Bruh), Dr. Zzzs, and several of your other videos, has been instrumental in making this happen! I would love to see part 2 (accessing your home assistant remotely) to this series! Thanks again, Rob D.
There are a few guides on the internet to access your HA remotely through a custom domain name by the duckdns add-on in Hassio. I just did that to mine and it's working well and very quick. Best wishes!
love love love this video. just successfully setup HomeAssistant on my old laptop by following your instructions. 1st attempt failed, but I started again and retraced my steps till I found where I went wrong, corrected it and moved on. thank you so much
Love the video. Just on the WiFi config. A similar process can be done using a USB stick inserted so you dont have to muck around on the SD Card. I have a small install in a unit on a Raspberry Pi, but my main install in the house, which is bigger, runs on an OpenBox VM over the top of Windows 10 and that has been absolutely rock solid and doesn't require any maintenance. It just works, though I do tend to perform updates once a month for the Windows updates. I only upgrade HA if the new upgrade adds features I want as often it is not worth the breaking changes to do the updates. Of course, when an update is needed I do need to allow time to modify things to account for breaking changes. I know this video was aimed at more new users, but I love watching the way things have changed compared to some of the older videos from BRUH, which gave a good tutorial on installing HA back in the earlier days.
The not updating unless there is a solid justification for it makes sense to me too, if it isn't broken then no need to fix (or more likely break) it heh. That said with Home Assistant being network software I would stress that security updates really should be an update trigger too, it is really not a great idea to be running vulnerable software even inside a VM as an attacker gaining control of a local IP address other devices will tend to be more trusting of will degrade security of the entire network generally speaking. Not to mention access to local broadcast, arp poisoning and similar to capture local traffic bound for other machines and all that stuff.
@@seraphina985 Security updates would come as an update that I would want to install yes, but HA being what it is, if your home network is secure and you have a good firewall, HA is pretty secure. Just got to make sure there are no rogue open ports on the router :)
@@EsotericArctos True well to be fair most attempts at probing my IP range just results in a few hours being wasted playing with honeyd so... I personally prefer the ones that attempt to use previously undisclosed zero-day exploits against them though I find piecing them together from the logs and reporting them quite entertaining.
Thanks for the video, quite helpful. I am technical guy with a CS degree from a great school and this is short of overwhelming. I spent two afternoons just getting to the point of having devices running in my VM (HyperV I hate you so much). Thank goodness for videos like this. I cannot imagine this being anything even close to ready for regular consumers. But now I get to finally "play" with automation.
Thank you very much for this video tutorial; it got my HA up and running in no time! Your expertise and ability to create an understandable and stepwise procedure were invaluable to me.
You said it right, Home Assistant is a forever beta product. I love HA, but when you run into issues, which you will do alot, I get very frustrated. So frustrated that last time I almost ordered HomeSeer for 200 bucks.... It would at least have given me higher WAF.
I guess that I'm more used to and probably thus more tolerant of the rapid update cycles of open-source projects as I do tend to favor open-source software as a default. Not that I'm strongly ideologically opposed to proprietary software or anything just feel strongly prefer to keep the addition of more little black boxes to the system to situations where there is no viable open alternative personally I trust open code more in general as there is some peace of mind in knowing the developers are open about having nothing to hide. That gives me confidence even when I haven't read all the code personally heh.
Thank you. This video has confirmed that I want to start to automate my home, and given I have a spare RaspberryPi I think thats where I will start. Awesome, thanks.
I've made an RGB Light using an ESP32. It was pretty easy if you're familiar with programming arduino. - I have an MQTT broker setup which the light and home assistant are both connected to - The light publishes a configuration to the MQTT broker over wifi when it starts up - Home assistant listens for this configuration and when it sees it, automatically sets up the device in home assistant. So this means I literally just turn on the light and it "registers" itself in home assistant automatically. I can then just open the home assistant app and start using it. The same process can be done with just about any DIY device you can think of making. I'd highly recommend checking out the home assistant MQTT documentation.
I always look forward to your videos and this one didn't disappoint. That said, after spending a few months looking at Home Assistant I decided it was too much of a skillset stretch for me. That's after I installed it on a Raspberry PI and had some preliminary automation running. I currently have a simplistic set of home automation requirements and I found another solution that required dramatically less upfront skill on my part. I'm not knocking Home Assistant, nor am I suggesting my choice is the best for everyone. It was just the best for me. With very limited time investment, and a small dollar investment, I have a working system that is able to meet my current and planned requirements for the foreseeable future. I decided that a more commercial solution was the answer. I look forward to your future work. It's inspiring.
Great video, and HA definitely seems to have come a way. But this absolutely confirms to me that it's still years away from prime time, if ever. It just shouldn't be so complicated to manage a smart home - simple as that. Happy to keep playing around with my Hubitat
Great video, big thumbs up! I have not yet started playing with IoT, but after watching these videos I got really motivated. I feel like these vids would be solid help for this!
When I was a kid, I dreamt about automating my home. Now that I'm in my 50s, I'm like "Hm. Cool. Maybe someday." Ha! I guess my interests have changed over the years. (But it sure does look awesome)
This is awesome. A friend is hooking me up with a thin client that I plan to use as an always on machine but have NEVER dabbled with virtualization before. I was worried it would be this huge thing I’d have to research. This makes it just a little more complicated than the Pi setup.
Could do that though long term I would personally recommend that you consider running home assistant on a separate machine. I would recommend something like a Raspberry Pi 4 for this purpose, has enough CPU and RAM for the job but very power efficient (~15W max) and takes up very little space both of which are ideal for a device which will be always on and that you don't really need a local desktop setup etc on as it is easy to find a nice home out of the way for it to live fits in pretty nicely with the embedded gear like the wifi router etc actually. They are admittedly a fairly expensive component being that they are after all a higher-end ARM computer with 4GB of RAM but you can pick one up complete with a case, SD card etc for around £80 ish ($105 though they probably retail for $80 price discrimination on electronics in Europe is a pain).
I did custom install on RPi 4B with Ubuntu Server 20.04, Home Assistant Supervised edition and it works better than I expected... It's true that it wasn't super easy, I had to search for info how to do that (you need supervised version for everything to work), but that's because I did custom officially unsupported install - if you're not experienced Linux user, just download their Home Assistant OS image, follow the steps and it will work just fine. So setup is totally not impossible, but configuring could be overwhelming.
@@adamkoxxl problem is, I already run a custom OS on PiXtend hardware, so need to install this on top. Dev's decision to not support this type of install is just... questionable.
@@eIektrinis that's true, I also was surprised because the first install I did was via Docker, just to find out it is without "Supervisor" or Hassio or whatever it's called and I could not install add-ons... Fortunately I found out installation script for officially unsupported installs which I used second time I mentioned in my earlier comment.
Thank you for the videos you make. I am new to Home Assistant and you do a fantastic job and providing the most amount of information in a clear concise way.
Great video! Thanks a lot! I just started buying a few smart bulbs to play around and already found the manufacturer's or Google to be rather limited. I'm moving to Home Assistant right now.
It is all very good explained, but it is going very fast.I can hardly see your screens, because another shows up or it is too small to see. But for a beginner, I think it is a little too complicated.The start I could follow, but after setting up the raspberry,I lost you.
Great overview for getting started. I'm going to need to watch this again in a few days when I've gotten HA installed.
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Awesome video, thanks for providing it in such a concise way. One thing I don't get is why all the HA videos from multiple channels always say they primarily use voice commands, but never explain how... 🙄 Even a high level description would be very helpful. Something like "ABC integration with XYZ hardware"
Just wanted to say "Thanks" for the work you do here. I've got Docker on a miniforums minipc with HA in a container, MQTT in a container, Node-Red in a container, and am off to install Rhasspy in a container with a Rhasspy satellite on a Pi3B for the voice interface. Trying to keep it all local!
@@Sholofly HA...or HASSIO -seems same to me. Like the portabiity of having the Node Red, MQTT, RHASSPY all outside of Home Assistant - because it's my setup and that's the way I want it.
Superb video! I just managed to install HassOS on my QNAP. I have bunch of Hue lights and Google Assistant devices. Time to start playing and tweaking!
Great detail! I was able to setup the VM and start adding DIY Sonoff devices via MQTT in about 1 hour. I look forward to learning more from you! Thank you. Now I need to figure out how to make the VM have a static IP.
Like it! I’m a novice with home automation, but want some more control than what comes with HomeKit. You’re channel looks like it will be a huge help! Keep it up.
Thanks so much for this video, it's a great starting point for someone like myself who is about to jump head first into home automation. I am currently moving into my new home and bout a Raspberry Pi 3 to use as my Home Assistant hub. Once that arrives it'll be time to slowly add all the smart home products I've been purchasing over the years!
Found this over a year later. Definitely would watch many in-depth tutorials ie setting up a tablet style dashboard or how to have a safe and secure remote connection to check things like security cameras or get updates. Would be really cool to see how people collect data on efficiency type things like water or electric usage, renewables, or even making chores and tasks lists with reminders to ping the dash board as well as phone of those responsible.
Great video, helped me a lot, thanks! Some notes from following this in January 2021, nothing serious: - On Raspi 4, make sure you install the 64 bit image because the Visual Studio Code addon wll only run on a 64 bits OS. - Web address is now homeassistant.local:8123. - Visual Studio Code Addon configuration (turn off SSL) is not needed any more - SAMBA addon: you need to set a password in the configuration now or it won't start.
You truly create the best videos! They are sooooo informative. I am however struggling big time with a project I'm trying to help my 17 year old with. Their technology teacher has set up an 8' x 20' house layout with doors, windows and all the furnishings. He picked the door card so he must monitor the doors. He must create a wireless network that will show when each of the 5 doors in their display house is opened. There are a few catches however. He's only allowed to use 433 Mhz RF to transmit, only the receiver is allowed to have a 12V power supply and it must have an LCD readout display. The last thing is the transmitters must have extended battery usage. I've been trying to figure out how to have all of the doors use a battery powered 433 Mhz transmitter and relay to a single receiver that can display if the door is opened or closed on an receiver LCD display. The system would obviously have to go to sleep to conserve battery if the door is left open for more than a set amount of time as well as being in sleep mode when the door is closed. The transmitter would have to be ran on something larger than 3.3 or 5V since the doors could possibly be opened and closed quite a bit throughout the day thus using a lot of battery life. The teacher didn't specify how many times the doors would be opened and closed each day nor was it stated if they would be left open for extended periods of time or not. I'm thinking possibly triple A batteries? He currently has the following components to work with although we are able to purchase other items as long as time to receive them allows. - RF-Nano V3.0 - ESP8266 - ATMEGA328P - Logic level bidirectional two-way four-way transformation - 433 Mhz wireless RF receivers and transmitters - Wired door reed switches I know this was a lot of information, but I didn't want to leave anything out. Hopefully I didn't anyways. If you or someone could PLEASE help us figure this out my son and I would greatly appreciate it. I can't even count how many videos we've watched now trying to figure this out and the teacher really isn't much help to him. Thank you!!
Robert I also wanted to mention that since I know this may not be something that you already have up your sleeve we'd be willing to send you a monetary donation that I'm sure we could agree upon if that would help. If you are wanting to help with this please feel free to message me. Thank you very much!!
You did a great job on this video! This was my 4th video and I was struggling to get things working on my windows machine. Very good detail, I had to use the pause button a lot as a new user, you move rapidly lol. You made this in January, and I'm already noticing some changes, so... Keep them coming.
Awesome man! Thank you! We are currently in a third world country - third world but very progressive. We are planning to build some low income temporary housing for university students and I said I wanted to add some cool tech touches to make them really enjoy it, make it somewhat luxurious for them. I am definitely going to be doing this, thank you!
Great video, clear and helpful and good enough to give me confidence to give Home Assistant a go. Thank you for uploading this video. More content like this will be much appreciated.
Fantastic video! I’ve been using Home Assistant for quite some time now and learned so much watching the video and getting some basics I’ve been missing for a year or two! Thanks for filling in the gaps of what I needed! Oh yeah, still haven’t done the blind project yet, but I’ve gotten good with the 3d printer and getting closer to the blinds project;)
Thanks a lot for this excellent video tutorial guide! I had a close look, because I had (and still have) a problem with HA automatically detecting, adding and integrating my devices on first startup. Sigh, now I've got to get back to editing the config files.
Thank you so much for this comprehensive guide. One issue I had is that you need to increase the hard disk size after selecting dynamically allocated, otherwise you fill the 6gb limit, and are unable to update home assistant in the future.
I got an Intel NUC off eBay for cheap. I think it works well being quiet, small, but powerful enough to handle anything you need. Also I use a zwave controller so having it in a central spot is beneficial.
On the one hand, all that stuff you showed scares the shite out of me as a complete home automation newbie, but I love the fact that Home Assistant looks super in-depth and customisable. It's going to be an uphill battle convincing the missus that we need this automation, but hopefully I won't cock it all up!
This was great... I'm looking for a video that just gives an overview of hass elements without the installation. This was helpful . But I had to skip most of it. I probably should rtfm hehe
Great video. The best video giving the wholistic picture. I have one request. The reason why I dumped this idea and went with only Smartthings was that I had to pay for Google assistance. Can you include this in your next video please... how to get it working without paying while making sure its always working and Auto- upgrading
You have me hooked on HA. I have a VM now and migrating most things FROM ST to HA. I have hundreds of questions, and you are right, a little bit of light reading to find the answer is all it took. You made a mention in one of your video's about naming things correctly. Where is that video? I want to review it and follow your guidelines. BTW, quite a bit has changed in Unifi, OracleVM, and HA since you made this. I had to do a bit of light reading to get out of a few jams during install over the past week. Again. Thank you!
Thank you for the video it has really helped me get started. Although I am struggling and part and parcel to this environment always changing so this maybe useful to others. Setting up a VM 1. 64bit - I was only able to get 32bit I had to go into my Bios and change the Intel CPU to allow virtual this enabled 64bit in the VM machine 2. Hassio - I believe is now called Supervisor and will not be listed as shown in this video and needs a separate install process (This is the bit I am currently stuck on). Thanks again for the video.
Are you making an updated version of this as it seems many of the configurations have changed, not just in your video but many other ones. also, maybe a video for Homekit integration? Im having one heck of a time getting it running.
We need an update! I'd love to see a 2023 version of this video. Thanks for all you do, your videos are on a whole new level! 🚀
@TheHookUp, yes, would be great to see an updated version of this video! The old one got >1mil views :)
Brilliant video. I'm so glad you arent afraid to rip through it knowing that people should pause as they go. Soooooooo maaaaaaaanyyyyyy videos run for 20 minutes for 5 mins of content
After watching a number of videos to help me get started on this, I must tell you that I enjoy the pace of your guide, the clarity, and the willingness to not explain things multiple times. It's easy enough to replay things. Well done!
You can speed up or slow down any video on yt. I pretty much watch 1.25x for learning which is equivalent to this video
Thanks for these videos, just bought a newly built home. They tried to hook me for a "smart home" using a device pre-installed in home, it uses Z-wave, required hundreds of dollars in installation costs to make it actually work, they gave me about three "smart switches" as the free gateway drug to get me hooked. Then wanted expensive installation fee to finish making the home a "smart home" and then, on top of all that, yup, you guessed it, a monthly fee of at least $75, for the base installation.
Your video is saving me a bundle. Thank you very much! Your style of instruction is perfect! Videos are the right length, no BS fluff crap to eat up my time, just the fact and straight to the point!
Never knew this existed, certainly makes integration and automation so much easier! Previously, I have done things the hard way by creating custom applications and hardware. This really simplifies the interconnectivity side of things.
I can say this for sure - I am DAMN glad my parents were never smart enough to do anything like this... I cannot imagine growing up where my every action would not only be monitored, but potentially controlled.
Have to say thank you very much. I just spent about 5 hours trying to install HA via different TH-cam videos and online tutorials. Yours is the only one that has worked. Much appreciated.
Welcome to the home assistant club!
Thanks for the video! We need more HA content that is recent. I am about 3 months into HA and my biggest issue is following outdated information. Even some of the HA documentation and integrations have outdated info.
That's the problem with making HA videos, they don't age well.
@@TheHookUp it's definitely a moving target. Just in the few months I've been involved I've seen major changes.
I have the same problem. New software and features are constantly being added. I add them and they are almost always quickly out of date. I think that the videos you make are wonderful because you show the best of what is out there at a given time.
@@TheHookUp That tends to be one drawback when working with open-source software as open-source projects tend to have rapid update cycles. Though this is both a blessing and a curse, frequent updates lead to bug fixes being pushed sooner and more rapid support for new devices etc but it is a significant headache keeping any kind of documentation and such current.
@@seraphina985 Yep. I wish we could somehow separate the "fixes" from the "features", but that isn't really possible.
This is absolutely your best video ever. I have been struggling to get HA on a VM for a long time and this pushed me over the "hump". Thanks a bunch!
Me too.\!! I am trying with a tutorial with installation complete but can't reach localhost:8123. Will spend more time troubleshooting.
i dident understand, does the PC withe the VM installed, need to be running at all time?
@@hjmads Indeed it does.
One thing not mentioned when installing MQTT broker is that if you don't turn on advanced mode under your profile first then you will not see users under configuration. I am following the guide to install HA 5.12. So far so good if you keep pausing the video :-)
life saver
Dude thank you
very well explained - obviously nobody is just going to pick this up in 5 minutes but you have explained things very well. Thankyou
Man, you should turn this from a presentation into a (series of) tutorial(s). Lots of work, I agree, but you'll get a Thank You from me. :D
I'm a new HA soon to be user and I've ENJOYED this content. Not so complicated if I pause n play. Thank you and keep it coming!
More! More! More Home Assistance videos! This one was great and very comprehensive! Thank you for it!
Best video so far, I’ve been tinkering and struggling with home assistant for a couple of weeks, now I know why.
Most videos are outdated and the info in them is also outdated, when you read it or look at screen shots, tech moves at such a pace it’s hard to keep up.
Yep, that's true. Unfortunately, this video will be out of date in a relatively short period of time. For now it's good though!
Brian, use dicsord and the forum. It helped me very much!
Well done, perfect for beginners. I would like to see more about accessing Home Assistant from outside my own network.
Disagree - way, way too quick for beginners! I would much prefer that the video was a lot longer if he spoke and showed screen content a lot slower so that we could actually follow what he was saying and doing.
@@hughjardon5101 , you could always pause the video or maybe even back it up and re-watch a section?
@@luvs2golf2010 Have you also tried to read the screens? They are very blurry even when you pause the video. And the video is going so fast that you have be Speedy Gonzales to press stop and play every few seconds.
Jouke Nienhuis yes sir. And not just this video but also several others from The Hook Up. I will grant you that it is quick but these days not many people have the attention span to sit through a 1-2 hr live stream like Dr. Zzzs but to each his own.
@@hughjardon5101 There is always the option to pause the video.
This video kick started my own version of home automation here in the Philippines. I remember 2 years back, I have zero knowledge of HA and compatible devices that can be integrated, I just know programming arduinos and plcs. Thaks man!
I regret starting home assistant last year. Its soooo much easier now ...
The development team has done a great job, but you certainly learned some important fundamentals that will help you in the future.
Just got my first Sonoff flashed, and I'm literally minutes away from installing it in my kids' bathroom, where it'll shut off the bathroom fan after it's been on for 30 minutes.
This video, along with Ben (Bruh), Dr. Zzzs, and several of your other videos, has been instrumental in making this happen!
I would love to see part 2 (accessing your home assistant remotely) to this series!
Thanks again, Rob D.
There are a few guides on the internet to access your HA remotely through a custom domain name by the duckdns add-on in Hassio. I just did that to mine and it's working well and very quick. Best wishes!
Indianboy04 thanks! I’m working with a Mac, so I’ve had to “interpret” some of the instructionals.
Straight up, clear, fast-paced. Loved it!
love love love this video. just successfully setup HomeAssistant on my old laptop by following your instructions. 1st attempt failed, but I started again and retraced my steps till I found where I went wrong, corrected it and moved on. thank you so much
Great content! I have just recently started the Home Assistant/Home Automation adventure, your video's continue to help along the way.
Way more complex than I thought a smart home could be. But I dig videos like this that show the possibilities.
Love the video.
Just on the WiFi config. A similar process can be done using a USB stick inserted so you dont have to muck around on the SD Card.
I have a small install in a unit on a Raspberry Pi, but my main install in the house, which is bigger, runs on an OpenBox VM over the top of Windows 10 and that has been absolutely rock solid and doesn't require any maintenance. It just works, though I do tend to perform updates once a month for the Windows updates. I only upgrade HA if the new upgrade adds features I want as often it is not worth the breaking changes to do the updates. Of course, when an update is needed I do need to allow time to modify things to account for breaking changes.
I know this video was aimed at more new users, but I love watching the way things have changed compared to some of the older videos from BRUH, which gave a good tutorial on installing HA back in the earlier days.
The not updating unless there is a solid justification for it makes sense to me too, if it isn't broken then no need to fix (or more likely break) it heh. That said with Home Assistant being network software I would stress that security updates really should be an update trigger too, it is really not a great idea to be running vulnerable software even inside a VM as an attacker gaining control of a local IP address other devices will tend to be more trusting of will degrade security of the entire network generally speaking. Not to mention access to local broadcast, arp poisoning and similar to capture local traffic bound for other machines and all that stuff.
@@seraphina985 Security updates would come as an update that I would want to install yes, but HA being what it is, if your home network is secure and you have a good firewall, HA is pretty secure.
Just got to make sure there are no rogue open ports on the router :)
@@EsotericArctos True well to be fair most attempts at probing my IP range just results in a few hours being wasted playing with honeyd so... I personally prefer the ones that attempt to use previously undisclosed zero-day exploits against them though I find piecing them together from the logs and reporting them quite entertaining.
Thanks for the video, quite helpful. I am technical guy with a CS degree from a great school and this is short of overwhelming. I spent two afternoons just getting to the point of having devices running in my VM (HyperV I hate you so much). Thank goodness for videos like this. I cannot imagine this being anything even close to ready for regular consumers. But now I get to finally "play" with automation.
Thank you for including timestamps
Thank you very much for this video tutorial; it got my HA up and running in no time! Your expertise and ability to create an understandable and stepwise procedure were invaluable to me.
You said it right, Home Assistant is a forever beta product. I love HA, but when you run into issues, which you will do alot, I get very frustrated. So frustrated that last time I almost ordered HomeSeer for 200 bucks.... It would at least have given me higher WAF.
I guess that I'm more used to and probably thus more tolerant of the rapid update cycles of open-source projects as I do tend to favor open-source software as a default. Not that I'm strongly ideologically opposed to proprietary software or anything just feel strongly prefer to keep the addition of more little black boxes to the system to situations where there is no viable open alternative personally I trust open code more in general as there is some peace of mind in knowing the developers are open about having nothing to hide. That gives me confidence even when I haven't read all the code personally heh.
Ive found the HA Discord channel can be very helpful
Thank you. This video has confirmed that I want to start to automate my home, and given I have a spare RaspberryPi I think thats where I will start. Awesome, thanks.
Great video, can you do a "DIY or buy" video about zigbee sensors vs DIY sensors with BLE, LoRa, ESP8266?
I've made an RGB Light using an ESP32. It was pretty easy if you're familiar with programming arduino.
- I have an MQTT broker setup which the light and home assistant are both connected to
- The light publishes a configuration to the MQTT broker over wifi when it starts up
- Home assistant listens for this configuration and when it sees it, automatically sets up the device in home assistant.
So this means I literally just turn on the light and it "registers" itself in home assistant automatically. I can then just open the home assistant app and start using it.
The same process can be done with just about any DIY device you can think of making. I'd highly recommend checking out the home assistant MQTT documentation.
I always look forward to your videos and this one didn't disappoint. That said, after spending a few months looking at Home Assistant I decided it was too much of a skillset stretch for me. That's after I installed it on a Raspberry PI and had some preliminary automation running. I currently have a simplistic set of home automation requirements and I found another solution that required dramatically less upfront skill on my part. I'm not knocking Home Assistant, nor am I suggesting my choice is the best for everyone. It was just the best for me. With very limited time investment, and a small dollar investment, I have a working system that is able to meet my current and planned requirements for the foreseeable future. I decided that a more commercial solution was the answer. I look forward to your future work. It's inspiring.
Great video, and HA definitely seems to have come a way. But this absolutely confirms to me that it's still years away from prime time, if ever. It just shouldn't be so complicated to manage a smart home - simple as that. Happy to keep playing around with my Hubitat
Great video, big thumbs up! I have not yet started playing with IoT, but after watching these videos I got really motivated. I feel like these vids would be solid help for this!
When I was a kid, I dreamt about automating my home. Now that I'm in my 50s, I'm like "Hm. Cool. Maybe someday." Ha!
I guess my interests have changed over the years.
(But it sure does look awesome)
This is awesome. A friend is hooking me up with a thin client that I plan to use as an always on machine but have NEVER dabbled with virtualization before. I was worried it would be this huge thing I’d have to research. This makes it just a little more complicated than the Pi setup.
Imagine having this guy as a dad lol
I need him to be my dad right now. Pretty sure he is younger than me, but I don’r discriminate.
Came here to expand my knowledge on home automation systems
Left with some awesome tricks to use on virtual box. Thanks
@The Hook Up Yes, please add more content like this video! : ) What is flex?
Plex is a local media server for playing media content on your devices
OMG, excellent video. This will let me rebuild HA from my first learning install to a modern version in a VM.
Thanks
Could do that though long term I would personally recommend that you consider running home assistant on a separate machine. I would recommend something like a Raspberry Pi 4 for this purpose, has enough CPU and RAM for the job but very power efficient (~15W max) and takes up very little space both of which are ideal for a device which will be always on and that you don't really need a local desktop setup etc on as it is easy to find a nice home out of the way for it to live fits in pretty nicely with the embedded gear like the wifi router etc actually. They are admittedly a fairly expensive component being that they are after all a higher-end ARM computer with 4GB of RAM but you can pick one up complete with a case, SD card etc for around £80 ish ($105 though they probably retail for $80 price discrimination on electronics in Europe is a pain).
01:00 - nothing works - exactly my experience after two days of trying.
Yeah it's a junk software. Impossible to setup, impossible to trouble-shoot and configure.
weird, worked like a charm here first try... ?
I did custom install on RPi 4B with Ubuntu Server 20.04, Home Assistant Supervised edition and it works better than I expected... It's true that it wasn't super easy, I had to search for info how to do that (you need supervised version for everything to work), but that's because I did custom officially unsupported install - if you're not experienced Linux user, just download their Home Assistant OS image, follow the steps and it will work just fine. So setup is totally not impossible, but configuring could be overwhelming.
@@adamkoxxl problem is, I already run a custom OS on PiXtend hardware, so need to install this on top. Dev's decision to not support this type of install is just... questionable.
@@eIektrinis that's true, I also was surprised because the first install I did was via Docker, just to find out it is without "Supervisor" or Hassio or whatever it's called and I could not install add-ons... Fortunately I found out installation script for officially unsupported installs which I used second time I mentioned in my earlier comment.
Awesome quick start for a newbie who've just tumbled down the HA rabbit hole. Subscribed and liked :)
Welcome aboard!
If you install on a raspberry pi, Visual Studio Code is not available, correct?
True!
I ran into the same issue too. I'm using Configurator for now.
Thank you for the videos you make. I am new to Home Assistant and you do a fantastic job and providing the most amount of information in a clear concise way.
I followed the guide, everything work perfect but... I don’t see the configuration folder to add integrations to the .yaml folder can you help?
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Love your videos mate, you have really excited me to get back into electronics after 30 years!
I'm having issues when I run the virtual assistant. I get error:
Boot failed. Efi DVD/from
Boot failed. Efi hard drive
Any help at all?
YES! I'm having the same issue. Any help would be much appreciated.
Great video! Thanks a lot! I just started buying a few smart bulbs to play around and already found the manufacturer's or Google to be rather limited. I'm moving to Home Assistant right now.
It is all very good explained, but it is going very fast.I can hardly see your screens, because another shows up or it is too small to see.
But for a beginner, I think it is a little too complicated.The start I could follow, but after setting up the raspberry,I lost you.
Awesome video. Want more of your Home Assistant tutorials. Have an amazing weekend, Andreas 🇸🇪
I'm watching this video on 0.5 speed just to keep up with his talking
Thanks for this tuto, dont forget to select the "Enable EFI" option on system. If not the image are not bootable.
Great overview for getting started. I'm going to need to watch this again in a few days when I've gotten HA installed.
Awesome video, thanks for providing it in such a concise way.
One thing I don't get is why all the HA videos from multiple channels always say they primarily use voice commands, but never explain how... 🙄
Even a high level description would be very helpful. Something like "ABC integration with XYZ hardware"
Just wanted to say "Thanks" for the work you do here. I've got Docker on a miniforums minipc with HA in a container, MQTT in a container, Node-Red in a container, and am off to install Rhasspy in a container with a Rhasspy satellite on a Pi3B for the voice interface. Trying to keep it all local!
Why not installing Hass.io, It will take care of the container stuff :)
@@Sholofly HA...or HASSIO -seems same to me. Like the portabiity of having the Node Red, MQTT, RHASSPY all outside of Home Assistant - because it's my setup and that's the way I want it.
Superb video! I just managed to install HassOS on my QNAP. I have bunch of Hue lights and Google Assistant devices. Time to start playing and tweaking!
Finally found the solution for my home. Signed and sealed decision. Thank you.
Did u set it up
Thanks for the video. After watching the first 5 minutes, I have decided there is no way in hell I'm going anywhere Home Assistant in the near future.
Thank you, I am not ready for this yet but video is very informative and will help when I decide to move into this,
Great detail! I was able to setup the VM and start adding DIY Sonoff devices via MQTT in about 1 hour. I look forward to learning more from you! Thank you. Now I need to figure out how to make the VM have a static IP.
Like it! I’m a novice with home automation, but want some more control than what comes with HomeKit. You’re channel looks like it will be a huge help! Keep it up.
i'm only a year plus behind but dude you're making it infinitely easier for an old man to do all this shit :)
Thanks so much for this video, it's a great starting point for someone like myself who is about to jump head first into home automation. I am currently moving into my new home and bout a Raspberry Pi 3 to use as my Home Assistant hub. Once that arrives it'll be time to slowly add all the smart home products I've been purchasing over the years!
Found this over a year later.
Definitely would watch many in-depth tutorials ie setting up a tablet style dashboard or how to have a safe and secure remote connection to check things like security cameras or get updates.
Would be really cool to see how people collect data on efficiency type things like water or electric usage, renewables, or even making chores and tasks lists with reminders to ping the dash board as well as phone of those responsible.
Great video, helped me a lot, thanks!
Some notes from following this in January 2021, nothing serious:
- On Raspi 4, make sure you install the 64 bit image because the Visual Studio Code addon wll only run on a 64 bits OS.
- Web address is now homeassistant.local:8123.
- Visual Studio Code Addon configuration (turn off SSL) is not needed any more
- SAMBA addon: you need to set a password in the configuration now or it won't start.
Great updates, thanks! I'd also add that there is now a VDI image, so you don't need to do the VMDK download/convert thing.
You truly create the best videos! They are sooooo informative. I am however struggling big time with a project I'm trying to help my 17 year old with. Their technology teacher has set up an 8' x 20' house layout with doors, windows and all the furnishings. He picked the door card so he must monitor the doors. He must create a wireless network that will show when each of the 5 doors in their display house is opened. There are a few catches however. He's only allowed to use 433 Mhz RF to transmit, only the receiver is allowed to have a 12V power supply and it must have an LCD readout display. The last thing is the transmitters must have extended battery usage. I've been trying to figure out how to have all of the doors use a battery powered 433 Mhz transmitter and relay to a single receiver that can display if the door is opened or closed on an receiver LCD display.
The system would obviously have to go to sleep to conserve battery if the door is left open for more than a set amount of time as well as being in sleep mode when the door is closed. The transmitter would have to be ran on something larger than 3.3 or 5V since the doors could possibly be opened and closed quite a bit throughout the day thus using a lot of battery life. The teacher didn't specify how many times the doors would be opened and closed each day nor was it stated if they would be left open for extended periods of time or not. I'm thinking possibly triple A batteries?
He currently has the following components to work with although we are able to purchase other items as long as time to receive them allows.
- RF-Nano V3.0
- ESP8266
- ATMEGA328P
- Logic level bidirectional two-way four-way transformation
- 433 Mhz wireless RF receivers and transmitters
- Wired door reed switches
I know this was a lot of information, but I didn't want to leave anything out. Hopefully I didn't anyways. If you or someone could PLEASE help us figure this out my son and I would greatly appreciate it. I can't even count how many videos we've watched now trying to figure this out and the teacher really isn't much help to him.
Thank you!!
Robert I also wanted to mention that since I know this may not be something that you already have up your sleeve we'd be willing to send you a monetary donation that I'm sure we could agree upon if that would help. If you are wanting to help with this please feel free to message me. Thank you very much!!
One of the few videos I had to put on .75 speed, lol good stuff
Thanks for your time and effort educating us with your great videos!
You did a great job on this video! This was my 4th video and I was struggling to get things working on my windows machine. Very good detail, I had to use the pause button a lot as a new user, you move rapidly lol. You made this in January, and I'm already noticing some changes, so... Keep them coming.
Awesome man! Thank you! We are currently in a third world country - third world but very progressive. We are planning to build some low income temporary housing for university students and I said I wanted to add some cool tech touches to make them really enjoy it, make it somewhat luxurious for them. I am definitely going to be doing this, thank you!
Well done Rob! this is without a doubt the best video I have come across for beginners and your best video to date, fantastic work keep it coming!
"your best video to date". I don't think that's true. He dives into specific subjects very well.
@@Sholofly You are right he absolutely nails it on each video he releases, I merely meant best video to date from a beginners perspective.
Perfect timing!!! I just recently started thinking about deploying HA. Thanks for the video.
Great video, clear and helpful and good enough to give me confidence to give Home Assistant a go. Thank you for uploading this video. More content like this will be much appreciated.
Fantastic video! I’ve been using Home Assistant for quite some time now and learned so much watching the video and getting some basics I’ve been missing for a year or two! Thanks for filling in the gaps of what I needed! Oh yeah, still haven’t done the blind project yet, but I’ve gotten good with the 3d printer and getting closer to the blinds project;)
Thanks a lot for this excellent video tutorial guide! I had a close look, because I had (and still have) a problem with HA automatically detecting, adding and integrating my devices on first startup. Sigh, now I've got to get back to editing the config files.
Excellent video. It helped me enter the world of seamless automation.
Fantastic video. I am just started to learn home automation and I love your tutorial
Thank you so much for this comprehensive guide. One issue I had is that you need to increase the hard disk size after selecting dynamically allocated, otherwise you fill the 6gb limit, and are unable to update home assistant in the future.
I got an Intel NUC off eBay for cheap. I think it works well being quiet, small, but powerful enough to handle anything you need. Also I use a zwave controller so having it in a central spot is beneficial.
Thank you, your videos have helped this old nerd.
Just when I was about to give up this video came...Ty sir!!
Great video, amazing helpful content, just finish my setup, after the 5th try thing is working great .......
no words to describe it, fantastic !!! thank you thank you, mate! god bless you!
On the one hand, all that stuff you showed scares the shite out of me as a complete home automation newbie, but I love the fact that Home Assistant looks super in-depth and customisable. It's going to be an uphill battle convincing the missus that we need this automation, but hopefully I won't cock it all up!
Start small with non-critical services, once you get the hang of it you can up the ante.
Great vid. It was really helpful. Now that so many are at home. Great time to automate!
This is some next level parental monitoring!
Loved the pace & very clear. Great video.
Great video! Really concise and to the point, not a second wasted.
Definitely continue making these videos please!
I just set up home assistant in docker on windows. It was a pretty fun learning experience.
Finally a good comprehensive video on the install. I’m going to try the switch to VM tonight! Have you don’t the SSL video yet? I hadn’t found it.
Dude. You’re awesome. Thanks for your contribution to our planet.
Good instruction guide to begin with HA ! Thanks !
Loved the video and the fast paced way you provided all this usefull info
This was great... I'm looking for a video that just gives an overview of hass elements without the installation. This was helpful . But I had to skip most of it. I probably should rtfm hehe
Really helpful tutorial & instructions 👍
And timestamp bookmark is sweet!
Great video.
The best video giving the wholistic picture.
I have one request. The reason why I dumped this idea and went with only Smartthings was that I had to pay for Google assistance. Can you include this in your next video please... how to get it working without paying while making sure its always working and Auto-
upgrading
i'm just getting into home assistance, thank you butting together these video
You have me hooked on HA. I have a VM now and migrating most things FROM ST to HA. I have hundreds of questions, and you are right, a little bit of light reading to find the answer is all it took. You made a mention in one of your video's about naming things correctly. Where is that video? I want to review it and follow your guidelines. BTW, quite a bit has changed in Unifi, OracleVM, and HA since you made this. I had to do a bit of light reading to get out of a few jams during install over the past week. Again. Thank you!
Thank you for the video it has really helped me get started. Although I am struggling and part and parcel to this environment always changing so this maybe useful to others.
Setting up a VM
1. 64bit - I was only able to get 32bit I had to go into my Bios and change the Intel CPU to allow virtual this enabled 64bit in the VM machine
2. Hassio - I believe is now called Supervisor and will not be listed as shown in this video and needs a separate install process (This is the bit I am currently stuck on).
Thanks again for the video.
Excellent video, i don't want a dad like this guy. You will never fuck around with him.
Are you making an updated version of this as it seems many of the configurations have changed, not just in your video but many other ones. also, maybe a video for Homekit integration? Im having one heck of a time getting it running.
Yes, aiming for late January
@@TheHookUp I'm interested in the update as well. Thank you!