10 Reasons You Should Be Using Home Assistant

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More and more smart home enthusiasts are making the switch to Home Assistant - here are 10 reasons why you should too! In this video we are covering 10 pro's and reasons why I think Home Assistant is the best smart home platform out there at the moment.
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@Akonerz 2 жыл бұрын

i really love your lovelace dashboard, is possible that can you share to me the code and theme to replicate some parts of your UI on to my personal HA, i really apreciate that, thanks!

@tivoo 2 жыл бұрын

Look up lovelace ui minimalist. It's great.

@chrischy 2 жыл бұрын

Ohja, pls share =)

@yba733 2 жыл бұрын

Pls share (:

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

I hope to at some point for sure!

@Akonerz 2 жыл бұрын

Please hit the up button , so maybe he share with us a video with de how to ;) folks

@DIYtechie 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Completely agree with all of your reasons for choosing Home Assistant. Another although less important reason for me is costs. My smarthome kicks every off the shelf smart homes’ ass, but costs less than half - and even works with HomeKit.

@jamegrabham9992 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, you did a great job...I have been using HA for the last 2 years. Still a "work in progress"...The learning curve is huge. I need to do more with the community to help increase my knowledge...:)

@SuspiciousCrow 6 ай бұрын

Awesome videos. Actually I've built my first nas years ago with your truenas video. An got into learning about linux distros and commands (had to learn shell thanks to plex plug in not updating sometimes). When it comes to smart home and automation your channel is first go to. Thank you for the videos. ❤

@J-D248 Жыл бұрын

Subscribed! Thank you for not saying "Alexa"! So many creators just blurt it out with no regard of people watching. I don't even finish their vids, lol.

@mariocastelhano6375 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice video with a lot of inputs for the newcomers. I just which that I had so much information when I started. 😊 Now we need to stabilize the solution, maybe with something like an LTS version. I have two installations in two different locations. The one that is more than 50 km away, I barely touch it and it works like a breeze. The one that I have at home, there is something to do, almost every night. The anxiety of the update results are killing me. 😂 Thank you for your support and fantastic contributions. All the Best and Take Care.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Haha I get it, at least updates are much more stable these days IMO! Thanks very much, hope you are well!

@ygdiget4119 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Could you do a video on setting up that beautiful minimalist dashboard? I don't see much (if any) content on minimalist on KZfaq and a tutorial on setup and configuration would be greatly appreciated :D

@MathieuB05 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. After watching a few of your videos it was an easy decision to subscribe. Cheers and keep up the good work!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, appreciate the support 🙏

@Kevin-rf9sx Жыл бұрын

I am just starting out with home assistant coming from Alexa. I've got so many ideas. I like that it's local and highly customizable.

@bazanime 2 жыл бұрын

Just finally managed to find a way to run HA on existing hardware. All this after a few stumbles, trawling through jargon-filled forums, and some trial and error. It's working fine and is very basic. I'm still learning to set up automation. I like the dashboard customisation. I'll still run HA in parallel with my Amazon and Smart things set up so I have the best of all worlds. I have 4 years' worth of automation on the other two platforms, and I am not turning them off. HA will compliment them as there is no reason they can't run together as long as there are no conflicts. I'm sure as one gets more proficient with HA over time there will be more than can be done, but for now, it's just a new part of my smart home family. Cheers for the vid.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Of course no problem with that at all for the time being! Cheers!

@streetwiztech5505 2 жыл бұрын

YES 5:33 !!!!! it finally got the recognition I've been waiting for !! oh yeah and the rest of the video is great too ! Totally agree with all your points, For me the speed is top of my list.. It really bugs me that the work bathroom pir light switch that takes a second before it turns the lights on... my bathroom pir sees me opening the door and the light's on before i walk in there. I know a second doesn't seem much.. but seriously.. sometimes every seconds counts !!!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! Agree, nothing worse than slow motion lights!

@alpachino468 Жыл бұрын

If I may part some advice: If you insist on not having your IoT device controlled locally, make sure that you create a separate VLAN segregated from your main home network for these devices.

@WoottonRivers 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I think you've summed up Home Assistant very well

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Geoff!

@ReaperSilently 2 жыл бұрын

Number 5 is the reason I got to HA.. :D Great video! keep it up!!

@rodneysmith1750 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed your closing reference to "the dark side", you present a great set of reasons to use HA.

@EverythingSmartHome Жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

@Ittiz 2 жыл бұрын

I use Domoticz which has all of that stuff as well. Domoticz is to HA as Linux is to Windows. HA has much better compatibility and support, but with Domoticz if you want to do it and it doesn't work you can probably make it work anyway as long as you can get over the steeper learning curve.

@tonymathew5618 2 жыл бұрын

I'm planning on getting a atomberg bldc fan with IoT enabled, but there no integration for this brand in home assistant, is there a custom integration or a custom way to add it?

@SMGGM 2 жыл бұрын

I love the mixing of different ecosystems and the very broad support. I love being able to use my very old Logitech Squeezebox (an internet radio which is not sold anymore for years) and create automations on it (turn on lights). Amazing that I can mix IKEA lights with a 10 year old internet radio. You can truly make all these things work together.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

👌 nothing better!

@jesseparbhu6125 2 жыл бұрын

This might be a stupid question but I'm a new homeowner, my home came with some control 4 features. Is this better than control 4?

@GarySmith-cp8mp 2 жыл бұрын

What home assistant device do I need to get started?

@ruicosta3094 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video. What do you think about making a video about running Home Assistant offline for security reasons and with an independent way of connectting it remotely if needed?

@schrodingersmechanic7622 Жыл бұрын

I use wireguard to remotely access my machine. Mine is running in a docker container on a Linux machine. Look up pivpn, makes it really simple to configure. Then open that port on your router and optionally set up a free dynamic domain name service to point at your home IP. Provided you use good encryption, it's very secure to just open the VPN port.

@IdroneDad 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I have home assistant running in a raspberry pi 3b, but can't see my eufy camera's, and I have 2 hub's a smart things for ZigBee and a Philips Hue for lights, I considered to replace the raspberry for a nuc and the smart things for a conbee 2 to run local all the ZigBee, what do you think, any recommendations? Thanks!! Great channel and great videos, always something new to learn

@mohammedqutu8088 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I have lots of eufy cameras too and afraid if it doesn’t work on my raspberry pi 4. I’m new to HA and recently got all the hardware to make a home for my HA. Will it work on Raspberry pi 4?

@danielducu Жыл бұрын

Looking at your dashboard How did you hide the native dashboard navigation ?

@Lamp512 2 жыл бұрын

Can you go over how to install the Minimalist Dashboard for Home Assistant? it looks great on your phone, and i installed it, but theres a lot to learn about configuring it. I can't get any colors to show up!

@coelhone7 2 жыл бұрын

Was about to ask the same!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Will see what I can do! 😅

@chrischy 2 жыл бұрын

Please =₩

@jontrapp8133 2 жыл бұрын

Where do I go to get everything in my home assistant app to look like yours?

@larrybear08 Жыл бұрын

Hi. When do I disconnect cloud accounts? After connecting devices to HA or before? Most of my house runs with Smartlife, wifi and ZigBee, so do I connect everything to HA and then can I remove my Smartlife account?

@jeffrey3205 Жыл бұрын

Where can I get home assistant? Can I use both z-wave and zigbee together on home assistant?

@MrTohtoriR 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. However. What if we turn this upside down? HA is great we all know it. You can do what ever comes to your mind but there is a need to understand and to be able to design your system in a way that it would be as little effected of the possible changes on the updates as possible. How to reduce that risk!? I have just recently had to figure out some issues that came with the home assistant updates. Would be cool to have a video for this topic. My suggestions are. 1.Stay away from HACS 2.Stay away from HACS 3.Stay away from HACS I'm sure these are not what you would pick for :)

@MrTohtoriR 2 жыл бұрын

so how to secure minimum maintenance after initial setup. I'm sure all of us have had to explain on the phone how to reset something to the wife :D

@abrahamzak975 2 жыл бұрын

Nice info. Could you please point me out on how to get started in learning HA

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Lots of videos here!

@74357175 2 жыл бұрын

That was fun! But in a "you should use X" video it's really important to say compared to what? You mentioned so mmmm e alternatives, but for such a big investment as home automation, it would be great to quickly run down the other options at each stage. That would make the argument for HA only *stronger*

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Future video perhaps!

@RJMaker 2 жыл бұрын

This!

@unasistent 8 ай бұрын

Hi.i run my automations with alexa,and thinking to try home assistant but i have few questions.After i set home assistant can i delete all the various apps that control the devices ?i vave many tuya.magic home,smartlife smart lights..etc...shoukd i delete my account linked with all this devices?.and can i still controll my automations via alexa? I have a eero router and cant do any other settings for private network or to separate my 2.4 from 5 .

@FemiOsinowo 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this lovely video - and I love your dashboard. Do you mind sharing the yaml file? I just started using Home Assistant this week , I have been struggling to get something this nice on.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Hope to get something out at some point!

@FemiOsinowo 2 жыл бұрын

@@EverythingSmartHome thank you!

@tivoo 2 жыл бұрын

Lewis, great video! You mind sharing your mobile dashboard config? Using Lovelace UI Minimalist integration as well and looking for some inspiration. Thanks mate.

@danillll08 2 жыл бұрын

that also caught my eye, yes please, if u can share the mobile dashboard!

@DavidCostawr 2 жыл бұрын

Subscribed to that request

@vulvamare 2 жыл бұрын

yes, do it human, share your wisdom with us

@danillll08 2 жыл бұрын

Aside from the theme, If I tried to guess, he used kiosk mode to remove the sidebar and navigation bar and many of the cards are links to other tabs.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, working on it!

@MrGatya2 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! I totally agree with you. I think Paul Hibbert's "HOOME ASSISTANT!" hip thrust doesn't emphasize enough how great this piece of software is. My boss's "advanced smart home system" that he paid a lot of money for cannot do things my "shitty Rpi" can do. Regarding Nabu Casa, as a network engineer I could have bypassed paying for the remote reachability of the server with ddns, but for 1. it is sooo easy to set up and integrate with voice assistant (just could not bother with it) 2. the price is really reasonable, and wanted to support the development for HA.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

I agree, Nabu casa is great!

@cerietke 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video 😊. I'm currently on standalone Node-RED. This initially came to be because it would run on my underpowered hardware, where HA would not. This is no longer an issue. I've often heard HA and NR are a great match, but what exactly would it offer me? I'm open to the idea of switching to the combination, but every time I take a look at HA it just feels like a hassle to get anything configured as I don't know what is located where. I'm sure I could figure it out, but then I am still not entirely sure what I gain in addition (except maybe more integrations, but generally if it works with HA then NR could work with it the same way and I can buy equipment that just works with NR anyway). Not to bash HA, it always looks tempting, but curious if others made this particular switch and what made you do it / what did you gain?

@TheHellis 2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say the gain depends on your needs. There is a few things I think HA would make easier for you. Some things like heating doesn't need much configuration, all the automation is done for you. But I doubt anyone knew where everything was in HA when they first installed it. Keep in mind that HA needs time to understand and learn how to use so don't give up to soon.

@cerietke 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheHellis To be fair Node-RED takes time to get working too. But what are those things HA makes easier? I understand that I might get more devices working out of the box, but I am fine getting things working myself whether it needs MQTT (M5 Stack/Tasmota), HTTP calls (MyStrom), Telnet (Denon), terminal commands (my data backups and keeping the music on my phone up-to-date) or some format I am not yet familiar with, if there's no NR node for it yet. What would I gain that goes beyond the device integration?

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I think it comes down to which style you prefer and makes more logical sense to you when creating automations

@TheHellis 2 жыл бұрын

I think it's not only automations. With HA you can build your own devices fairly easy using ESP-Home. You can integrate your phone both as a trigger and an action. Meaning you can either trigger on settings or you can send settings/actions to the phones. I have a bed sensor in ESP-Home and HA monitors my phones alarm time in the morning. When it rings it gives me a few minutes to get out of bed, if I'm still in bed then it sends a new alarm to the next minute, then checks to make sure the alarm got set (if not tries again). When the alarm goes of the second time it gives me one minute to get out of bed or it repeats the actions above.

@FloWmo619 2 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@DJBuell Жыл бұрын

It never completes setup on a brand new Ubuntu/Lenovo PC install. Same story on a brand new Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. Looks like a DNS issue. I'm sure I'll get it working someday, but for now, I don't have 20+ hours to spend troubleshooting 'out of the box'.

@EngineerK 2 жыл бұрын

My only issue: if you sold your home tomorrow, what would you do with all your improvements?

@mrxmry3264 2 жыл бұрын

i finally managed to get my paws on a second raspberry pi and i got home assistant working, but now i have a problem: how do i set my home location? i can get to the map, and i can scroll and zoom to my location, but how do i actually tell home assistant that that is my location? right-clicking does nothing, left-clicking does nothing, clicking and holding does nothing... so how do i do it?

@oscargr_ 2 жыл бұрын

Question. You say one reason is that it provides "local control" Now if I buy for example TP link smart switches... They come with their own app, which I think means that the actual switching is done through their servers? (You click button on the app, app connects to TP-Link server, which replies with a command to the switch??) I understand that with home assistant I don't use the TP-Link app, but how does HA get/make/send the command to switch on or off back to the hardware?

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, I think I mentioned in this video (or might have been a previous one) that it depends on the devices that you buy, but you should buy local devices as well as a local smart home platform.

@oscargr_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@EverythingSmartHome ok.. thanks for that. Will need study more. I just finished installing (older version) of HA on an (older) unused Synology. Lots to learn...😁

@trykris 2 жыл бұрын

I recently moved house and i was using duckdns to access the homeassitant. Unfortunately as the ip is changed due to house move im unable to change Ip address or change duckdns setting on configuration.yaml as im unable to access homeassitant through UI. Any suggestions please

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Hop in the discord I'm sure we can get you sorted

@coin777 2 жыл бұрын

3:10 That's not true i had many unanswered topics needing help on the forum and no one replied.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately sometimes questions can be accidentally missed or no one knew the answer and was online at the time - there are a few different places and communities you can ask on!

@TheHellis 2 жыл бұрын

And there is a lot of questions that is poorly asked which makes people give up before even trying to help. Make sure your questions are posted with enough details that it's perfectly clear what you want and how you want it. Questions that is opinion based is also generally not answered. Such as one posted a few hours ago "what is the best device?". Nobody can answer that question.

@martylynchian8628 11 ай бұрын

Would you say this is better than xlobby?

@madspacepig 2 жыл бұрын

Ironically the systems that usually have little selection and are always cloud controller ARE the critical ones. Good look finding a good solar battery/inverter system that isn't cloud!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Not something I've ever had to look for yet!

@dusantodorovic8936 2 жыл бұрын

Hello mate,can u please do video how to make mobile dashboard like your 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Working on it!

@alexisfernandez8552 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, what will be the easiest way to start using home assistance, doesn’t matter the budget, I had try it two years ago on my computer and it was difficult for me to set up?

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Give it another go, things have come a long way!

@alexisfernandez8552 2 жыл бұрын

@@EverythingSmartHome what will be the easiest way to install home assistance or should I buy the unit itself?

@millionandbell7779 10 ай бұрын

how is everyone getting around google devices 'connected' sounds?

@markjones7719 2 жыл бұрын

How do I buy home assistant

@emf9 2 жыл бұрын

Only issue I have had is with notifications for my doorbell. It's saying errors about it's unable to connect whole playing my doorbell videos. Can't figure out why. Otherwise HA is awesome.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Which doorbell?

@emf9 2 жыл бұрын

@@EverythingSmartHome using the amcrest 410 with frigate and the frigate blueprint for notifications.

@mrxmry3264 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if there is an LCARS UI for homeassistant...

@SliphRahl 2 жыл бұрын

Yes please, I need it to!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Haha I'm sure someone has attempted it!

@Bruno-vz8vk 2 жыл бұрын

I'll love to have a new video about the play media fonction... Especialy how to stop playing 😅

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

What you wanna know specifically?

@Bruno-vz8vk 2 жыл бұрын

@@EverythingSmartHome I tried the fonctionnality, and it works incredibly! But impossible to stop the streaming. It should be interesting to know how to stop of course, but also how to use it with Node Red (demos only shows home assistant automations), and what are the possible sources and the possible receivers. Should be nice to show dynamicaly cameras when someone ringing, someones in your garden after the night, etc...

@FRYN81 2 жыл бұрын

I am using SmartThings Hub and meany IKEA tradfri products. I would like to Switch to home Assistant. Can I use my hub and my IKEA tradfri products? I need another hub?🤔

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

You can indeed!

@MajorWedgie 2 жыл бұрын

You should've humped the air and yelled "Home Assistant! Home Assistant! Home Assistant!" as a tribute to Paul Hibbert ;)

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

😂 I'll leave that to Paul!

@tamvu640 2 жыл бұрын

Does HA work with hubitat?

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like there is a community made integration for exposing hubitat devices inside of HA!

@ahmadsaeid 2 жыл бұрын

I have a question: when/how do I stop automating? I miss the old days when I was an oblivious "civilian" 😥

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

You. Never. Stop.

@jslade5180 2 жыл бұрын

How timely given that Insteon's servers have gone offline and Insteon Hub LEDs have gone red.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, an unfortunate reminder

@csgrabben 2 жыл бұрын

What dashboard is it at 9:14?

@csgrabben 2 жыл бұрын

Nvm found it, it's "Minimalist"

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

It is indeed!

@prebenborg 2 жыл бұрын

10 good reasons. Discord is though the most impolite place to get help and support. Sometime you think you are wasting your time promoting Home Assistance when the ones you promote it to might risc getting kicked in the balls in the Discord channel when they seek support

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

You can always join the ESH discord server!

@tomaszurbanowicz4737 4 ай бұрын

The most important disadvantage is that home assistant is not free like smartthings. I was used to turning on the lights using Alexa, which in home assistant you have to pay for. Home assistant is hopeless compared to smarttings. Examples: sometimes it shows that the lights are on when they are not on, sometimes the thermostats are offline, then after 2 days they are online, Motion sensors sometimes work and sometimes they don't work. I thought it would be faster because it is local compared to smartthings - it is not. I am disappointed with how it works after watching videos praising the home assistant. I think most of these videos are sponsored.

@Thamli 2 жыл бұрын

Tell that to Paul Hibbert 😅

@EverythingSmartHome 2 жыл бұрын

😂

@Joseph-ko2kl 2 жыл бұрын

🤣😂🤣

@headmanager5432 Жыл бұрын

Hey dude. Just looking out for you, I think you may need to visit a doctor. Your gasping for air and might have to do something with your blood vessels. Family relative has the same symptoms. It is indeed not normal to gasp that much for air brother. Hope you take care