A Gardener's Guide to the Home Assistant User Interface (with HA 101 basics along the way)

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This video quickly covers every section of the Home Assistant interface with emphasis on the parts I think are most important for Home Assistant gardeners. It also serves as a primer on how some key features of Home Assistant work and explains some important terms and functionality. The version shown in the video is the most common version of installation which includes the Home Assistant Operating System, Container, and Core (Raspberry Pi 3/4, ODROID, Asus Tinkerboard, Generic x86-64 (e.g. - Intel NUC)).
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0:00 Intro
0:28 Default Sidebar Tabs
1:41 File Editor Add-on
3:05 Developer Tools
6:03 Configuration Section
11:52 User Options

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@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Since I'm getting into Home Assistant stuff now in my build, I thought I'd make an up-to-date reference video that walks through the interface and does a super quick 101 on how stuff works and what I think is important.

@marvineis5525 2 жыл бұрын

I just wonder why you make it so inconvenient for yourself and don't just work in Home Assistant with Node Red :D

@andrewhadfield7754 2 жыл бұрын

@@marvineis5525 It seems as though HA natively has all the power for Automation that Node Red can offer (for projects such as this, anyway). I used to use Node Red but I dont think I will need to anymore - its nice to keep things simple and reduce number of software components

@paulvernon624 Жыл бұрын

This video is so underrated, your skill as a teacher is greatly appreciated, learnt more from this video than the weeks of messing around. Hoping from concept to concept and getting nowhere , superb , I would suggest a VPD controller build/setup tutorial or A plant management schedule guide. 11/10 Awesome , informative and efficient. Thank you Thank you

@Tehbom 2 жыл бұрын

Click and hold "Home Assistant" at the top left and let go after 3 sec and you get a wobbly menu. You can rearrange the sidebar and delete all the 'I don't use these' items. Great content! Excited to see your HA videos again.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Nice, I didn't know about the holding thing. I don't usually have those icons up but wanted the defaults in place for the video - I'd been accessing the sidebar editing wobbly menu from the user prefs like a complete chump. Any other 'lil tips n' tricks?

@kipuchino 2 жыл бұрын

Huh. I've been using HA for a few years now and didn't know that. Muchas gracias!

@Tehbom 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener That's about all I got unfortunately. Learned most the rest from you.

@SBinVancouver Жыл бұрын

Where have you been all my life?! Not a gardener at all and I've been fooling with Home Assistant for over a year now - this is the best overall introduction to it I think I've ever seen.

@whynotohwell 2 жыл бұрын

Dude. I found this channel an hour ago and I am immersed. You have done everything I have been meandering around, slowly doing over the past year. I am at the point where I am in the process of automating c02, cooling, reservoir management, airflow and temperature with a raspberry pi, and I was trying to figure out how to get that all accomplished when BOOM i found your channel. You have saved me so much time via the trail and error I would have undertaken. Subscribed and enrolled as a member, thanks!

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Home Assistant is the way, man. Thanks a lot for joining 💪

@MilestoneGarden306 2 жыл бұрын

Super cool and pretty informative. I've managed a few automations over the past couple weeks. One I really like is having notifications send to my cell for when my fans have been on for an extended period of time. Helpful to dial in the temp and humidity settings. Also fun to get a ding and tell people my plants are texting me.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Eh, nicely done!

@MilestoneGarden306 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener Hey, how did you track the days and weeks of a specific plant? I've got to the point of entering the dates and types but am stumped on the tracking of the time setup.

@andrewhadfield7754 2 жыл бұрын

awesome content. Thanks !

@dazegd3159 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the amazing content! Always alert for new videos in this series!

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@edicompean2990 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been searching for that template you have for target temp slider!! I have like 4 different automations trying to work at the same time to achieve target temp and humidity..

@KarlMiller Жыл бұрын

Great content. I was wondering where you learned about the relationship between all the components, actions, entities, helpers, etc.? I started with HA about two years ago, and have never found a good source of education about the architecture and data model for HA.

@wader669 2 жыл бұрын

Which library do you use for the MLX90614 sensor? Found 3 github repos but didn't get them to work

@kipuchino 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I would really like to understand your VPD setup you have there. I run home assistant for many things in my house, but also growing veggies similar to you. Is there somewhere I can look up how to build the VPD setup?

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I'm working on sharing it all in my garden rebuild playlist but it'll be a bit before I can get to the VPD sensors - I can tell you that I'm using a BME 280 for humidity and an MLX 90614 for IR as well as ambient temperature though. I put them on a little PCB and mounted it in a 3D printed enclosure that attaches to a flexible arm that I can point at leaves.

@kipuchino 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener Amazing. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I will look up all those sensors you mentioned. Am happy to wait for your videos as I'm always amazed at your setup. You have a great mind that you have put to good use. Thanks again for the videos.

@chill2night2sdaymars13 Жыл бұрын

What kind of sensor did the VPD use? Can I have a link where I can buy it?

@chill2night2sdaymars13 Жыл бұрын

could you plz Talk about using your graphs in kpa units.

@madeinastro5021 2 жыл бұрын

Do you know if an integration exists for Pulse One sensors? I’ve gone through a couple mode mcu’s and I’m tired of having to get new ones

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like there's an API for Pulse stuff so if you got your API key you could likely pull the info into Home Assistant, but it seems like you have to upgrade your subscription to get the key. Don't quote me on any of this because I have not tried to pull values in via HTTP.

@madeinastro5021 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener Alright, ill check it out and do some more research! I Appreciate the response! Thank you

@TTSWINC 2 жыл бұрын

Any chance you’re going to receive an Atreum Hydra 3200 for testing?

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I did speak with them about that light but am trying to finish up Home Assistant stuff before taking on anymore projects.

@sylvainrocca-serra3402 2 жыл бұрын

I've followed your video about using an ESP and an octocoupler to dim a meanwell driver, but i do have the weird light curve / range issue with gamma_correction: 1.0, with any value i must admit, i had this issue since forever, any clue to what might be happening here ?

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Have you tried reversing the dim wires on it?

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Also, is it a constant current driver, or CV+CC? You can just tell me the model number if you're not sure.

@sylvainrocca-serra3402 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener yup, only works in a certain way

@sylvainrocca-serra3402 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener HLG-480H-48B

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, yeah those CV+CC drivers are trickier because their dimming behaviour also depends on how much current the light wants from the driver. If, with no dimming applied, the lights are only using half the current that the driver can produce, the whole first half of the dimming range will do nothing. Look into “min_power” and “max_power” for the ESPHome Output component and try adding them to your config and playing with them to modify the range.

@bretthouser13 2 жыл бұрын

You should Zwave your house. I love my double press off on my porch light switch, to turn off all the lights in the house.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Totally. I really should show some love to my actual... home.

@bretthouser13 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener you have the skills. Just simple things like dawn and dusk outdoor light control is great. Sprinklers that check if it rained recently. Bathroom humidity control. Check out the Zooz 5 button scene controller you won't be disappointed.

@nathantron 2 жыл бұрын

I'm really struggling with ESPHome. I'm trying to write my own firmware using ESPHome so that it can do all the usual data reporting, and be configured via Home Assistant, but I want it to make "educated" decisions if the network is down. Do you have some time we could collab or talk?

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like quite a rabbit hole you're going down - I don't think I would be able to contribute much with the time I have available, unfortunately.

@nathantron 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener ok. I saw you use it, but I can't find anything online about how to do more advanced stuff. Everyone seems to use it to simply expose a sensor and that's all. Apparently there's more but nobody documents anything on it. So yeah. I'm kinda lost for sure lol. It's no problem though. Do you do anything special to secure your home assistant stuff? Maybe another video topic if you do?

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

@@nathantron maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re asking - you saw me use something like what you’re after? I believe you can build automations in the ESPHome yaml that will run even if the ESP loses connection to the network. Is that what you’re trying to do?

@nathantron 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener yeah. Exactly. I need the main one to be self sufficient in case the entire network goes down. It has a bunch of sensors on itself, but im trying to make it use other devices on the network for more data if they are available. Haha. My setups crazy.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Have you seen this page? esphome.io/guides/automations.html "...You could write an automation to do this task in Home Assistant’s automation engine, but ideally the IoT should work without an internet connection and should not break with the MQTT server being offline. That’s why, starting with ESPHome 1.7.0, there’s a new automation engine. With it, you can write some basic (and also some more advanced) automations using a syntax that is hopefully a bit easier to read and understand than Home Assistant’s."