Home Assistant Setup Made Easy: The Ultimate Guide

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Are you tired of managing multiple apps to control your smart home devices? With Home Assistant, you can take control of all your IoT devices in one place. From smart bulbs and switches to robot vacuums and thermostats, Home Assistant allows you to easily monitor and control all your devices from a single platform. Say goodbye to the hassle of managing multiple apps and hello to the convenience of Home Assistant.
In this video, I'll guide you through the process of installing Home Assistant on your preferred platform - whether it's a Raspberry Pi, virtual machine, or Docker. Once we have Home Assistant up and running, I'll show you how to configure one of your IoT devices and set up a basic automation. This will give you a solid foundation to build upon as you dive deeper into the world of Home Assistant. By the end of this video, you'll have the knowledge and skills to take control of your smart home devices and streamline your daily routines.
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00:00 Intro
01:11 Home Assistant overview
02:23 IoT Network Infrastructure
03:55 Home Assistant Installation onto Raspberry Pi
07:39 Home Assistant Installation into a Virtual Machine
15:01 Home Assistant Installation in Docker
21:24 Home Assistant Initial Setup Wizard
22:41 Home Assistant Dashboard Overview
24:18 Adding Devices
27:31 Creating an Automation
31:58 Final Thoughts
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@greggem 8 ай бұрын

Such a great video. Straight-forward, step by step, instructions without rambling tangents. Definitely subbed. Thanks for making this!

@MayureshKadu 9 ай бұрын

This is my first HA tutorial - on a investigation basis. Gave me a good idea on what is involved. Can't wait to get started. Thanks!

@PatrickBaldwin1 Жыл бұрын

Such a easy guide to setting this up. Was able to get it running on a container in my qnap NAS with the information that you provided.

@johnwestby7913 Жыл бұрын

I love Home Assistant and have been implementing automation around my house for the last several years. I think one of my favorite and useful applications is integrating a Shelly 1 relay with my "generic" garage door opener. I largely went off of the leonardosmarthomemakers tutorial but I set up my reed switch to be at the "closed" position instead of the "open" position. At that point is was a minor tweaking of the yaml code to make it work correctly. To me a door that is 4" open is still an open door and it will notify all of our phone if it's been open for over ten minutes. Over all I've loved the various integrations to automate porch lights, Christmas lights, and various lights around the house for given conditions as simple as sunrise sunsets as well as more complex scenes dependent on the weather conditions outside to set the television scenes in the family room. I keep most of my stuff on an IoT VLAN and others on an NoT VLAN and then use Open VPN on Pfsense to access my network on the Internet. If I didn't have something like that then my garage door opener would be fairly useless. PS anyone looking for smart bulbs I really love the simplicity and cost of the WIZ smart bulbs. A lot of my setup have those bulbs. Everything else is a hodgepodge of hardware.

@RamirezGold 4 ай бұрын

Seeing the exact bluetooth controller like keyboard that I have, use and love, makes me realize, that I'm at the right place here and that this whole home automation and server stuff will become a rabbit hole for me.

@Phelper99 Жыл бұрын

Been running Home Assistant as a VM on my esxi system for maybe a year and a half. It's been solid. That esxi host is already running 24x7, one more lightweight VM was a-ok.

@bdhaliwal24 8 ай бұрын

Excellent guide. This is the second or third major piece of my infrastructure that I've gotten off the ground using the help you've been generously providing in your videos.

@kyledewaal9332 4 ай бұрын

What were the others?

@bdhaliwal24 4 ай бұрын

@@kyledewaal9332 Cloudflare tunnelling and your networking 101 series.

@jimi-w Жыл бұрын

I see there's been a few comments about this already, but surprised you didn't touch on SSD options! I'm running a medium-jank USB->SATA SSD option for my Pi4 Home Assistant, but there are also one or two neat Pi4 cases with M.2 slots and at least one board for CM4 which Jeff Geerling has reviewed. Much better than risking using an SD Card if you have a Pi4/CM4 to use!

@ericgonzalez9503 Жыл бұрын

The Unifi UFO you have on your desk is right on point!!!

@r000tbeer Жыл бұрын

I need this in my life! Thanks for the instructional video.

@Camwise Жыл бұрын

I've been running HomeAssistant on a rpi 3 b+ for nearly 4 years. It's been awesome. Started small, but now every single outlet, switch, window blinds, water meter, etc is all smart.

@ajcarrico1 2 ай бұрын

How'd you make your water meter smart?

@AndrewFroude 14 күн бұрын

Thank you. Excellent overview!

@MarkZabriskieUS Жыл бұрын

Chris, this video is gold to a new HA user like myself. I started testing HA on a laptop in a Hyper-V VM on my IOT vLAN. I've been looking at all of the more durable hardware options and was leaning to buying an Intel NUC and using Proxmox. While that is probably the best long term solution, your video showed me that a VM on Synology can be connected to the IOT vlan as a very reasonable first step.

@CrosstalkSolutions Жыл бұрын

VM is my preferred long term option.

@chrisumali9841 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

@Nopelken Жыл бұрын

I run HA Docker on our PI for more then 2 years now, without any problems. With a lot of devices and automations.

@StuartEdick 3 ай бұрын

Probably the best HA installation video I've watched. Your explanations, for why and what you're about to do--before you do it--should be adopted by anyone caring to put out instructive content.

@What_s_Neu Жыл бұрын

Great video! The home assistant rabbit hole is worth going down. I'd be interested in seeing what you have going for your greenhouse.

@user-cr4qt7ks1j 7 ай бұрын

Nicely done Long time HA user and you did a fantastic job explaining Hone Assistant

@dukeplc Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the Home Assistant community Chris. I know a guy like you is going to love it and I look forward to seeing your progress going forward. Get familiar with Tasmota, ESPHome, and Node-RED. I use Node-RED for all my automations and try to keep things consistent within my HA instance..... YMMV. I run HA in a VM on an ESXi bare metal machine.

@cranksv477 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for a great tutorial....it helped me a lot!

@david_does Жыл бұрын

This video could not have come at a better time. I've been tinkering with Home Bridge and think I am going to try moving to Home Assistant. 🙂

@shananedwin7085 5 ай бұрын

Loving the shirt and the vids, great work as always

@roccocontini 8 ай бұрын

Great tutorial! Congratulations!

@satshilrana7112 Жыл бұрын

I highly suggest NOT using an SD card for any RPi installs. You will 100% have a failed SD Card within a few months, specially with HA doing so much logging. I'd suggest getting a SSD->USB adaptor and running the RPi off of that. Steps are 100% identical, just replace the MicroSD with the external SSD.

@Tegneaufreak Жыл бұрын

2nd that

@EvilCob Жыл бұрын

Well. I bought a PNY SSD, and that sucker died after 1 year.

@satshilrana7112 Жыл бұрын

@@EvilCob Anecdotal evidence doesn't mean anything. Countless articles describing that MicroSD cards in Pi's die at an extremely fast rate with high i/o applications such as HomeAssistant. 🤔 Also most PNY SSD reliability articles show great reliability even after tens/hundreds of TBs written. You got a bad batch. Sorry.

@thewilltejeda Жыл бұрын

I had a pihole constantly get corrupt because of that as well. +1 for external

@fosterslover Жыл бұрын

I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 3 w/ MicroSD since 2017 without issue. The key is the have the Recorder purge regularly so your database file doesn't grow to multiple GBs.

@CodySuders Жыл бұрын

I own a boat. It doesn't get super cold where I live so rely on a bilge heater inside the boat to keep it from freezing. I worry the GCFI could trip and turn off my heater. I have a z-wave temp sensor in there and if the temp drops below 37 degrees it'll send me a notification and turn the hue lights in my bedroom on to an ugly color (since it'll most likely be at night when it gets cold). It saved my butt this past winter!

@robertthompson5908 11 ай бұрын

I have several raspberry pi 4 B’s. I put them in the GeekWorm Naspi case , it has a nice shutdown switch, PWM fan , which adjusts speed according to the temperature, and last but not least a SATA to SSD board. One of my pi’s runs off of a 2.5” 1TB SSD and the other has an M.2 SSD drive, also 1TB. If you’re going to run a server on a Raspberry Pi something like this is the way to go.

@ChristianBlueChimp Жыл бұрын

I just got started with Home Assistant, so this is a big learning curve. Couldn't find a Rasberry, so found an old computer, where I could install Ubuntu (never tried that), and from there install HA. It isn't as easy as installing an app on a phone, but just google calender needed a lot of configuration to get to work. It could be more user friendly, but I guess it has gotten better than before.

@roachmonk 3 ай бұрын

Yea I got HA green a couple months ago. Advertised as plug and play but definitely not user friendly lol

@ncbranker Жыл бұрын

Please add the cloud flair service sounds good

@Cessna_182 9 ай бұрын

Hello Chris. I love the videos you produce. Thank you! I have a DS920+ I wanted to install HA on. A concern not covered in this video is installing devices like Z Wave and Zigbee USB devices on my NAS? My NAS only has two USB ports, and from reading comments on some HA boards going with Docker in version 7, there may be some USB driver issues. People have recommended installing the VM that would handle the USB drivers much better. I don't have any machines on 24/7 to put VM on except my NAS. The other option would be to go with Raspberry Pi and call it good. Any thoughts on this? Could I use a USB hub if I had more than two USB devices?

@SmartHomeMakers Жыл бұрын

Great video!!!!

@rpinut Жыл бұрын

If you use Docker-compose and macvlan static adresses you could actual install containers on specific VLANs. I have a thin client computer, running Fedora Server, with 17 containers, over 5 diffrent vlans and a single ethernet port. In the MAC vlan config you easy give homeassistant one or more IP adresses in diffrent VLANs.

@marklewus5468 7 ай бұрын

A new comment about Raspberry pi reliability, now that they’re readily available again. I set up a pi4 4GB as a MagicMirror almost exactly 4 years ago, using a SanDisk 32GB SD card. It has run 24/7 since then without failure. It does an automatic backup to my NAS but so far those have been unnecessary. It has also survived many AC power failures with no SD card corruption.

@JonathanFunkhouseMonkhouse Ай бұрын

Great video. Very clear. Now I’m off to buy Raspberry Pi

@nexusasus Жыл бұрын

Great video, can you give a brief comment on where-how to put the Pihole on that IOT VLan. I already have pihole running on my main network. Cheers

@liammcgarrigle 2 ай бұрын

While i agree, when I moved I set up a temporary home assistant with an SD card. As typical, life happened and that became permanent. 3 years later. It's still running great on the same sd card

@wyomingcody Жыл бұрын

Tremendously helpful Chris! To address the docker issue when the NAS lives in the protected VLAN, would it be a problem to put the NAS in the IoT VLAN?

@Neeoooo 4 ай бұрын

You are awesome man

@TheUnofficialMaker Жыл бұрын

Well done.

@jerrythompson Жыл бұрын

I'd like to start with HA using Raspberry Pi, Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 Dongle Plus, and a couple of Hue light bulbs with no hub. I understand your concern about the micro SD however, you did a video a couple of years back about booting the Raspberry Pi from USB. I have an Argon One M.2 case and SATA SSD M.2. Is there a reason that this wouldn't work instead of the Micro SD?

@broj Жыл бұрын

Chris, any chance you could do a vid on getting ubiquity protect cameras to show in homeassistant in the IOT network from main LAN? I don't really want to have them on the IOT LAN specifically

@jeroenkrieger Жыл бұрын

Intel nuc is the way to go. You can get cheap new or used mini pc’s or thinn clients. Much more powerful than all the other options, so even when you add more smart devices and functionality to your Home Assistant there are virtually no limitations. Ofcourse in my humble opinion 😊

@MIsterB716 Жыл бұрын

Thin clients and Proxmox containers are the way to go IMO. More robust storage, battery backed clock, and power cables that aren’t waiting to come out. Raspis aren’t really suited unless you need the IO pins.

@jeroenkrieger Жыл бұрын

@@MIsterB716 exactly, even when you need gpio you can use a microcontroller at the location you need it.

@miatared 11 ай бұрын

Unless I've missed something (my apologies if I did) Very little has been said on Zigbee and Z-wave devices which require radios. In your 3 suggested ways of running HA, how to connect and which radios do you suggest?

@tonypreston6778 Жыл бұрын

Great video as always Chris, I have a RPI model 4B 4Gb model running Wireguard Server (set up from another of your videos 👍), can I dual purpose the RPI by running both WG Server & Home Assistant at the same time? the other two choices of HA installs you mentioned are not an option for me as yet. BTW, I'm not relying on the MicroSD in the RPI as I have a USB-SSD enclosure 😉

@naivedyasharma4512 3 ай бұрын

thanks it worked for me!!!!

@wolffInspector 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video very straight forward! Question Once I've sync all WIFI IOT devices to SD Card and Home Assistant and Created an account, Can i remove Raspberry Pi? or does it require to be plugged into WIFI Router permanently?

@chamilarobert6009 10 ай бұрын

Grate Video. Thanks a lot

@pivot3india Жыл бұрын

from security perspective which is better, hosting home assistant (using docker) on Synology or using home assistant yellow ?

@Theborg72 Жыл бұрын

ty fore the video. would like more if you could set up a dashboard for home assistance. I think this is a bit more difficult and what has made me give up on this project a few times.

@DavidM2002 9 ай бұрын

HA is available on the Synology NAS Application Center, Community section. In your opinion, is using Docker or a VM a better way to install or is that just a personal preference ?

@rodneywright2577 11 ай бұрын

I have installed a three way Meross wall switch and experiencing some problems . Installed just one . The light does switch on and off at the Meross switch. But at the other switch the light will some times come right back on after turning off the switch. Do I have it wired wrong ? Thanks in advance ,love the videos.

@ess2k456 Жыл бұрын

Doesn't the docker setup of home assistant have certain features missing in comparison to the hass os? Or is that no longer the case?

@amirmoradi9595 10 ай бұрын

For the issue of long term usage of the micro SD, you can setup backups of your home assistnant setup and then just restore off a new micro SD. I'm about to get started on my first raspberry pie home assistant setup

@Taylexwow 9 ай бұрын

You can also boot your pi off a usb hard drive instead an not worry about the sd card....better performance as well

@pax0707 Жыл бұрын

I’ve never took a dive into HA because everything I have supports HomeKit. Periodically re evaluating my decision

@qzorn4440 Жыл бұрын

A most excellent IOT video. 🥳 Thank you. Question # 1 can Home Assistant control the Orange Pi-5 GPIO PWM or I2C pins Question # 2 Can a Raspberry Pi can control an off the shelf Pan_Tilt camera like the WAAWO 4K PTZ Webcam instead of making a Pan/Tilt servo camera using Wi-FI or Ethernet?

@kasperhoejbjerg 7 ай бұрын

Hi Chris. Now when you have installed HA on a virtual machine on Synology with ip address in your IoT network, how to manage firewall rules if your UniFi cameras are on the NoT vlan and you want to integrate in HA? 😅

@Lifelogger Жыл бұрын

Would like to see how you access HA from the outside without using Nabu Casa. Please do make a video about it!

@ankitsingh-ip6db 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@313Renegade 10 ай бұрын

Can home assistant be used to shut down a udm pro, say during a power outage before the ups runs down?

@RugMncher 11 ай бұрын

Hello, im new to HA. I followed your steps and downloaded HA to my raspberry pi 4. is there any way to download pi-hole on the same pi? If so can you share any info or maybe youve already done a video on this. Thanks Love the vids

@matthewbourne7055 9 ай бұрын

I want to set up an always on device like yours, that i can set up a virtual machine for home assistant on as well as run video game servers on and have for storage. What hardware do you recommend?

@randomposterguy7097 7 ай бұрын

looking into getting Home Assistant setup, what NAS do you suggest for the job as of today?

@solucionesmat Жыл бұрын

it is possible to control devices, which are no longer supported by the manufacturer's applications? In home assistant

@BigART1791 Жыл бұрын

I can get myQ device seen in Home Assistant and can operate them from web GUI or ios App, but I cannot seem to get them seen in the Apple Home App. I was hoping to open garage doors with Siri instead of the myQ App. Any advice?

@zackaryvoss1619 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been struggling to get a running copy of HA without the use of a pi or Ethernet I can’t do much with hardware any suggestions on what I can do I don’t plan on to fancy automations I just wanna have a collective app that brings all my stuff together

@waqassadiq Жыл бұрын

Good.. How we can use any of our old pc to use as server for home assistant

@timothymason5545 Жыл бұрын

Do all three ways include the add-ons?

@kyledewaal9332 4 ай бұрын

If you want to run home assist locally on your desktop and just have pg&e send data to HA via their api is that possible? I more want an energy monitoring platform than anything else. Thanks!

@leecurcio6132 11 ай бұрын

I think overall home assistant is great, but there is an issue. Do you want to control the blinds? Then you need the blind Homelink device. Do you want to control ac? Then you need the ac homelink device. Do you want to open the garage? Then you need the garage homelink device. How many devices and bridges do you need to have? I think they should put on the market a device that detects RF or IF signals, and then a home assistant software selects what it is.

@blankcd1 11 ай бұрын

can you link to where you got that tiny monitor from. thanks!

@AceBoy2099 Жыл бұрын

Sorry to be a pain, but how about an overview of the VM install from scratch, for example, I'm running unraid so if I built a windows vm, how would I install it on there? Or a variation of the docker on unraid (if you know that even)?

@ksoonsoon Жыл бұрын

I love your work, your content and your presentation my friend. However, it would be great if you would upgrade your mic. You are so technically on top of so many things, shouldn’t take you much to find the right one to get the sound upgrade you need. Best of luck

@thermionicdude2044 Жыл бұрын

Hey Chris, what’s the story behind the map of New Zealand with your Lutron light switch 👍

@Hex-Mas 7 ай бұрын

the button click for on and off on the power cord causes low voltage warnings don't use any on/off switches.

@user-zq8cy1hi2p 6 ай бұрын

What if the product we want doesn't appear on the integration page and how to fix it? Are there certain conditions under which the product can be connected?

@Beelaim 2 ай бұрын

I am curious, would you set up a smartdoor lock into your IOT network, or into your more safe network? To me it sounds crazy to throw my smartlock front door in the IOT network. I have Guests, my Private network for our home ocmputers office and such, IoT network and a seperate network for my security. Would th door be on the security network or the private network?

@ralphbrook7321 Жыл бұрын

Does home assistant work with z-wave switches ?

@Logan-ml2dt 5 ай бұрын

If you have any automations already set up in for example Google Home will these transfer over to Home Assistant?

@alfher22 Ай бұрын

I have some Kasa video cameras and i would like to turn them to certain position whenever a door is open, doors have a Ring sensors, is there a way to do that with Home Assistant ??

@marktaylor1527 Ай бұрын

HA & Matter? I have HA and roughly a dozen devices - Tuya (Internet only), Shelly (Local only), TPLink, Wiz & Broadlink (Internet and Local) and Matter (Local - TPLink & Wiz). Came across your video on Secure IoT Network Configuration (which is excellent). Recommendations/update for Matter? There seems to be issues with Matter and VLANs & MDNS. And also specifically with Ubquiti. Any experience with Matter & HA?

@roachmonk 3 ай бұрын

If i set up HA Green in my current rental, but now I'm moving in a month, did i mess up? Should i have waited for the new rental to set up HA green? What can i do to get my HA green set up in a brand new home?

@tkoop Жыл бұрын

Great video as always! But Chris, the red icon with the three dots in your Chrome browser... Are you still using LastPass? 😳

@gigabit9823 Жыл бұрын

Earned a Sub just for the T-Shirt alone. Hail Cobra.

@TuhinBhuiyanWebDeveloper 8 ай бұрын

Home assistant I followed and installed on docker in Synology does not contain an Addons option. How does yours have? Please tell me how to activate it.

@aubreyblumsohn8707 6 ай бұрын

Exactly. I used the docker method and I'm ready to throw HA into the bin as it is unusable without any Add-ons at all - or at least so crippled that I don't care to use it. What a shame

@markloughtonUK Жыл бұрын

I had my IoT stuff on a separate vlan and all was working well but then I started playing with HA. I wanted my Google home devices to announce a message (text to speech) however it wouldn't work unless I enabled New state packets between the IoT network and the Default (main lan). Strange as normal chromecasting worked a treat beforehand. Also, HA couldn't control my TV (Samsung). Seems HA doesn't support TVs on a different vlan :(. Real shame special packets don't traverse vlans.

@lowcivicman99 Жыл бұрын

So do you have to set up the smart devices using the client UI first, then bring everything up in Home Assistant? I ask because one I'm not running HA yet but I love the idea and I want to. Thank you for the helpful video BTW. And two, I can't stand having an app for every single smart device in home home. It's like everyone has their own app and once you buy a smart device the company only sticks around for about a year.

@basscheutjens6612 Жыл бұрын

It depends on the device. Some devices are cloud only, so you have to setup the device in their app and HA communicates with the cloud. Other devices are local. My light bulbs for example use Zigbee and I just have to activate the linking mode by quickly turning them on/off a few times and they'll pop up in HA.

@ronanderson3884 4 ай бұрын

Only 3.5 minutes in and I already need an Internet/firewall beginners course. 😢

@AndrewMadson 6 ай бұрын

Love your Cat Cabling canvas in the background. Is that for sale?

@tomaszurbanowicz4737 2 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.

@GabiVegas-dj 6 ай бұрын

big like ' thanks

@bisnusikder1435 Жыл бұрын

Can a device be controlled from one country to another through the Home Assistant platform?

@halemotors4084 4 ай бұрын

Great video.i take it you need a lot of experience with raspberrypi to start doing this?

@klottiem8083 2 ай бұрын

how works a VM Is it a physically thing? or is it only on youre computer?

@antonioferreira3435 Жыл бұрын

Video with Cloudflare, please

@user-bh7uj 7 ай бұрын

I'm so confused, do you need raspberry pi for home assistant? Is it not just an app you can download on pc?

@Elemino Жыл бұрын

I need a thin client. It's on a SFF computer right now, but I feel like it's still taking up far too much space. I tried Docker before that, but quickly learned what Add-ons are, and the container died a suddenly and abrupt death.

@JamfSlayer Жыл бұрын

I have roughly 75 routines configured in Alexa, have you successfully tried to import those. Wondering if there is a hidden json or xml export to be able to easier facilitate the cutover. This looks way more reliable, secure, and responsive. Also, with Amazon seemingly slowing development, it worries me. This thing appears to update very often.

@JoshFisher567 Жыл бұрын

Home Assistan/Nabu Casat has called this the year of "Voice" and you may have noticed the new assist icon which on a phone you can still use a mic although that does use the built in voice controls. Personally I run Rhasspy which is all stored on my NUC locally, no cloud involved. Just a USB speakerphone hooked up to my HA server. You can also run satellites in other places wirelessly. Nabu Casa also hired the guy who wrote Rhasspy so I'm waiting to hear their solution for an echo like device that is 100 percent local, no cloud needed. I had to stop using Amazon Alexa/Echoes after I found out about Amazon Streets which build mesh networks via BT and 800mhz radios which is what Lora uses and Lora can reach up to half a mile. They also have no reason being in some devices outside of being used for Amazon Streets. Lora is a long range, low power, low data (like text) data transmitting protocol which is actually really neat when used properly and typically runs on ESP32's for low power. Essentially Amazon is building city wide mesh networks without building any infrastructure with devices you buy, all encrypted so nobody knows what they are really doing. using products you buy (that they own) including ring doorbells. It also uses a small portion of your internet without your knowledge although it's limited to 88kbos and 500MB/s of data a month. Say you have a WiFi light far away from your router and you use Alexa to turn it on/off, if your neighbor owns an echo or ring it will actually turn the light on/off using their wifi., Not yours without either of you knowing. All the data uses 3 layers of encryption and Amazon says it's for security and that they can't even see the data. Yet, they also say they will give data to law enforcement with a proper warrant. How can they give law enforcement data if they can't see it? I just don't trust billion dollar companies that collect data like this personally. It was more about the free software for all your data evolving to "we are going to use hardware you buy, from us to build mesh networks without your knowledge to make money" that was just over the line for me. It can be disabled in the Alexa app but they have been doing this since (in beta) 2019 and it went live last year so if you haven't disabled it in the Alexa or Ring app your part of Amazon Streets.

@dukeplc Жыл бұрын

The HA team (Nabu Casa) has reached a stage where there is an update monthly. They have a livestream each month to talk about the updates. I've been using HA since 2017 and I can tell you that the system stability is now unmatched. There is a large community that is growing everyday (glad Chris is jumping in) so finding a solution to almost any problem is a couple of clicks away.

@Ayrton5enna 6 ай бұрын

Agreed that "Turn Off Front Foyer Sconces" is a bit of a mouthful. "Outside Lights"? Meh. My preferred abbreviation would be "Turn Off FFS", personally.