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My name is Jimmy (obviously) and I make videos about tech and lifestyle, among other things. I'm sure you'll find something you like here, so please consider subscribing and enabling notifications so you don't miss any uploads 😀
Jimmy, I need to hire a home assistant consultant to connect remotely to my HA and help me add Aqara devices. I have spent a great deal of time on this and have been unable to resolve it. Do you have any suggestions?
Cool... But i'm left wondering how. Could you share the scripts used? Did you need to destroy your walls to feed wires for the tablet or how did you manage to mount that? Most interesting video I've seen on smart-tech to date. Thanks
Theme looks great! however I def wouldn't call this a full setup guide as stated in the thumbnail. There are quite a few custom sensors and components on yours, like the pending update sensor or the sheet change reminder, that I really wish you went into. Could be a video idea there for you. Still, nice job on the walk through to get us all started on this dashboard!
Hi Jimmy, I am completely new to this area and this is the first time I am trying to set it up my home assistant and it is not without errors. I have tried to follow your video step by step, but for errors every time, maybe you can help me, the error that comes is : Custom element doesnt exist : grid - layout. Hope you can help me and maybe have some good ideas.
Hello, and thanks for the video. I followed the different steps and I when I select the Dash and error "Custom element doesn't exist: vertical-layout. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? thanks in advance.
This is definitely not an ultimate guide! It’s not even an ultimate overview. You can’t even learn a single thing from it how to make a lightbulb switch on and off
You completely left out how the RPi connects to the device. You made a very quick reference to the router, but we need more info. Where do we get the router? What if the router only allows a certain numer of connected devices, then what do you do? Also, will HA work with all my pre-existing devices that i already use with my Alexa system?
I have a galaxy Tab A7 and have setup most of this working well but the buttons are to large and means I need to scroll down to see the second row and the footer. this is doing my head trying to adjust... any tips?
Amazing dashboard. managed to configure most of it to my satisfaction. And this was easy enough even as a Newbie HA user. Thank you so much! I got a question on the Sheet Change counter that you're using. How does that work? does it increase by 1 day every night you don't change it? What does the Reminder On or Off do? I already created a counter and boolean toggle, but i don't know how to make the counter increase each day .
I have alexa, google products, random things like the humidifier, the robot vaccuum... I just want it ALL under apple home. What's the easiest method to get them all synced into one spot? I'm not up for messing with code and such!
Either Homebridge or home assistant if you already have it, for HA use the Homekit Bridge integration and it'll port almost all your entities into Homekit even if they weren't originally compatible.
Great video. I was hesitant to jump on Leon's dashboard even though I love, but you've inspired me to build it and customize it. A side note: if you want your camera to show live footage at all time, change the camera_view to live (in place of auto) under your card configuration.
How is that something for beginners? I was already out at the moment you mentioned raspberry something (?!) What the heck is that? This whole smarthome thing is something for nerds (no offense)
Note: The combination of bastardised YAML plus Jinja templates for scripts and automations is an abomination to be reckoned with. YAML as a configuration language is fine. YAML modified to simulate a programming language is appalling. YAML "language" incorporating Jinja scripts would only impress Heath Robinson. ChatGPT can be your friend in trying to find the correct form of alchemy. HA has it strengths: As HA is apparently written in Python, the best the maintainers could do moving forward is to supersede the existing programming environment with a system of Python plugins. Anyone with even modest programming competency is advised to bypass the native programming environment and go straight to either NodeRed or Python (AppDaemon + Python, or PyScript). NodeRed is probably easier if you have any fluency in JavaScript - it has the advantage of being event-oriented, which is a fair match to HA under the bonnet.
Hi May I ask question for example in my barbecue area I have smart switch if I put wall dashboards inside the house can being controlled from both thank you
Great information. May be you can a video where you can utilise old phones as smart display per room. Ie kitchen , living room can just have a old smart phone attached to a wall and only shows devices in that particular room. Now a day can buy cheap second hand phone and tablets. Also lots of people have old phones which are good enough as display.
Depends. iOS devices tend to not have as much control over the software as androids do, which is important for something like a wall dash. Not to mention androids are a good bit cheaper too, I was able to get my fire tablet on prime day for only $75. That said, if you have an old iPad laying around and can find an app that keeps the display on and let's you show a HA dashboard, it could definetly work. It just comes down to how you want it to look and what features you want to have access to.
Same over here--looks like there was a breaking change with the new HA release. I'd keep an eye on this community thread, hopefully someone can come up with something: community.home-assistant.io/t/rounded-dashboard-guide/543043/555 I'm not too great with css so I don't expect to be able to fix it myself 😕
@@itsmejimmylandry I had the same problem since the update. Fixed it by adding .graph .footer { order: 3; } below .graph hui-graph-header-footer { order: 3; } in Rounded.yaml.
Hi Jimmy, I’m planning to upgrade my bedroom like this as well. I already have a raspberry pi 4a to start with, and a kindle fire 7 as a wall display. My question is: do I need a zigbee bridge to connect sensors and lamps. How did you connect your devices? Would love to hear from you
I still use Siri; if you do decide to switch, just keep your devices connected to Homekit and also connect them to HA, that way you can use Homekit for voice control and HA for automations/other stuff. Or, you can send pretty much all of your HA entities to Homekit with the Homekit bridge integration. HA does _technically_ have a voice assistant, but its still being developed and not very fully featured yet.
