Getting Started With Home Assistant Yellow! 

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Not long to go now!

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Shipping times are absolutely abysmal.

Appreciate that, I'll try! 😅

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Haha not long to wait now!

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Thanks for watching - enjoy if you go for it!

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Thanks, glad it was useful! Hmm, can you migrate from the old coordinator to the new one directly without plugging the old one in?

@@EverythingSmartHome I tried a straight migration, but it was looking for the coordinator on USB and didn't 'see' the yellow's zigbee coordinator. I'm still on the 2022.9.7 core, so maybe this would be fixed in the 10.1 update I'm yet to apply or in the near future. I also had to uninstall and reinstall the Blutooth integration because of the change in bluetooth adaptor, but as I haven't made use of that integration yet, I just took the simplest fix. Now the new system has been running for 24 hours, I can also report it is running cooler than my old HA install on RPi4 in a Pibow with a Pimoroni Fan Shim. The provided heat sink in the custom case is keeping the CM4 CPU around 6-8 deg C cooler than the RPi4 CPU was in the same environment. Pleasantly surprised by that.

Me too!!!

You lose out on quite a bit using a container, with many functions depending on addons. I tried the same way for a while, in the end I just used a VM to get those functions back.

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This video describes how to do it :)

Your the real MVP 😂 thanks for watching!

As of October 2022 the POE version seems to have passed emissions testing. Amazing work from the Home Assistant and Nabu Casa team!. I believe the AEOTEC Z Pi 7 or the ZwaveMe Razberry 7 will also plug straight on the small header port to add Z-Wave radio to the Yellow if you need integrated Z-Wave rather than a USB Dongle.

It's generally advised to restore to the same version you have backed up from, as since the Yellow will download the latest Home Assistant on boot, then you should upgrade to the same version and then backup.

Just hope that your hue bulbs are still set up on the hue hub. If not, you will need to add them back using the serial number. That's the easiest way because the hue bulbs only go back into pairing mode when you delete them from the hue app so do them one at a time or the pairing may time out before you add them to HA using ZigBee (not the Hue integration) making you add them back to the Hue app again. There is also a way to put them in pairing mode but it requires a hie dimmer switch which I do not personally own. This was not fun, especially if you have a lot of hue lights but HA is so much faster for turning on/off lights then through the hue hub.

@@JoshFisher567 Thanks for the tips. Yes all my Hue lights are still connected to the HUE bridge. I will go one by one and see how it works. I have 50+ lights, 20 light switches, 5 or 6 dimmer switches. So it will be lot of work

Nice, enjoy when it arrives!

@@EverythingSmartHome Thank you Lewis, I love your videos by the way.

@@EverythingSmartHome thank you, just received today

What's harder to get right now is a CM4. It's impossible to find at the regular price. All sights say first quarter. 2023. Not sure how long it would take to get the yellow if you ordered now. I almost went for the POE version but glad I didn't because they had to go through a redsign. I did my pre-order on June 10th and my yellow just got here last week. Might want to check out the home assistant SkyConnect. Not shipping until December but a ZigBee/Thread USB adapter for 30 bucks is a heck of a good deal and you know it will work great with HA. If you have an older PC you might be able to set up HA on it. I haven't set up my yellow yet. Running HA on a 8 year old NUC but it's starting to act flaky. Neither of the video outputs worked when I installed HA 4 or 5 years ago on it so I'm surprised it has worked this long anyways. If you have a NAS you can run it in Docker but that requires a bit more technical knowledge for setup. I believe you can run HA on a pi4 using an SSD now, not 100 percent sure but an SSD will speed it up a lot compared to an SD card. You can get a ZigBee 3.0 USB adapter for 20 to 30 bucks right now. If you have an older PC that is not in use then you can download the x86 version from the HA website. You have to image the drive (I used etcher) then put it back on the PC so you will need some sort of adapter. After that turn it on. This is why I haven't set up my yellow yet. My 8 year old Nuc is 10 times faster then when I ran it originally on a pi 3 using the SD card. At the same time I know the yellow is going to work with everything without any issues so that's why I got one. I don't think they expected the number of orders they would get. Their crowdfund goal was 150K and they are over 1million now. I believe HA is now the second biggest open source project and it's been around for 5 years or more so it's not going anywhere. It's here to stay. If you have a spare pi 3/4 then you could just set it up to make sure it's what you want then order the yellow if it is. You want it hooked up to Ethernet. It works over wifi but adds latency also.

Thanks Declan!

@@EverythingSmartHome Is there any chance you might explain how to update homeconnect to the OAuth standard? or have you already done this and I missed it?

NabuCasa may be able to have some cm4 by the end of the year to ship the standard version, but if you have a kit, you’re probably right, it’s going to be a looooong wait to get a new Pi. Unless of course you want to buy a used one for $200+ 😳

CM4s are a bit tricky to find, but doesn't take that long if your patient, use a site like RPI locator - there is stock coming in more often than you think

@@EverythingSmartHome Been looking at ripilocator for ages for CM4 for my HA Yellow but haven't seen one in stock here in the UK.

@@EverythingSmartHome oh thanks, I didn't know this kind of tool existed. I see already low spec ones (1GB ram) will wait till better ones will be in stock

Haha good luck!

Thanks, appreciate it!

Love a good peel 🥰

You mean the CM4? Yes I believe all Raspberry Pis are made in the UK.

Hmm not in HA directly anymore (there used to be one), you would need to use a different benchmark for it unfortunately

Hmm I get what you mean, but the standard Yellow is literally plug in and go - if you decided to go for the Kit version then chances are you may be a little more advanced anyways. Video out would have been nice but I think it was a licence limitation (think you have to pay to use HDMI?)

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Yep that's right, identical!

@@EverythingSmartHome so no bootloader update or something? Thought that was necessary for nvme boot.

Did you make sure to use http or https as mentioned in the video?

Thanks for reply. Yes I did. Also tried both homeassistant.local:8123 and ip:8123. I bought the standard UK version.

Ok, I did a factory reset and now everything works like a charm! Thanks.

The yellow is a pi4 only with some additional options like on board M2 SSD. Its a raspi 4 compute model so just a raspi 4. Buy a NUC 10 i7 to get real performance. Running 7 Cameras with object detection on frigate with 40% cpu load. The pi4b will go to 100% cpu load with 1 camera object detection. I really don't understand why home assistant ever released this yellow. I must admit it's pretty good for home automation just like the normal pi4 but with cameras and object detection you should never go for this low performance stuff

Yellow has some nice advantages IMO like easily expandable storage (Pi 4 has this too of course but not as eas - yes it's still easy), as well as a built in ZigBee and Thread radio with Matter support whenever that happens. Compute Module should be able to be updated in the future when the new one comes out (not a guarantee but hopefully) Having said that, whether or not it's worth it for you is for you to decide - perhaps not if you already have a setup your happy with!

In what way sorry?

I'm not sure what you mean sorry, esp32s don't need to be plugged into the Pi for them to work with ESPHome

@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks for the quick response and apologies for not making myself clear. My Home Assistant runs on a Raspberry Pi 4. However, when I try to add an ESP32-c3 to the ESPHome integration (and I have a couple of ESP32 Wroom already set up), you go through the process of selecting the board and then installing. The process fails at this point. The error says a certain package is missing. According to posts on the internet, the ESP32-C3 is incompatible with Home Assistant because it is running on a Raspberry Pi.

I'm not aware of any limitations - if your running home assistant OS 32 bit then yes that could be a problem, you should switch to 64bit which should clear up any issues

@@EverythingSmartHome I am running it on 64bit! The nearest thing I have seen to a solution is "someone with same problem - response is build it on an intel/amd pc" which isn't exactly elegant. I'm wondering about shifting HA onto a spare laptop and junking the Pi. Anyway, thanks for your thoughts, really appreciated. Have a great weekend!

@@EverythingSmartHome ESPHome installer reads: INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/esp32-c3.yaml... INFO Generating C++ source... INFO Compiling app... Processing esp32-c3 (board: esp32-c3-devkitm-1; framework: espidf; platform: platformio/espressif32 @ 3.5.0) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tool Manager: Installing espressif/toolchain-xtensa-esp32s2 @ 8.4.0+2021r2-patch2 Error: Could not find the package with 'espressif/toolchain-xtensa-esp32s2 @ 8.4.0+2021r2-patch2' requirements for your system 'linux_aarch64'

Not natively but you can add it and make it completely discreet by using the Aeotec Z-Pi 7

Keep using website like RPI Locator to keep track of stock, there has been some popping up recently

Never needed one in 19 years of building computers personally, but if you want to wear one then go for it! 😅

@@EverythingSmartHomeYou never need one, until you realise that you needed one. My thought was really for the benefit of the viewers. Especially when handling stuff that is effectively irreplaceable.