Home Assistant Basics - all you need to get started with a new smart home 

Just followed your guidance step by step and kept pausing, but it’s worked perfectly. Thank you for the video.

Great vid! Looking forward to seeing more!

Excellent video - very thorough!

Excellent video on basic home assistance, Very Informative.

Your videos are so well made :)

This video was amazingly helpful. Cannot believe it doesnt have 100x more views.

simple and sweet explanation..Thank you bro

Word of advice. Mute out the word "hey" when you say "Hey, Google". You were turning off and on my own personal devices. : )

Video is very helpful to many peoples thanks

Thanks Adam. Very interesting and useful. I have a number of questions but the one that's puzzling me is How do you get the data for Energy ie what is the source of the data for Solar? I'm a total newbie but I'm keen to get into it. Thanks

Excellent tutorial. I am new to HA and this helped me set it up on a Raspberry Pi 4. I have about 18 shelly units to switch various things in the house and garden but am unable to see them. They are all linked to my TP-Link Deco M5 mesh system. This is connected to a 24 port TP Link switch which is where the Raspberry Pi and modem are connected. I have tried the Shelly integration and tried putting in the ip address for one of the Shelly relays but they fail to connect. Do they need to be connected to the modem wifi rather than the mesh wifi. Be grateful for your help with this..

I just like this guy

Excellent video. About to set up HA. When HA detected for example hue devices, can you now go and remove your hue account, or do you keep both hue and HA environments? Could you in theory have disconnected from Hue and then started with their devices? Most of my devices are smartlife/tuya, some wifi some via zigbee hub, wondering if can disconnect everything beforehand.

Just watched your video: - Clicked on like - subscribed - ordered a Home Assistant Green - will get cloud subscription - will debloat my highly disfunctional Google Home and only keep speakers and displays to control some of the HA exposed devices and scenes. Automations will all go into HA instead.

Good one

Good tutorial! The only thing I'd recommend is when saying "hey Google" you might mute your audio and put the text or subtitles on screen. This video was making my Google speakers go nuts lol.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. How can I get that dashboard background?

@adam thanks for this video. I was able to get my Pi setup and running. So cool. I have a problem though. I have several Aqara devices and it doesn't seem to "auto discover". Do you have any tutorials to help add my Aqara devices? I am an Android guy so no Home Kit.

Really amazing and super useful video! just getting started setting up home assistant on my NAS so I can learn how to use it and deploy it for use in my off grid home. Quick question: where is your home energy and solar generation data coming from? Something like a Shelley EM? or is that a feed from your charge controller and inverter, etc?

This looks simple, HA installed ok but on my network I found my smart plugs were not supported and to get them to work looks like it requires some complex configuration at the least.

am thinking of creating a voice activated home assistant that can keep my reminders, home phone call logs and other things. now i see where to start.

Fantastic Video - just want I wanted to know, as was toying with what to do with a spare Raspberry Pi and didn't know much about Home Assistant. Now I do :-) Thanks. Quick Question - I have a Pi 3 Model B - How much is the minimum for the SD card ? Is 16 GB enough ?

Nice material. Really helpful and informative. I think this topic actually needs a few long format videos. 20 min would be just too compressed and skip useful things. Things beginners can get stuck on. I have a question for you. Do you know if a product that can be used to monitor if a non smart device is turned on. Something like a smart power clamp that can report when someone has turned on a fan for example. It could alternatively be a sort of relay but rather than switch a thing on it would just report if a line is live. Really interested to hear what you might suggest. Thanks again.

you are so funny. masking of that butt middle lining was super funny😂

If you love tinkering HA is for you. Not advocating for any of the technology out there to this date but there are much simpler solutions that don't require you to learn different OSs and command lines and such or have 10 adapters sticking out of a box to work. Most devices now a day work with other home assistants with different protocols and they are a lot easier to setup, of course anything depending on online/offline connections will have hiccups every so often but for the most part they are reliable to a degree. Just my 2 cents and I owe one to Uncle Sam! 😅🤣😂

Is that the micro as card that came with the raspberry pi? I got mine for home assistant but really can’t get an answer on if I should use that card and erase everything that came on it? I ended up downloading home assistant on an external hdd. So I still have the micro sd with the files it came with along with home assist on the external. I’m just not sure if I should try I don’t know

Good video for me (HA newbie) 1 thing I would recomand and that is installing HA on a SSD and not a SD. Raspberries are known to 'eat' SD cards.

Would a Raspberry Pi 3 work or do you need the latest model ? Thanks

a quick question, do i need smart devices in order to connect them with the home assistant, like your lamp there?

Very good video... One thing though... You should bleep out the "hey google" stuff so it isn't activating on everyone's devices. That was a little annoying.

okay maybe trying this on a raspberry pi zero w wasn't such a good idea. its been installing for 3 hours...

what is the power switch button used in the video ??

Gets stuck on Preparing Home Assistant. waited an hour only to realize that the pi was stuck in a Error 500 loop during discovery mode

Hi, I'm planning to move from google home to home assistant. All my devices are managed by their vendors' apps and linked to google home. Will they be recognized and managed by Home Assistant? Or should I unlink them first or even enter pairing mode? Thanks!

Is it possible to get integration with voice assistants without paying?

Setting up https would be a useful video I have found this impossible to do

Hello, what rasbberry pie ut has to be?

Very nice but the SD card will fail in a short time, and is very slow, you need to use an SD hard drive! For long life.

plz tell me Alexa integration for free

Tnx for the video, but you turned off and on things in my house, while I watched. Please beep out "ok google" in post production next time 😂

Can I use a arduino intead of a rasberry pie?

Basics? You imported everything from Philips Hue. How is that BASIC?

Unfortunately I had to stop watching this very well presented and informative RU-vid post due to the very loud fill music ... you have to turn down the volume at the spoken content only to have to turn the volume back up again to hear the great dialog. The difference between the dialog and the background is far too great.. Shame ... I'm not deaf.

Watch this if you can’t deal with Paul’s foolishness

Mqtt home

Nabu Casa should pay you

Disappointed in your video. Can you install it WITHOUT using a raspberry pi? I'm sure not many people want to go through all that by having to purchase those accessories.

Come on mate, mute the "hey Google" command, wtf?

Get rid of that stupid music….

seemed like good info video but I stopped watching after 10 minutes, really don't need to watch all the waiting time and BS. you have a way of explaining but sorry man, you are dreadfully wordy.

Maybe next time show more of what you are doing than showing you doing something. It's really annoying to see you talking but not seeing the screen instead. Voted down.