Home Assistant is the FUTURE! Let me explain…
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0:00 Intro
1:26 Home Assistant is growing
2:29 Getting easier
5:19 HA + AI?!
9:01 Z-Wave is not dead
10:19 HA is the future.
10:56 Number 1 feature?
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Ending song is The End by EVA.
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Do you agree Home Assistant is the future? Let me know what you think👇
Have you heard of any issues with Home Assistant and certain network configurations or hardware? I have a TP-Link Deco mesh setup that I recently purchased. I constantly have internet issues when Home Assistant is running. More specifically, wifi seemingly drops out and nothing will connect to it. I've been running Home Assistant within a Docker container on my Synology NAS. These issues occur multiple times a day, every day. As soon as I shut down that Docker container, the issues stop happening. I've tested it multiple times. I shut down the container last week and haven't had a single issue with wifi connectivity since.
Do you think Home Assistant will ever charge for their software?
I had some ideas for dashboards. Like a shareable "Workshop" or even a Market type, where you can install templates for dashboards that comes with all the prerequisites needed to actually use, so all the "hacks" and Yaml etc. When the user boots up the new dashboard, each box of data present should have a box like "Set entity" where if you added all your sensors. If you give the dashboard the same sensor data = it should function as the original creator of the dashboard had it. So it becomes more an Interface type deal, instead of each user having to code own methods.
Thinking about switching over, now that ios18 allows for third party control center integration
Wonderful tool but way too hard to use. It needs to improve a lot on dumbing it down for most of us.
Just found this. Love it. When we first started the ollama project and pivoted from the ssh tool we were building we had no idea where folks would be able to take it. It’s so exciting to see this happen.
The more HA gets hyped and the greater the adoption, the more likely that it will be co-opted by one of the major tech companies.
I'm just starting out with 'serious' home automation. I've been using Google Home for years but in a minimal way. I initially resisted HA due to buying into its complexity hype–I wanted whatever I used to just make sense. I started with an Aqara hub since I wanted Aqara switches, but my lights are not Aqara. Then I bought a Hubitat hub, and while the HE can talk with many things, Aqara isn't one of them. I finally installed HA on an old NUC. At this point, my opinion is that Hubitat is easier to use and Home Assistant still has a significant learning curve. However, HA sees my Aqara switches and sees my Philips downlights. Home Assistant works with so much more stuff, in so many more ways. Everything has a learning curve and with time, I'll learn Home Assistant. But I'm not going to grow the Paul Hibbert Home Assistant beard. 🙂
Nabucasa needs to push with home assistant certification it can keep steady flow of money
Z-wave was never dead 😂…. Arguably the best protocol
Should I buy an assistant green today or is there some new version comming soon?
Just wish HA could talk with C-Bus
Ai Home assistant which is also the home NAS and media would be brilliant.
A lokal AI Box like a NAS today for all kinds of AI stuff running locally would be a massive game changer I’ll be happy to pay around a thousand dollars for such a piece of hardware. If there are enough useful things that support it. It would be great to be even more independent from all the smart home suppliers like Amazon and google and not have to rely on the things to tell us about what to do with our data. Add to hope to not shut down the servers for some things that we use in the smart home at some point in time when it’s more lucrative for them to sell new things continue services, and especially with this fucking subscriptions for everything.
I am so down for a local AI box. Yes!
I've now moved from SmartThings, to Hubitat , to finally starting into Home Assistant last week. I have to say, HA is by far the easiest to set up integrations. It's silly how easy it is to integrate things like my Ring alarm system, and my Sleep Number bed, among the easy things like Hue and Kasa.
However, Home Assistant is far harder to set up semi-complex automations. For example, cycling through different scenes with e single button on Hubitat is ridiculously easy, it has options for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd button press. I spent more than two hours the other day looking at helpers, scenes, automations and YAML code within HA and finally just gave up. I'll try Node-Red later, but for now, I have to keep Hubitat in place for some of my remotes that have such programming.
Just makes things much more complex. If I need more equipment and need someone to install it and get it running for me, I’m not interested
Okay you really need to put AI on the back burner. It just seems like a massive distraction. Focus focus focus on newbie ease of use, like super stone simple. Make it easier to set up than Smartthings. I mean right now it seems very much like a platform for power users and home automation hacker geeks. Which is awesome, but first of all you've got to get masses of users on board. And then make all that power available to them when and if they're ready. So I've been using smart things for many years and my h.a. setup is really simple, very consciously so because I have found that complex setups are just too difficult to maintain. But the lack of a truly customizable dashboard with everything on one screen, that is what her is really driving me to adopt something like home assistant. And I mean in the past I would be fine with downloading 6 or 8 different packages and do some command line stuff but I sure would much much rather not do any of that s*** I'm getting too old. I mean come on home automation is attractive really because people are lazy.
Hi guys, im planning to start my home automation. May i know the machine youre using for your HA server? What's the specs?