15 Home Assistant Tips You MUST Do

2023 ж. 20 Шіл.
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In todays video I give you my 15 tips I always do when installing a new Home Assistant server, from settings and zones, to security and storage! These are my go to first steps for getting Home Assistant setup the right way!
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  • I have been watching your channel for the last year and I have learned quite a lot; in fact I am currently working on an Automation system for a special project car I am working on and youre videos on home assistant have helped me 'customise' for this project, thank you.

    @CaptZenPetabyte@CaptZenPetabyte4 ай бұрын
  • 0:22 General Settings 0:58 Zones 1:16 Dairy Liquid 1:43 Advanced Mode 2:03 Static IP 4:06 Enable SSH 5:15 Enable 2FA 6:12 Install Apps 6:57 Backup 7:31 File Editor 8:22 Create Areas 9:27 NAS Media Storage 10:10 HACS 11:10 Watchman 11:42 Remote Access 12:52 Enable Analytics

    @christianhinkel9251@christianhinkel92519 ай бұрын
    • Appreciate the liquid timestamp

      @checkedshorts@checkedshorts8 ай бұрын
    • my hero!

      @dablet@dablet8 ай бұрын
    • weiss nicht warum die das nicht selber hinbekommen.... ist doch sein job..

      @rolliseventeen@rolliseventeen4 ай бұрын
    • Thanks, the video should have had this

      @qfina@qfina3 ай бұрын
    • Thank you!

      @Alex090@Alex0902 ай бұрын
  • Just getting back into HA. This was very helpful to remind me of a few things, plus some new stuff. Thank you.

    @citizenq01@citizenq012 ай бұрын
  • Great video, I'm about to restart my HA journey during this winter (been off it for over a year), and this is perfect for a smooth installation👌

    @bennylloyd-willner9667@bennylloyd-willner96676 ай бұрын
  • Awesome Lewis. Thanks again for taking the time to produce such an informative video.

    @kombicruiser2658@kombicruiser26582 ай бұрын
  • Tailscale seems to me like the sweet spot for accessing this from outside the home. You don't have to open any ports and you leave your firewall guarding your home network, while still having full access to the HA. But thanks for this video, as a guy just starting out with HA there were several great tips in here I implemented right away. Now if someone could just explain to me why changing your home zone radius is borderline impossible, whereas you can easily do so on added zones, I'd be thrilled. Sometimes, the open-sourciness of the whole thing slaps you in the face, with inexplicable weirdness.

    @KimmoJaskari@KimmoJaskari6 ай бұрын
  • Great Video as always Lewis. Thanks for all your work here on this channel. Well timed for me as I am moving from a container install to full vm install of HA. There were one or two that I had missed. :-)

    @fredarmstrong6418@fredarmstrong64189 ай бұрын
    • Thanks for watching - hope the moves goes OK! 😅

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Thanks Lewis! I always look forward to and appreciate your advice and tips.

    @wscottfunk@wscottfunk9 ай бұрын
    • That's very kind, thanks 🙏🏻

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Perfect timing, I'm about to go down the HA rabbit hole. Thanks Lewis.

    @gerryf7015@gerryf70159 ай бұрын
    • It's deep and dark down here 😂 enjoy!

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Great video! I've been using home assistant for years and didn't know about Watchman.

    @LaneLarson@LaneLarson9 ай бұрын
  • Thanks for sharing. Very much education to soak in.

    @NotRubyTuesday13@NotRubyTuesday134 ай бұрын
  • Watchman, loving it. I really appreciate this plugin. Thanks for sharing it.

    @twizshiz@twizshiz9 ай бұрын
    • No worries, enjoy!

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Great video. All your items are good choices for a newbie list

    @WoottonRivers@WoottonRivers9 ай бұрын
    • Appreciate that! 🙏🏻

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Thank you so much Lewis! I always look forward to your videos. 😊Nice Shirt!!

    @junkins@junkins9 ай бұрын
    • And I always look forward to your comments Jamie! 🙏🏻

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Thanks for the Watchman suggestion, I hadn't heard of it until I recently saw a video from Mostly Chris and he walks through the setup. Watchman is exactly what I needed after a recent OS migration and addition & removal of some devices!

    @diedrichguenther401@diedrichguenther4019 ай бұрын
    • Glad it helped!

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Very informative video. Thanks!

    @igorburilo3937@igorburilo39373 ай бұрын
  • I am using argon one case for my rpi 4. Amazing thing for cooling and storage on rpi4 I just found integration that allows control of the integrated fan based on cpu temp while using HA. I do recommend

    @W0Ndr3y@W0Ndr3y9 ай бұрын
  • great video, fab explanations

    @brianoneill3244@brianoneill3244Ай бұрын
  • Great tips, thanks.

    @halooche@halooche7 ай бұрын
  • Great tips!👍

    @user-rd9kb6ox1v@user-rd9kb6ox1v9 ай бұрын
  • I love these kind of videos ❤

    @jaap7374@jaap73749 ай бұрын
    • Appreciate you watching and commenting ♥️

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Thanks for the watchman info :)

    @carlarmstrong1563@carlarmstrong15639 ай бұрын
    • Glad it helped!

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Super helpful, TY!

    @hhbadarin@hhbadarin4 ай бұрын
  • Great video! well covered! You mentioned backups, well, I can attest to that!!! I made a catastrophic failure in my proxmox nodes about a month ago, and due to that failure, the only way forward was reinstalling proxmox on my 3 nodes again, redo all the vm's, litterally everything. Now, when it came to home assistant, I had my backups, however, they where on one of the servers that bricked, so I had no choice but to completely redo HA from scratch. My own stupid mistake, and it took me from 7Pm till 4AM in the morning to get the house back up to a "working", but basic state. It was a nightmare to do, and even today I still clean up due to that disaster. I wouldn't have had any problem, if i just kept the backup off site, like all the others. Worst part, I had my zigbee network backed up, and it was off site, but it was the wrong zigbee config. It was the one from my apartment, not my house..... Anyhow, BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP PEOPLE, and next to that, keep at least 1, if possible 2 backup's off site, and reachable at any given time! I do now, but it was a very bitter pill to swallow...... Al always, great tips, great video, keep it up!

    @ReaperSilently@ReaperSilently9 ай бұрын
    • Oh man that sounds like a nightmare! I'm assuming it was a "over-wrote the disk array" or something sort of event 😞

      @AshleyGittins@AshleyGittins9 ай бұрын
    • Arg, sometimes you learn the hard way, but as long as lessons are learned, that's the main thing 😅

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • I found the Addon someone created for backing up automatically to Google drive recently, needless to say, that has saved my bacon on more than one occasion, messing around where I shouldn't be 😂😅

      @-Gadget-@-Gadget-8 ай бұрын
  • Can you go into more details about the back door entry possibilities in future videos, please? Thanks, Lewis!

    @toddtitson6734@toddtitson67349 ай бұрын
  • Can you (or have you) describe what is the recommended way to name your devices, sensor, automation, scripts, etc? If you don't do this right, it tends to get hard to find the right one, or you have several named similarly that makes it hard to distinguish what it is. Do you include the name of the location in the device? What if you then move it? Bedroom lamp now becomes sits in the living room. Temperature sensors, etc. How do you name automations/scripts? Without folders all automations are in the same screen.

    @PatrickBulteel@PatrickBulteel9 ай бұрын
    • That's a great question. I would like to hear Lewis' opinion on this

      @tolisl5013@tolisl50139 ай бұрын
    • I am trying to decide a scheme to rename all my devices.

      @MrLakridsbat@MrLakridsbat9 ай бұрын
    • @MrLakridsbat I am not consistent here, too. I would like to revise device naming some time

      @tolisl5013@tolisl50139 ай бұрын
    • @tolisl5013 I'm still in the process of setting it up, so most things still have their default names. I'm also just testing out a small number of devices, but when I go all in I want to have a solid plan.

      @MrLakridsbat@MrLakridsbat9 ай бұрын
    • I've sent a four character abbreviation for all my areas. Living room for example is, LVNG. Then a summary of what the entity is. Then it's purpose. So a button to turn on the main bedroom fan would be ”mbdr_fan_button”. The ZigBee outlet I use purely as a repeater downstairs is set in my downstairs area (vs a specific room) so it's dnst_repeater. Similarly I have upst_thermostat, offc_multisensor_humidity, offc_multisensor_temperature, offc_multisenzor_battery. That last one is important because every week I have an automation that fetches all my *_battery entities and if they are

      @elpeterson@elpeterson9 ай бұрын
  • Very cool, and some great tips. Have you tried any of the M5Stack gear? I know you've made the Ep1 with an ESP32 base, but I'd love to see a video on things like their M5Core (Or PM2.5 Air Quality Kit) and some of the nifty creations you could come up with for the built-in display etc!

    @josiahspackman8754@josiahspackman87549 ай бұрын
    • M5Stack stuff is pretty cool!

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Lewis, great video! I wasn't aware of Watchman - very useful! Is there any chance you can do a video explaining the benefits of Frank's SSH? I've now got both installed and working, but having read Frank's readme, I don't know what Mosh, or ZSH are, never mind their benefits!

    @bfitz58@bfitz589 ай бұрын
  • Thank you Lewis! for the information, Great video! well done i have some media issues and CCTV that i don't know they don't work for me is it possible to get you to have look at for me please much appreciated

    @adammourad1873@adammourad18739 ай бұрын
  • Awesome video

    @tonict2302@tonict23025 ай бұрын
  • Excellent

    @TheUnofficialMaker@TheUnofficialMakerАй бұрын
  • Again a great video! Very useful for beginners but also intermediate users. The one thing I would recommend is the following: Nobody in the community is talking about how to get your home assistant “neat”. You are talking about watchman but this only gives statistics and doesn’t “clean” unused sensors. I am not sure it exists as an application but this is something where a lot of people are struggling with, me included. Is this something you could help us with in a next video? You would be the first to post a solution for this pollution 😉

    @jddominguez@jddominguez9 ай бұрын
    • I'm not sure what you mean sorry?

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome basically I mean a “flush entities” or “cleanup” button/way to remove unused entities that have been unavailable for some time inside HA somewhere. The do’s and dont’s etc

      @jddominguez@jddominguez9 ай бұрын
    • Hello @jddominguez, I would like to add my 2 cents here, I don't think you can clean your home assistant using a single command or by clicking a button. You have to remove those unused sensors manually.

      @ihomewiz@ihomewiz8 ай бұрын
  • Great video, i've definitely got a few things to tick of this list. Perhaps install, next, next, next is not they way to do things😂

    @gedgicat2063@gedgicat20639 ай бұрын
    • 😂

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • awesome thanks 😊

    @philippeantonietti@philippeantonietti2 ай бұрын
  • great video thank you - do you know if it is possible to share a dashboard with some sensors for an extern user? so he can not see other things on his screen (sidepanel and other sensors and other dashboards)?

    @petersu2441@petersu24414 ай бұрын
  • thanks this video helped me to get a qr code for my gust uploaded to my ha wich i added to the mobile dashboard tot oral you did. now if someone comes over and needs access to my hidden guest network i just pull out my phone and say "here you go".

    @nottabandaid@nottabandaid15 күн бұрын
  • Thank you

    @davidmaye3580@davidmaye35808 ай бұрын
  • Thank you for the video. With regards to two factor authentication, do 'manual' integrations for alexa or google home continue to work?. Im guessing the end point will be blocked, and these will stop working?

    @juan11perez@juan11perez9 ай бұрын
  • Which addon can be used to clean the configuration of invalid or replaced devices?

    @FredSchmitthammer@FredSchmitthammer9 ай бұрын
  • Nice Lewis! Is you HA static IP on an IOT VLAN with other IOT devices or how is the general network setup, for Nabu Casa or other external communicatio - remote access, voise, etc. A video topic? Right in your wheelhouse!! A No. 16, might be defining a area/device/entity naming convention. It can get messy later if you don't initially think it through. No. 17 Documentation. Lots of new stuff all going on all at once. Days or weeks later, hard to remember what you decided or what all these similarly named automations do!!

    @gerryf7015@gerryf70159 ай бұрын
  • Thanks for the information. If you could add timestamps it would be great for further reference. I really enjoy these videos.

    @ChristianBlueChimp@ChristianBlueChimp9 ай бұрын
    • Timestamps would make this 10x more useful. Now it's just a curiosity, but with timestamps it's a reference video

      @74357175@743571759 ай бұрын
    • Thanks! Will add

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • I think a very useful video. Having a System location allows for separating system life support devices. I run 8 different HA hardware configurations . 2 local (dev and release) and the 6 remote. My concern for the future is the re-installing or upgrading to new hardware. Since moving away from YAML configurations I am wondering if there is anyway to do an auto installation. eg: using ansible or the like. At least to get the base installation to a leave where I can make the custom configurations needed for the individual sites. Any suggestions as I don't believe using a backup will allow me to restore the same backup to differing hardware. Thankyou for all the work and guidance you provide. Always appreciated.

    @user-gn2ll7ds9s@user-gn2ll7ds9s9 ай бұрын
    • You can indeed restore a backup to different hardware :) Ansible install would be interesting!

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • It's safer to setup a static DHCP reservation on your router versus setting static IP on a client. DHCP reservation will ensure the router doesn't give the IP to another device. Static IPs on clients can cause issues if you change your network topology or move the device to a different network.

    @SmartLifeEnthusiast@SmartLifeEnthusiast9 ай бұрын
    • Read other comments, discussed in great length at this point. I don't agree with you personally but as I said in the video, either is fine and it's not a big deal

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • ​@@EverythingSmartHome Always set static for devices like HA. Not only because I enjoy micro-managing everything, but because, in the past, on a few occasions, I've had one router fail, one after the other, and when these cheap chinesium routers fall over, I still have access. So I totally agree with static ip's on items I couldn't be bothered trying to locate on the network when I'm in a hurry 🤔🤷‍♂️

      @-Gadget-@-Gadget-8 ай бұрын
    • You could amend your starting and ending range that is handed out by DHCP, then manually set Static adresses on your IOT network devices outside of that range. best of both worlds :)

      @djjiff4234@djjiff42347 ай бұрын
    • Not sure what kind of router you're using, but it's pretty common that many vendors allow to bind a mac address to an IP address, know as Static ARP/NDP neighbour entry. DHCP adds a lot of trash packets in your network

      @rpg1663@rpg16635 ай бұрын
    • Or best of both world Give the device a static ip and set a reservation in your dhcp on that ip and bind it to the macaddress

      @Artropos@Artropos5 ай бұрын
  • I have found adding a second zigbee stick to be very beneficial as I have found the different branches support devices to different levels. Adding a stick for Zigbee2MQTT enabled extra features hidden by ZHA

    @Jaw0lf@Jaw0lf9 ай бұрын
    • I found adding another zigbee stick drops the signal level quite a lot. I might use another frequency: don't know if that should solve it?

      @GertStalpaert@GertStalpaert9 ай бұрын
    • You miss out on the benefit of ZigBee though - the mesh which gets stronger as you add more routing capable devices. Splitting a ZigBee network like that means more interference and more difficult to manage. But having both is handy for some things for sure

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • My instance seems to use the time from the browser. As an example my Tesla browser shows HA 8 hours behind the UK for the energy dashboard and i recall most, but not all, history graphs.

    @craignixon4468@craignixon44689 ай бұрын
  • Could you show us how to set up a UI adjustable timer? I want to set up a dashboard in the kitchen but I'm told that there has to be a kitchen timer for baking, I'm also told all receipts have different times they have to cook so just set automations for recipes doesn't work.

    @littlekools@littlekools9 ай бұрын
  • Greate video Lewis, when are you going to do a video on DIY ESP voice assistant?

    @jeremyohara6513@jeremyohara65139 ай бұрын
    • Thanks! Most likely when the features are more complete, a video at the moment would become invalidated as things change so fast right now

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome Can't wait for it. i would like to get away from Alexa, etc

      @jeremyohara6513@jeremyohara65139 ай бұрын
  • You mention it, backup, backup, backup. But what is (or are) the tool of preference ?

    @gerardschepers3744@gerardschepers37444 ай бұрын
  • I always use .254 downwards for static addresses and .1 for starting point for dhcp. That way if you need more static addresses you can reduce your dhcp range to give you more space. If you use early addresses for static you don’t have as simpler way to expand addresses. Using 1-10 you could run out then you’d have to do more faffing. Not saying you can’t do it that way I just find it more flexible.

    @davideyres955@davideyres9559 ай бұрын
    • It's not a bad way :)

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • Use a shorter lease time and it's not a big deal... If I'm making a relatively major change to how my network is set up, I don't mind waiting an hour for DHCP leases to expire and devices get told to use a different address.

      @tin2001@tin20019 ай бұрын
    • I prefer to leave the server IP addressing on automatic after configuring the IP on my router, this way if for whatever reason the IP you selected becomes unavailable the server will fail to another one rather just go offline and be uncontactable

      @harrybeechey7960@harrybeechey79609 ай бұрын
    • I do 1-99 as my static space and 100-254 for DHCP. If I somehow needed more than 154 devices I can always lower the starting number of the space. Though that's unlikely.

      @fjrichman@fjrichman7 ай бұрын
  • Backups are super super important. Sometimes it isn't even me that screws things up. Recently the zwave/zigbee maintainer changed SOMETHING and it completely screwed up all my wall switches. Not just me either, there were others in the same boat. Fortunately restoring the previous backup got everything working again, until the maintainer figures out what he did and undoes it.

    @gozirraizroose@gozirraizroose9 ай бұрын
  • Can a install image be made of HA with these 15 configs/add-on's ?

    @stebradbury6275@stebradbury62759 ай бұрын
  • Going through this as I'd just got HA set up with a basic configuration and was ready to poke at some more advanced things - I made an note to do the SSH and backup setup, and somewhere in the process of uninstalling the basic terminal and installing the advanced one, something goes wrong and hoses my setup (couldn't even restart it, and it didn't come back up after a hard reset). Don't be like me, set up your backups and troubleshooting tools *first*!

    @DumbMuscle@DumbMuscle6 ай бұрын
  • Be nice if that elevation option was placed after the measurement choice selection, and I didn't have to convert from feet to meters to enter that information. But that's probably just me showing that I understand that meters isn't part of the imperial measurement scheme except as an afterthought.

    @RNMSC@RNMSC9 ай бұрын
  • Another great video. When setting STATIC IP, can only one DNS be set?

    @bearhntr928@bearhntr9289 ай бұрын
    • You can separate them by commas

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Regarding HA Areas: If you've got a pre-configured HUE environment, you can just add this and it'll create the areas corresponding to your HUE environment. So you don't necessarily have to go the long way of actually typing it out.

    @GabrielOfGore@GabrielOfGore2 ай бұрын
  • The .local method might use a different naming protocol than DNS like NetBIOS, if I'm not mistaken the DNS system involves storing the records on a central system while NetBIOS allows each host to advertise their own name.

    @krisclem8290@krisclem82904 ай бұрын
  • Well, i tried to change address to static, i dont know what happened but tried to revert back to dynamic (where things were working perfectly at least for the 18 hours since i first started using HA), and now my ipad opens the app to a blank screen!? Will unplugging for a minute "reset" the razpie and HA? thank you

    @frankvet1@frankvet15 ай бұрын
  • Awesome video, set up a few things based on this video. Unfortunately VS code add-on isn't supported by ARM based systems like the Raspberry PI which is what I am using

    @joolz7890@joolz78909 ай бұрын
    • Thanks! VSCode is supported on ARM, just not the 32bit version of Home Assistant OS I believe. Not sure about Pi 3B either, but definitely works on Pi 4

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome so I just did a bit of digging. The raspberry PI 4 is indeed 64 bit, but apparently the default Raspberry Pi OS reports itself as 32bit. I used the official home assistant setup guide which installed Home assistant OS, so it would seem that whoever set that up used the 32bit version. Annoying!

      @joolz7890@joolz78909 ай бұрын
  • Hi ! I don't know if this the proper way to ask for help...so I am sorry for that. But : I try to build "a temperature sensors for Home Assistant - Wemos D1 Mini with DS18B20". Everything went well up to a point: I followed all the steps in the tutorial, I have information about the temperature in the console, I installed the latest version of Home Assistant... and, further, what do I do? Where can I see the address for Home Assistant?? I kept trying the data from the console... but I always get the message "Server or proxy hostname lookup failed..." so I don't know what to do next. I would really appreciate a helping hand! Thank you !

    @mk808android2@mk808android24 ай бұрын
  • i can tell I've been following your guides for some time 14 out of 15 ticked, everything except the analytics. i think I'd add node red to the list for those that like to visualise automation creation.

    @MrDead1975@MrDead19759 ай бұрын
    • Appreciate the long term following my friend! 🙏🏻

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • 14 out of 15 for me too... I hate 2FA... 😂

      @MrSupersidewinder@MrSupersidewinder9 ай бұрын
    • I like using NodeRed just for the organizational aspect. Instead of having a list of named automation to search through, I can have them grouped by categorical tabs and everything is laid out in front of me.

      @WarpedFlayme@WarpedFlayme9 ай бұрын
    • @@WarpedFlayme I really wanted to use node red... I'm on a docker setup and never could get it setup...😪

      @MrSupersidewinder@MrSupersidewinder9 ай бұрын
    • @@MrSupersidewinder Google 'hass node red docker' and you should find a nice write-up. Edit: my comment keeps getting deleted when I try to hint the url, but you're looking for a blog post from 2022 titled: 'Home Assistant Container Part 5: Node-Red'.

      @B-a_s-H@B-a_s-H9 ай бұрын
  • Hi, I run homeassistant docker on a pi4, it also runs my other services (nodered, bubbleupnp server etc), is it possible to migrate to home assistant supervised and keep these running, as on the website it says it should only run homeassistant and not anything else. Thanks in advance

    @novathefurry@novathefurry6 ай бұрын
  • Mint is my favorite flavor.

    @DragonSilverSky@DragonSilverSky9 ай бұрын
  • One extra thing for Areas. I noticed you use Outside (which I do too) for things like weather. I also have another area called "admin" or "ha" which I use to assign home assistant addons that arent related to a room (zigbee coord, hacs, servers, etc). And I also have a area called "phone" which I add phones to.

    @psylenced@psylenced9 ай бұрын
    • Thanks for sharing!

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • I do the same, it's quite useful to have a few "virtual areas" for things. Right now I have an Outside, Internet, and an Admin area. The Internet one has a bunch of stuff all dotted around the house, but it's all network-related (WiFi, switches, servers...) that logically makes sense together.

      @nate_river_@nate_river_9 ай бұрын
  • Can you do a video on huskylens integration?

    @tonymathew5618@tonymathew56189 ай бұрын
  • Nice.

    @kicksejaapie@kicksejaapie9 ай бұрын
    • 😆

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Add-ons aren't available if you are running in docker :(

    @sandmaster4444@sandmaster44448 ай бұрын
  • Hey Lewis, Could you do a video on best HASS compatible smart locks given the recent industry price drops?

    @domsuyang@domsuyang9 ай бұрын
    • Fwiw, I've been using Loqed smart locks for a while now, they're pretty solid.

      @B-a_s-H@B-a_s-H9 ай бұрын
  • Hi. I am wondering if Home Assistance have anything that would help me with design of my new house. I want to run as much of cables that I can and don’t want to miss anything. Please advise if any one knows smart home design software/app.??? Thank you.

    @GREGreg1@GREGreg19 ай бұрын
  • I'm a windows user and get "corrupted MAC in input" as an error when trying to use the terminal. How do I resolve this?

    @leehenderson7804@leehenderson7804Ай бұрын
  • Besides watchman, is there anything else you suggest to help diagnose why when HA crash? (HA is crashing on me randomly from time to time)

    @elmonte7834@elmonte78349 ай бұрын
    • It's a difficult one as so many variables - logs are usually your best bet if you can get access to them. Look for patterns e.g certain times of day or certain amount of runtime like every 60 minutes. Check basic things like you haven't ran out of storage and think back if you changed anything or installed something new when it first started happening. Good luck!

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Has anyone worked with wyze cameras? I would love to get the cameras streaming but i have read conflicting information. I just got HA installed earlier today so if I do figure it out I will comment here.

    @TheLostLT@TheLostLT9 ай бұрын
  • What is a reasonable straightforward way to get the vscode addon on home assistant that is running in a docker container?

    @steffie.morris@steffie.morris9 ай бұрын
    • Just deploy the vscode server docker image.

      @B-a_s-H@B-a_s-H9 ай бұрын
  • Corrupted MAC on input. ssh_dispatch_run_fatal: Connection to XXX port 22: message authentication code incorrect can you please help me out?

    @ANDREz69@ANDREz694 ай бұрын
  • how does this change if you go the docker route for something like say a CasaOS install? sadly, you do not have access to supevisor or addons in the CasaOS mode. It would be incredibly useful if you could cover that.

    @42_universe@42_universe9 ай бұрын
    • CasaOS has its own app store, maybe you can get them through there instead?

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • This video could really use some chapter markers!

    @bigbagofreeses@bigbagofreeses9 ай бұрын
  • Where did you get your area card pictures from please? Is there an easy resource ?

    @danjones3956@danjones39569 ай бұрын
    • Googled the rooms and picked like the first ones 😂

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Assigning static ip address on HA or reserving ip address on the router. There is so much conflicting advice as to what way is the best. Any thought? Great info by the way 👍🏻

    @kevinhenryviii@kevinhenryviii9 ай бұрын
    • Both will accomplish the same thing, but if you're going to have more than one device you want to have a static IP, it's definitely better to do it via DHCP address reservation. Then you have just one ventral place to manage it, making it much less likely you'll accidentally double-assign an address.

      @WarpedFlayme@WarpedFlayme9 ай бұрын
    • @@WarpedFlaymemakes sense. Thanks for the advice.

      @kevinhenryviii@kevinhenryviii9 ай бұрын
    • Both are fine, I prefer static slightly as if your router goes down you can connect a network cable from a laptop directly into HA (or another device) and get access to it without reconfiguring anything

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome That's true, but if my router is out, connecting to HA probably isn't a very high priority... It's also a much less common scenario than adding a new device to my network and assigning it an address. I can't imagine setting static IPs on devices without documenting it somewhere to have a reference, which is just adding extra work compared to using DHCP reservation (which is essentially self-documenting).

      @WarpedFlayme@WarpedFlayme9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome Thanks Lewis. 2 reply’s and 2 different points of view😂🤷🏻 Some more weighing up to do I think. 🤔 Thanks for all the replies👍🏻

      @kevinhenryviii@kevinhenryviii9 ай бұрын
  • You didn't mention backups enough ;)

    @blakadders@blakadders9 ай бұрын
  • Isn’t watchman already an oficial add on?

    @Danielo515@Danielo5156 ай бұрын
  • One thing to note is you want to get more than one "Request Timed Out" especially if you're running a network through Cisco switches. Some routers/switches have automatic port disabling when they're not in use. So, the first "Request Timed Out" is actually turning the port back on.

    @PatrickDickey52761@PatrickDickey527619 ай бұрын
    • True but I think the number of people who have Cisco switches and who are watching a beginner video and need help on how to ping is probably extremely small (if they exist) 😜

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome Good point. I guess I meant some other brands of home routers might do the same thing. Who knows what goes through the minds of manufacturers... I mean, I've had a Belkin router that bricked if you changed the Administrator password and enabled remote access before.

      @PatrickDickey52761@PatrickDickey527618 ай бұрын
  • Great list... #16 Your first automation should be a Historian/Recorder DB purge/prune. The one built-in to HA will let the DB grow to well over 3G at which point it will become randomly unstable and will self corrupt and will crash the system. A simple automation that runs daily to purge history items older than 10 days (or so) will keep the HA database under 1G, backups will be WAY faster and the system will be considerably more reliable. Not sure why this isn't built into the base HA system.

    @tomjones2860@tomjones28609 ай бұрын
    • Thanks! Hmmm, that number seems way off, but also it will be different for everyone, depends on how many sensors you have and their reporting time - there isn't a way to give a blanket statement of how large someone's DB will be. The default is to prune already after 10 days I believe unless it's changed

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome Yes, the HA documentation says that the Historian DB should self purge "Around 10 days" . However Without a nightly automation to force a 10 day prune my DB grew to almost 4G. I would bet the real purge is closer to 10 months not 10 days. Took me about 3 months to figure out what was going on. First weekly backups would sometimes crash the system. Then last June the system would just crash and "lock up" every day. Now with the 10 Day "forced" purge my DB is stable at just over a 100 Meg. and the System has been rock solid.. Also according to the HA forum this is a common problem.

      @tomjones2860@tomjones28609 ай бұрын
    • Never seen that before in all my years to be honest so can only assume it was a very temporary bug - documentation says 10 days is the default (not around just "10 days") and that's always been the case for the many installs I've done personally

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@tomjones2860 Are you storing to HDD or SSD? What you are experiencing sounds like what a lot of people encounter when running on SD cards (in which case, your strategy sounds pretty solid) but on a reasonable storage backend it should be happy for quite a few gigs. I changed to using postgres and timeseriesdb for my history and it's currently slugging around 90GB of history(!) but it was quite happy with 20 to 40GB or so back when I just used the default sqlite setup. (this is running on a VM in a server, not a Pi). If you're on non-Pi hardware and having these issues it might point to something else going on 😕

      @AshleyGittins@AshleyGittins9 ай бұрын
    • @@AshleyGittins My Pi 4 uses a 1TB Samsung SSD 980 PRO NVMe drive to hold the HA system (total over kill but I got it at work for free). It boots to this drive too.. NO SD card. It took weeks and weeks of frustration to figure out the problem. I turned off backups... figured I had a bad addon.. a bad automation,. bad hardware, cooling, power, Zwave Dongles, etc. I could not figure it out. Then I got lucky. Normally when HA crashed, the Pi was totally dead. Then one of the crashes. only crashed the front end and I could SSH into the system and see the logs... There were some cryptic messages about unable to recover a corrupted historian DB. Deleted the DB and it booted fast and was fine for weeks and weeks... Then I found in some old and obscure forum posts warnings about crashes triggered by >4GB historian DB sizes and the base DBMS. They recommend a "force prune" (or an better DBMS) and all was good.

      @tomjones2860@tomjones28609 ай бұрын
  • Are you wearing new merch? Nice.

    @craigmcgowan1984@craigmcgowan19849 ай бұрын
    • Hahaha!

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • I like that shirt. Where did you get it?

    @paulgifford7317@paulgifford73179 ай бұрын
    • Haha thanks, it was just a one-off one that Sarah made as a joke 😂

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • 1) Its unfortunate that HA does not support Multiple Time zones for correct date/time logging of those devices in different (time) zones. 2) DHCP Reservation are much better than setting static IPs in the device: You can see ALL devices and their IP addresses in one location (your DHCP Server) and can change them without having to edit each device individually 3) It is also unfortunate that Areas cannot be linked to specific Zones.

    @DaHaiZhu@DaHaiZhu9 ай бұрын
    • Why would you have a device in a different time zone? Trying to think of a situation where that would exist. Disagree regarding reservations - see other comments, discussed it in detail already

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome I think a fairly recent release introduced having a different time zone on your mobile device.

      @philip_fletcher@philip_fletcher9 ай бұрын
    • On servers you never change ip addresses. Never use dhcp for servers. Surprisingly some other people wrote the same in the comments. Can't get it at all. It's just totally wrong practice.

      @testbox3201@testbox32019 ай бұрын
  • About the Terminal, 4:30. If I search for "Terminal" I don't see the advanced version. I have to search for "Advanced", then I see it.

    @edgar9651@edgar96518 ай бұрын
  • Nice!

    @wpisdu@wpisdu9 ай бұрын
    • 🙏🏻

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • I find Zones useless unless one has paid for Nabu Casa. All my "Person" entities display 'Home' even when they are not. All the various presence trackers have issues, most related to battery drain.

    @eugsmiley@eugsmiley9 ай бұрын
    • I've never used Nabu Casa for remote access (do sub to support) and zones work every single time without fail

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome I stuck on how. I've tried many of the remote access options, but found them mostly lacking. I've had the best results with Tailscale, but I don't have unlimited data or unlimited battery, and of course there is SAF to contend with when the wife complains that her phone is suddenly dead 'for no reason'.

      @eugsmiley@eugsmiley9 ай бұрын
  • Im going to have to rewatch this one... Apparently my brain had trouble with the whole thing. I literally can only remember you saying "static IP address". I don't think I'm fully functional today.

    @tin2001@tin20019 ай бұрын
  • too bad network storage is not available on docker installations... i don't see a technical limitation why it should not work, given that my home assistant docker installation runs on a separate hardware from my HA instance

    @demorez5@demorez59 ай бұрын
    • If you're running your own docker containers then just mount the storage location in yourself - that's all it's doing in HAOS, afaik. Mounting a share from inside a container is tricky, so it's more easily done from the OS outside of it.

      @AshleyGittins@AshleyGittins9 ай бұрын
  • Ping isn't a foolproof way to find an unused IP, though. Some devices are set up to not reply to PINGs at all.

    @ollierinko9387@ollierinko93879 ай бұрын
    • Literally mentioned that in the video where I said "pretty much all devices will respond to ping but occasionally you will get one that won't"..

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome Must've missed that, sorry. I blame distractions!

      @ollierinko9387@ollierinko93879 ай бұрын
    • All good! 👌

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome when tyring ping, should you see output like "Request timeout for icmp_seq 0" meaning the IP is able to be utilized for static?

      @Jluseluse@Jluseluse5 ай бұрын
  • Which HA server to you install most?

    @shanebekker@shanebekker9 ай бұрын
    • OS for most people!

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • To be honest I dont think 65USD yearly is a small amount each year. This adds considerent cost to the smart house system, and compared to other paid services online is seems overpriced. At least it rules out going home assistant to save money on the open alternative. You could rather just get example a Homey Pro, enjoy lifetime access through the web an just use the money elsewhere(example compatible parts)

    @oleost@oleost9 ай бұрын
    • Why does it rule it out? Home Assistant is free, you don't have to pay for it, there is no features you have to pay for in order to get :)

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • I don't find zones useful for the simple fact that you can't have a device is multiple zones. If I want to for example turn off all my lights when I leave the house, I would have to call the service light.turn_off on all my zones, and then keep track of where they're used if I were to add a new one. As opposed to a light group, I can just update that as I go, target the group light.all_lights and turn them all off at once, and I only have one place to update it.

    @BrianRoy86@BrianRoy869 ай бұрын
    • Do you mean areas, not zones? That's only one way in which areas are useful though

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
    • @@EverythingSmartHome I do, my mistake. I haven't found a use for areas yet, although just in case I do someday, I tend to add all my devices to an area. I also don't use assist which seems to be the other thing you mentioned because I already have my alexas tied in with HA. I would love to ditch alexa for a completely local solution, but I won't be able to until multi room audio with assist is a thing.

      @BrianRoy86@BrianRoy869 ай бұрын
    • This is spurious logic for a single ‘all’ case. What about lounge lights but not dining room. Or all ground floor, or all bathroom sensors. It’s just easier to call up by rooms

      @JeremyCobb@JeremyCobb5 ай бұрын
  • Do the most basic of setup. Quite the tip...

    @some______guy@some______guy9 ай бұрын
    • It's a beginner video..

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Windows computers no longer respond to ping by default. It is blocked by the firewall that is on by default.

    @georgewilliams8228@georgewilliams82289 ай бұрын
  • No timestamps. :(

    @bsbsbspl@bsbsbspl9 ай бұрын
  • Ooops! No Add-on in settings 😞

    @johnhedge1429@johnhedge14299 ай бұрын
    • Do you have advanced mode enabled?

      @Raymond.Jansen@Raymond.Jansen9 ай бұрын
    • @@Raymond.Jansen Yes. I've done some more research since my post. I think it may have something to do with the type of HA I've installed. I don't understand why there are two different installations and why they have different capabilities though.

      @johnhedge1429@johnhedge14299 ай бұрын
  • You have a nice shirt... I'll... I'll see myself out.

    @pedropinto1778@pedropinto17789 ай бұрын
    • 😂

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
  • Setting static address is OK I guess but using DNS is much better. If you use the dns name it doesn’t matter what the IP is. This advice is questionable… Also enabling ssh is a security risk you didn’t warn about that.

    @PiotrKula1@PiotrKula19 ай бұрын
  • Dairy liquid? You mean cow juice? 😅

    @LeonJoosse@LeonJoosse9 ай бұрын
    • Is it cow juice or is it the popular washing up brand in the UK? Since Sarah wrote it, who knows!? 😆

      @EverythingSmartHome@EverythingSmartHome9 ай бұрын
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