Ultimate Guide to Starting and Growing a Smart Home in 2024!

Whether you're starting or growing a smart home in 2024, this video is packed with tips for beginner to advanced level!

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Getting started with Home Assistant

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0:00 Intro
0:09 3 Smart Home Goals
0:46 Controlling Your Smart Home
3:17 Your Smart Home System
6:23 Adding Devices
8:26 Automating Your Home
10:28 Smart Home FAQs
14:18 I'll never let go...jk

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MUSIC
Rinse Repeat by DivKid
All of the music throughout is by Nihilore.

Ending song is The End by EVA.

[SmartHomeSolver]

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[TheSpin]

I would LOVE a beginner guide to Home Assistant! We’re getting ready to move and I think it’s the perfect time for me to finally make the switch

[joaomensah]

Reed I'm generally the biggest fan of you and your family especially your home!I just implemented your smart home automation for distracting your kids here in my home in the UK I enjoyed this vide a lot and I learn much from you all the time Thank you for you and your family's work!

[onlyzach]

Yes, please do the Home Assistant tutorials! I've been wanting to get into it, but too scared haha. Good video as always!

[FlyingHellfish]

When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at I think of that a lot when I'm spending hours making automatons work just right, but the ones that are flawless are the ones with the highest approval

[reelrebellion]

You are describing what I have been calling in my head an "aware home", sensors all over to know what is going on, and then actions based on those sensors to make them "smart"

[Tommy_Tran]

Watching your videos started my rabbit hole of getting my own smart home! Thanks for all the content and tips!

[OdinsOdyssey]

Just moved into our new home that we bought and step by step I am building our smart home. I also work with sensors and conditions.

[firestorm]

Yes, i would love a beginner home assistant video. I am blind and just purchased a HA yellow kit and cm4. Going to be working on the install tomorrow and could always benifit from totorials to grapple how to get going.

[SamPhoenix_]

I used to be a Home Assistant purist, but have moved towards native HomeKit as a base for relaibility and simplicity and making sure those devices are either also Home Assistant integrated or Matter enabled so I can add into Home Assistant as well for Logging and more advanced automations.

Meaning even if Home Assistant goes down (and at least one AppleTV or HomePod is still alive) I still have basic control of my devices aut automations, but I might lose some of the nicer automations. It's a good compromise to get the best of both worlds.

It's also a lot simpler to just avoid WiFi devices when there is a good alternative availalble than having to diagnose the problems these devices can cause later.

[revx]

Great video as always Reed! One thing about WiFi devices; they usually rely upon servers that the manufacturer runs, and if they ever shut down, your hardware becomes uselss. I also just don't trust all the random fly-by-night companies to keep my data safe, and so going with local control is ideal IMO. But of course there are also WiFi devices that don't connect to an external server, I'm more amenable to that

[volcolby]

I totally agree that voice commands are just not great as the only way to control things. I think it takes some time and then some trial and error to figure out what you actually want and need your smart home to do. To that end, I like lighting and security as my first priorities. Thanks for the video.

[jamesmonahan]

Great video Reed. I would concur with all that you said and have done most of what you have suggested. It is much easier doing one room at a time as the whole home can get overwhelming. Be curious to see the HA tutorial and will watch for that on the other channel. Keep up the great work.

[AlfRobson-wetz]

Excellent video! Answered virtually all of my questions as I look to smart-ify the new house a bit.

[sundeeppatel]

Beginner Home Assistant video would be amazing, looking forward to when it gets posted!!!

[VisualReversal]

I love to tinker and node-red paired with Hubitat is perfect for that.

[stevenshircliff]

My family has PhD in home automation destruction as well! Hilarious! Wish you could have given Hubitat some love. Love my Hubitat and it's flexibility.

[monas.]

This is so helpful, Reed! I can’t wait to start tinkering with Home Assistant 😊

[reginaldwcooper]

This is the first time I've noticed someone mentioning visitors and setting your smart home to change routines when you have people staying at your house. Which happens often.
Thanks

[fearlesslionmedia]

I'm savings these videos to a Home Automation playlist as I gear up to get started!