Ultimate Home Assistant Beginner’s Guide!

This is the ultimate guide to getting started with Home Assistant.

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0:00 Intro
0:38 What you need to get started
1:12 Navigating the UI
4:11 Adding devices
8:43 Connecting USB sticks
13:59 Create a custom dashboard
20:59 Automations
25:02 Scenes
26:00 Scripts
27:21 Blueprints
28:41 Add-ons
29:55 Rapid fire things to know
34:34 Wrap up
35:06 Message for spouses

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MUSIC
Rinse Repeat by DivKid

All of the music throughout is by Nihilore.

Ending song is The End by EVA.

[b_tang]

In all the years of seeing videos mention home assistant, this is the first one that made me actually consider using it.

[iiTzSTUTTA]

Who else has been waiting for this? 🙋‍♂️

[CaptMCFox]

THANK YOU!!! I'm an old geek and a lot of this is new to me. I've struggled with HA for years. I've learned more today then all my past research Will send this to many of my contacts THANK YOU!!!

[savrip]

HA! Thanks Reed. I've been using HA for years. I never realized I could turn off the pile of unused menu items in Profile Settings! That's why I don't always think I'm "past" a beginners tutorial. You can always learn something!

[gezci]

I finally decided to give HA a try. For several years I have been too imtimidated to. Following step by step along with your video I installed it onto my NAS. I am now taking first baby steps in adding automations.
Thanks for the help. The video, although brief was concise and easy to follow. I look forward to your next HA 'how to' video.

[HebrewHammer-exe]

What are the odds that I installed HA in a Docker Container last night just to mess around, and Reed puts out a beginner's guide to HA the next day? Get out of my head, sir! Great video!

[alfaromeo]

I bought the green when it came…. Unpacked it started It… start to cry and then locket it in the basement with holy water around it throw away the key….
So thank you for the time it took you to make this video, now I will try to start this project.🎉

[alexsoul]

Out of all videos I watched over the past few weeks since starting HAOS project at home, this one kills them all. I wish your next one will take you less than another few month... I need your brain and experience sir, you are true inspiration and outstanding mentor

[jbalgwik]

Absolutely perfect video for us in the starting phases of smart home and automation. Perfect level of detail and complexity. Looking forward to both more knowledge and videos! 👏🏻

[StarchOperatingSystem]

WOW, Youtube says 8 minutes, NEVER been earlier

Edit:
I just want to say thanks reed for helping LOADs of people including me with their smart home journeys, I love watching your content with stuff like automation ideas (i have loads of your ideas in my own install)

[mattpayne]

Wow I literally just started setting up Home Assistant 2 days ago and watched your video from 7 months ago where you linked 2 recommended videos on setting it up and was bummed you didn't have a guide and now here it is with perfect timing! Thank you!

[andymcdonald]

Perfectly timed! Just got my home assistant green and trying to get to grips with it. This video has been a great help! Thanks

[SilentDecode]

This video helped me setup a slick new dashboard for my existing HA! I was wondering how my friends were doing that.

And I laughed hard at the ad in the back of the video! Great sense of humor!

[NicklasLund-sv]

Complete rookie on HA here, so thanks you ever so much for sharing this! It got me started and I came further already, than I imagined.

[piotrjeziorski]

I'm using Home Assistant since 4 years in quite advanced fashion. Still Iearnt some new things from this tutorial! Thanks a lot Reed! Great job!

[felixantoinedup]

This video comes out at the perfect time for me, just bought my first home and am very excited to dabble into the world of HA. This makes me glad to know that I will have a flexible and scalable framework with Home assistant! Cheers from Quebec, Canada!

[thejayzed]

Loved that segment at the end with the wife advertising home assistant 😂😂

[aeroflack]

Hey Reed! Your videos are so usefull, thanks a lot. I started HA a few months ago but i was afraid to play with the dashboards, now watching this video i will give it a try a make a better one. Watching from Venezuela

[twocornell]

Hello there! I recently installed Home Assistant on a UXX mini PC and I was a bit unsure about where to go next. Your video made the process seem quite straightforward and less intimidating. I truly appreciate your efforts in creating such an informative and helpful video. Thank you very much!

[bassclef__]

Thanks for taking the time to actually go over the relevant parts of home assistant in a way that makes sense!