Master Home Assistant: Step-by-Step Blueprint Tutorial

Blueprints are a powerful feature in Home Assistant to create automations. In this tutorial, I will explain how you can create your own Blueprints in Home Assistant. This will help you to quickly and easily create multiple automations that have the same functionality, but use different devices or entities

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:19 What are Blueprints in Home Assistant
00:02:02 The Blueprint use case for this tutorial
00:02:18 The Automation for this Blueprint
00:03:53 Why using call service instead of a device action in Home Assistant?
00:05:06 How to install Studio Code Server in Home Assistant?
00:05:32 How to create a new Blueptint in Home Assistant
00:11:00 How to refresh automations created with Blueprints in Home Assistant
00:11:19 Test if the Blueprint works

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[SmartHomeJunkie]

Let me know what you think about Blueprints in a comment! Are they 👍 or 👎?

[vimvigour]

The explanation about using the service call instead of entity was very helpful.

[ChuckLambros]

Fantastic explanation of how to create blueprints. You are always my go-to for learning how to do new things in home assistant. Your tutorials are always spot on and understandable. Thank you SO much!

[jmr]

I don't remember having any videos to help when I made my first Blueprint. Very nice video!

[bartmulder]

Thanks Ed! When something looks intimidating in HA, I first go and look if you have made a video about it. Your explanations are always very well paced, and I love how you zoom in to the code where necessary. Many others don't do that.

[HoistCrew]

Another quality explanation from a junkie that is far from junk!

[donaldhoudek]

Congratulations on 35K, keep going.... Great video!!!

[alexrobles]

I love this tutorial. Thank you. I just wish it wasn't so manual as I had a hard time remembering every step.

[neilstewart]

Really good tutorial 👍
I've ignore blueprints up till now as it wasn't obvious how to use them, but now anymore!

[RobvanKoningsbruggen]

This tutorial comes just on time, was planning to change/replace the automations for my motion triggered lights now i know they will be replaced with blueprint based automations so i dont need to fix 4 automations every time i change something in them.
It gives me also the insight to look at some blueprints i downloaded witch are not working just like i want it.
Downloaded the blueprint from this tutorial, is a good starting point for me.
Thx Ed

[pensionado]

Thank you, as always, "illuminating"

[denishempel]

Nicely explained and shown.
Your English is easy to understand even without much knowledge of English. Keep up the good work.

[logelienhartfamille]

Merci ED j'arrive a comprendre ton anglais, tu parles lentement et tu articules très bien. En plus les vidéos sont super bien faites!

[sevagjb]

Nice Ed, its very handy video Thank you 👌

[youtubxkip]

Very clear and informative! Looking forward for some hints regarding variables in a blueprint. I'm trying to dim the light before turning it off by motion sensor, so I have to store it's original brightness in order to restore it later (otherwise it turns on to the latest, dimmed level). Will appreciate any hint to existing solution or to variables tutorial.

[johnnynobels]

Great tutorial on how to create Blue prints. Thank you. Question: How can you enter a list (input select) of color via a Blue print.

[frankkloek]

Love you video's. Can you please make a video how to display the battery % of you gsm in a button card, preferably with a home and an away picture :)

[philippeariaudo]

Excellent tutorial as usual but I am having difficulties getting my first blueprint to work.
I copied and pasted the YAML from a working automation into Studio Code Server as the initial basis for the blueprint, inserted the code at the top to define the blueprint and input variables but when I replace the entities in the automation code with !input tags I get an “Unresolved tag: !input” error for every one.
I thought I was doing something fundamentaly wrong with the blueprint definition, but even pasting code from the Home Assistant documentation into the file gives me the same error. This makes me think it’s some sort of configuration issue with Studio Code Server. However, I can’t find any mention of this with searches and now I’m stuck.

[StickyStanley]

Question: if you create an automation with a blueprint and then later update the blueprint, does the automation get updated as well?

[TheSdfkjh]

Has anyone integrated google bard, yet?