Home Assistant Part 1 - Install and Initial Setup of Free, Open Source, Self Hosted Home Automation.

If you've never heard of Home Assistant, but you want to automate your home, or anything else, then you've been missing one of the most incredible and active Open Source projects out there. Don't misunderstand, there are multiple home automation pojects, but Home Assistatn, from everything I can find, is the most supported from an available integrations standpoint today.

If you tried Home Assistant a year or more back, and thought, "Ugh! I hate these dumb configuration files... why isn't this easier?" Well, I'm right there with you, and the folks on the project heard you. Home Assistant is now a much more user friendly system from setup, to configuration(s), and it becomes more friendly every time they put out another release.

=== LINKS ===

INTERESTING CHANNELS FOR HOME AUTOMATION

=== TIMESTAMPS ===
00:00 Beginning
00:09 Intro to Home Assistant
02:30 Thank you to my Patrons and Subscribers - I truly appreciate your support!
03:05 Install Methods
08:10 Home Assistant Blue - Pre-built Appliance
08:35 Downloading the Image for Raspberry PI
11:25 Burning the Image to a Micro SD Card
14:30 Starting our Pi with the Micro SD Installed
16:00 The Preparing Home Assistant Screen
16:30 Initial Login and Setup of Home Assistant
19:10 Initial Integration Discovery
21:10 The First (Default) Dashboard
22:30 Home Assistant Interface Overview
24:30 Take Over the Lovelace Dashboard
29:40 Making Snapshot Backups (IMPORTANT!)
31:40 System Supervisor (Admin) Options and Functions
32:30 Configuration Sections Overview
36:30 My Built out Home Assistant Overview (Production)

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=== ATTRIBUTIONS ===

[prince]

I cannot confirm more how well Home Assistant runs on a RPi3b. I had mine running for years, but had to repurpose it for Octoprint. I will be resetting it up on a RPi4 when, if ever it becomes available. Thanx for the great videos that you create.

[enredao_electronico]

Great application... ESPHOME is my favorite add on. I managed to install CORE on a cheap Chinese TVBOX internal EMMC . Good video!

[IBRACORP]

Great video mate! Covered the topic well for the first part of the series. Look forward to more 😎

[danielfeludu]

Great channel, Please can you make a video on how I can install MINTHCM, i know this might be a distraction for you but please kindly help me out. Thanks.

[chrisfinch]

I set up home assistant on a vitual box and on a pi. I cannot get the nginx proxy manager which is bundled to do anything except point me to the nginx welcome screen. Can you take a look at that component in another video or point me in the right direction. I think I have all the right ports forwarded and cloudflare looks correct...