Why Home Assistant is the FUTURE of Smart Homes

Home Assistant is the FUTURE! Let me explain...

Thanks to Paulus Schoutsen for letting me interview him at the Z-Wave summit!

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0:00 Intro
1:26 Home Assistant is growing
2:29 Getting easier
5:19 HA + AI?!
9:01 Z-Wave is not dead
10:19 HA is the future.
10:56 Number 1 feature?

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Digifunk by DivKid

Ending song is The End by EVA.

[SmartHomeSolver]

Do you agree Home Assistant is the future? Let me know what you think👇

[dabbridges]

I've been using Home Assistant for some time, and it continues to evolve, improve, and impress with every new version. I was initially hooked when I turned it on and it immediately began detecting smart items (from different manufacturers) on my network without user input.

[valramos]

Home Assistant is the future as long as they don't sell to Google.

[sparkerc]

I also like the idea of being able to work on a local AI box integrated with Home Assistant to keep all of the data local.

[Sledge-fuzr]

Yes I am all in on Home Assistant. Needed improvements: assist voice listening accuracy.

[daphnetilling]

Not sure if this gonna get mentioned (wanted to note it whilst I remembered) one thing I would love to see is the ability in dashboard creation is to be able to 1) state screen size (so maybe 8" phone/tab, 10", 12" etc) 2) lock colomn count so I want to always display 4 or 5 columns and have columns resize to fit the screen size rather than have colum jump to a new row 3) have cards and text in card scale to card size (okay this would be a pain if you want a title that is massively long but you just have to think of different name lol)

[jamesd]

Making automations easier... I know this will never happen, but personally I wish they include Node-Red by default and work on tighter integration, ditching their own automation workflow. Like maybe have a simplified front-end but it creates Node-Red flows behind-the-scenes that you can still access through the Node-Red interface to get all its glorious versatility.

[Jasonhartley]

I’m using AI in my home to control things, but only if I ask it to.
The beauty is being able to say to your voice assistant “hey I wish it was brighter in here” or “I’m feeling kinda down, can you adjust the lights accordingly?” and it goes and does what it thinks is best. Obviously “turn on the living room light” is straight to the point and it does that too.

[aaron]

If they're taking suggestions, extending their first party radio USB sticks to network devices would be a nice feature. It is often the case that people run their HA host with their network stuff in some corner of the house, and having the ability to move the Zigbee/ZWave/etc. radios to a more optimal location is great. I have one now from TubesZB, really just a Zigbee radio attached to a microcontroller running ESPHome, and it works great, but I think first party offerings would help for newer people.

[sparkplug]

I’ve been in the technology business for nearly 40 years. I like Home Assistant because it reminds me of the early days when smart guys would figure out something and then be happy to share it, the days before Bill Gates decided to entrap users and charge for everything, the days before every vendor made his product proprietary because he was obviously smarter than everybody else. There are countless brilliant people who prefer to work independently, outside the constraints of big business, and Home Assistant lets them shine.

[michaelsleen]

I’m excited about the potential of local AI, shareable dashboards, and appreciate the emphasis on making a smart home that works for everyone in the home. Thanks for this preview of what’s to come!

[darknessblades]

One feature I like to see is a online UI based card creator. where you can easily create cards within cards. trough a set of template/grid designs.

Similar to how the sections works but then on CARD level [minecraft principle], where you have a large grid and are able to put in cards/blocks like lego, and design them based on what you want, with sliders above to change the PX distance between cards and it giving a error if the card is bigger than the default.

I have seen many card-in-card things I like, but have no idea on how to properly set it up. or change things like instead of the template with 3 cards in a card, I want 2. removing one breaks everything.

or a card with a dropdown menu. that automatically closes. things like this are things I want, but have no idea on how to add

[sonnyboykristiansen]

i just noticed that you have lost a quite a bit since i started subscribing, you looking good my man, keep doing great

[smarthome]

This tech does sound great, if not for my low income and my learning curve. After I had strokes, leaning has been a challenge. One thing I wish I could set up is all 60 smart lights in my home to be able to set dimming specific to time of day. I too started my smart home journey seven years ago. I now have 112 smart home devices, one main router and four access points (19 rooms - 3 floors). I use a different smart home assistant which has limitations, but works for my needs. Being disabled, the two things I am glad to have is the ability to reset Alexa, Google Home, and all cameras via app or voice, and everything on battery backup.

My first Mr. Coffee I installed a Sonoff Mini R2 inside, which lasted three years. Now I use TP-Link Kasa 6 outlet smart WiFi power strip.

Favorite routine - "Alexa, good morning" turns on Mr. Coffee, turns off dining room light, turns off kitchen stove vent light, turns off porch light, raises the east kitchen blinds, turns on bed light, turns off foot warmer (heating pad under my pillowtop), sets thermostat to awake mode and tells me the weather for the day.

[michaelmoore]

I’m just starting my Home Assistant journey but even though the learning curve is steep the benefits are clear and the effort and thought going into it’s continued development is inspiring. Keep up the great work everyone!!! 😃

[vPeteWalker]

I would absolutely want a local AI box in my home. I'm working on DIY'ing one right now with some leftover stuff, and donated hardware just for giggles. It had old Intel and NVIDIA gear but I think it'll at least be something. I would go for $2k, but only if I could condense everything I'm running elsewhere into a single box - NAS, NVR, containers, etc. which I need to look into these NVIDIA boxes to see what they can do vs. using my current PC desktop when I do my next upgrade (i.e. desktop class). Yeah, it'll take up way more power, but might be 1/2 the cost. I have plenty of room, and while I'd like to save power, that'd be a long ROI to justify. Interesting stuff, and thanks as always for the video, Reed!

[cdarrigo]

Mass integrations over multiple protocols, Drag and drop automation workflows ala homey and really good voice affects that can integrate with Alexa for shopping related tasks will kill every other platform

[aamrani]

Glad to see some API integrations to leverage existing local LLM capabilities. I've been training a local LLM on my Home Assistant database for almost a year now and it's very useful to ask the local model to explain some events/incidents and/or to troubleshoot some "non-working" scenarios/automations.

[jortpeters]

Had no idea home assistant was created by a fellow Dutchie! That accent is a dead giveaway 😆

[makeitworktech]

A very important roadmap! I agree about dashboards... Sharing them should be easier!