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Hope this helped clear up any confusion on what I use! Another smart home tour coming soon, so make sure you're subscribed 👏

Ok Reid, so the next obvious series from you is a deeper dive on starting from scratch to getting up and running on HomeKit and home assistant combo. Examples include one session on your raspberry pi hardware and getting HA up and running. Another part of the series would be importing into HomeKit. Another one would be on if you started again, which periphery devices would you choose for sensors. Something like that would build nicely on your 5 years worth of work to allow you to make this clear recommendation.

For some reason I can’t help but think of the Emperor from Star Wars hip thrusting in a British accent yelling “Home Assistant! Home Assistant!” Thanks Paul Hibbert

Thank you, I’ve been looking for someone to answer this for months! It’s so difficult to even know which system to start with. Great video, I’ve subscribed and looking forward to diving down this rabbit hole!

I’ve been watching smart home videos from a lot of people over the last few years. This is exactly what I came up with too. Glad I made the right call. Now I just have a couple echo dots to replace with HomePod minis

Been using HK and HA combo for 5 years. Slowly built up automations over the years to the point now everything is fully automated and I rarely have to flip switches or open the HK app. Best part of HK is that I can add family members and guests so they have access to the home. It is truly the ultimate setup and the possibilities are endless.

Completely agreed on the best of both worlds solution. I started using Home Assistant and ended up getting a bunch of Google Nest Minis to get some voice control around the house. A while after, I tried out an Echo device and saw that it was much much faster than Google at executing commands so I ended up switching the Nest Minis to Echo Dots. The caveat is that setting up the Amazon integration on a self-hosted instance is a bit of a pain, but it's a one-time thing.

This is a great video. I've been struggling with some of the same problems and bought a HomeAssistant Green which was just delivered. I'm excited to move things over to a more unified setup which will actually be pretty similar to your setup. Thanks for sharing!

Google assistant + Smarthings has been the most simple and intuitive for me. Especially since I already use Samsung devices. I don't feel I'm missing out on anything. Just got into Z-wave and I'm loving it!

love these types of videos to help new people when they get into smart homes. would love to see you revamp the video you did before about buying and setting up a new smart home

I’m on HomeKit and home assistant combo. Couldn’t be happier. I tried my best to avoid using home assistant. Then finally took the plunge. It’s a bit of a time sink initially. But after that. It’s the great

Thanks for making and sharing this great video. I love the humor you put in especially the “Blink of an eye” joke at the end. 👏👏👏👍👍👍😊

I love these videos as always. I'm moving in 2 years so i don't want to get involved with Home assistant just yet, but i plan to thanks to your videos! For now, I have smartthings running the back end of a lot of automations and Google on the front

That Time warp at the end was awesome! I think, I don't really spend that much time on it until I remember I've run HomeAssistant for 5 years and still have things to setup or fix or change. I have added things along the way and improved on the devices I had as I learned more, but it doesn't end haha. It is great though, because it is a hobby, but has been rock solid and reliable as a platform. I've upgraded hardware a couple of times due to failures.

I just liked how your were listening to the Ramones. Nice work!!!

I ran HA for years, but I got fed up with the frequent breaking changes. I just don’t need that kind of grief! I run Hubitat + Homekit now. Btw, the HA HomeKit integration is NOT free, it’s a monthly sub unless you have a degree in user hostile software systems. And I say that as a 48 year old IT professional who started his computing life using DOS 2.11 on an 8088 powered PC.

The finish was cute 🥰. And same decision for me: HomeKit plus Home Assistent. Just installed for playing on a Pi4 but will go a bit bigger low-wattage NUC for it once we get our house

Love that part on the end and I have been there plenty. I also started with Amazon then went to Home Assistant and now have added Apple. My Amazon devices have just became speakers or picture frames.

Best Video for me, you are the best YT for SmartHome (to my way of enjoying YT) and I am planing a HomeAssistant - Homekit SmartHome in 2024 so Thank you very much for going one step ahead of me!

Just ordered a Home Assistant Yellow, and this confirms that choice!