15 Home Assistant Tips You MUST Do

0:22 General Settings 0:58 Zones 1:16 Dairy Liquid 1:43 Advanced Mode 2:03 Static IP 4:06 Enable SSH 5:15 Enable 2FA 6:12 Install Apps 6:57 Backup 7:31 File Editor 8:22 Create Areas 9:27 NAS Media Storage 10:10 HACS 11:10 Watchman 11:42 Remote Access 12:52 Enable Analytics

I have been watching your channel for the last year and I have learned quite a lot; in fact I am currently working on an Automation system for a special project car I am working on and youre videos on home assistant have helped me 'customise' for this project, thank you.

Tailscale seems to me like the sweet spot for accessing this from outside the home. You don't have to open any ports and you leave your firewall guarding your home network, while still having full access to the HA. But thanks for this video, as a guy just starting out with HA there were several great tips in here I implemented right away. Now if someone could just explain to me why changing your home zone radius is borderline impossible, whereas you can easily do so on added zones, I'd be thrilled. Sometimes, the open-sourciness of the whole thing slaps you in the face, with inexplicable weirdness.

Just getting back into HA. This was very helpful to remind me of a few things, plus some new stuff. Thank you.

Great video, I'm about to restart my HA journey during this winter (been off it for over a year), and this is perfect for a smooth installation👌

Can you (or have you) describe what is the recommended way to name your devices, sensor, automation, scripts, etc? If you don't do this right, it tends to get hard to find the right one, or you have several named similarly that makes it hard to distinguish what it is. Do you include the name of the location in the device? What if you then move it? Bedroom lamp now becomes sits in the living room. Temperature sensors, etc. How do you name automations/scripts? Without folders all automations are in the same screen.

Perfect timing, I'm about to go down the HA rabbit hole. Thanks Lewis.

Great video! I've been using home assistant for years and didn't know about Watchman.

Awesome Lewis. Thanks again for taking the time to produce such an informative video.

Thanks Lewis! I always look forward to and appreciate your advice and tips.

Great Video as always Lewis. Thanks for all your work here on this channel. Well timed for me as I am moving from a container install to full vm install of HA. There were one or two that I had missed. :-)

Watchman, loving it. I really appreciate this plugin. Thanks for sharing it.

Thanks for the Watchman suggestion, I hadn't heard of it until I recently saw a video from Mostly Chris and he walks through the setup. Watchman is exactly what I needed after a recent OS migration and addition & removal of some devices!

Thanks for sharing. Very much education to soak in.

I am using argon one case for my rpi 4. Amazing thing for cooling and storage on rpi4 I just found integration that allows control of the integrated fan based on cpu temp while using HA. I do recommend

Great video. All your items are good choices for a newbie list

Thank you so much Lewis! I always look forward to your videos. 😊Nice Shirt!!

It's safer to setup a static DHCP reservation on your router versus setting static IP on a client. DHCP reservation will ensure the router doesn't give the IP to another device. Static IPs on clients can cause issues if you change your network topology or move the device to a different network.

Can you go into more details about the back door entry possibilities in future videos, please? Thanks, Lewis!

Lewis, great video! I wasn't aware of Watchman - very useful! Is there any chance you can do a video explaining the benefits of Frank's SSH? I've now got both installed and working, but having read Frank's readme, I don't know what Mosh, or ZSH are, never mind their benefits!