Home Assistant Beginners Guide: Installation, Addons, Integrations, Scripts, Scenes, and Automations

We need an update! I'd love to see a 2023 version of this video. Thanks for all you do, your videos are on a whole new level! 🚀

Brilliant video. I'm so glad you arent afraid to rip through it knowing that people should pause as they go. Soooooooo maaaaaaaanyyyyyy videos run for 20 minutes for 5 mins of content

After watching a number of videos to help me get started on this, I must tell you that I enjoy the pace of your guide, the clarity, and the willingness to not explain things multiple times. It's easy enough to replay things. Well done!

More! More! More Home Assistance videos! This one was great and very comprehensive! Thank you for it!

Great content! I have just recently started the Home Assistant/Home Automation adventure, your video's continue to help along the way.

Never knew this existed, certainly makes integration and automation so much easier! Previously, I have done things the hard way by creating custom applications and hardware. This really simplifies the interconnectivity side of things. I can say this for sure - I am DAMN glad my parents were never smart enough to do anything like this... I cannot imagine growing up where my every action would not only be monitored, but potentially controlled.

Straight up, clear, fast-paced. Loved it!

This is absolutely your best video ever. I have been struggling to get HA on a VM for a long time and this pushed me over the "hump". Thanks a bunch!

Man, you should turn this from a presentation into a (series of) tutorial(s). Lots of work, I agree, but you'll get a Thank You from me. :D

Thanks for the video! We need more HA content that is recent. I am about 3 months into HA and my biggest issue is following outdated information. Even some of the HA documentation and integrations have outdated info.

Perfect timing!!! I just recently started thinking about deploying HA. Thanks for the video.

I'm a new HA soon to be user and I've ENJOYED this content. Not so complicated if I pause n play. Thank you and keep it coming!

Thank you for including timestamps

One thing not mentioned when installing MQTT broker is that if you don't turn on advanced mode under your profile first then you will not see users under configuration. I am following the guide to install HA 5.12. So far so good if you keep pausing the video :-)

Thanks for these videos, just bought a newly built home. They tried to hook me for a "smart home" using a device pre-installed in home, it uses Z-wave, required hundreds of dollars in installation costs to make it actually work, they gave me about three "smart switches" as the free gateway drug to get me hooked. Then wanted expensive installation fee to finish making the home a "smart home" and then, on top of all that, yup, you guessed it, a monthly fee of at least $75, for the base installation. Your video is saving me a bundle. Thank you very much! Your style of instruction is perfect! Videos are the right length, no BS fluff crap to eat up my time, just the fact and straight to the point!

Thanks for the video, quite helpful. I am technical guy with a CS degree from a great school and this is short of overwhelming. I spent two afternoons just getting to the point of having devices running in my VM (HyperV I hate you so much). Thank goodness for videos like this. I cannot imagine this being anything even close to ready for regular consumers. But now I get to finally "play" with automation.

Well done, perfect for beginners. I would like to see more about accessing Home Assistant from outside my own network.

Love the video. Just on the WiFi config. A similar process can be done using a USB stick inserted so you dont have to muck around on the SD Card. I have a small install in a unit on a Raspberry Pi, but my main install in the house, which is bigger, runs on an OpenBox VM over the top of Windows 10 and that has been absolutely rock solid and doesn't require any maintenance. It just works, though I do tend to perform updates once a month for the Windows updates. I only upgrade HA if the new upgrade adds features I want as often it is not worth the breaking changes to do the updates. Of course, when an update is needed I do need to allow time to modify things to account for breaking changes. I know this video was aimed at more new users, but I love watching the way things have changed compared to some of the older videos from BRUH, which gave a good tutorial on installing HA back in the earlier days.

Thank you very much for this video tutorial; it got my HA up and running in no time! Your expertise and ability to create an understandable and stepwise procedure were invaluable to me.

Have to say thank you very much. I just spent about 5 hours trying to install HA via different YouTube videos and online tutorials. Yours is the only one that has worked. Much appreciated.