Home Assistant Has Never Been This EASY!
Home Assistant Has Never Been This EASY!
Home Assistant Green is the latest release from Nabu Casa and aims to make getting started with Home Assistant easier and more affordable than ever before. Today we take a look at what the green has to offer and which one is right for you, Home Assistant Green or Yellow!
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Great video. Thanks. I did not see the Yellow on your page. Do you have a link?
What is the difference between the yellow/green and the likes of Hubitat? And what would be best device for a beginner? Ps I do have a decent IT Knowledge
It’s really annoying that the green doesn’t have PoE and doesn’t come with Zigbee out of the box. I get that most people don’t need PoE so that’s fair enough (but still annoying to not have it), but what really pissed me off was discovering that Green doesn’t come with Zigbee out of the box. It’s supposed to be the "easy" option but it’s somehow less ready to use and needs you to buy extra components for it?! Daft! I’d have got a yellow if I’d known (and if there was stock at the time).
I’m quite a techy guy in general and I love the amount of control you get with this system, but they really still have some room for improvement when it comes to being user-friendly, so many bits of the UI with messy strings, enormous lists of what are essentially phantom devices, it’s not exactly obvious where to go to do your most common and basic things (some of the items hidden away in settings ought to be on the left nav). Scheduling stuff is limited to half hour blocks which also seems to defeat the point of having a system that gives you such finite control (you can’t even schedule something to come on at say, 10 minutes past the hour? wtf?)
Excited to get it working with more stuff but the learning curve on this thing is steep even for the "easy" version, and not happy I have to shell out more money to add key components that shouldn’t be missing.
Thanks for this video! Ordered a Sky Connect from you guys – would order a green off you too if I didn’t already have a big basket with the pi hut xD
Why do all of these videos focus on the hardware instead of what it can actually do?
The GitHub Project does not exist anymore. Can you possibly re-upload your tool somewhere?
looks like that drawing turtle from the 80’s. bbc or acorn computer i think. 😂 made our week in school that.
so I have a bunch of HomeKit cameras say about four I also have Reolink cameras the trackmix which one should I go with and I have a bunch of Lutron and PhillipsHue and ring also
can’t wait for the "red"
Hey Lewis, love your videos, I have been trying to switch from google home to home assistant for a while now. Bought myself a yellow but have had a HELL of a time migrating everything over/setting up my home assistant with all the your tips and tricks/suggested add-ons/integrations (especially with matter, I am so confused re possible redundant devices/services). I was wondering if you kept a running live document of everything to do step by step to set up a home assistant with your recommended add ons (system monitor, file editor, hacs, mariadb, etc etc etc) that you can update given questions from your audience? I know home assistant has a wealth of documentation on their website but its honestly too much, as I’m pretty code/network jargon illiterate. I honestly wish they would take all their documentation and feed it into a chatbot you could ask questions too, that would rule, but alas. Anyways I know all your videos have transcript articles but it might be cool to have a running document (unless you have one already in which case HELP A BROTHER OUT!). Love your videos man.
Thanks for the info! Exactly what i was looking for👍
Only thing I’d mention is that the green seems perfect for some experts as well. I’m by no means a beginner (spent ten years as a linux sysadmin and am now a senior embedded engineer), and frankly have things I’d much rather spend my time on than installing and maintaining yet another server. I wanna plug it in and go directly to playing with the fun stuff. I’ve got enough servers in the cellar to maintain already 😉
Could the green be set up and controlled without a PC and solely with the mobile app to use with zigbee dongle
I’m using a Mac mini 2014 (is my plex server) with virtual box. Would I benefit from buying a green? Everything seems to work fine at the moment
I been using non hue or zigbee light bulbs and smart plugs with smartlift do these become redundant if I start using a green HA??
I’ve tried the used business pc to do promox/HA/nas/frigate. It’s still sitting in the corner waiting to be setup. I just picked a Green up. LOL
Ndozvěděl jsem se co umí Home assist. Nevydržel jsem do konce. hrůza.
Disappointing that the green doesn’t support PoE, that would have made it an easy win in my books.
The official Home Assistant devices are not worth buying as a new user or existing hobbyist type user in my opinion.
If they’re going to advertise it to new users they need to produce a device which for the most part out of the box is a one stop shop, with decent Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Z-Wave, Matter, Thread, Bluetooth (Everything) included out the box.
All that buy our product and then start having to buy additional dongles to make something work which should have been there and working in the first place for a novice is retarded.
As is not including something out of the box (a decent processor) that enthusiast and hobbyist users might at some point want, like the need to use a cam/s (doorbell), that’s equally retarded.
How about they produce a slightly larger product, make sure everything is packed in there which will hit everyone’s expectations and just charge a bit more money.
People in the smart home scene have spent hundreds on shitty subpar doorbells, limited google assistant touch displays and way too much on money on overly hyped subpar Aqara FP2 occupancy sensors riddled in bugs, glitches and ghosting issues.
I’m pretty sure smart home users would foot the bill for one clean one stop shop smart home hub with a decent bit of processing power grunt, ram, hdd and all of the necessary wireless integrations that cover all current existing wireless protocols and devices out at the moment.
How much RAM do you need and why? Can I use multiple Home Assistant servers?
Nice price, but I would be careful with anything with Samsung NVME drives, they tend to brick themselves after a year or 2. No idea why they haven’t recalled them. I personally had one fail, couldn’t flash it before or after either.
I currently run HA on my iMac using VMware virtual drive. Is it possible to transfer my setup to a HA Green?
The price of green is perfect
i find it good for family members you want to get setup even it you’re really experienced. It’s just easy an fuss free. Nice job. HA is starting to really look promising for the future. I think this should just be a starting point device. If you wanted to add security cams, AI, plex, or other energy hunger features, these should just be addon hub/devices.
You really don’t make it easier to choose between yellow and green. If I understand it all correctly, if possible, it is that the yellow has everything that the green has, but can and has more. Or am I seeing that wrong.
I would like to use this device not only for a home assistant in itself, but also to control things such as sprinklers and water addition in my private hydroponic system. Sprinklers, for example, must open for a very short time (seconds) and this can be done, for example, with a home app on the Android smartphone. The shortest time there is 1 minute. And that is why I would use this device, among others.
I just purchased the home assistant green from your shop! Can’t wait for it to arrive 😁👍
Can you add different bluetooth, z wave, mqtt, etc dongles to the green as well as additional storage via thumb drive or USB ssd?
I agree that Green is the best way to go. My experience with Homeassistant in a VM (all flavors of VM machines) was fun but too easy to break and that just got too much of a pain to keep fixing. Green has been great so far.
This sounds like the ideal device for me. I just want something I can plug in and use to get started with Home Assistant.
How has this video aged?
Now that the Pi5 is out, does it make more sense to use this or is there a better alternative?
I’m basically planning on getting into HA (as well as immich, Plex and Pi-Hole) and trying to decide what hardware will suit me best.
Pi5? HA Green? N100 or N200 Machine?
Great video! I’m curious what you think of HA Green (or Yellow) versus the new Homey Pro… would make for a great video.
Wow, if potential users can’t do the easy bit of d/l the img and flash a usb stick or drive, then they have absolutely NO chance of the nightmare ride they are going to get trying to get the cryptic, obfuscated Home Assistant sorted. Just a thought for any potential user to check out first, as I failed to get my 13 or so Tasmota’s that have run on nodered faultlessly for the past 8 years to be seen/usable in various versions, including the latest HA. The installing is the easy bit, then comes the dark side.
Awesome video. Thanks to your videos, I started on my Home Assistant journey a couple years ago with a Raspberry Pi 4 install. I’d like to get a Green to have to upgrade to. I have an external SSD on my install now. Is the upgrade to a Green like the upgrade when I added an SSD? Thanks.
Lack of POE on the HA Green is easily sorted by a POE Splitter. Sure it’s a bit more "clunky" than built in POE, but from a practical viewpoint it achieves the one-cable-for-data-and-power. In practise you won’t notice the "clunk" as it sits at the back of the unit. Also, from an economics viewpoint, many new Green Users won’t be paying for something they will never use and if it’s something that becomes useful down the road, then it’s a simple incremental cost. I got mine off Amazon for just over £10 (flash sale) for a full Gigabit splitter. Note that you can use a FastEthernet (100mbs) rather than a gigabit – this will be entirely adequate for any installs which don’t involve streaming video
I bought the Home assistant green but it doesn’t work properly. So I was trying to reset it to manufacture settings and start all over again but couldn’t find how to do it. Could you help me please?
Thank u for great summary !!!
Even the comments on here are too complex to understand, so id havr no chance of sorting out HA anytime soon.
Great video! Thank you for help in choosing witch one is better for me 🙂
What is it though I still don’t know. whatever it is I guess the specs are nice.
Hello, thank you for the useful information. I have few stupid questions. Will this work with Skyconnect? My country has frequent AC lines power cut. When power cut happens, will the hardware damaged? Will it start by itself when power is reconnected? Will i need to pay for any more platform to access the devices from worldwide?
Hi I’m at present running HA on a Pi3 and it seems to work well, butthe Green looks like a good update as pi is using sd card, my question is really around transferring from one box to the next i do have backups (thanks for the video on helping with that) but i do run quite a few Addons and will need to transfer the IP address as my Solar system points to the HA box as a Proxy before sending to the cloud.
Nope, nope,nope … I don’t agree with on security, safety and risk issue !!!
Are they going to restock the HA Yellow?
Zigbee = obsolete
The future is Thread.
Do you expect the CM5 to be compatible with the current Yellow board when it’s released?
Hi good day. I am using eWelink with Sonoff. I have 60 devices, zigbee and non zigbee, with about 70 automations on my app. Will HA Green be able to handle/ run everythinh as well?
Excellent video as always……We currently have HA on a QNAP NAS and we are selling our house and all the LED lighting in the house is controlled by Z Wave and we are taking the QNAP and all our wi-fi and networking equipment with us and we want to leave the house with automation for the new buyers and so I was thinking we could install a HA Green and plug the Z Wave dongle into the HA Green along with a wi-fi dongle then have a 15" or so HDMI monitor mounted on the wall connected to the HA Green…….would that work?
Kind regards
Bruce
if I use Home Assistant GREEN which has no WiFi on board I could control also my sonoff WiFi wall switch locally or I have to buy a Wifi dongle for the GREEN? Thank you for your help
The most important disadvantage is that home assistant is not free like smartthings. I was used to turning on the lights using Alexa, which in home assistant you have to pay for. Home assistant is hopeless compared to smarttings. Examples: sometimes it shows that the lights are on when they are not on, sometimes the thermostats are offline, then after 2 days they are online, Motion sensors sometimes work and sometimes they don’t work. I thought it would be faster because it is local compared to smartthings – it is not. I am disappointed with how it works after watching videos praising the home assistant. I think most of these videos are sponsored.
I know it’s more expensive, but I think I’ll go for the Odroid M1 8/32 and plug in an NVMe drive for future data needs, and a Zigbee adapter too. Great video as always, I hope to see an Odroid M1 video soon. However, I will certainly order one before, so I may not like such a video if you don’t recommend the M1 at the end of such a video😁
Plug and go??
How can you sit there saying it’s that easy ? Ain’t you forgetting about the automations ? If you can’t install a pi from a video or guide online how are you supposed to understand the scripting / logic of automations ? Heck . Even you have videos on the installations, this is not a barrier of entry, in my opinion it’s a approval of dedication to get it working.