3 Things No One Will Tell You About Home Assistant

Home Assistant now has Alexa and Google Home support but at what cost? There’s something they’re not telling you.

What is Home Assistant? Home Assistant is a beautiful way to take control of your Smart Home “cloud free” thanks to it’s LoveLace dashboard and local control options, and the Raspberry Pi Home Assistant setup has never been easier. This video is both a setup guide to Home Assistant on the Raspberry Pi, and a Home Assistant demo / review to tell you in advance everything you should know before you spend hours of your life on it.

This is Paul Hibbert’s Home Assistant Setup Guide for the Raspberry Pi, and all the reasons you might not want to bother.

Massive thanks to Dr Zzs for giving up his valuable time to help me out with this video, he’s brilliantly funny, and a proper nice guy to boot. Home Assistant is genuinely awesome fun, and Dr Zzs videos will help you do practically anything with it. Please check him out here:

If you’re interested in Hubitat you can check them out here. I have no affiliation with them whatsoever, they’re just awesome guys who made an awesome device:

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BROADLINK RM PRO (controls Infrared devices like TV’s and Set top Boxes, and also RF plug sockets and switches)
Broadlink RM pro UK:
Broadlink RM pro US:

RF PLUG SOCKETS (Controllable with the Broadlink RM Pro)
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SMARTTHINGS HUB (For Controlling Zigbee devices at beginner level):
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HUBITAT HUB (For Controlling Zigbee devices at advanced level):
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XIAOMI DOOR SENSORS, BUTTON’S, & MOTION SENSORS (REQUIRES ZIGBEE HUB SUCH AS HUBITAT OR SMARTTHINGS, IT COMES WITH IT’S OWN HUB BUT IT’S RUBBISH):
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PHILIPS HUE DIMMER REMOTE (For use with Ikea, Hubitat, Homey, Smartthings and Hue):
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AISIRER WIFI PLUG SOCKET (Tuya Wifi – NO HUB REQUIRED):
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WIFI SMART BULBS (Tuya Wifi – NO HUB REQUIRED)
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WIFI HARD WIRED MAINS LIGHT SWITCH (ON/OFF) (Tuya Wifi – NO HUB REQUIRED):
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FLIC BUTTON for controlling Wifi bulbs and other smart home equipment (Works by using your phone to relay the button press to your smart home equipment, if you want to do this without using a phone then buy their Flic hub too!)
SINGLE FLIC:
3 FLICS AND A HUB (starter kit):
3 FLICS WITHOUT A HUB:

AMAZON FIRE TV STICK 4K ULTRA HD:
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BLINK XT2 CAMERA SYSTEM
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SWITCHBOT (Stand alone device and works with timers):
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SWITCHBOT HUB PLUS (Required to enable Alexa/Google Home/IFTTT/Siri Shortcuts):
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