MUST HAVE! Home Assistant HACS Add-ons and Integrations
In this video, I will cover Add-ons, HACs installation (Home Assistant Community Store), and Integrations, which are essential for getting started with Home Assistant. I'll show you how to use HACS to add custom integrations and walk you through the must-have Add-ons that will help you run your home assistant setup smoothly. This is part of the Home Assistant tutorial series.
In this 4th video in my Getting Started with Home Assistant series, I provide an overview of Home Assistant, Integrations, Add-ons and HACS (Home Assistant Community Store). These are all things that you will need to become familiar with as you start to build out your smart home with Home Assistant. I show you my favorite HACs integrations, Add-ons and how to get them all installed and working. By the end of the video your be in a great place to start building your own automations and dashboards.
✅ What's inside:
►Home Assistant Add-ons and HACs Overview
►Open Weather setup and config (Show that I can show detailed information on my dashboard)
►Terminal and SSH installation and setup (For access to HA console)
►Home Assistant File Editor configuration (access and edit files in Home Assistant
►Home Assistant HACs Installation (Home Assistant Community Store)
►Mushroom Cards / Chips (I make use of chips a lot to show useful information on my dashboards)
►Button Card (additional flexibility creating Dashboard Content)
►Mini Media Player ( I use this to play radio stations from my dashboard)
►Digital Clock (I use this to display the date and time on my dashboards)
🎥 Chapters Included – Jump to any part of the Home Assistant tutorial with timestamps.
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In these videos I'll be walking you through how to build your own start home using Home Assistant. This series of videos starts with how to get Home Assistant up and running using Home Assistant Green. Then moves on to getting the basics installed on Home Assistant and then finally adding your own smart products and building automations and dashboards.
🚀GETTING STARTED WITH HOME ASSISTANT VIDEO SERIES
STEP 1: Getting Started with Home Assistant
• Getting Started with Home Automation using...
STEP 2: How To Control Your Home Assistant Smart Home From Anywhere! (Nabu Casa Setup)
• How To Get Remote Access to Your Home Assi...
STEP 3: Home Assistant Automated Backups (inc. How to setup Nabu Casa for remote access in HA at 6:11 secs - see chapters)
• Don't LOSE Your Home Assistant Data! Here'...
STEP 4: Installing Home Assistant Connect, adding devices and creating your first automation
• Why ZHA is the EASIEST Way to Setup Zigbee...
STEP 5: MUST HAVE! Home Assistant HACS Add-ons and Integrations
• MUST HAVE! Home Assistant HACS Add-ons an...
STEP 6: How to Secure Home Assistant using Multi factor Authentication (MFA)
• Easy Guide To Securing Your Home Assistant...
STEP 7: Use Google to Control Home Assistant Managed Devices
• Google Home + Home Assistant: The Ultimate...
STEP 8: How can I Control my Home Assistant Smart Home using Alexa?
• Can You Use Alexa With Home Assistant? Fin...
STEP 9 : How To Stop Your Smart Home From Breaking Down!
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STEP 10 :The Best Home Assistant Dashboards (for Beginners)
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🎥 VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Video Intro - Who, What and Why?
01:34 - Must Have Home Assistant Integrations
12:17 - Must Have Home Assistant Add-ons
13:54 - SSH and Terminal Add-on
17:03 - Enable Advanced User Mode in Home Assistant
19:37 - File Editor Add-on
22:10 - The Add-on Store
22:50 - The Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) Overview
28:03 - Home Assistant HACS Installation
32:08 - Adding Integrations via HACS
36:37 - Summary and Thanks....
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