Google Home + Home Assistant: The Ultimate Smart Home Upgrade
Control Home Assistant Devices with Google Home | Full Integration Guide
Want to control your Home Assistant smart home devices using just your voice and Google Home? In this video, I’ll walk you through how to integrate your Home Assistant setup with Google Home using Nabu Casa. Whether it's lights, sockets, switches, or even appliances like your dishwasher, this step-by-step guide will show you exactly how to expose only the entities you need — giving you complete voice control without cluttering your Google Home app.
🔧 In this video, you’ll learn:
How to link Home Assistant with Google Home via Nabu Casa
How to selectively expose Home Assistant entities for voice control
How to organize and assign devices to rooms in the Google Home app
Real-world examples of controlling devices with Google Assistant
What is Nabu Casa?
Nabu Casa provides Home Assistant Cloud, a paid subscription service that adds features like secure remote access to your Home Assistant instance, voice control with Alexa and Google Assistant, and helps fund the open-source Home Assistant project. It simplifies connecting to your smart home from outside your network without needing complex port forwarding or a static IP address
🎯 Perfect if you've already got Home Assistant up and running and want to take automation to the next level with voice commands.
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🎥 Chapters Included – Jump to any part of the Home Assistant tutorial with timestamps.
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🚀GETTING STARTED WITH HOME ASSISTANT VIDEO SERIES
STEP 1: Getting Started with Home Assistant
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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)
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STEP 4: Installing Home Assistant Connect, adding devices and creating your first automation
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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)
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STEP 7: Use Google to Control Home Assistant Managed Devices
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STEP 8: How can I Control my Home Assistant Smart Home using Alexa?
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STEP 9 : How To Stop Your Smart Home From Breaking Down!
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MUST HAVE NABU CASA SETUP BEFORE STARTING THIS PROCESS (See Step 2 or 5)
🎥 VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Video Intro - What and Why?
00:28 - Adding the Home Assistant Linked Service to Google Home
01:34 - Expose Device Entities in Home Assistant
03:05 - View exposed Home Assistant entities in Google Home
04:16 - Demo - Voice control in action (using Google to control Smart Home Devices)
05:19 - Summary and Thanks....
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