I am a new HA user and recently discovered your channel. I have to say that you and your videos are a Godsend to me. I am an old fart, so I really appreciate all the detail and "hand-holding" in this video. I find all the new stuff YAML, JinJA, and Lovelace both exciting and overwhelming. I am not new to technology but I am new to home automation. Thank you for all you are doing here! Yes, I did like and subscribe as well as ding the bell to get it ALL!
I’m new to Home Assistant. This was really useful. Thank you! I really appreciate you showing how to put this together step by step, and *why* you’re doing it that way.
What app do you use for your iPad? My nest cameras on my desktop provide live feeds but on my iPad, they seem to be frozen images. Wondering if this is an app limitation or what. Any ideas?
Thank you very much for your knowledge and effort. During the narration I wanted to ask, your camera and alarm system caught my attention, if it is not special, can you share the brand and model you used?
Hello! You need home assistant installed on a server running in your home first! checkout this free course if you are starting from scratch courses.leonardosmarthomemakers.com
super cool video - I'm halfway through and subscribing to your blog, but I can't find the document that you talk about around 14:09. I can't see dates on your blog posts so I'm having trouble. Thanks!!
How comes when you demo at the start your dashboards are nice looking with the dark theme but when you go to edit them they are regular white? Do I need to set a theme somewhere to get it to look like yours?
Awesome video. But how did you made that motion sensor "button" open a "window" with all motion sensors? I really want that feature! Thanks for this video
Great video👍🏻 worth watching even if long. Let's say I have 3 window sensors, how would I achieve a single entity displayed in a card as open if any windows is open and closed only if all windows are closed and tapping the (button card?) entity would display all windows with each respective state? Scenario would be if I'm leaving home I want to be able to glance at the dashboard to see if any window is open and if yes quickly find out which one. As a bonus an automated notification if leaving home with a window open (or light on or similar).
Hi Carl! You can create groups to combine entities together, that is what i did in my iPhone dashboard! Groups can be defined in the groups.yaml file. This evening I will add that code to the blog
Hi! I'm very new to all this home assistant stuff! I just bought a tablet so I can make a dashboard for my kitchen. Do I need to have a server of some sort running Home Assistant, or do I just need an app on my tablet?
Hi, Watched your video and followed it to the letter until i came to adding the weather to my grid.. i didn`t have anything in the grid to load in, you had a weather display.. how did you get that??
@@SmartHomeMakers many thanks. I’ve just been reading your blog now. Great to see these are standard integrations with HA. I love your Plex example to notify and stop Plex running for the kids at nighttime. That brings quite a few elements together and it’s pretty neat. Cheers! :-)
Hi. I am also developer (wordpress, javascript and react). i am wondering can i fully customise Home Assistant as i can do it with Wordpress. Can i create my themes etc ?
I tried to do something similar but all by grids end up in the middle of the screen and I have a ton of wasted space. It's like your middle grid is fine but make your right and left grids both black and you have to scroll down to see them. Hopeflly that makes sense. any idea what I am doing wrong?
Maybe I missed it but when I'm on my iphone, do I first need to click on the specific iphone dashboard in order to see it or is there a way to indicate which device gets which dashboard to see ?
How is it possible, that the tablet (with the Home-Assistant-Companion-App on Android) only can see some specific dashboards without a possibility to see the others? So that guests can use this tablet but only see the dashboards I want them to.
I am just starting this, every video I find they all say "step by step" or "start from scratch" or.... I was so happy when you said you will explain everything I was so happy that finally I found what I wanted. But! What you mention as first step s actually where my biggest issue is and that is how to get the home assistant environment to work! No one seems to be interested in providing that information. So disappointing.
Hello Sir, is there a way to make home assistant report immediately (or in real time) when an entity becomes unavailable or offline. I tried setting up an automation for this but it reports about 5 mins after the entity goes off. Please suggestions will be appreciated.
Hello! In the automation you tried did you use the state as 'unavailable' as a trigger? Can you see a delay between the state and the actual notification? What device is this? local/ cloud and push or pull?
@@SmartHomeMakers HI~ I mean that if I join your course or pay the license fee to learn how to make this dashboard. Can I use the software UI component for my own product and sell my own product. My product is used in the industry and currently lacks a software interface.
Great video. Out of curiosity, is this platform open source? To add custom coding or at a minimum modifying the styling sheet. Also, do you have a widget for adding a blueprint image of the house and to place shortcut buttons for various terminals on that blueprint for controlling them?
@@SmartHomeMakers Wow, really? What are you shooting with? Distance? Maybe it's just the particular room and the sound is able to bounce off the walls and floor too much? But anyway.. the content is good.
No clue how to put cameras up etc .there must be a video where all essential conncetions instalations are made .this is last thing to do to arrange dashboard.
@@SmartHomeMakers Well I am a bit gun shy any more.. With all the things people say on the internet.. well you know.. I am to old to sort it out.. Good luck brother! I am sure your a straight up fella..
As promised we hit more than 250 likes! This is the next video about dashboards! ua-cam.com/video/b0GjA_rNxZ8/v-deo.html
I am a new HA user and recently discovered your channel. I have to say that you and your videos are a Godsend to me. I am an old fart, so I really appreciate all the detail and "hand-holding" in this video. I find all the new stuff YAML, JinJA, and Lovelace both exciting and overwhelming. I am not new to technology but I am new to home automation. Thank you for all you are doing here! Yes, I did like and subscribe as well as ding the bell to get it ALL!
Thanks Rodney!! Really appreciated your comment and taking time out of your day to watch and write this comment
I’m new to Home Assistant. This was really useful. Thank you!
I really appreciate you showing how to put this together step by step, and *why* you’re doing it that way.
Thanks Mark! I noticed you enrolled in the free home assistant course:) any question feel free to either comment or send me an email!
If we make it to 250 likes, I will make a media player dashboard !
Yes it will happen!
This is a great dashboard. I have it working with my ZWave VeraSecure hub
Thanks Pete !
Thank You!! That was VERY helpful! I finally feel I now have the info I need to make the dashboards I want / need!
Awesome! Happy you enjoyed it!
Very helpful. Awesome!
Thanks Francis !
awesome tutorial.. thank you!
Thanks !
What app do you use for your iPad? My nest cameras on my desktop provide live feeds but on my iPad, they seem to be frozen images. Wondering if this is an app limitation or what. Any ideas?
Thank you very much for your knowledge and effort. During the narration I wanted to ask, your camera and alarm system caught my attention, if it is not special, can you share the brand and model you used?
Camera from unifi, reolink and Annke. Alarm system you can check out my other video on the channel, diy alarm system!
Can you teach us dashboard for Android phone users? Thank you
Great setup! What are you using to monitor each room temperature?
Thanks Dude! I'm using Aqara sensors, Ajax sensors & Tado thermostats
Nice work !
Much appreciated!
What do I miss? Suddenly I see a screen from Home assistant. Is this on the PC? Can I download that program? Where can I find it?
Hello! You need home assistant installed on a server running in your home first! checkout this free course if you are starting from scratch courses.leonardosmarthomemakers.com
I know access to views within dashboards can be limited to certain users. But can a user be locked to a specific dashboard?
super cool video - I'm halfway through and subscribing to your blog, but I can't find the document that you talk about around 14:09. I can't see dates on your blog posts so I'm having trouble. Thanks!!
Hey thanks for the feedback! Did you manage to find the blog post? Might be on page 2 of the blog
Great video💯
Thanks for commenting :)
Really appreciate your tutorials, you need to write a kindle book and sell on Amazon. It could be a best seller.
Hello, can I use a tuya cameras to see Live on the tablet?
Cane you gaid my where i see more info?
Can you access a rstp stream of the camera? Does it show as a camera entity in home assistant? Thanks Grad for commenting!
@@SmartHomeMakers hello , I will check and by back with more info. Tnx for support
How comes when you demo at the start your dashboards are nice looking with the dark theme but when you go to edit them they are regular white? Do I need to set a theme somewhere to get it to look like yours?
Hi Billy! Each user can pick their theme in the settings!
Do you have and videos on how to add ring doorbell to HA?
Sorry buddy don’t have a ring doorbell! Just a nest hello
Thank you
Thank you June for watching!
Awesome video. But how did you made that motion sensor "button" open a "window" with all motion sensors? I really want that feature!
Thanks for this video
I made a group in home assistant! I also did a dashboard live yesterday check that out!
Great video👍🏻 worth watching even if long. Let's say I have 3 window sensors, how would I achieve a single entity displayed in a card as open if any windows is open and closed only if all windows are closed and tapping the (button card?) entity would display all windows with each respective state?
Scenario would be if I'm leaving home I want to be able to glance at the dashboard to see if any window is open and if yes quickly find out which one. As a bonus an automated notification if leaving home with a window open (or light on or similar).
Hi Carl! You can create groups to combine entities together, that is what i did in my iPhone dashboard! Groups can be defined in the groups.yaml file. This evening I will add that code to the blog
@@SmartHomeMakers yes that's what I thought you did but I haven't done it by myself yet. Great content and you have yourself a new subscriber😊
@@carlnakamura4861 really appreciate taking out the time to comment and watch the video
Added the code in the blog just now, feel free to copy & paste it
@@SmartHomeMakers Wonderful, thanks a lot. I will check it out this weekend😊
Hi! I'm very new to all this home assistant stuff! I just bought a tablet so I can make a dashboard for my kitchen. Do I need to have a server of some sort running Home Assistant, or do I just need an app on my tablet?
Hello! Yes you need a server! Checkout my free HA course to get setup in under an hour!
Thank you! Did you use badnest to get your cameras?
Nope, do you think I should?
Hi,
Watched your video and followed it to the letter until i came to adding the weather to my grid..
i didn`t have anything in the grid to load in, you had a weather display.. how did you get that??
If you open a weather card? You should get it by default!
@@SmartHomeMakers i also dont have a weather card
looks good. Do you have this for monochrome ink screens?
Sorry I don't at this stage!
Thanks for an awesome video. Can I ask - where can I find out about the Apple TV scripts and the Plex integration? Cheers :-)
Have a look on my blog I have some articles about Apple TV and Plex
@@SmartHomeMakers many thanks. I’ve just been reading your blog now. Great to see these are standard integrations with HA. I love your Plex example to notify and stop Plex running for the kids at nighttime. That brings quite a few elements together and it’s pretty neat. Cheers! :-)
Could you tell me which card you used for the alarm panel?
Hi Cristian! The standard alarm panel and the button card
and this allow put the alarm panel into popup?
Hi. I am also developer (wordpress, javascript and react). i am wondering can i fully customise Home Assistant as i can do it with Wordpress. Can i create my themes etc ?
You can do a bunch of stuff and contribute in the HACS (home assistant community store) or in the actual project itself as it is open source
I tried to do something similar but all by grids end up in the middle of the screen and I have a ton of wasted space. It's like your middle grid is fine but make your right and left grids both black and you have to scroll down to see them. Hopeflly that makes sense. any idea what I am doing wrong?
Did you enable/disable the square toggle?
Maybe I missed it but when I'm on my iphone, do I first need to click on the specific iphone dashboard in order to see it or is there a way to indicate which device gets which dashboard to see ?
Yes you can setup the default dashboard on each device, let me know if you don't know how!
I'm stuck already (on the camera part) I don't see any "camera entities"... I have nest & unifi cams. How do I get to use them?
Have you integrated them in home assistant ? Can you find them in the developer tools?
is there any way to run home assistant without a raspberry or similar?
Hiya! You need to run home assistant on some server, instead of a cloud service
Great video! Does TTS message on the Sonos pause playing and then resume music afterwards? I can’t seem to figure that out.
Hi Kyle, you need a script to do that! I have the code on my blog in a Sonos article :)
@@SmartHomeMakers do you have a detailed video on using scripts. i dont mind that
@@xtremeideaz not at the moment :)
@@SmartHomeMakers amazing thank you!
How is it possible, that the tablet (with the Home-Assistant-Companion-App on Android) only can see some specific dashboards without a possibility to see the others?
So that guests can use this tablet but only see the dashboards I want them to.
Check under Lovelace settings you can turn them on/off by user
How you make nest thermostats work?? I can’t
Feel free to email me if you are stuck! Checkout a video from kris gaisford for a recent setup!
Hi Will you be able to do a smaller custom project for me?
Sure! Get in touch by email:)
I am just starting this, every video I find they all say "step by step" or "start from scratch" or.... I was so happy when you said you will explain everything I was so happy that finally I found what I wanted. But! What you mention as first step s actually where my biggest issue is and that is how to get the home assistant environment to work! No one seems to be interested in providing that information. So disappointing.
Hey Monsen! What are you struggling with? I have a free home assistant course that helps with installation and basic concepts!
Hello Sir, is there a way to make home assistant report immediately (or in real time) when an entity becomes unavailable or offline. I tried setting up an automation for this but it reports about 5 mins after the entity goes off.
Please suggestions will be appreciated.
Hello! In the automation you tried did you use the state as 'unavailable' as a trigger? Can you see a delay between the state and the actual notification? What device is this? local/ cloud and push or pull?
Can I use it to develop my own products UI and sell them??
Not sure what you mean ?:)
@@SmartHomeMakers HI~ I mean that if I join your course or pay the license fee to learn how to make this dashboard.
Can I use the software UI component for my own product and sell my own product.
My product is used in the industry and currently lacks a software interface.
@@yung-ihuang226 well free to reuse anything you learn from the courses as you wish, this dashboard is for home assistant and smart home in general
@@SmartHomeMakers BTW~ Is it native APP or web-based APP made by WebView component??
Great video. Out of curiosity, is this platform open source? To add custom coding or at a minimum modifying the styling sheet. Also, do you have a widget for adding a blueprint image of the house and to place shortcut buttons for various terminals on that blueprint for controlling them?
Hi Alvin! Yes home assistant is open source! not sure about the blueprint widgets? Feel free to email me if you can't explain in a comment!
@@SmartHomeMakers Wow. Thanks for the prompt reply. I'll send you an email.
how tf do i start home assistant
Just starting out? You can instal home assistant on many different types of hardware
I dont understand why my pages are so big ...is that normal ?
Not sure did you check your view settings ?
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Thanks buddy!
Is it free ?
You can achieve this all for free apart from the hardware like the tablet
Pretty decent video... but... bro.. you really need to buy a mic. WAY too much echo and reverb in the video. It's quite annoying.
Hey Mark! Thanks for the comment I do have a rode mic:) I’ll have a look at the settings !
@@SmartHomeMakers Wow, really? What are you shooting with? Distance? Maybe it's just the particular room and the sound is able to bounce off the walls and floor too much?
But anyway.. the content is good.
@@whiskeysauer Hard floors:) could check the latest video to see if it improved? Thanks!
No clue how to put cameras up etc .there must be a video where all essential conncetions instalations are made .this is last thing to do to arrange dashboard.
There are plenty :) my free home assistant course gets you up and running under an hour!
your entire code for a set up that doesn't need code? whoops to many of you guys out there that say one thing and mean another.. sorry I am gone!
Hi Buddy, you can create this without code! for those that want the code it is in the blog:)
@@SmartHomeMakers Well I am a bit gun shy any more.. With all the things people say on the internet.. well you know.. I am to old to sort it out.. Good luck brother! I am sure your a straight up fella..
@@tinkmarshino Take care of yourself :) catch you in the next one!
You going to fast.
Thanks for sharing!