Whilst I'm appreciative of the love given to the climate entity UI, we still need a much cleaner way to assign schedules to it - a programmable thermostat is probably the most useful home automation yet it is still really challenging to achieve in Home Assistant.

@lawrencemanning

9 ай бұрын

Yes! I have a Hive setup and whilst the integration works fine, it would be great to move the scheduling under HA control. I don’t fancy implementing a convoluted automation, which is what I’d have to do right now I think. (It would be nice to manage the Hive cloud schedule in HA instead of HA “running” it, but I can see that being a load of work which is no benefit to other heating systems)

@philip_fletcher

9 ай бұрын

@@lawrencemanning I'd just like HA to enable the creation of a programmable thermostat functionality - I was excited by the new scheduler a few releases back but it's just binary on/off - you can't assign temperature targets to time slots. You also have to 'join' the climate to the schedule via na automation rather than just selecting it from the climate control card.

@espressomatic

9 ай бұрын

Scheduling in HA is the pits for anything, let alone climate. A third-party add-on via HACS like Simple Scheduler vastly improves it, but it's going to be somewhat messy to have climate schedules mixed in to the same list as anything else you have scheduled.

@Paul_Munro

9 ай бұрын

The idea with home assistant is automation over scheduling. Try setting up automations that work on rules such as x y are home, it's 1830 set heating temps to 21deg, else keep at 15deg.

@philip_fletcher

9 ай бұрын

@@Paul_Munro Automations and schedules are not mutually exclusive - heating often has to be scheduled - eg underfloor heating often takes 2-3hrs to come up to temperature so would be chilly unless you have a very long commute 🙂 A schedule can/should be supplemented with automations.

This year has had so many new things! Year of the voice... tile cards... too much to keep up with. I'd love an end of year review showing what you think are the best and how you've incorporated them with a nice how-to. Love your channel!

thank you for keeping me updated. could you make a video near the end of the year of your recommedations on addons and what to connect to eco system?

Thanks for the updates!!

The SwitchBot Cloud integration is to support a wifi only plug only sold in Japan and add the support of the hub infra red functions. For now, it only supports on/off.

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Yep that makes sense thanks!

@IggyJackson

9 ай бұрын

darn, I was really hoping to be able to use my temp/humidity sensors finally

@SeraphicRav

9 ай бұрын

@@IggyJackson Why not use an ESP32 to be a Bluetooth proxy? It is actually super easy to install. Buy one, plug it into your PC, open the browser, go to esp home, select Bluetooth proxy, follow instructions, remove from PC, set it where you want.

Thanks for the review

Video/Series Idea: Best custom/HACS integrations and love lace cards would be really good. Just found out about a scheduler component+card which in itself is amazing already, another one is a sun horizon card (Looking just like the one in the Google app).

Thanks for the video Lewis! Cool shirt bro 😁

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Jamie! 🙏🏻

they need to allow complete freedom to css without the limited custom-card addon :(

The password manager fix is probably the only bit of this I'll actually use but hey, nice to finally have that sorted. Although I'm intrigued by that private ble one, I'll need to look into it

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Nothing wrong with some good old fashioned bug fixes 😅

@eldaria

9 ай бұрын

That password managers did not work for so long has been so annoying.

@espressomatic

9 ай бұрын

It's always worked fine with BitWarden. Was this a 1Password-specific issue?

Great summary as always!

@EverythingSmartHome

8 ай бұрын

🙏🏻

How do you get the heat en cool on the climate card?

Thanks again for the informative overview. 😊

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@dsdlonyer

9 ай бұрын

@@EverythingSmartHome my pleasure, I really enjoy your content and you explain things very well. 'Nice' 😊

Nice update. Do you have a Pi5 video planned? I'd really like to see how it runs Supervised alongside a dashboard app or similar that doesn't require a paid subscription.

Having SwitchBot cloud support also means being able to control devices in another physical location. Don't know how much that use case will be useful, but having options is always nice.

@timredd

9 ай бұрын

I've been using the Tailscale integration in HA for nearly two years. This allows you to access your HA from remote locations over the Internet. It's also encrypted end to end, same as a VPN. I can connect from anywhere with my phone using the HA app to monitor and control all my devices.

@WarpedFlayme

9 ай бұрын

@@timredd I'm not saying there aren't other ways to enable remote "local" integration, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't want to figure out VPN or SD-WAN systems just to control some lights or curtains. Like I said, more options is better than fewer options. If someone would rather use a cloud service instead of learning network engineering as a hobby, they should be able to do that.

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Good idea! Agree more options is more better!

@netblue

8 ай бұрын

@timredd Colour me confused. Isn't the HA app doing that already (with a Nabucasa subscription ) ?

I totally trust you Bro!

Thanks so much for all your effort on this, I have one issue and I wonder if you could assist me. When I tried to configure an automation script for example. Play media on my Amazon Echo when an alarm is triggered. In the process of creating the script: In the "Action" tab ---> "select media". When I select my Amazon Echo device, I get this message: "Media player does not support browsing media", I don't have the option to select the media file media I have placed in the media folder. Any idea why I am not seeing the option to select the media file? Thank You Kwame

Your DYI Sensor , can it work with hubitat?🤔

Thanks.

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Ron!

How many memes do you wanna fit in this video? Everything Smart Home: Yes!

Wha..... Private BLE is huge. I'll no longer need to rely on HA tracking my fitbit for presence if I can now start tracking my phone (Samsung with it's annoying randomised BT MAC)

Nice :)

@EverythingSmartHome

8 ай бұрын

🙌

Hi Lewis! How is the "Year of the Voice" going so far? My smart home project got delayed so I'm not able to check for myself for now! Is it easy now to interract with Home Assistant by voice locally? Cheers :)

@netblue

9 ай бұрын

Nah ,I just wanted to implement it as well and it is a convoluted mess with no clear easy path to install. I wish it would be an itegration called local voice support or such .Instead you have to install like 5 things ,not clear which one does what exactl yand how do they integrate which each other, and read tomes of documents which leaves you juut as confused as before. Gave up and will revisit later when I have a freee weekend to play. Besides with no Bluetoth speaker support and some sort of wireless mike I don't see how any of the stuff that exists even would work for those that have the HA pc stuffed in a proper closet out of view. Would love for for soemeone to prove me wrong .

@ViaNocturna85

8 ай бұрын

@@netblue the real issue for me is the connection to the likes of Alexa or Google Assistant. There's no easy way to keep your regular assistant, and then pass through commands like "Alexa, tell Home Assistant...". Instead on like an Android phone you can replace Google Assistant with Home Assistant as the default, but whilst you then have the ability to control your home, you lose the functionality of Google Assistant using the wake word

@netblue

8 ай бұрын

@ViaNocturna85 Fair. I Can't personally think of a use case to pass voice commands to Alexa or Google Home at all 😀 .They both are much slower to respond even natively ( I guess maybe to ask the weather or news) .I got the HA local voice to work ,only 2 integrations to jnstall and tts is straight forward though it has duplicate settings but quality of voices is not great ( being super generous here ) compared to the cloud one ( Nabu casa) . I would say it is still experimental and incipent. Give it another year.

Nice shirt!

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

🙏🏻

What fan are you using that has those presets? I need a fan with "TURBO!" And having "Fan go brrrr" would certainly be a nice to have during those hot summer months.

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Haha just a demo fan I create with some templates, I wish I had a fan with those modes too

Showing this error message Waiting for the Home Assistant CLI to be ready... [WARN]Home Assistant CLI not starting! Jump into emergency console.... # _ Any solutions??

for year of voice, where are wake words?

I have a CT50 by Radio Thermostats and I want to make it run the fan for x minutes per y hours. Still cannot figure this out. Yes I am a programming dummy.

The "Home Assistant Release Notes:" link is broken

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Fixed thanks!

Need to update the logo on your overlay. 😬

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Good point!! 👀

Full release notes for 2023.10: The logo has been changed.

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Over 1k PRs for a logo change, impressive 😅

My password manager shows the password in the drop down now, but it still cannot fill the password into the box. I'm devastated :,)

Fan go brrrr 😂

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

🥶🥶

@michaelthompson657

9 ай бұрын

@@EverythingSmartHome 🤣🤣

You're getting more buffed up every video. HA somehow helping with that? I could use that entity

@EverythingSmartHome

8 ай бұрын

😂

How about HA would be getting stable? Everyday something doesn’t work, everyday something need to take care about. HA sucks really.

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Have never had anything that didn't work in years that was not my own fault from making changes, what's not working for you?

@netblue

9 ай бұрын

Well ,I would agree it is quite unstable if not rebooted weekly for sure ,sometimes twice a week. Some integrations or devices stop working randomly. Just think of it as Windows 2.0 ,or 95 if you want to be generous. I depends on the numer of integrations and devices. I see the same thing and the rebooting thing works.

@stephencoakley

8 ай бұрын

I've not really had any issues at all, and my HA will go months, if not over a year, without a reboot..?

@CarAudioInc

8 ай бұрын

or just don't update for a bit until you have time to sort out your breaking changes? I definitely feel you, but ha is awesome

@heimatliebeMM

8 ай бұрын

@@CarAudioInc thanks for your comment, yes from now on I don’t update anything and will try to not restart HA! There are so many different things, Android TV Remote lose connection all the time, a solution is not in sight, my Aqara FP2 via HomeKit integration drives me crazy, suddenly a Aqara temperature sensor shut down and can’t reconfigure, WLED in my scenes works perfect until a update, suddenly not and my stripes do strange things and a downgrading doesn’t solve the problem, Eufy Security also a big problem, suddenly can’t control the outdoor cam anymore while all other wired cameras still working good. As you can see so many things what doesn’t work.

Great video. But HA still uses a subscription based cloud service forcing our data into the cloud rather than staying local with Matter Bridging to Google and Amazon assistants..#LocalisPrivate #MatterBridge

@espressomatic

9 ай бұрын

Umm, I don't subscribe to any HA cloud services.

@EverythingSmartHome

9 ай бұрын

Not sure what your referring to here sorry? There is literally nothing you HAVE to use a cloud subscription on HA for. You can, but in no way are you forced to

@JanPeterDeVries

9 ай бұрын

Some features are made a bit easier with Nabu Casa but all of them can be done without it. In fact I have the subscription but my HA has evolved beyond it and I don't even use the features anymore, just consider it a kind of Patreon to support the HA team.