Home Assistant Beginners Guide: Installation, Addons, Integrations, Scripts, Scenes, and Automations

Home assistant is the most powerful home automation platform available with almost limitless possibilities. This video is designed to help you get your feet wet and learn your way around the basic configuration of home assistant including installation, addons, integrations, scripts, scenes, and automations.

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2:30 RaspberryPi Installation
4:02 Virtual Machine Installation
6:22 Initial Hass.io Setup
8:55 Essential Addons
11:07 Adding Devices to HA
15:03 Scripts and Automations

Links:
[Hassio Raspberry Pi Installation]
Hassio Install Files: https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/installation/
RaspberryPi Wi-Fi Setup Template: https://github.com/home-assistant/hassos/blob/dev/Documentation/network.md


[Hassio Virtual Machine Installation]
VirtualBox Install Files: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Hassio VMDK Download*: https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/installation/
*VMDK Comes ZIPPED as a .gz file, you may need a program to unzip it. I recommend 7zip: https://www.7-zip.org/
Install VirtualBox Service (start on boot): https://youtu.be/vnie-PJ87Eg?t=644