10 Best Home Assistant Features This Year! - Rewind 2024

[@CraigTinson]

Happy New Year Lewis.. and also congratulations on a successful year for ESH (KZbin and Company).. I know you work hard and you deserve this!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thank you my friend, happy new year to you and your family! 🎊🎉

[@ericbelanger6900]

Thanks you very much for everything you do for our community. Happy new year to you and loved ones.

[@AdamW-c2m]

The biggest improvement to HA to massively grow the user base would be the addition of Homey Pro style flows, ie the ability to create advanced automations using a drag and drop visual interface. That would make it easier for all users but especially for non programmers, making HA more accessible to everyone. The extra users would also encourage more manufacturers to directly support HA make the platform more reliable for all.

[@yintheyang18]

Happy new year! I got into HA this year, I got a HA yellow and your videos were very useful in setting it up and learning my around. Thank you for that

[@michaelsleen]

As soon as I saw your video title, my first thought was drag and drop sections were game changing.

[@matthiasbohm1504]

Lovely Sweater! 😀 And many thanks for your hard work!

[@jamegrabham9992]

Merry, merry Lewis, and a Happy New Year…love the sweater…😊

[@GlennPierce]

Merry Christmas Pethaps next year an idea for a video would be investigration the lowest power hardware / gpu you can get away with for using ollama with homeassistant.

[@GlennPierce]

Ideally I would like a really simple small AI model that deals with natural language commands turning on / off devices reporting temps etc all related to a smart home. This should be able to be run locally on lesser hardware. It would fallback to cloud for general purpose questions. So maybe Homeassistant sentence handling -> Local small smarthome model -> CharGPT If the local model was good enough obviously get rid of homeassistant sentence handling.

[@MartinHiggs84]

Happy New Year Lewis to you and your family.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Happy New Year! 🎊🎉

[@Gamen4Bros]

Happy new year guys n girls❤ 2024 was my worst year ever (even made a lil vid on it) But one of the positives was more home assistant tinkering🫶🏼❤️ Thanks to you & other KZbinrs

[@louisviciedo]

Native webrtc was my fav

[@Jaw0lf]

Happy New Year Lewis. Best part was buying one of your Everything Presence Sensors!!

[@kevinhenryviii]

All the best Lewis and family.🎉

[@OGKenG]

Lewis, Love the curtains.

[@ronm6585]

Thank you and Happy New Year.

[@Jaabaa_Prime]

Love the jumper! Happy new year!

[@eduardocenteno3769]

Happy New Year! Keep these great videos coming!

[@Tillering101]

Would love to see a video on installation tutorials for integrations that have been recently fixed, such as the one for TP Link Tapo cameras, etc..

[@gerryf7015]

Happy and successful New Year, Lewis

[@ThomasKnowlesIsGreat]

No one’s opened those presents :(

[@EverythingSmartHome]

We've been opening a couple per day with my son so he learns to play with them instead of being overwhelmed with them all at once 😅

[@KrispKiwi]

filmed before christmas

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Normally it's filmed before Christmas but this was this morning

[@KrispKiwi]

@@EverythingSmartHome :o

[@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka]

​@@EverythingSmartHome That is actually a really great idea! I've got a 2 year old at home & I think I might give this a go for her birthday. I doubt she will complain at a whole week of presents instead of one lousy morning. Thank you for making my home smarter & myself smarter too! ⭐

[@sdfhjklhsfdjdsflhkds]

Thanks Lewis! Out of curiosity, are you still using Minimalist for your mobile dashboard or are you now using the 'new' dashboard capabilities released last yer? If you have made a change, perhaps you can consider publishing an updated 'how to' on dashboard building. The two you did for Minimalist and Mushroom cards were very useful for people like me.

[@msimaker]

Hi Lewis. When will the EP lite configuration tool work in HA for EP1?

[@1989bartek89]

Lewis, I don't understand what you mean with timer entities in HA. They've been available as helpers for as long as I can remember (?)

[@fastgalix]

Had exactly the same question. Timers exist as helpers and entities otherwise I have some very odd HA install O.o.

[@briangkehoe]

I presume that thistle paint and tartan dye is only available in Scotland? It looks great 👍🏻

[@crazyturtleSmallcat]

can you do a walkthrough of using home assistant with unifi, please!

[@dfgdfg_]

Local voice with the preview is a bit slow on my 4 thread NAS. I have a 12 thread server with plenty of RAM, can I offload the local voice processing to it somehow?

[@richardharvey586]

That jumper 😂

[@aniketrangari5087]

Shipping charges are more than lite sensor in india 5k for shipping and 3k for lite sensor

[@davidhite1868]

What's your favorite c word?

[@thespencerowen]

Nice

[@careercrim]

Thistle be good 👍

[@YasinHasan]

i just started using HA since last month, looks like everything was added just before i bought it 😂

[@Raymond.Jansen]

Thanks for all your videos this year (and before). Best wishes (and hopefully videos) for 2025!

[@fredrikwendt9696]

Would love an easier way to update a scene. I often click a button on a dashboard to apply a scene, but then make small changes using the controls for the involved lights (still on the (mushroom) dashboard). Now, If I want to update the scene's settings (ie the value of the devices included in the scene), my fastest route to achieve this is: get onto a computer go to the scene make a copy (duplicate) edit the duplicate, copy it's yaml definition go to the original scene edit as yaml paste and fix top two lines A lot of steps instead of a simple "Update scene with the devices' current settings".

[@TechySpeaking]

So, what's your FIRST favorite C-word?

[@AttilaTamas112]

croissant

[@nasabear]

"Chocolate", of course...

[@joep9912]

Coding?

[@jonathanrollins2470]

Cannelure?

[@leonkernan]

Community, consumerism, control..

[@rafac13]

thank you HA for completely destroying my home assistant from the last update

[@demorez5]

the dashboard improvements have been a bit of a disappointment for me. while they work good where they work, none of the third party cards i use implemented them...

[@JamesMyatt1]

Everything Presence Dual 🤔

[@pierre-olivierbouchard2817]

I spotted Everything Presence Pro first... new hardware coming soon it seems :)

[@JamesMyatt1]

@@pierre-olivierbouchard2817 Pro is already announced. It's a One with extra features like POE.

[@mdmk]

Thank you for the wonderful review of our progress together! 😊 What are your predictions for 2025? 😉

[@DaHaiZhu]

I don't get Dashboards. Why do they collapse and expand by "row" when everything is laid out in Columns? Seriously, if Dashboards where laid out in Rows, then new rows would start below the tallest section in the previous row. But instead, it's laid out ensuring sections below directly abut sections above of that column. Very confusing. I don't use.

[@petertaylor7134]

Is it time to move away from minimalist?