6 ESSENTIAL Beginner's Tips After Installing Home Assistant

[@EverythingSmartHome]

What do you consider to be essential to your Home Assistant install!?

[@TheDiverJim]

My essentials are door and window sensors and alarm, also putting in a water flow sensor to track any leaks and confirm water meter accuracy from utilities.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

All very good suggestions!

[@TheDiverJim]

@@EverythingSmartHome well your video on the sonoff zigbee bridge was key to the first part.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

How have you been getting on with it?

[@TheDiverJim]

@@EverythingSmartHome the bridge works great, still working on speaker (needed an amp, now need time) and water flow sensor just needs to be plumbed in. Got all the code working. If you want to connect, i can feed you all my results and you can make videos on it.

[@metamoof]

Another video series you might consider, as you are a security professional, is how to secure a home automation network. I see no reason that my guests need to access my wifi lightbulbs or be on the same network as them, for example, but they do need to be able to send music to my Amazon echos, or chromecast to my tv. How do we keep all this relatively secure without spending too much (a home firewall, and maybe a cheap managed switch is probably within budget) or pulling your hair out with access rights, and apps not working?

[@OPMfan65]

This is a good reason to implement vlans in my home pfsense firewall and separate my home automation network from my actual home network and implement tighter security on the home automation network.

[@miguelgarcia-vg1fh]

Can you make a video on setting up system monitoring. If able to do through grafana even better

[@hybrispsycho1]

i second this

[@058Jacko]

I used to monitor HA through Grafana but decided I wanted it all in HA

[@miguelgarcia-vg1fh]

@@058Jacko but grafana is in HA

[@jozeffrisik]

Another great video, thank you again 👍🏻

[@fredman1956]

Thank you so much.

[@strikerz420]

Does it matter if i use my main pc to install add ons and not my server laptop? maby stupid question but very new to this

[@johndoudar6395]

What LED strip light would you recommend for use with HA? Am looking to install some shelf lighting to highlight my Vinyl collection. Thanks

[@vikramrajagopal5735]

Hi i am unable to see Google drive backup on my add-on stores what am i missing?TIA

[@joshuahaney1135]

What happens if you don’t have supervisor mode?

[@curiousjames]

Heya, I'm running the docker image of Home Assistant, which doesn't have supervisor from what I can tell, is that going to really limit my HA experience, and is it possible to run supervisor with the docker image somehow? Can't seem to find anything about this anywhere so would love to know please! Thanks!

[@paulprice]

I ran into this too. I'm on unRAID, but the solution is you have to run home assistant in a VM. there is a specific HA OS image you use to create the VM and then wham bam it's all there. I don't know why the docker version is so dumbed down, but it is.

[@SterileStreaming]

How did you get that graph card for your network throughput?

[@jeffrietjeopinternet]

Hi, I really like your video's They are great and very usefull. I run HA as a VDI within windows 10 (as a service) I would like to access the HassOS terminal thru Putty (SSL) Maybe you can make a video for that ;-) Anyway, keep up the good work!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Jeffrey! The process for that should be no different than listed here, did you try it?

[@jeffrietjeopinternet]

@@EverythingSmartHome Yes, I did but I keep getting 'Network error: Connection refused' I connect to my Ip adress port 2222 thrue SSL using my private key file for authentication (generate by putty Key gen after importing my privkey.pem)

[@EverythingSmartHome]

That's a little different to what was shown since your using a different port, any reason you want to use port 2222?

[@jeffrietjeopinternet]

@@EverythingSmartHome The use of port 2222 was something I read while googling, but there is a more important thing.... I had terminal & SSH installed instead of SSH & Web Terminal and didn't thing it made a difference.... It does! My bad! With SSH & Web Terminal it works fine. Thanks!

[@jeffrietjeopinternet]

And I didn't configurate terminal & SSH.... Completly forgotten after rebuilding my HA

[@n.r.2258]

I have another bonus tip: Learn to program because there is a ton of additional options especially under HACS, but only a few of them can be used without programming knowledge. In any case, the documentation of the entire system is made for nerds rather than beginners. My tip ... take 2 years off to get into the system to enjoy it or live it with a rudimentary setup.

[@moezsassi4001]

for how long you will always start from the beginning

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Sorry I don't understand the question?

[@hybrispsycho1]

great video i hadnt setup monitoring and i did mariadb but get this in logs 21-03-02 18:15:14 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.misc.tasks] Add-on core_mariadb will be ignored, schema tests failed i forgot about it til i saw the video. any idea why?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Mark, did you try uninstall and re-install the mariadb add-on?

[@hybrispsycho1]

@@EverythingSmartHome no i will try it. have had some recorder errors in logs probably caused by the same issue but its not been causing any issues so i forgot about it, will try a reinstall and ask for help in the discord if it doesnt work :) thanks as always

[@matthewreid9502]

Is there alternatives for the File Editers in HACs? Or is it best just to edit to config.yaml file directly?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

There isn't any file editors in HACS, but I would recommend using VSCode from the add-on store

[@matthewreid9502]

@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks for the quick response. I dont have the add on store as my HA was installed as a container.

[@TechySpeaking]

First

[@johndoudar6395]

Will V-Tec smart bulbs work with HA? I have purchased one with works ok with V-Tecs app but I cannot get it to show up in HA. I have installed a Conbee 2 USB gateway but still, nothing shows? Any tips?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hey John, I'm not sure sorry I've never used that brand before. Are they Zigbee or Wifi?

[@johndoudar6395]

@@EverythingSmartHome WiFi, I have a couple of Lifx bulbs that work great but there are a bit on the expensive side. Thanks anyway, what do you use/recommend?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

If they are WiFi then they won't work with the Conbee since that's for ZigBee. WiFi generally requires some sort of API to work, might be worth checking if they have one?

[@durtydeedsREI]

So, why don't I have a "Supervisor" tab after enabling "Advanced Mode"?

[@JoshFisher567]

Older video, supervisor is no longer an option like in this , thinks it's under development tools buvideot they did some GUI changes since this video.

[@Schlaegel]

6:27 - Systems monitoring: This gives an argument to enable it, but doesn't ever say how.

[@kevinmerrison6700]

Hi Lewis, with new HA Green set-up, working through your essentials guides. Have got system monitor integrated, but where to from there? After putting in some code to YAML got a message that System Monitor being withdrawn? The last tip regarding changing the database completely lost me? Is it still relevant? Thanks

[@marian2141]

Thanks for the tips! I'm steadily enabling them. I had a bit of fun with enabling ssh. Your instructions were perfect until we got to "get Putty and just login". I have a Mac so for any other Mac users, you don't need Putty, you just go to the terminal (in launchpad). Where you see the prompt (%) sign, type username@your_ip_address) and return. This is hassio unless you have changed it. Then the password prompt appears with an icon of a key (which I now know means nothing shows when you type in your password). If you're copying it from somewhere else used Edit > Paste as Command+V doesn't work in the terminal. Hit return. You should then be in Home Assistant! (This took me most of one afternoon to figure it out - but proud, oh so proud, I got there in the end!!!) 😂

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha well done for getting there!!

[@samuellewis2560]

These are fantastic things! The interface for a lot of these settings have changed. An update to this video with new settings might be really helpful for new people :)

[@RobRitchie-gk1ky]

Hi, I am in the process of trying to install SSH and web terminal. You suggested going to the supervisor store but I can’t find this. In one of your replies, you suggested going to the configuration tab but that isn't there. I tried Settings and there is an Add ins option there from which I eventually found SSH and web terminal. I have installed it but you suggested 'head on over to the configuration tab' for adding a password. There is no configuration tab? One of the big problems with using HA is that the tabs seem to change with very release and following tutorials just to get started in so frustrating. Any advice on how I can get to this configuration option as I can’t use SSH until I add a password. Thanks. Rob

[@rjbrowning85]

I am new to Home Assistant, and I found this video to be very helpful. Thank you for putting this video together.

[@JaneTaubman]

Thanks for this one, I would love a video on moving a Raspberry Pi install to a SSD.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@wizake]

@@EverythingSmartHome 1 2nd that. Your last tip made me a bit worried, as I've switched to MariaDB and I am running RPi with and SD card. I always thought it was a difficult process to move to an SSD ...so I havent bothered

[@paulk2074]

I'm for this aswell! :)

[@keyboard_g]

If Sqlite is slow, they’re doing something wrong in the code.

[@DIYtechie]

As an experienced user, I agree with these great tips 👍🏻

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks!!

[@daleholden]

Hi have you covered how to convert to Mariadb ? If not please consider a video showing it

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Not yet! But I sure will thanks!

[@totallynotgad]

Next time maybe a video on alternative voice assistants like Mycroft? Also first

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Sure will look into it!

[@MuhammadUmarMeo]

Hello, I have raspberry pi4 b with 2GB ram. What you recommend that I should switch to mariaDB or stick to SQlite? I am in the start of setup so I can make decision at this point. But after that when data get large it will be difficult switch. I am confused about the memory usage of MariaDB. As I have only 2GB of ram. Whats your expert advoice for this. Waiting for response. Thanks

[@praca1736]

it would be a good video if you gave the basics well, there is no supervisor and that's a bad thing

[@cdarrigo]

You didn't tell us how to install the monitoring solution or how to convert our existing database over to Maria DB

[@thibaultlegal6895]

Hi! Thanks for the videos, they are really informative. I want to use home assistant in docker but my understanding is that the supervisor and add-ons are not supported in docker. Is home assistant still worth using without them? All your videos relly heavily on them and i am having trouble integrating HA in my iot stack (with node-red mostly). Any advice?

[@themrsmarthome]

Great! Sync backups with the cloud is really essencial.For me, other add on absolutely essencial is Samba as well. Another great video, thanks!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

I agree they are all great too! Thanks Nelson! 🙏

[@francoisgroenewald8936]

SSH and web terminal not shown in my add ons. Where do I find it?

[@058Jacko]

Wanted a note editor.. you skimmed over the supervisor store.. how do I get that

[@TheDiverJim]

You ok bro? You look like you’re drained.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

I'm good thanks for asking, just long hours! But thanks for asking!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Or perhaps just not enough hours in the day 😂

[@TheDiverJim]

@@EverythingSmartHome keep up the great work, but take care of yourself first. Don’t want my favorite smart house KZbinr burning out on me.

[@GaryBarclay]

Also, please breathe, maybe shave to improve airflow! Great vids, thanks.

[@TheDiverJim]

@@EverythingSmartHome tell me about it. I’m in the middle of flipping a house, the head cyber security for a helicopter program, in the middle of a medical startup, and have 2 kids and a pregnant wife. Don’t be like me.

[@eleo95]

Awesome video dude! It would be nice if you could recommend us a scalable way to name our mqtt topics.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thank you!

[@ray_mck]

Sorry I'm late to the party, but I was advised to use the Homie naming convention. I'm not using Home Assistant yet, but I see there's a module to have things named in the homie style automatically discovered.

[@shlomom2882]

I can find in the add ons not the virual studio and no the file aditor what can i do?

[@juniorst]

Hi, Lewis! Your tutorial about set HA in to Alexa was the best! But as my HA grows my Alexa starts to be polluted. I don't want Alexa to know that I have several Input-Booleans. One video about that should be interesting

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Manoel, you can simply add the exclude-devices parameter to the HA devices to remove specific devices or even specific types of entities, check the HA documentation for details

[@juniorst]

@@EverythingSmartHome Shame on me! hahaha That was much more easy than I expected

[@mindiakhechumashvili5453]

Can you make a video about Reolink camera AI - human and car detection integration to HA. Thank you!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

I can try!

[@quiggles]

Great video - what do you use for the monitoring cards at around 7:00 in, specifically the bandwidth card? Cheers!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Gary! I think that was a custom card from HACS called "Apex" I believe!

[@praca1736]

supervisor is not visible, no ssh

[@morgaj21]

so, how I do I get "Supervisor" to show up on the sidebar. Bear in mind I am very new to this.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

It's moved to just "settings" now in the new versions

[@driftwoodturning6846]

Hi Lewis and community. I'm using a RPi 3 64 bit. to build my Home Automation system using HA. I have probably 20 sonoff switches a home cinema and the heating system. Sometimes I feel it struggles a bit. Would you suggest using a different system like a small build pc. Or is the Pi enought. Keep up the good work. Peter

[@sillvvasensei]

The SSH server is saying access denied when I entered my password. I entered the exact same username/password that I configured.

[@KennethNelan]

First - Mr. Lewis, thank you so much for the incredible amounts of information and tutorials. I have to pause quite a bit, but it's well worth it. But... I've noticed that watching these videos, some might now be outdated. For instance, there does not seem to be a supervisor button (menu item) anymore. I think I read somewhere where it was incorporated into the configuration button? I'm sure there are other things, but I'm learning and getting around. One thing specific to this video... I can't seem to find Visual Studio Code for the file editor. Again, I think I read it was something in HACS? I suppose that is the next thing I have to do... It seems that quite a few things have changed in 2022 with the latest updates... might I suggest maybe having some updated tutorials? ;) Also - I noticed after changing the "Advanced" setting, that I can no longer log into the web interface by going to homeassistant.local:8123 - I have to use the IP address directly... I've done that now several times, but haven't tried it backwards to see if turning it off returns the URL... hmm... I'll have to try that...

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! The supervisor menu moved into configuration > add-ons yes. It's just a name change. VSCode is still there exactly the same, go to add-ons and you'll see it. It doesn't have anything to with file editor :) None of these are really that outdated, if they are then I update them with new ones (like ESPHome was so I made a new video) Advanced mode doesn't have anything to do with homeassistant.local - that's more of a network thing Hope that helps

[@KennethNelan]

@@EverythingSmartHome See, now you hooked me in!!! Nah - I was already hooked by your vids and will def send you a quite a few cuppas!!!! I couldn't find the VSCode... strange... and I did reverse the Advanced mode and the homeassistant.local came back... very strange - I'll check me router to see if'n it's an internal problem thingy. Lewis - yer videos are probably the most informative and great to watch. Thank you, Sir. It's unfortunately night here and I'm headed to bed - look for those cuppas - heading there now!!!! :D

[@JoshFisher567]

@@KennethNelan For backups I have been using the auto backup integration from HACs for backups. The below creates a backup of just the specified portions of HA (not a full backup). I also have scripts for a full daily backup and snapshot cleanups that delete any backup over a certain amount of days specified. I do recommend copying them via raynch or some script to another network location. This saves it to the default backups directory with samba wnab6. The below runs every 8 hours and you can see the keep days is 9 days. Besides the OS backup it's only backing up the add-ons and folders specified. It keeps it in the format below. Last incremental and full backup. Just install from HACs and do anysetup needed. You can copy and paste the YAML below for the 3 automations by creating an automation and switching to YAML mode. Just watch out for the spacing. AutoBackup: Sun, 8:00 AM (19/06/2022) Home Assistant, Share, SSL, MariaDB, RPC Shutdown, Taut DailyBackup: Sunday, June 19, 2022 Full backup alias: Perform Auto Backup trigger: - platform: time_pattern hours: /8 action: - service: auto_backup.backup_partial data_template: name: 'AutoBackup: {{ now().strftime(''%a, %-I:%M %p (%d/%m/%Y)'') }}' addons: - core_mariadb - core_rpc_shutdown - a0d7b954_tautulli folders: - homeassistant - share - ssl keep_days: 9 mode: single Daily full backup at 4am alias: Perform Daily Backup trigger: - platform: time at: '04:00:00' condition: - condition: time weekday: - mon - tue - wed - thu - fri - sat - sun before: '00:00:00' after: '00:00:00' action: - service: auto_backup.backup_full data_template: name: 'DailyBackup: {{ now().strftime(''%A, %B %-d, %Y'') }}' keep_days: 9 mode: single Snapshot cleanup: alias: Daily snapshot clean up initial_state: 'on' trigger: - platform: time_pattern minutes: '59' condition: null action: - service: clean_up_snapshots_service.clean_up data: {} I'm not sure how it retains the keep days (possibly Marinade or SQL) but that determines how long they are stored until deleted. The full runs daily, you could easy alter it to run more then once a day or have the partial snapshots run every 4 hours instead of 8. The cleanup runs every 59 minutes.

[@gam3955]

hi, thanks a lot for these tips. I’m new with HA blue and Conbee 2 but the range is limited and doesn’t cover my house and sometimes the latency is high. what can I do ? thanks for your your response. I use Hue and Tradfri devices.

[@michael_house]

Great video, thanks. Just commenting for the yt algo as always. Appreciate the effort.

[@JoshFisher567]

I have been using the auto backup integration from HACs for backups. The below creates a backup of just the specified portions of HA (not a full backup). I also have scripts for a full daily backup and snapshot cleanups that delete any backup over a certain amount of days specified. I do recommend copying them via raynch or some script to another network location. This saves it to the default backups directory. The below runs every 8 hours and you can see the keep days is 9 days. Besides the OS backup it's only backing up the add-ons and folders specified. It keeps it in the format below. Last incremental and full backup. AutoBackup: Sun, 8:00 AM (19/06/2022) Home Assistant, Share, SSL, MariaDB, RPC Shutdown, Taut DailyBackup: Sunday, June 19, 2022 Full backup alias: Perform Auto Backup trigger: - platform: time_pattern hours: /8 action: - service: auto_backup.backup_partial data_template: name: 'AutoBackup: {{ now().strftime(''%a, %-I:%M %p (%d/%m/%Y)'') }}' addons: - core_mariadb - core_rpc_shutdown - a0d7b954_tautulli folders: - homeassistant - share - ssl keep_days: 9 mode: single Daily full backup at 4am alias: Perform Daily Backup trigger: - platform: time at: '04:00:00' condition: - condition: time weekday: - mon - tue - wed - thu - fri - sat - sun before: '00:00:00' after: '00:00:00' action: - service: auto_backup.backup_full data_template: name: 'DailyBackup: {{ now().strftime(''%A, %B %-d, %Y'') }}' keep_days: 9 mode: single Snapshot cleanup: alias: Daily snapshot clean up initial_state: 'on' trigger: - platform: time_pattern minutes: '59' condition: null action: - service: clean_up_snapshots_service.clean_up data: {} I'm not sure how it retains the keep days (possibly Marinade or SQL) but that determines how long they are stored until deleted. The full runs daily, you could easy alter it to run more then once a day or have the partial snapshots run every 4 hours instead of 8. The cleanup runs every 59 minutes.

[@romanykemp9042]

Very helpful vid - even 2 years old. Thanks for pulling it together...

[@rogerjenson5689]

The ZeroTier add-on is a must have for me to integrate Home Assistant into my existing ZeroTier environment.

[@TenshiR]

69 likes on the initial question🤔.......NICE!

[@01bugger]

Can you share the setup for that BW card? Looks good.

[@MAXSHNC]

i cant open homeasissent Webseite

[@magicmanj32]

Great tips, Subscribed

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Craig!

[@luisabanto7563]

I have a Home Assistant Blue, should I convert my db to Mariadb?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hello, as long as you aren't using an SD card you should be OK!

[@pfurrie]

I had been using (or trying to use) "Terminal & SSH" but now am looking at "SSH & Web Terminal." The one I'm using rates at 6 (of 6) for security, where the one you suggest rates 1 (lowest) for security. Am surprised you are recommending the option with the lowest security rating. Thoughts?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

There is no risk in terms of security unless you open up the SSH port to the internet (which I wouldn't recommend) or if someone gets onto your network, but you have the same problem with the other one. I don't believe the security rating if the other one to be accurate either. It's entirely up to you, I see no difference in security between them personally :)

[@fredzibulski3111]

hello there how to i enable that supervisor app store in HA ?

[@ronnymatthies4600]

Maybe a stupid question but: How the hack do I get to see the systems monitor after adding the information to configuration.yaml...?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Check in Dev tools, states and you should have some new sensors!

[@bearhntr928]

Not seeing this 'System Monitor" you discuss in the Add-ons page (I have Advanced Mode enabled). 😥

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Systems monitor is an integration not an add-on

[@ShavedAp3]

Any chance your going to do a video on how to use ssh to fix issues? You say we should enable it but not how it can be used. I have little to no experience with ssh so knowing the basic commands that might help me fix HA would help a lot. I love your videos by the way I find them really helpfull and they have helped me a lot.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks, appreciate it! The problem is whilst I would love to, it's hard to anticipate specific problems people might have since everyone has different devices and equipment. But I'll keep it in mind!

[@andrewgilbride7546]

Top tip, now lockdown is easing don’t waste your time, get to the pub instead, wasted so much time on HA .

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha now that is a top tip!

[@sailava88]

Hi how did you get supervisor on your left and I unable to downloaded visual studio code could you please help advise

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Settings > add-ons now :)

[@bearhntr928]

I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. However....one of my biggest questions is 'why does your screen look so much more different than mine?" I have noticed a lot of videos there is a SUPERVISOR menu option on the left-menu. I have installed the INTEL NUC version to a stand-alone box to an internal SSD - using an UBUNTU Live CD and Etcher to do the installation there. I have no problems -- except that the WIFI is not seen (and thinking the Bluetooth either) -- but notice that the menus are not the same.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

The menus changed in the last release, the supervisor menu is now under configuration > add-ons, backups and supervisor

[@bearhntr928]

@@EverythingSmartHome Thank You - I have been able to find it there. Are you running installation on a Debian box, or something else? I really want to get WiFi working - and I was given that suggestion.

[@JoeZimmerman-zimmer62]

Are you sure MariaDB will shorten a SD cards life? And by how much? I haven’t gone down that path yet but really how much more intensive is MariaDB for write operations? SD cards are cheap and replacing / upgrading every few years is probable... but if MariaDB shortens to weeks or months it’s not worth it.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Maybe not much more but the lifespan of SD cards on Home Assistant is quite short as it is (depending on your install) so I wouldn't advise anything that could potentially shorten it more. I don't recommend SD cards for the long term anymore

[@JoeZimmerman-zimmer62]

@@EverythingSmartHome Fingers crossed I've never lost an SD card in a raspberry pi (running 3 or 4 of them 24x7 for about 5 years now) BUT... I've taken your advice and I just put an SSD on my Home Assistant Pi. Thanks.

[@flyingmonkey3822]

Tasmota add on refuses to install, is there a log or something where I can start troubleshooting?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Check your supervisor logs, supervisor > system

[@metamoof]

So, backups are essential, as you say, this is going to be running my house. I’m currently on a raspberry pi, and I’m worried that if it breaks, I may be waiting days to receive a replacement by post, but I don’t like the idea of just keeping an unpowered pi in a box as a potential replacement, as you cannot guarantee that will work when you unbox. Are there HA solutions, or other temporary recovery solutions should my main hardware break?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hello! The main issue you will most likely to run into on the Pi this the SD card (if you are using one) so having a spare SD card is a great idea. The actual Pi hardware is unlikely to fail unless your unlucky. But if it does do you have a spare laptop or any other hardware?

[@metamoof]

@@EverythingSmartHome I do have a laptop I use for home stuff, as opposed to my work laptop. I suppose I could run a containerised home assistant that I could rescue from the online backup

[@JohnSmith-jz6qv]

What if You do not have Supervisor installed?. How to SSH?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hey John, depending on which OS you srr using you may already have SSH installed and enabled

[@fabbrorandomlife]

I have HAsupervised installed in docker. If i try to ssh with the ip address i log into the server itself and not homeassistant. If i add the port i get error could not resolve. What im doing wrong?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Is there a reason you want to be inside the HA container?

[@fabbrorandomlife]

@@EverythingSmartHome not for now 🤣 just to try

[@wchorski]

the plugin store is now under "configuration" tab now

[@EverythingSmartHome]

It is indeed!

[@pennakira]

thank you for the video, I am running HA core on unraid in a docker. can you point me in the correct direction for installing these addons? thank you

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thabks for the comment! You might want to check out the video I did a couple of videos ago about the different installation types. Add-ons are only available in some install types

[@pennakira]

@@EverythingSmartHome thank you, I will check it out.

[@media.islamicityTV]

2:00 enable SSH

[@gregoriodia]

Why install VSCode or some file editor if you have a terminal and vi? ;)

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Then you probably wouldn't be watching a beginner's tips video would you ;) plus VSCode will autofill and suggest based on actual Home Assistant code and actual sensors names, vi will not do this ;)

[@JoshFisher567]

Obviously if you have taken the time to learn Vi you can manage yaml. Most people would be lost using Vi. I know I was the first time I used it. Obviously it's very powerful after learning some basic commands but some people are going to prefer nano. I used Notepad++ with a samba share. No reason slowing down the HA server t With a bloated text editor. I've got an older NUC and VS still takes too lo6 to load IMO.

[@renevogelvang8546]

ssh??? I use HA 3 years and i never has use ssh

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Cool!

[@rob1971]

Thanks again for another informative video Lewis 👍🏻 1) ✔️ 2) ✔️ 3) ✔️ - it's worthwhile installing the Home Assistant Google Drive Backup for an extra layer of protection 4) ✔️ 5) I didn't know about that one, thank you! 6) ✔️ 7) I'll look into MariaDB - will it be ok with a Raspberry Pi 4B 4Gb running on an M.2 SSD? I've found a few of those our through trial and error, but it's good to have a few more pointers.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Cheers Rob! Good you have most of them down! You will probably be OK with an SSD, certainly in terms of not wearing the disc you will but more comes down to speed, I think you will be totally fine. Give it a shot and see!

[@rob1971]

@@EverythingSmartHome I guess if it does fail I've got my Google Drive backups to restore from 😉

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha don't worry you can always revert back easily!

[@rugbycressard]

@@EverythingSmartHome how do you actually turn on mariadb?

[@nielslangkilde9255]

Nice quick and clean list.. THANKS..

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Niels!

[@johndoudar6395]

You did not explain how to install system monitor?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hi John, Not yet! But if you look in the section where I talked about visual studio code, you can see the lines that are used to enable systems monitoring

[@johndoudar6395]

@@EverythingSmartHome Got it, thanks.

[@MarkGhali]

Wait so HOW do we switch to MariaDB?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

I can try to cover it soon!

[@mkjustuk]

Yeah that would be great as I don't want to write-off my HA install as a result 😁

[@davidheron1505]

That was fascinating. Thank you.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks for watching!

[@user-zr7kz4vs7c]

Great video! 😍

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thank you!! 🙏

[@pavlovsky0]

... but if you install homeassistant in a linux container then you don't need any of those things ... openssh, vim, python all come in the linux container, no app store needed.

[@Flytrappa]

Is it possible to add bluetooth dimmers and switches in home assistant? and how?

[@whadat2000]

Hi, I did install the HACS and I have noticed in my logs I have this message: "You are using a custom integration hacs which has not been tested by Home Assistant. This component might cause stability problems, be sure to disable it if you experience issues with Home Assistant". Is this a regular message that I can ignore?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

This is normal!

[@malcb1864]

Do I need to know coding to run this? Total new to this and have no idea how to start or how it works.

[@exputesco]

A lot of this what you are showing here has changed dramaticaly!! No Snapshot no vscode in Add-on store etc. I have troubble to get that stuff... Ahhhh HELP :D Board: RasPi 4b 8gb Ram

[@EverythingSmartHome]

The only things that have changed is snapshots is called backups now (literally it's just a name change) and supervisor menu has now moved under configuration menu. VSCode is there and still exists. So I wouldn't say a lot has changed 😜

[@exputesco]

@@EverythingSmartHome Ahhm ja I see. I thought there are missing menus in the new supervisor. and the SVCode has just another icon than the desktop version. I'm dumb :D Sorry for bothering... Btw Thanks for the guides and the quick answer!! im quite new and it really helps :)

[@tfdsu]

Regarding backups, just wanted to add some personal insight. I was moving HA to another hardware (VM on NAS turned out to be lousy idea) and restore process failed: animated circle progress bar (how do you call it really?) was running indefinitely. Tried this operation thrice from the scratch, last time left it runing for whole night - nope, didn't happen. All can I say is initital HA setup was made about 1.5 years ago, was updated on regular basis, no problem here. When I moved HA to NAS VM backup restore worked fine, but moving it back failed. Luckily my current HA setup is quite simple, so it's no big deal, but still a thing to mention.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Yeah that's never good, luckily you didn't have too much to rebuild! I guess this goes along with backups and that's actually testing them so that when you come to use them you know they are reliable. Wonder what went wrong though? I've heard nothing but good things about the HA snapshots so I'm surprised!

[@tfdsu]

@@EverythingSmartHome same here: my previous restore went just fine, no idea what went wrong. The only thing comes to mind is that recent fresh install was based on VMDK image, while previous was not, but it shouldn't be an issue. Regardless, I obtained a habit of re-checking snapshots once in a while =O