Home Assistant Beginner's Setup Guide 2020 with Node red, Google drive, Samba, File editor - How to

[@oldmang9962]

I know I am late to the Home Assistant party, but I am finally aboard, I am finding your video's very helpful. I will be installing HA over the next day or so, and now I am feeling more confidant that I can get it working. Thanks

[@sven1858]

Thank you, I've been struggling to get Node Red going in HA, I've used it before in docker on a server. So you've just gained a new subscriber 👍

[@HomeSight]

Glad I could help!

[@luisma1161]

Just added a new subscriber to your channel as probably many here I am trying to learn as much as possible about how to set up HA without having any coding knowledge. This video in particular was great to get a few of the add ons. Coming from Smartthings this is daunting and although there are Docs available there is much missing from them, steps that whoever wrote them didn't consider would be needed for un starters. Please keep up making great videos and teaching us what HA is all about. Many Thanks

[@HomeSight]

Luis, great to have you on board!

[@gurkanyesilgun]

Hey, Simon, you're sharing great videos. I enjoy following you.

[@AliOxen]

Worked out perfectly man thanks 👍

[@HomeSight]

I’m glad it worked for you

[@NexVentorGaming]

Thanks heaps mate. Every other video tutorial said that your network would just automatically find the samba files. Mine didn't and by you showing us to just enter the IP of the HA into file explorer voila.... I owe you a beer.

[@HomeSight]

Yeah, the auto discovery in windows works sometimes, but depends on a lot of things. Can’t go wrong with entering the IP though! Glad it helped! www.buymeacoffee.com/Homesight

[@joecoie]

Hello Simon, Thanks very much for making the effort to share this information, the ones I have watched so far are very good. Looking forward to the future videos- keep up the great work.

[@HomeSight]

Thanks Joe!

[@stewhughes6339]

Hey Simon. So pleased I watched this. Been having issues with Shelly sensor update times going from 2sec to 30sec after I updated the HA Core. So I reloaded a 0.117.6 snapshot and fixed the update time but my History trends wouldn’t work. Learnt from you that Samba lets you see HA files, so was able to delete my broken DBase. Now I’m a happy HA user. Looking forward to being a Subscriber and doing some more learning. Thanks again from NZ!

[@HomeSight]

Great to hear Stew, glad I could help!

[@PeerBak]

Thank you very much for this very helpful video!! Please keep them coming 😉 Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰🙂

[@HomeSight]

Glad to help Peer!

[@82kitas]

thanks a lot Simon! Great video! I learned a lot of stuffs!

[@HomeSight]

Glad it was helpful!

[@robotikveotomasyon3578]

You are perfect Sir Simon. Thanks you so much

[@HomeSight]

Thank you!

[@johnkoester6534]

Thank you! Really helpful and informative and a great pace for me to keep caught up, with several pauses but that's because Im slow typer. lol

[@HomeSight]

Thanks John

[@jackinatox9265]

super good video, now samba is working at me

[@HomeSight]

Thanks! I glad worked for you.

[@typoon9760]

Thanks helped me out on getting Samba to work.

[@HomeSight]

Hi Thomas, thanks for watching. Glad I could help!

[@mtking2196]

Hi Simon Thank you so much for making something that was getting so difficult so easy. I've been bouncing from site to site from video to video trying to figure out what someone else expected was known. Now that I can access my files I can move on to trying to add hacs so I can move on to what I started in the first place.

[@HomeSight]

You are very welcome, I’m glad I could help!

[@wagneralbuquerque8790]

otimo video perfeito = eu assisti uns 40 na internet o unico que tirou todas as minha duvidas ... parabnes

[@HomeSight]

Translated to English: perfect great video = I watched about 40 on the internet the only one that took all my doubts ... congratulations

[@HomeSight]

Estou feliz que você achou útil. Também não consegui encontrar vídeos que respondessem a todas as minhas dúvidas, por isso comecei a fazer vídeos. (I'm glad you found it helpful. I couldn't find videos which answered all of my questions either, that is why I started making videos.)

[@stephencoulter3613]

Thank you, Great well paced tutorial for Noobs like me.

[@HomeSight]

Thanks for watching, I’m glad you liked it!

[@paulhyland3528]

Hi Simon, just stumbled across your vids great explanations, cant wait for the video for the file editor. i have 0 knowledge of coding etc.just trying to learn HA atm. looking to add a group of milight led into HA through the editor.

[@HomeSight]

Hi, thanks for watching. I’ll bump the video about config.yaml up the list a bit! It’s not as hard as it looks.

[@francescom5588]

grazie! Ottimo tutorial!

[@HomeSight]

Grazie. sono contento che abbia aiutato. (Thank you, I’m glad it helped)

[@shaunwhiteley3544]

Very good, Cheers

[@HomeSight]

Thanks Shaun!

[@zingrock]

Really enjoying your videos Simon - incredibly well put together and explained. I've been using Node Red on its own for a while now but have finally decided to move to a Home Assistant/Node red combination. I'd love to be able to simply export and import the code from my existing Node Red flows but having done a quick test it seems there will be lots of discrepancies with IDs etc. I wondered if you have any experience with this transition at all? Thanks (I see two options: Try and ensure devices and entities within HA are all the same as the original names, and add all palletes OR recreate the whole thing )

[@HomeSight]

Hi Morgan, I’m glad you’re enjoying them! I can see your dilemma. Node red is pretty powerful on its own but when coupled with HA you definitely have a winning team!!! As for moving from 1 to another, I’ve never done it, but I would probably look through the text exported in something like notepad++ and look for the entity IDs in there and do a “find and replace”. It would certainly be worth a shot!

[@zingrock]

@@HomeSight Find & Replace! You beauty :) Much appreciated

[@HomeSight]

No worries, glad it worked. Sometimes it’s the simplest answer that is the most effective!

[@Loteksolutions]

Hey there. Thanks for the video. I am stuck trying to get windows 10 to "see" my homeassistant ip so that I may share files with it. I have network discovery turned on but that doesn't seem to make a difference... Does this sound like a familiar issue?

[@jeppecohrt]

Hello do you know how to setups home assistent to be controlled over network from qlab theatre show Control ? Im investigating in how I can use Aqara curtain rail motors for budget freindly circular motorised curtain .. any help is mostly appreciated Jeppe Denmark

[@futurecactus]

No matter what I do, when I put my HA IP address into file explorer to access Samba Share, it opens my browser which can't reach anything. Any ideas?

[@HomeSight]

Hmm... are you putting “\\” at the beginning?

[@Shyatic]

Silly question -- is HACS necessary if I can just add the repository via supervisor?

[@HomeSight]

Hi, not a silly question. And no, you don’t really need it, no.

[@Shyatic]

@@HomeSight another silly question then -- does node red work when there's no internet? Is it a local installation into HA? Wasn't sure exactly how it worked.

[@HomeSight]

There is no such thing as a silly question. Yes node Red works without internet.

[@naronaroyan323]

What do we do if it doesn't prompt us for a login and password but instead gives us a network error diagnostic option?

[@HomeSight]

Hi, is this when you are trying to browse to your samba share? Make sure you have the right IP address, make sure you are putting “\\” before it.

[@naronaroyan323]

@@HomeSight I have tried multiple IPs and I do put // before it... even tried it with the DuckDNS name... it only gives diagnostic option...

[@paulnieuwkamp8067]

I really liked your explanation, clear, concise and to the point, but unfortunately the difference in volume between you talking and the intro and outro make me hesitate to watch your other videos...

[@HomeSight]

Hi Paul, sorry! That’s sorted out in my later videos.

[@krzysztofslusar195]

Hi, and I did not have sensors automatically, why?

[@HomeSight]

You didn’t even have the sun sensor?

[@krzysztofslusar195]

@@HomeSight there is a sun sensor

[@HomeSight]

Hi, what else were you expecting?

[@krzysztofslusar195]

@@HomeSight I didn't add icons in the dashboard I already have everything, thanks for a good tutorial

[@TimHodgesofEdinburgh]

Just starting the journey with Home assistant. Good to know there's someone there to help. BTW - Seems the Google drive repo URL has changed. I found it at github.com/sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup

[@HomeSight]

Thanks for the tip off! I’ll update in the description