Home Assistant Green Review - 6 Months Later

Is Home Assistant Green the best smart home hub for most people? Why would you use it over other platforms and can it solve the issues with the Smart Home today? Sponsored by DREO. Buy DREO Polyfan 502S: noxl.ink/-noCr0
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We’ll walk you through what Home Assistant Green is, the setup experience, how its price compares to other smart home hubs as well as Home Assistant Yellow and the differences between them. Plus, we’ll take you through why Home Assistant’s open source foundation is a big deal compared to other smart home platforms, how to bring Home Assistant devices into Apple Home, all the automations, Dashboards, and custom scripting you can do, the downsides we’ve encountered using Home Assistant Green and then our recommendation on if you should purchase one.
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🕰️Timestamps:
0:00 - What is Home Assistant Green?
0:23 - Price and why its a big deal
1:07 - Everything runs locally
1:26 - Open Source and the Open Home Foundation
2:26 - Setup
3:05 - Sky Connect and setting up Zigbee devices
3:52 - Bringing Home Assistant devices into Apple HomeKit
5:09 - DREO Smart Polyfan
6:34 - Home Assistant Automation and Entities
7:09 - Dashboards
7:40 - Integrations
8:17 - Downsides
11:06 - Recommendation
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👉 View products used in this video, plus links to guides and resources: 6monthslater.net/2024/06/home-assistant-green-review-6-months-later/ Video sponsored by DREO. Buy DREO Polyfan 502S: noxl.ink/-noCr0 Don't miss DREO's mid-year deal: noxl.ink/n2giUh Use our code [6MONTHS] for an extra 8% discount or buy it on Amazon: noxl.ink/KduERj Product links 👉Home Assistant Green: ameridroid.com/products/home-assistant-green?ref=zvL2wAvxTNzJB2 👉Home Assistant Sky Connect: ameridroid.com/products/skyconnect?ref=zvL2wAvxTNzJB2 👉Sonoff Zigbee Smart Plug: ameridroid.com/products/sonoff-s31-lite-zb-smart-plug-us-type?ref=zvL2wAvxTNzJB2 👉Sonoff Motion Sensor: ameridroid.com/products/sonoff-zigbee-motion-sensor?ref=zvL2wAvxTNzJB2 👉Apple Homepod: amzn.to/3uYGJYc 👉Google Pixel Tablet: amzn.to/3uUfXAe 👉Anom Echo Smart Speaker Kit: www.electromaker.io/shop/product/atom-echo-smart-speaker-dev-kit?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwm_SzBhAsEiwAXE2Cv16aPAbMrhlopQMR-I2axV__kSZs8A4V8LzRJHh4r9ga6VDFpDJu7RoC9_sQAvD_BwE 👉August Smart Lock: amzn.to/3zlZzum 👉Homey Pro: amzn.to/48CLjcH 👉Philips Hue starter pack: amzn.to/49QIiX2 👉Philips Hue Dimmer Switch:amzn.to/3ThBbS9 👉Philips Hue Motion Sensor: amzn.to/49STMcz 👉Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra:amzn.to/4cIAQPn 👉Sonos Era 100: amzn.to/3Im3E2U 👉Sonos Era 300: amzn.to/49Tbsoz 👉Sonos Move Gen 2: amzn.to/3wCs3i5 👉iPhone 15 Pro Max: amzn.to/4ce4ZpB 👉 View all of our recommended products: www.amazon.com/shop/6monthslaterreviews 🔗 Related Video links: 👉 Homey Pro Smart Home Hub: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5vXkmaFZr5pnck 👉 Smart Home device playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PL2XWjlJjGp3vTgYgZ8WzYN7yE28YkdZjr ❤ Follow Josh: 👉 Threads: www.threads.net/@joshteder 👉 Reddit: www.reddit.com/user/joshteder/ 👉 Instagram: instagram.com/joshteder/ 👉 Mastodon: mastodon.social/@joshteder 👉 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joshteder/

[@Lonestar101]

Seems like a missed opportunity for Dreo. I don't see a Home Assistant integration. We you able to get it to work?

[@Sidestreetdog]

I'm planing to buy this but can't decide for sometime thanks for your review, it help a lot

[@TristynRusselo]

I would really like to know if HA Green is any better or worse than running HA on a powerful server. I currently have HA running on my Threadripper server. It runs great but whenever my server is down for maintenance my HA is also down. I have purchased a Green, but have yet to set it up as it will be quite the task to migrate. I also fear that it will be slower or more laggy than my real server.

[@Yama_1291]

HA works well enough if you use it with the random home automation gear you have at home already and expand from there, but where it really shines is if you purpose build your smart home around it and only buy devices that are known to work well and out of the box. Yes that goes against the "works with everything" philosophy but I prefer my stuff work seamlessly offline as opposed to having to use work arounds or using cloud integrations.

[@ivana6141]

Ive got too many hubs and routines running across separate apps. Looking forward to having everything moved locally through one app.

[@ivana6141]

Just started moving over to HA. Being unable to send voice commands to my region locked robot vacuum motivated me to move over.

[@wilty5]

Was the Dreo fan a sponsored product? Your review was not complete, every product has some cons yet you didn’t mention any, even if a product is sponsored, you have an obligation to your subscribers to give a fair and even review of a product that you promote, you also need to give full disclosure as to whether the company sent the product to you for free (gifted) or you bought it yourself, and will help to determine if your glowing reviews are trustworthy and independent or possibly swayed. These steps will improve the credibility and trust that your subscribers expect and deserve.

[@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka]

Yeah agreed.

[@AlexAlex-ng4vw]

He did explicitly say that this video was sponsored by Dreo. Whether or not they sent him the products or he bought them previously I don’t know. Maybe in an earlier video. But he did say it was sponsored. Maybe a watermark during the sponsored segment would help.

[@6MonthsLater]

Yes, DREO was this video's sponsor. Though keep in mind, sponsored segments aren't reviews, they are 60-90 second integrated ads. This sponsorship was disclosed visually at the 0:38 mark early in the video, along with the information on which other products were purchased or given to us for free. We disclosed the DREO sponsorship again at the 5:09 mark at the start of the sponsored segment. We also disclosed the other products in the video we got for free from AmeriDroid at the 3:05 mark (Which were the Sky Connect, and Sonoff products). We take disclosures seriously, and make sure we're as open as possible about what we paid for, what we didn't, and if there's a sponsored segment in the video. The only thing that was a miss on our end was not putting up a title card with the DREO logo at the start of the sponsored segment like we normally do. Outside of that miss, if you have any other feedback on how we can further improve our disclosures, let me know. - Josh

[@6MonthsLater]

Not having their logo at the start of the segment was a miss on our end. Normally we have that. But a "Sponsored by DREO" watermark at the top right throughout the segment would make it even more clear. That's a good idea. - Josh

[@M.KEY_HEMIN]

★★★★★★