Home Assistant step-by-step tutorial

When it comes to smart home, it is inevitable to mention Homekit, the smart home ecosystem developed by Apple. However, although Homekit is powerful, its shortcomings are also obvious. If you want to use Homekit as the core of your smart home but feel that the device is too expensive, or your favorite device is If you happen to not support Homekit, then HomeKit Bridge is your antidote! let's go! What is "HomeKit Bridge"? HomeKit Br...

The previous article taught you how to perform automation settings in Home Assistant through a simple example. Today, I will use the automation setting "notify when the washing machine is finished" to introduce how to use the Blueprint function to quickly complete the automation settings. , so you no longer have to worry about how to set the trigger, condition, and action! (If you’re lazy, you’ll be even more lazy! 🤣) At the same time, it can be paired with Google Assistant to achieve the effect of voice reminder...

After reading this article, you may be considering joining Home Assistant or have just joined Home Assistant. At the same time, you are worried about the automation settings of Home Assistant because you are not familiar with them. Today, I will introduce to you how to set up automation in Home Assistant to help you. Let your home move by itself (free your hands! 🙌). Today, we will use "automatically turning on the air conditioner when someone comes home" as an example to teach you how to operate the automatic setting function of Home Assistant. I hope it will be helpful to you! if you: ...

When you are planning a smart home, you must have been worried about how to choose a smart device brand. So many brands have launched Zigbee devices, how do you choose? Does it bother you that each brand has to set it up through its own APP? Today we will introduce how to access almost all Zigbee devices through Zigbee2MQTT in Home Assistant, so that you can completely get rid of the constraints of brand apps! If you have an Aqara, Tuya or other brand Zigbee device and want to connect...

Sure enough, the day has come. Frankly speaking, I have always been a little resistant to writing "tutorials" on the installation steps of Home Assistant in the past, because my own installation process also involved browsing various tutorials on the Internet, and pieced together to install Home Assistant. It's actually quite stressful for me to do "teaching", and I'm afraid that my fragmentary knowledge will mislead others. So why do I still see this article now? I want to shout out Jane and Sanya, two netizens. Because of their comments and encouragement, I mustered up the courage...