Tag: Home Assistant

ESP32-S3-BOX-3 deploys Home Assistant localized voice assistant, 3 personalized teaching methods – Home Assistant step-by-step teaching EP 10

Everyone should be familiar with controlling smart homes through voice. Even on mobile phones, we often use Hey Siri or OK Google... to call voice assistants. Continuation of the previous article: A truly "brainful" smart home! Home Assistant customized AI voice assistant ChatGPT, Gemini makes your smart home come alive - Home Assistant step-by-step tutorial EP 9 Iron Man, have you seen it? The conversation between Tony and Jarvis must be...

A truly smart home with brains! Home Assistant customized AI voice assistant ChatGPT, Gemini makes your smart home come alive – Home Assistant step-by-step tutorial EP 9

Have you seen Iron Man? The conversation between Tony and Jarvis must be the dream of many people (at least it is mine🤣). Today I will show you how to use ChatGPT and Google Gemini to customize the HA voice assistant, turning the original mentally retarded assistant into a real " "Smart Assistant!"

Zero fire switch multi-cut setting tutorial – Home Assistant step-by-step tutorial EP 8

If you do not have a professional background in water and electricity, and want to handle smart homes by yourself, the first and easiest place to get stuck is how to make a smart switch. Today I will use my own experience to share with you how to use the zero fire switch setting in Home Assistant. It doesn’t matter if you don’t use Home Assistant as a smart home hub system to determine the multi-cut synchronization method. The previously installed parts are basically the same. Only the dual-cut synchronization part can be set in the respective systems.

Home Assistant 2024.6: Customized AI voice assistant, customized visibility of Dashboard, grouped view of data tables

The official title is "Dipping our toes in the world of AI using LLMs" which means "Dipping our toes in the world of AI using LLMs", which is completely in line with current current affairs issues! But this is nothing new. Home Assistant has been gradually developing in AI and voice assistants in the past year. From the beginning, it could connect to Siri and Google, and then it launched its own Assist in 2023.5 a year ago, and in 2024.4 supports local LLMs. It seems that 2024.6 has strengthened the integration of more LLM (Large Language Model, large language model). Let us take a look!

The Ultimate Guide to the Smart Home in 2025! – SMART HOME EP 6

Whether you want to get into a smart home or want to improve the smart home system at home, today’s article covers everything from how to start building a smart home to how to improve your existing smart home, all shared with you without any secret! Let’s get started! 2 Important Principles for Building a Smart Home When many people think about smart homes, they quickly start to worry about which system to choose, how to handle network connections, which devices to buy, and what scenarios and automation to implement. Based on my use of smart homes, The family has 2 years of experience. Before making all preparations, clearly understand the 2 principles, which will help the whole...

How to achieve Home Assistant's human body sensor to automatically switch lights on and off? Matter, Zigbee human sensor, human presence sensor recommendation – Home Assistant step-by-step tutorial EP 7

The most sophisticated and dreamy thing about a smart home is "automation". Only situation settings and voice control cannot be called a real "smart home" 🤣. Please read this article for details: Today I will go back to the basics to help you understand. How to "automatically turn lights on and off" in Home Assistant, I also recommend several Matter, Zigbee human body sensors and human presence sensors that I use myself. If you are familiar with "the three major elements of automation: Trigger, Condition, and Action"...

Home Assistant Floor plan A new experience in smart home control with visual floor plan! – Home Assistant step-by-step tutorial EP 6

Without further ado, let’s go straight to the picture! Today I will teach you how to create a floor plan dashboard in Home Assistant, allowing your smart home to control "what you see is what you get", and also allow other family members who are not familiar with Home Assistant to enjoy the ultimate lazy life of a smart home. Concept Description The concept of floor plan is actually very simple stacking of layers. The bottom picture shows the light-off state, the top picture shows the light-on state, and then the control buttons are placed on the top layer. now...

HomeKit Bridge gives you more choices for your smart home – Home Assistant step-by-step tutorial EP 5

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...

Use Blueprint to quickly complete automated settings in Home Assistant, and use Google Assistant to achieve voice notifications – Home Assistant Step-by-Step Tutorial EP 4

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...

Home Assistant automation setting tutorial, practical cases teach you how to integrate sensors and home appliances – Home Assistant step-by-step tutorial EP 3

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: ...

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