Home Assistant Setup - Raspberry Pi 4

alexa turn on the latest from ev raceway on youtube a well-designed and maintained smart home can drastically improve the comfort and lives of those living in them they can be a powerful energy saving device and even an educational tool to provide the family a hub to interact with this can be pretty daunting for a newcomer and made even more confusing with a plethora of options available and protocols used out there on the marketplace stick with us and we'll show you how to set up your own smart home hub with no monthly or annual costs running on open source software and contributed on by volunteers around the world the system will be setting up on your network will run parallel to all the other stuff you have so hopefully with any luck you won't have any effect on what you already put in place if you're going to put this on top of your system you already own the software we'll be using is called home assistant and we'll be downloading it to a raspberry pi 4. what you'll need for this is a raspberry pi model 4 and you'll want the 2 gigabyte model at least a blank micro sd card with at least 32 gigabytes of memory an ethernet cord and a computer with one of those sd card slots if you navigate to the home assistant website you'll find a ton of very helpful integration guides and documents to help with starting up and integrating your components into the system hang tight i have a small detour for us [Music] nothing at all against bellenna etcher but we're going to be using the raspberry pi imager instead so if you haven't done it already go ahead and navigate to the raspberry pi organization website and for software and download the raspberry pi imager step 1 will load the home assistant software onto the microsd card stick the blank micro sd card into the sd card adapter and stick the sd card adapter into the computer load the raspberry pi imager on the computer this same tool can be used to download and flash all sorts of out-of-the-box operating systems available for the raspberry pi the one we're going to be aiming for if you scroll down is the other specific purpose operating systems select home assistant and then choose the option for rpi4 [Music] under storage select your micro sd card click right and away we go this should take about five minutes when it's completed you'll probably get some of these pop-ups don't be alerted this is normal go ahead and pull your card from the computer okay step two we're gonna take that micro sd card we just flashed and put it into the bottom of that raspberry pi 4 and plug an ethernet cord in from the ethernet port to your router step 3 go ahead and plug in and power up your raspberry pi 4. i'm showing you what's happening here in the background but take note you do not need to plug in a monitor for this you see once you get this set up this will just be a server that works all day every day in the background and does not have a display attached to it step four from a computer on this network navigate to homeassistance.org and hopefully you're welcomed with an onboarding screen and everything's great but if this isn't the case it's going to get a little bit more tricky and i have some recommendations for you double check you're definitely on the same network and you typed everything correctly everyone's home network and router is different so i can't predict everything but i would use a network scanning tool of some type to try to figure out if your pie has made it online you can grab your micro hdmi adapters and plug those into a monitor to see if the home assistant has listed an ip4 address and with that ip4 address whether you found it using the monitor or a scanning tool if you navigate to that address with colon8123 this should hopefully work and it will actually become the kind of the normal way to log in and if you don't see an ip4 address listed when you plug in your monitor uh you're probably hosed i think you're gonna need to figure out what's going on with your network step five if you made it this far you're so close follow the steps for creating and configuring your account some of your smart home devices on your network may have been discovered automatically click commission welcome welcome well well bro well welcome [Applause] welcome to the entryway nah foyer of your smart home everyone's dashboard will look a little bit different depending on what was configured and what pulled in but for the most part all these layouts for everyone will look pretty much the same on the sidebar to the left you'll find some navigation tools to help you get around and these can be moved around rearranged and customized later you'll find yourself using these four icons at the bottom pretty often the developers tools supervisor configuration and user profile no matter what your creative vision is for your perfect smart home display dashboard you'll need to be able to pull in and integrate the smart devices in your home now and in the future this integration page found within the configuration icon works for many manufacturers out there in the marketplace without much trouble or manual coding needed once you've integrated your devices with home assistance we'll be able to display and control them within custom dashboards buttons and automations there's quite a few great cards you can drag and drop onto the dashboard that require little to no programming but to get the really cool stuff you're going to want to roll your sleeves up a little bit and get dirty with some programming that i think is very very simple the programming language we'll be using is called yaml sounds like camel yaml's a text-based kind of common sense programming language that is very easy to follow and understand it's so simple even notepad can open it [Music] that's my favorite part i'm a copy paste king baby [Music] there are several integrations that require the modification of the configuration file and you'll find that right here for the home assistant server which is our raspberry pi 4. these files can be accessed several different ways but we found the easiest way was using the file editor add-on or samba share we'll be including in-depth details on future videos on how best to access and set up these specific details and features of the dashboards but for now we just wanted to introduce you to the look and feel of the syntax language used for this program once you kind of get the look and feel of how the language works you can browse other people's projects and kind of pick and with that we're done with the basic setup and install of home assistant on our raspberry pi 4. and with that we'll catch you on the next one if you haven't already subscribe follow like all those things really appreciate it check you next time [Music] you

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Published: Wed Nov 24 2021