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Everything New In Home Assistant 2023.5!

Upgrade your smart home game with Home Assistant's latest voice features! Assistant pipelines, ESPHome smart speakers, VOIP, and more!

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Everything New In Home Assistant 2023.4!

Home Assistant 2023.4 has new cards and UI elements for dashboards, better Android features, a Windows App and loads of template features!

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Everything New in Home Assistant 2023.3!

We are steamrolling on into the third Home Assistant release of the year already, 2023.3, and this month we see a few new UI changes, Matter & Thread upgrades and new abilities for Assist!

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Easily Backup & Migrate Your Zigbee Network!

A new feature was added to Home Assistant that makes backing up and migrating your Home Assistant Zigbee network easier than ever, both on ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT - I will show you how, using the Home Assistant SkyConnect!

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Everything New in Home Assistant 2023.2!

Home Assistant 2023.2 has big updates when it comes to voice, with their new Assist feature. We also have live graphs, aliases and sensor groups plus so much more!

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Controlling Google Home With Home Assistant!

Controlling Google Home devices using Home Assistant just became a reality thanks to a brand new Integration, allowing you to automate even more things!

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4 Automations For A Better Smart Home Alarm System!

Take your DIY smart home alarm to the next level with multi user support on keypads, a silent panic mode, a panic button & NFC control!

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Build Your Own Local Controlled Smart Home Alarm!

You can build your own smart home alarm system in Home Assistant using hardware you may have, and an excellent custom component that makes things super easy!

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Everything New in Home Assistant 2022.9!

Home Assistant 2022.9 is here so let's take a look at the excellent new additions & features, including even more Bluetooth upgrades with ESPHome & Home Assistant, ZigBee backups, a brand new helper for scheduling and an overhaul on the automation UI!

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The Full Guide To Getting Started With Home Assistant Yellow!

The Home Assistant Yellow is a smart home hub focused on local control, privacy and powerful automations - come along as I show you how to set it up from start to finish.

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Automate Reminders For Your Bin Collection with Home Assistant

Get automated notifications reminding you to put the bins out so you never miss another collection again!

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Save Power By Sleeping Your PC With Presence

Save on your energy bills by intelligently sleeping your computer with Home Assistant

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Create Visual Smart Light Alerts with Home Assistant

Create smart lighting alerts that notify you visually with Home Assistant!

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Creating A Window/Door Notification in Home Assistant

Create automated reminders that alert you if you've left a door or window open when you go out for the day!

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Daily Morning Announcements With Home Assistant

Create morning announcements that play on your speakers to give you a heads-up on what's happening that day using Home Assistant!

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Creating Wake Up Sunrise Lights with Home Assistant

Start your day right with sunrise wake up lights using Home Assistant!

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Automate Shopping Lists with Home Assistant

Automate notifications for your shopping list, so you never forget to pick up an essential item ever again!

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Automating Washing Machine Reminders with Home Assistant

Automate reminders so you never forget to empty the washing machine again!

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Everything New In Home Assistant 2022.6

Home Assistant 2022.6 is here - with performance improvements, Logbook changes, Energy comparisons, OAuth management and more!

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6 New Home Assistant Input Helpers Explained!

In the recent April update of Home Assistant [https://everythingsmarthome.co.uk/everything-new-in-home-assistant-2022-4/], a bunch of new input helpers were added that allow you to work with and transform your data in even more ways than were possible before - let's take a look at each one! Video

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Everything New In Home Assistant 2022.4

The April update for Home Assistant has just landed, 2022.4 and this month is a big one with lots of new features including some highly requested ones that I know you are going to be excited for! This release see's the addition of the long awaited Groups

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Everything New in Home Assistant 2022.3!

In this article, we take a look at the second Home Assistant release this year - Home Assistant 2022.3! From the new 'Play Media' action, to more media sources, radio browser, DLNA integration, entity ID autocompletion and all the other little stuff! Hope you enjoy this release!

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These Smart Light Switches Are Modular!? - Shelly Wall Switches

Shelly has launched some new smart wall switches, that are unlike any other smart wall switches that I’ve seen before, in that they have a more modular approach to how they work by being able to mix and match different configurations to suit your specific needs.

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Face Recognition Just Got Easier - Home Assistant Double Take Guide

A few months ago I covered the ultimate NVR install [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bMQg20Iy4k&t=436s] (sorry no article on that, I got a bit…behind on posting!) which covered combining the object detection and recording capabilities of Frigate, with the face recognition of DeepStack to

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Automate your Internet Usage with Home Assistant and Unifi

There are many reasons you may want to be able to automatically control devices on your network; maybe you want to disable your kids devices at a certain time so they can’t be up all night playing those pesky computer games or maybe you have indoor cameras that you