Be truthful...which ones are you guilty of? 😂

i'm really glad i followed your backup video, it works great and gives some peace of mind

Yeah, make part two!

Thank you so much for not doing annoying injections of humor and non-revelant content like many of the other youtubers. Your channel is great!

I would be very interested in part 2 of this video. Just getting started with home assistant so the timing would be perfect 😊

Point 3 & 4 go hand-in-hand so to speak. Always make a (full) backup before your update or change anything in HA. If something stops working and you can't get it to work fast enough, restore the backup and than take your time to research the issue. Sometimes it can be worthwhile to also backup the failing 'instance' before your overwrite it with the last backup cause if you have the answer, first backup your HA instance again (always use a fresh backup!), restore the backup with the failed upgrade, apply the fixes that you've found and test HA properly.. If you're using the file-based (sqlite) configuration system and it took several days or even weeks to find an answer to your issue, you might want to perform a fresh upgrade. Otherwise you can loose changes to automations that you (or someone else) made in the meantime. Another common mistake I want to add is that I see people immediately start adding tons of integrations for stuff they 'might' want to use. This is fine as long as you're in the playground phase, but once you really start controlling parts of your house (or office) you need to carefully choose what integrations you are gonna use and property configure them before you start adding the next integration. Take your time. HA looks very easy, but once you've got an issue, it can sometimes be difficult to debug the root cause.. Also document your automations! Node-red can visualize some automations, but scripts at the HA side can be missed. It when you first move into a new house and document which lights or sockets are connected to a breaker switch. Do the same for your HA environment. Document what a switch or sensor controls, but also which states are required for a light to turn on or a socket to become active.. I know that this takes a lot of time, but in the end it makes things easier when things stop working..

Just came here from Paul Hibbert's video on Home Assistant, and I've gotta admit: He's right. The "mistakes" you've named are a mismatch of expectations between normal people and Home Assistant. "Why didn't you read the Release Notes"? Because users shouldn't and don't expect to have to read the release notes. I appreciate the work that goes into Home Assistant, but let's not blame the user and pretend that this is an acceptable user experience design.

A second part would be great! Thanks for the vids!

Ha. I'm not guilty of removing old/unused integrations....but I am really bad about cleaning up my old entities, automation, and scripts. Not what you mentioned exactly...but this video reminded me that I need to get back to cleaning up my config. And I am trying to prune any custom integration that doesn't rely on an official API for integration.

Perfect video. Great information and advice.

For what Pi's are going for these days, a refurbished mini pc is not that much more. I found one with a desktop i7 processor, 32GB ram and 1TB ssd on the jungle site for under $300 and there were lots to choose from. They just destroy a Pi performance wise, and you'll practically never outgrow it.

I am excited for a Part 2

Use IR LEDs like in a remote control to blind the camera. Look at your remote with your phone camera as example.

Cool video, I can install on the same Raspberry Pi both NAS and Home Assistant ?

I've little bit of problem with older integrations but getting better as I've standardized lot of IoTs around Sonoff/ESPHome. My main problem is with naming convention, at the time of setup names like switch-05 or Light-03 sounds so good but few weeks later I am scratching my head!!!

Good advice overall. One thing one might add is that the Raspberry Pi in its default version on a SD-Card can greatly be improved by using a SSD disk and (well-configured) MariaDB instead of the file-based database. I run a 4GB Ram RaspberryPi 4 with a crucial SSD + Maria DB and really everything is flying. Only exception is CPU heavy stuff so I can't really stream 12 cameras at once. But I have several dozen items running great.

Off course, up for the second part

This is not only for beginners ;-) You are so right, this is recurring things to think about over and over again.. AGAIN a Nice video, PLEASE make a follow-up, Thanks

Hi mate... love the vids as always.. One issue I see a lot is people not understanding Core vs Supervised. I still struggle to follow your videos as you use Supervised and I use Core. Biggest pain for me is an automated backup and export which isn't so easy on Core.

A part 2 would be fantastic!

Regards of the update issue: can you restore the HA firmware (update) and restore the backups after so it fix the issues that the new firmware may have cause?

Those aren't unused add ons.. those are ones I plan to get at eventurally! Not guilty? Okay.. guilty...

A home automation platform introducing breaking changes frequently is insanity. If a breaking change on such an important core peace of software is introduced at all, there need to be huge warnings popping up before it installs that update, not something mentioned in the release notes. This type of policy will always lead to users not installing updates out of fear, or breaking their installations because they do. Terrible experience either way.

LOL, I was just about to update my HA when I stopped and read thru the release notes before continuing😁😁

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Over the last several year I'm guilty of making everyone of the those mistakes you shared. I would be in favor of you making a part 2 of mistakes to avoid. I don't know if this would classifies as a mistake or not? I've have migrated my Home Assistant from a raspberrypi 3 to a Windows10 PC running a VM to, where I"m at now, a server running Unraid with Home Assistant running on a VM. What I keep running into is not enough storage space. Each time I setup a New Home Assistant it will only let me set it up with 32gb of space and I keep running out of usable disk space. I'm I doing something wrong on the entail setup?? I don't see anywhere to increase the memory size. Thanks!

I made a backup before messing with the config yaml but it didn't restore it apparently, even though it said full backup. So I just wasted a full day of work because it didn't restore my backup or something. When trying to install from backup on a fresh install, it shits itself and says NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource. Excellent piece of kit this HomeAssistant 👍

I’m interested in trying out home assistant and have been thinking about the hardware thingy. Feels like the easiest route would be a raspberry pie, lot’s of tutorials etc. I don’t own any pie though, I do however have an old mac mini that’s soon passing apples 10 year death mark and that I’m assuming would do a great job - Got no idea if that would be a stupid decision though 🤷‍♂️

Top vídeo! second part please 😉

I didn’t take any backups and the SD card corrupted on the Raspberry Pi. Now currently rebuilding 🤦‍♀️ in a VM on my Dell r210.

Yes, release notes! Part 2 please

Helpful - thanks.

Yes to part2 thanks

Great video. You may add: restart without validating the yaml files BEFORE

I’m really stuck with my home assistant blue. I set it up at my work place and can’t connect it at home. I don’t know how to reset it to factory so that I can run the installation wizard and seemingly can’t find any article relating to resetting. Can you help?

number1 and 4 are easily solved by keeping everything in proxmox, so the VM's can just be moved between hardware in case you want/need to upsize or downsize.

im runng HA(CS) on qnap docker. if i need more power. ill switch to rp4

Hello brother . I am stuck at preparing home assistant. Installed it in qnap nas VM

How did you get the start times to show ion that list? I'm assuming that is the info list under the server controls menu?

Hi, I have a few questions. I will be glad if you answer. 1. Is there any method to include WiFi devices in HA? 2. İ have Alexa Echo dot 4 and 3 gen. Is it possible to add these to HA? 3. Is it possible to install Tuya WiFi camera to HA without Tuya app?

Making backups alone won't help you if you don't know how to restore from them

In ESPHome add-on Once i click on add button in create configuration it shows this message as "Limited functionality because you're not browsing the dashboard over a secure connection (HTTPS)" how to over come this issue

The biggest difference between a Home Assistant integration and a Custom Integration (from my experience) is that the Home Assistant integration only contains the most basic features that will let them claim "integration" whereas the custom integrations are more full featured, robust and usable!

Catch like No 171. Sorry for so late response - I was fighting with stop working of MariaDB until I read breaking changes of latest release, as recommended in this video.

0:37 Not sizing your hardware appropriately; 1:50 Not removing old integrations; 3:07 Not backing up regularly; 4:09 Not reading release notes; 5:53 Running custom components (community made vs official).

I'm new to Home Assistant, a couple of weeks. It is hard to read the release notes when none of it makes any sense to me.

Would you be willing to do a Home Assistant for dummies initial setup... Please? I tried setting up HyperV because i have a Multimedia PC that would be great for a HA server, but i have no idea what I'm doing. There is so much confusing setup instructions on HA's own web site.. I'm just lost. Love your videos!

I dipped into the pool with a Raspberry Pi. Before I knew it I had Tensorflow, countless python scripts, and 8 cameras streaming in. Eventually it had to go live on my PowerEdge. Well said.

hi, i have a doubt . can i get the output display by hdmi port in rasberry pi where i installed home assistant??

Probably messed up with the computer sizing since I went with the HA Yellow. Your mistake made me think a bit. I've been porting over from the SmartThings. What I might do instead is leave all the old, low priority stuff on the SmartThings and anything new I get (hope to be moving into another house sometime in the next year) install in the HA Yellow. Most the old Zwave stuff won't connect to the HA Yellow anyway so leave all the water sensing stuff on the ST and old PIR to the lesser used rooms. Not worry about speech to text on the HA Yellow and continue to use Alexa for that. And design to minimize needing Alexa to lesser, random tasks like running scripts to disable or enable sets of automations when company or some other random event happens.

all this work setting up and maintaining updates and configurations, wouldn't it be easier just to switch the light on manually.

I have an idea for you and not sure where to post: Using Deepstacks as a sensor for door locks. A simple camera looking at your interior door to confirm its locked. I'm hacking a Zigbee reed switch, but I think this could be better.. thoughts?

BOXX RenderBoxx and Sagitta Brutalis can both run HomeAssistant flawlessly even if you have more the 400 devices.

How limited would my Pi4 8gb with ssd drive be? I can easily move my NODE-Red over to my old Pi3 which runs my pihole but so far with 55 devices I’m not noticing any problems other than the Alexa commands lag, especially when none have been issued lately.

And how do I tell if an Integration is official or Custom??

I agree with most of what you've said but the issue is that updates should be seamless and if they contain breaking changes they should have a transition wizard to help. Imagine taking months to set this up and you just want it to run and then every single time you update you read these stupid logs instead of just updating like a normal human being. A sign of any successful and well maintained software is ease of update, expecting users to fix stuff every time an update happens is bad and no user should be faulted for not reading all of the changelogs. Where do we end to be sure? Should I also read github commits maybe just to avoid potential issues with my devices?

Great video! Also, cool shirt. Where'd you get it? I need to get one.

May I get your wallpaper on your pc ?

Hi, you should add chapters to the description/video timeline.

Are Blink cameras compatible with Frigate/Home assistant? Thanks.

Smart home stuff is made to make life easier, using things like home assistant, home controller, Home pass, home seer, or hoobs and constantly dealing with issues because it’s a patchwork of chaos and code does not make anything easier. Just got with apple home kit. Everything just works and it’s all in one app.

Part 2 would be good :¬}

Nice shirt!

A lot of these reasons are the exact reasons home assistant will never become mainstream unless there’re changed

my poor Pi4 is doing pretty well at around 60 devices. I'm sick to death of my thermostat having API Rate Limited. I need to find a thermostat that doesn't cost a small fortune and has local API.

Where can I find the "startup times" list (2:25) ? I'm running a supervised HA

Still running on my Pi3 after 5 years and 100 devices and do not see that as a beginner mistake 👍 wonder when Pi will not be enough for the average user 🤔

After struggling to have HA running stable on RPi4, I've looked into properly configuring the recorder: - exluded a lot of devices/domains for which I didn't care keeping history! - reduced auto purge to 1 week. - increased commit interval to 20sec. The result: the database went from 1GB with 1.1million total records to 70MB with 100.000 records! This dramatically improved the system speed and removed the stability issues. I can run withotu any crash for months.

I am not able to replicate the screen that showed up start up time (@ 2:26) in my HA instance.

Pi 4 8GB and fast SD card no issues.

99% people are converting their homes into "smart homes" by implementing "after market" solutions. At the end they have a zoo of various "smart devices" that are kept under one roof called Home Assistant. And HA should keep track and communicate to all of them, and that of course takes time. I built my house electrical wiring around Siemens LOGO 240RCE (4 main modules + 8 extension). I have 96 physical inputs (78 used) and 80 physical outputs (75 used at the moment). And Home Assistant is communicating to those 4 Siemens LOGO modules (via 4 local IP's) and further via Siemens scheme software network inputs/outputs (coils) and can control in parallel all the consumer groups that LOGO's can control. I have also 5 Shelly1 and 4 Shelly1PM that are controlled primary by HA (only devices that HA communicates via Wi-Fi), but can be controlled also by LOGO via HA. HA is installed on RPi4 8Gb, and HA start-up time is like 30 seconds. So HA on RPi4 LOGO controls total of 84 devices (75 via LOGO and 9 directly) with start-up time less than 30 secs. All that matters is appropriate physical infrastructure (wiring).

I like it

Try to run doods with 3 camera with 5s scan intervals

Yeah, so not sizing your hardware is NOT a problem for beginners, it (may) becomes a problem a few years down the road.

Stop. My job is a water meter gives an impulse for every liter. These should be counted and written into a table over the year. So should I now install Home Assistant on a Pentium I7 with 1GHz? And more importantly: how should I do that?

Going from deconz to Zha was a mistake.. not a single lamp was reset..

ParTwo! ParTwo! ParTwo!

When you mention/ link other videos within your video can you also provide a link in the description.. it’s painful to try to hunt for links in videos especially on mobile. Example; I want to watch this video, that’s why I clicked it, but you mention other things within video.. link comes and goes. If I were to click it while watching you get taken away from the video you were trying to watch in the first place.. I’m sure a lot of people know this and just suck it up but I feel like it should be a basic thing for any UKposts video because by far, not everyone is on a desktop. (You’re not the only person, just mentioning it)

So far what I've learned is if you're new to HA you get about a 2 question allowance before people start treating you like dog s$#@. Documentation is horrible at best.... if you can't find the answer you're looking for after searching in the forum then just give up.....that's pretty much what I've been taught so far.

I'm building my home as a smart home so I do not yet have Home Assistant. So, technically, I'm guilty of none of these mistakes..... 🙂

Did Paul Hibbert watched this video ? 😂😂😂

Nice video but would really appreciate if you would use time stamps.

did you completely miss that people use an SD card instead of an ssd or hd

Please help your viewers by adding a TOC (table of contents) in your videos so we can jump to the subject we are interested in. Some of us are not totally new but might want to review a specific subject to see if we learn anything. If we are new we might want to go back and review a specific subject in order to ensure we understood all of the points of the subject.

Man, you should iron your t shirt :)

Needs ironing!!!!😀😀😀 Just joking!

Time stamps pls 🥺

#1 biggest mistake is probably using a raspberry pi. Especially in 2022 when they cost silly money. 😂

I'm starting to think that HA is garbage. Used it for a year, many issues, till one day dead. Reinstalled, used back up. Many things not working anymore. Moved from one PC VM to a whole new machine and crashed, won't load. Try, and try again. Same. Almost not worth it.

what accent is that?

First mistake is to waste hours getting it to work.

Honestly there is no reason there should be breaking changes. Imagine installing updates bricked your phone and Apple said “why didn’t you ssh into the phone and update a config file first?” Don’t make excuses for bad developers

You need to breathe bro. Great video though.

Number 6: not drinking enough water each day Number 7: forget to breathe really, this was the most useless "tips" video i have seen in a long while

Thx a lot! But please breathe. 💨

Most of these don't sound like something that should be issues. I can't see home assistant growing to the masses.

Number one mistake youtubers make: not ironing your shirt :P /s

You talk a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot There is no explanation content We know the readers and are very searching If you don't have an explanation for new content or something amazing Please close the channel

stuck on select home asst server. App wont open so access to settings is not possible.

#1 mistake: running docker version homeassitant. just go with hassio

Hi you make really great videos and its really informative. I am planning to start a new home automation project and i am a beginner. Can you help me with the process. Can you provide your email so i can contact you .