Home Assistant Automations for Beginners! (Scripts & Scenes too)

In this video we’re diving into three of the most powerful tools in Home Assistant: automations, scripts, and scenes. I’ll go over the basics of each, showing examples along the way, and then at the end I’ll dive into a little more complex examples and techniques. Thanks for watching!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:19 Automations
01:13 Creating a New Automation
02:09 Automations: Triggers
07:03 Automations: Trigger IDs
07:44 Automations: Conditions
09:39 Automations: Actions
13:31 Multi-Trigger Automations
15:42 Automation Mode
16:12 Scripts
16:45 Creating a New Script
17:40 Scripts: Fields
21:42 Calling a Script from an Automation
24:24 Scenes
24:50 Creating a New Scene
26:07 Examples of Scenes
26:41 Automation, Script, or Scene?

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