Home Assistant Green Review - 6 Months Later

Is Home Assistant Green the best smart home hub for most people? Why would you use it over other platforms and can it solve the issues with the Smart Home today? Sponsored by DREO. Buy DREO Polyfan 502S: https://noxl.ink/-noCr0
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We’ll walk you through what Home Assistant Green is, the setup experience, how its price compares to other smart home hubs as well as Home Assistant Yellow and the differences between them. Plus, we’ll take you through why Home Assistant’s open source foundation is a big deal compared to other smart home platforms, how to bring Home Assistant devices into Apple Home, all the automations, Dashboards, and custom scripting you can do, the downsides we’ve encountered using Home Assistant Green and then our recommendation on if you should purchase one.

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🕰️Timestamps:
0:00 - What is Home Assistant Green?
0:23 - Price and why its a big deal
1:07 - Everything runs locally
1:26 - Open Source and the Open Home Foundation
2:26 - Setup
3:05 - Sky Connect and setting up Zigbee devices
3:52 - Bringing Home Assistant devices into Apple HomeKit
5:09 - DREO Smart Polyfan
6:34 - Home Assistant Automation and Entities
7:09 - Dashboards
7:40 - Integrations
8:17 - Downsides
11:06 - Recommendation

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