Transform Your Home into a Smart Home: A Beginner's Guide in 2023

Are you ready to turn your home into a futuristic, Tony Stark-style smart home? Well, you've come to the right place! In this video, I'll guide you through the exciting world of smart home technology, explaining why it's so amazing and showing you exactly how to get started.

We'll start by discussing the first thing you need to create a smart home, and then we'll dive into the nitty-gritty of setting up your own home assistant on a Raspberry Pi. I'll walk you through everything step-by-step, covering topics such as auto-discovery of devices, manual device installation, and creating automation, scenes, and much more.

I promise this tutorial will be easy to follow, even if you're a beginner to the world of smart homes. And best of all, this is just the first video in a series, so you can expect plenty more awesome tutorials to come!

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:20 Home Assistant intro
0:44 Getting Started
1:04 Hardware
1:39 Install Etcher
1:48 Flashing SD Card
2:44 Initializing the Home Assistant
3:30 Create an account on HA
4:21 Dashboard
4:42 Add First Device (Kasa)
5:49 Automation
6:40 Scenes
7:24 Outro


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Raspberry Pi 4: https://github.com/home-assistant/ope...

Raspberry Pi 3: https://github.com/home-assistant/ope...

Official Installation Guide: https://www.home-assistant.io/install...
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