#Can you connect Home Assistant to Google Home?

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odd stirrup
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You can connect Home Assistant devices to Google home either by connecting them through Nabu Casa or doing the same with a more manual method: https://youtu.be/RqGi_GI0ltU

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Google Home with Home Assistant Local for FREE Without Subscription

Today I will show you how to integrate Google Home/Google Assistant with Home Assistant which will allow you to control all of your Home Assistant connected devices with your Google Home or Nest speaker, all done for free without a cloud subscription.

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left glen
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What do you mean by the interface? You mean the dashboard?

left glen
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You can totally adapt it to your needs tho 😄 Everything Smart Home got some videos for example on Mushroom

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gouMnPxYHDc

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In this video I show you how to create a clean and minimalistic smart home dashboard using Home Assistant and Mushroom. Mushroom is a take on Minimalist UI, that has a focus on making things easier to use, with everything being accessible from the UI to click and select. This makes it possible to build a really nice mobile smart home dashboard v...

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left glen
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What do you want to make smart?

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Wouldn't do all of them DIY myself tho 😅

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At least, what do you mean with light?

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If you mean a LED strip, than it's easy to DIY using WLED

left glen
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Not sure what you mean with DIY but you can easily buy for example zigbee modules to make your light smart

left glen
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I use for example Zigbee modules to make dumb lights smart while keeping existing light switches

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I try to avoid Tuya as most as possible, especially their Wi-Fi devices 😅

left glen
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Smart bulbs it is 😄

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There are Zigbee smart bulbs too and than with a decoupled switch

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Don't like the ☁️

brittle barnBOT
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Congratulations @minor harbor! You just advanced to level 2!

left glen
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It'll be totally local if you use Zigbee without a hub and straight to Home Assistant with for example a Sonoff Zigbee stick

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Nah if you got plans to make it smart, just ask 🙂

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A Sonoff USB stick

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What kind of fitting have the bulbs?

left glen
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Without using any cloud service, so full local control 🙂

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Yes, that's the Zigbee gateway. You can either use ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT (software to interpret the Zigbee stuff)

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Yeah sure, depending on what software you use, you will be able to connect multiple Zigbee brands to that gateway

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Much easier 😄 It's almost plug and play. For ZHA you just need to add an integration to Home Assistant and select the USB stick

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No, just from Home Assistant, no Chinese apps involved 😄

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Zigbee2MQTT is an Home Assistant add-on (which is basicly a Docker container) and ZHA is a Zigbee integration inside Home Assistant

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But if you use the add-on you'll need to have an MQTT broker installed too, so ZHA is probably much easier 😄

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No, you'll have to choose between Zigbee2MQTT or ZHA

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For Zigbee2MQTT you'll need to use MQTT to get your devices in Home Assistant. ZHA is part of Home Assistant already (integration)

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So ZHA is much easier for beginners

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But Zigbee2MQTT mostly has better device support

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The other way around 😄 ZHA is an integration in Home Assistant 🙂

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On what device do you have Home Assistant running?

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You need to run it locally indeed on a device that's on 24/7

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No no no, you'll need to have a "server" running it

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Yeah sure! Do you have a NAS or something by any chance?

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Maybe it's better to try it first before buying something 😄

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Or have you maybe got a spare Raspberry Pi for example?

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Or anything similar to that?

brittle barnBOT
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Congratulations @minor harbor! You just advanced to level 3!

left glen
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Raspberry Pi is better for sure as not every NAS supports virtualization/containers

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Or you could go for a mini computer

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With another stick (gateway), yes 😄

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The sonoff stick is only for zigbee btw

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No but Raspberry Pis are very hard to find these days 😅

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These are all the installation methods

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A total different transmission protocol 😅 Zwave devices are mostly more expensive than zigbee devices

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Plug the stick in and start 😅

left glen
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You can also go for Wi-Fi bulbs that are supported by Home Assistant

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You can check for An integration of certain brand on their website

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But wouldn't recommend any cloud service 😅

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Mini pc!

odd stirrup
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Both of those questions don't have a straight forward answer and are "it depends"

left glen
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You can also look on eBay for a refurbished Dell OptiPlex

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Yeah that's +- correct

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Main powered Zigbee devices will mainly extend your range as Zigbee is a mesh protocol

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They'll act as routers

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Regular devices are mainly battery powered devices

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the coordinator is the Sonoff stick

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Yep they're main powered so will normally work as routers

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No worries, but as ESH stated regarding the device to run Home Assistant on; there isn't a real answer as it depends on what you want (later). Maybe you want to run something else on the PC, etc

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