Home Assistant Green | Smart Home hub with Advanced Automation | Official Home Assistant Hardware

Home Assistant is amazing! It breaks down all the walled gardens between Smart Home vendors like Lutron, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, etc. Ex. I can now use the Lutron motion sensor to control all other smart home devices that could not talk to Lutron directly. It also fixes stupid bugs like the Arlo Video Doorbell no longer announcing motion on Amazon Echo devices via Alexa; I can now use Home Assistant to announce motion on the Arlo Doorbell on Echos and Sonos and other speakers around the house. It also enables truly hands-free automations like setting the correct Philips Hue lighting scenes whenever I start or stop video playback on a Zidoo video player. These examples are just scratching the surface.Home Assistant, using local control, responds much faster and more reliability than cloud-based automation platforms like Alexa and Google Home. It's also compatible with so many more devices than the cloud-based platforms.Don't let the Home Assistant's geeky reputation scare you away. The Home Assistant Green device is completely plug-and-play. Make sure you install the HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) to get the most out of HA.Amazon wants me to say something about size: the Home Assistant Green is tiny and unobtrusive, you can tug it away anywhere.

I was so worried about getting into home assistant. But then decided to take the leap. Its so compatible with every smart home product out there. So happy with the price it cost. The setup was very easy and the quality of it is great.

This is a great way to run a locally hosted smart home with minimal hassle. I know I could build a server, host this on a PC, etc. but for the mostly plug and play crowd, this is the ticket. With minimal configuration, you can start your smart home journey and integrate several different protocols into a single hub and create automations as complex as you desire.I started with a few smart devices but they all required different cloud based services and couldn't integrate with each other. The Home Assistant Green is like that friend who knows everyone and they all get on well. Thanks to it, I have built several automations based on events and time which make living in the house more fun and practical. Got an old style coffee maker you forget to turn off? Have Home Assistant turn it off after you normally leave for work. Want to get fancy? Have Home Assistant detect if you are still in the house, or if you are gone and your car is gone.

This Home Assistant Green is pretty slick.. I’ve only cracked the surface of what this can do with all of my home smart devices. I’m currently using this to monitor my Eve Smart Plugs for monitoring the charging of my e-bike batteries to make sure they are not over-charged. It connected right up to my internet and devices so very easy to integrate into your smart ecosystem.

If you want to use Home Assistant. Fully integrated and ready to go. Save time and get one of these rather than sloggiing away building your own. Good value for the money.

Works great but it takes more technical knowlege than I was expected.

Before buying this, I used an almost 14y old nettop computer as my Home Assistant server until it completely died recently after a power outage. This small box was built solid and worked well.The only downside is the two USB ports are too close to the power port. I cannot insert both of my zwave and zigbee dongles because they are wider than the standard USB plug. Only the dongle in the top port isn't blocked by the power plug. I have to use a USB 3.0 extension cable for the other one. It works without any problem.

I was running HA in a VM but it was just so much hassle to configure and maintain. My household decided it’s time to simplify.We still wanted HA - local control and long term reliability are critical to us. Buying the official hardware was the clear choice to make it simpler.Everything was easy to set up and HA is running great. No regrets, HA green is a solid choice!