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

I love this. I was trying to connect my whole house using Apple HomeKit, but a blend of old Tuya products my husband had bought, some older smart lightbulbs, and limited automation choices made it hard to go all-in on Apple.The Home Assistant Green is a gamechanger - it sets up nice and quickly out-of-the-box, and while you can get into really technical, code-based automations and settings, so far as a total newcomer to smart homes, I've been able to set up some really great automations. My favorite is that it is compatible with, and reads the status of, my Apple TV - so I've been able to set it so that my lights dim when I start playing a movie, and come back up when I pause, which is such a great use case of a smart home in my opinion. Similarly, when I unlock the front door (smart lock), the interior lights come on, so no more walking into a dark room!The functionality can't be faulted, largely due to the supportive user base - any smart home product that exists, there's a chance somebody has worked out how to connect it. And this device can act as a bridge, to put non-HomeKit devices into HomeKit, so that Siri can control them all and my husband can use Apple Home to control all devices too - including his old Tuya devices. The best part is the speed - when I was using lightbulbs direct to Apple Home over Wifi (with an old HomePod as my 'hub'), it worked slowly, taking several seconds to respond to voice commands or taps in the app. Now, with Home Assistant hard-wired to my router and all devices put through that, no matter whether I use my voice, Apple HomeKit, or the Home Assistant app, everything is much more reliable and almost instant to turn on/off.The box itself is relatively small but built well, it feels sturdy and came well packaged. It was very easy to connect, and came with all the relevant cables.I want to make the review balanced, but I honestly can't think of a single drawback - if I had to, I'd say that I wish it had Bluetooth and Zigbee built in (it has neither), but I got by for months without either and only need them now I'm adding even more smart devices to my house. A dongle for either can be picked up for around $15, and this has a space in the back for both of them, but I'd say that's where the Home Assistant Yellow would have had the edge if I'd been thinking about it. Otherwise though, truly faultless, and an absolute essential piece of Smart Home kit.

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.

Thos is really fun. Ha os is amazing. The hardware seems rock solid.

Home Assistant works GREAT for us. It allows us to connect many home-automation devices to Hubitat that didn't have a direct way to do so previously (like the new Chamberlin garage door openers). Setup was easy and it works in the background with no issues. This is a great addition to anyone working with home-automation.

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.

This is a great device and works better than I expected. A little learning curve to setup, but pretty straightforward after you start configuring it. Much more configurable settings than I expected. Easily detected my Ring cameras, Ambient Weather and Ecowitt weather stations, Rachio Irrigation System, Sense Energy, Honeywell thermostat and many others. Works really well and will definitely recommend.

I installed this on a wifi network using google wifi (by plugging it into a switch connected to the lan port on the google wifi puck). It has been assigned an IP address which I can see in the google home app but the home assistant app cannot find the home assistant green on the network. It also does not find it by manually entering the ip address. Not sure what's wrong but clearly not going to be successful for people who are not knowledable about computer networking. I have a samsung smartthings which is pretty easy to use but I thought home assistant would be more robust but if I cant even connect to it I guess I'm in over my head.

I have a UDI eisy as my home controller with insteon lighting, but there were some things that weren't perfect. This little controller was pre loaded so no zipping or tar-ing files to save a couple dollars as a DIY project. Within minutes it connected to my Amazon Echo devices and found all of our greywind (Matter) blinds that the eisy could not. Now we have both full home control via keypad and voice control via cloud. If the internet goes down, my stuff still works even if Alexa isn't.