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 ended up buying this device about 2 months ago when the Alexa devices could no longer access the Sengled cloud servers. This change rendered most of my smart bulbs useless via Alexa voice control, so that’s how I landed on Home Assistant Green. I admittedly did not do enough research to truly understand what I was buying and I’ve spent the last 2 months experimenting and this ultimately was a great purchase for me. In addition to the cost of the Home Assistant Green (Which isn’t peanuts necessarily) I had to buy 4 additional antennas so HA could communicate with the various devices I have. Another cost was a powered USB hub so I could connect all 4 USB antennas at once; due to HA only having 2 USB ports. These are all relatively cheap antennas (around $20-25/a piece) but costs are slowly adding up. To be fair though, HA did discover a lot of my devices just out of the box and hardwired to my router, so if you just need the basics, then you might not need to purchase anything additional depending on your device setup. BUT, if you do want more control and flexibility with your current mixed brand smart devices, then HA with a couple of small add-ons is the way to go. The reason I would say this isn’t exactly for beginners is because it’s not necessarily a plug n’ play setup like it is setting up devices in Amazon Alexa. Depending on your devices and how easily they integrate with Home Assistant Green would determine the level of experience needed to fully leverage the automation capabilities of the Home Assistant. I’ve been able to move all of my smart home devices under one roof now through Home Assistant and utilize local control all while maintaining voice control with Alexa via the Home Assistant Cloud subscription. All in all this has been a great little investment and with some effort to learn on my part, I’ve really been able to dial in control over my home smart devices and setup some automations that are only possible through Home Assistant Green (and possibly other “like devices”).

Great way to get into Home Assistant for beginners. Kit works as stated, minimal setup, and it finds your devices quickly. I have almost 10 years of experience with the Samsung SmartThings Hub and to be honest, Home Assistant with Zigbee devices is easier and more consistent.

I like to consider home assistant the god of smart home hubs, and so far it is. There’s tons of things you can do, and any compatible devices (which includes a lot) can work together seamlessly. As far as connectivity goes, it connects to your home network with Ethernet, requiring no wireless setup, and from there can run everything locally. This results in almost instant response times from automations, not to mention the amount of flexibility you get when setting those automations up to begin with. Yes, this may be a pricy way of setting up a smart home, but so far it’s been worth it.

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.

I've been looking at home automation for a while, but didn't buy anything because the Amazon and Apple and others require an Internet connection and export your requests to their servers. I look at Home Assistant a while back and I was thinking of doing a Raspberry with the software, but I was too busy so didn't do it. Finally I bought the Green with the Zigbee bridge and a quad set of Amazon Matter smart plugs. Prior to setting it up, I read up on the documentation, maybe two hours all told. I also read up on other people in Internet Forums that are using it for a myriad of applications. I loved the guy who did it so the menus in his tablet change as he walks from room to room of his house... and the guys who actually set them up to control their Home Theaters... Once I got it, it took me all of two hours, playing with it, to set up two of the plugs. It was easy. And then I found out that many of my devices, TVs, WiiM, etc... already support it.. Needless to say, I bought a bunch more plugs and soon will buy the lamps. This thing is extremely powerful and I think you can go very deep into it... Reading the one start reviews... well, clueless people who are over their heads. Simple as that. Again, three things that are superb: (1) No Internet required to run it, it's all done in your own server. (2) Supports several standards. (3) Huge support community. It's not geeky, it just requires Reading The F. Manual. EDIT: BTW, you still need a bluetooth connection to configure some devices, so the use of the phone is essential. I got the software running -off a web interface- on my PC (managing), Android Tablet (every body's control) and my own Android Cell phone. In two days, I set up six lamps in three separate rooms in the house with timed "actions" to turn ON and OFF. The amount of effort that has gone into this is staggering actually. I've barely scratched the surface and the fact that it's not bound to a manufacturer it's awesome. Another thing. make sure your phone and device are on the same WiFi SSID when you bring up a Matter device, it seems like the SSID connection is transferred from the phone to the Matter device over Bluetooth on initial configuration. In my house we have four SSIDs, a mesh and a non mesh, so heads up. The Wired side of Home Assistant Green is faultless, although I might work on giving it a static IP address. By default, all you need to do is plug ethernet and power and wait five minutes. The Zigbee add on took a bit more, but it's all IN THE MANUALS... I can't say this loud enough... with this device, RTFM... There is so much, it's mind boggling.

Great product easy to configure for I ital set up. Very robust configuration set. Not really for a pure novice but with ai support even a novice could probably configure scenes quickly as documentation is readily available to ai to walk you through even more advanced scenes.

I purchased this device to replace my Home Assistant instance that was running on a Raspberry Pi. I found this unit to be very easy to set up, and very reliable. I have a moderate home automation environment including Z-Wave, Zigbee, and Matter devices and have had no issues with the migration from the Pi to the Home Assistant Green computer.