Home Assistant Automation Tutorial - Complete & easy to understand explanation 🦸‍♂️

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In this video, I'll show you everything you need to know about automations in Home Assistant. We'll start with triggers, take a closer look at conditions, and explore the possible actions. ... The whole thing is rounded off with many real-life examples, which will hopefully give you ideas on how to put what you've learned into practice 🙌 🔗 == BLOG POST ⇒ More information, code snippets for the cards shown & much more → https://www.simon42.com/home-assistan... ======== VIDEOS & PLAYLISTS ======== 📹    • Duscherkennung in Home Assistant einrichte...   📹    • Smart Home Hitzeschutz mit Rollos, Sonnenp...   📹    • Mit Home Assistant WhatsApp Nachrichten ve...   📹    • Langzeitdaten & Analyse in Home Assistant ...   📋    • Neu bei Home Assistant? → Starte hier 🚨   🛟 Need help with Home Assistant topics? → https://community.simon42.com -- Chapters 🎥 -- 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Topic of today's video 01:17 - Recommended prior knowledge 01:46 - Definition: What is an automation in Home Assistant? 02:47 - How and where can you create automations in Home Assistant? 03:05 - Views and actions in the automation overview 04:48 - Creating a new automation 04:58 - Structure of an automation in Home Assistant 05:51 - Event trigger 06:26 - Geolocation trigger 07:32 - Device trigger explained 09:05 - Home Assistant trigger 09:15 - Calendar trigger 09:44 - MQTT trigger 10:38 - Numeric state trigger 11:27 - Sun trigger 11:41 - Tag trigger (NFC) 11:52 - Template trigger 12:53 - Webhook trigger 14:03 - Time trigger 14:36 ​​- Time grid trigger 15:04 - Zone trigger 15:23 - State Triggers 16:51 - Displaying Automation Blocks in YAML Code 17:55 - Conclusion on Triggers 18:09 - Conditions of Automations 18:22 - What are Trigger IDs and how can we use them? 19:35 - Trigger ID Condition 19:58 - Nested OR condition explained using 2 trigger IDs 21:43 - Device condition 22:01 - Briefly discussing the non-condition 22:13 - Numeric state, AND operator, and sun as a condition 22:35 - Time condition 23:09 - General note on the complexity of automations 23:56 - Testing conditions directly in the automation 24:23 - Accessing help pages via the automation interface 24:40 - Actions 24:51 - Device: The most important action 25:40 - Executing automation actions directly 25:53 - Wait or delay action 26:06 - The select action (taking branches based on conditions) 27:57 - Other important actions (scene) 28:40 - If-Then action 28:57 - Running a service as Action 29:58 - Testing services outside of automations 30:47 - Playing media action 31:38 - How to turn off all devices in a domain with an automation? 32:09 - Practical examples of automations in Home Assistant (1: Trash notification) 34:17 - Automation example: Turning off air purifiers when air quality is good 36:07 - Switching input helpers via automations 36:50 - One-off automations 37:50 - Automation: Notify for high humidity explained (complicated) 44:15 - What are Blueprints and why are they so great? 45:31 - Where can you find these and other Blueprints? 46:21 - Conclusion on Home Assistant's Blueprint Exchange 47:06 - Inserting a Blueprint via Gist URL 47:26 - Blueprints for "remote control devices" such as buttons, switches, etc. #homeassistant #smarthome #iot