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

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”).

As promised, super easy to get started. Just plug it to the network and power it up and home assistant will start. I have not done anything of great value yet, but so far I am able to control some of my cameras and I am starting to build a sensors network in my house. All for fun.

I was new into home automation and had heard that this was easy-entry, and that is very true. It walks you through all the basics and I had it up and running in less than 30 minutes with some Alexa-enabled commands. The design of the Home Assistant software is spectacular, with tons of options. Kudos to the developers. I now use this simple piece of gear to automate my entire home including doorbells, alarms, smoke sensors, lights, fans, lots of other things. They are all Alexa-accessible so we longer have to move to trigger practically anything, even vacuuming.Really well designed, and very happy.

Product works great. Does what it’s supposed to. Settings it up is easy. Currently automating our production services.

If you're looking to setup Home Assistant, this is the way to go.

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.

Best discovery ever, so far! I was amazed when I set up my Home Assistant and saw the capabilities. Endless opportunities, and so much to discover. This will definitely help me keep busy for a while when I retire!

Sooooooo easy to configure.Literally Plug and PlayIn a few minutes I was able to start connecting my devices and configure my home automation.This is a real assistant.I strongly recommend it.