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 looking for a fast and hassle-free way to get started with Home Assistant. I considered various options like VMs, Raspberry Pis, and even the Home Assistant Yellow. This all-in-one Green model got me up and running quickly and was on my doorstep within a day. I've been running the Green for about six months now and haven't encountered any limitations that make me regret my decision. While I did need to purchase external Bluetooth and Zigbee equipment, this allowed me the flexibility to choose exactly what I wanted and place it optimally. If I were to do it all over again, I'd definitely buy it again.

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.

For many years I have used wi-fi smart home devices and Google Homes, and never dabbled into the beautiful world of home assistant. In my new home, I've finally broken down and switched over to Home Assistant, started to flesh out a Zigbee network, and definitely never turning back now!Device is relatively small, no bigger than a small desktop switch, and is very quiet. Everything worked right out of the box, and has been compatible with every device I've thrown at it. Zigbee2MQTT is a bit clunky, but the native Zigbee plugin for the device is plug n play ready to go.Would recommend this to anywho whos lookin to dabble into the smart home game!

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

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 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.

Horrible prodcut horrible interface, not worth wasting time on. Installed this, set it up with a user and password. then tried to log in from a different device with the app installed to interface to the home assisant. does not show username, but the name. Could not find what the user name it used was. Had the password but there was not way to see the username for login. Do some googling nad you have to do bunch of steps and try nad find what account was setuop on it.Complete waste of time, and horrible product and software, This product is great for nerds with no life that want to spend all day trying to figure it out. For the normal person it is garbage and worthless.