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Are you new to Home Assistant and have 100 question marks in your head? You can't follow YouTube videos because the terms are unclear or menu items are missing? Then this video is for you! Here we clarify all the important Home Assistant vocabulary such as entities, devices, dashboards & co. as well as menu items, the most important add-ons and what you should know about troubleshooting or when using Home Assistant as a beginner! ???? ????More information, code snippets for the cards shown & even more → https://www.simon42.com/home-assistan... ======== VIDEOS & PLAYLISTS ======== ???? • What is ESPHome? ESP32 & ESP8266? - ... ???? • Home Assistant Installation (HA OS) ???? • Home Assistant Backup & Restore - Al... ???? • New to Home Assistant? → Start here ???? ???? Do you need help with Home Assistant topics? → https://community.simon42.com -- Chapter ???? -- 00:00 - Intro 00:50 - Where do we start? 01:15 - Accessing the Home Assistant web interface 01:46 - Onboarding Home Assistant 02:41 - What is an integration in Home Assistant and setting up your first integrations 05:16 - Setting up the Home Assistant weather integration (OpenWeatherMap) 06:46 - Enabling advanced mode in Home Assistant 07:10 - Installing the SSH add-on 08:38 - Checking the add-on log for errors after installation 09:09 - Other add-ons and useful information about the release 09:52 - Installing the file editor 10:27 - Editing configuration.yaml 10:41 - Basic structure of the YAML file 12:04 - How and when do you create backups in Home Assistant 13:02 - Important vocabulary and terms in Home Assistant 14:34 - What does the architecture of Home Assistant look like? (HA OS) 16:37 - What is the Home Assistant frontend? 16:52 - What is the theme in Home Assistant? 17:10 - What are dashboards & cards for in Home Assistant and what is it? 19:05 - What is the function of entities and devices in Home Assistant 21:00 - Automatic consolidation of multiple entities into one device in Home Assistant 23:03 - What does HACS do in Home Assistant 24:15 - Users and persons in Home Assistant 25:25 - What is the purpose of device_tracker entities in Home Assistant 26:39 - Other device tracker options (apart from network presence) 27:09 - See all entity attributes in the developer tools 28:30 - Difference between attributes and entities 29:52 - What are automations in Home Assistant? 31:50 - What are blueprints in automations? 33:23 - Energy dashboard in Home Assistant 35:09 - Adding entities to the energy dashboard 36:07 - Basics of error prevention and troubleshooting in Home Assistant 40:15 - Outro