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

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After years of relying on Alexa for basic smart home control, I wanted something more capable - better integrations, real automation, and full control over my setup. Home Assistant delivers all of that and then some. It’s incredibly powerful (more than I expected), with a huge range of tools and customisation options - including raw configuration and advanced editors. I can see why some people say you need a degree to use it. I’m fairly technical, but still needed some help from ChatGPT to set up certain integrations and write custom configurations. Important: Make sure your Home Assistant Green is running Home Assistant OS, not Home Assistant Container. Mine arrived with Container, which is a stripped-back version intended for advanced users running Docker. It lacks add-on support and makes setup more complex. Home Assistant OS provides the full experience, including access to add-ons and much easier management. Since the Green is designed for HA OS, it’s a bit odd that mine came with Container. Fortunately, Home Assistant OS was very easy to install via a microSD card loaded with the correct package. The "Green" hardware itself is excellent - completely silent and runs very smoothly One of the biggest advantages is device integration and centralised management. I’ve been able to bring everything together in one place, including lighting, smart plugs, and even my Annke IP cameras (using Hikvision integration). Having everything unified in a single system makes automation far more useful than managing devices separately across different apps. The one integration I had some difficulty with was Eufy. I’m using the E340 video doorbell on battery power, which means you can’t leave the stream running continuously without draining it. To work around this, I manually call the camera.turn_on and camera.turn_off services so the camera only activates when needed. It works well once set up, but it’s something to be aware of if you’re using battery-powered devices. The only caveat is that remote access and voice assistant integration typically require a Home Assistant Cloud subscription. However, if you’re willing to invest some time, there are free alternatives. I set mine up using Cloudflare and a custom Alexa skill, so the only ongoing cost is a domain (around £8/year). I was initially planning to use Cloudflare Zero Trust option for additional protection, but it breaks too many Home Assistant integrations. Fortunately, Home Assistant has robust MFA built in. It’s been a learning curve, but absolutely worth it.

Excellent product as described!

Busy using this for a few months now maybe 9 months, an essential part of my de-googling strategy. Honestly with the fact that home assistant basically connects to everything if you put a bit of elbow grease into it and you can automate anything with so much variety that you're limited only by your own intellect if I'm being honest. Although I guess this isn't a review of home assistant, but the home assistant green, I'll say that I have no problems so far. One time there was a router change and it didn't assign the proper range and I couldn't have it working on the Wi-Fi, but I was able to connect a monitor and a keyboard to the green, and relatively quickly was able to get into the settings and adjust it so that it would work properly and it did thanks to the hardware design where I can actually connect a keyboard and a a monitor to this little machine Phenomenal investment for anyone that wants to take their home automation seriously and generally not have any issues. Set it and forget it. I should point out that I am using a router and two satellite mesh system for Wi-Fi, and have three little brute Bluetooth repeaters I don't even know if they help or not but I haven't had any issues, probably dozen or so smart bulbs, all wi-fi, a half dozen Wi-Fi sockets where I can use any bulb, four zigbee temperature humidity sensors, four presence sensors, a half dozen motion sensors, a couple dozen smart plugs, a dozen or so zigbee switches, some Garden humidity sensors, and probably a ton of other things than I've been thinking about right now oh yeah like the water sensor water switch and I've been able to automate all these systems in home assistant with the home assistant green without any issues for the most part.

Love it, it’s just plug and play

Conforme à la description, look plutôt sympa et l’implémentation de smart home est aussi paramétable que la version logicielle. BAckup prévu, mise en route rapide. Détecte facilement les appareils matter (prises, multiprises) et affiche bien les consommations énergétiques (si le matériel interfacé le fait) mois j’ai interfacé avec Merros et aucun soucis…