Nikki is, as she's happy to admit, quite the nerd, and one of her favorite pastimes is making her home smarter using in-house home automation that relies very little on anything in the cloud. So today, (Happy Hollidays!) she's giving you a quick tour of some of the things she's recently set up to make her home (and her EVs) smarter. Links for understanding Home Assistant: https://youtu.be/Y38qRYYAwAI?feature=shared, https://youtu.be/sVqyDtEjudk?feature=shared, Link to Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io, https://www.nabucasa.com, Link to HACS - Home Assistant Community Store: https://www.hacs.xyz, Link to Ford and GM integrations (third party) https://github.com/itchannel/fordpass-ha, https://github.com/BigThunderSR/homeassistant-addons-onstar2mqtt, -Anonymized sensor.yaml file: https://pastebin.com/NEZ129Rt -Anonymized picture card yaml for the F150 Lightning (work in progress) : https://pastebin.com/2LL9GQWp 00:00 - Introduction 01:40 - Nikki loves tinkering 03:14 - What is Home Assistant? 04:46 - HACS - Home Assistant Community Store (https://www.hacs.yxz) 05:25 - Things to bear in mind about integrations 07:22 - Displaying the information using picture card elements 08:11 - Uncovering extra data using custom sensors 09:26 - The (almost) finished article 11:16 - Emporia Vue2 and ESPHome 12:44 - Pulling out even more data, and marrying it together 15:09 - What's Next? 17:13 - Saving money with Home Assistant 18:17 - Thanks, and Goodbye! Find our postal address: https://www.transportevolved.com Buy one of our Halloween T-Shirts: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/153008127 Script: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield Presenters: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield Editor, Colorist: Michael Horton Art and Animation: Erin Carlie Producer: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield © Transport Evolved LLC, 2023 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC675NhQ4EU5TzwCMwYp5XCw/join This video was made possible thanks to the kind donations of our supporters on Patreon and Ko-fi. Join them in supporting us. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transportevolved Buy the team a coffee -- or a meal! https://ko-fi.com/transportevolved Donate using bitcoin: BC1QRZRGCCXUKPDZ2DZ9KX9JYJXMZDYHYGFZ0MN4WH Support us by buying some merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/TransportEVd/shop Follow our 'second' channel - Transport Evolved Take Two, at https://www.youtube.com/transportevolvedtake2 Join our Discord server at https://discord.gg/U3tnkGNfCA Follow the show on Mastodon: https://mastodon.transportevolved.com/ Follow the show on PeerTube: transport_evolved_main@peertube.tv Use the TE Aptera referral code - i.refs.cc/zz56EbIi - but watch our explainer video FIRST: https://youtu.be/mwzwEssgqNI Sign up for EnergySage at https://www.energysage.com/p/transportevolve