About This Course
The Master YAML For Home Assistant course will take you through everything that you need to know about YAML so that you can write your own fully featured YAML configurations in Home Assistant.
At a glance YAML can seem a little intimidating and you might think that there is a lot of work to learn it, particularly if you don’t have any prior programming experience.
However YAML is designed to be human-readable and therefore can be quick and easy for anyone to learn with the right guidance.
If you have been using Home Assistant but have been shying away from YAML, this course can change that and turn you into a YAML pro!
By the end of this course you can expect to:
What you can expect from the course:
This course is most suited to:
Course Prerequisites:
In order to take this course you will need to have Home Assistant up and running (installed and onboarded), and ideally at least one light entity on your system so that you can follow along with the practical examples (you can also use virtual components).
If you have not yet installed Home Assistant, we would recommend first checking out the free Home Assistant Beginners course found here.
If you have installed Home Assistant but you don’t yet have an understanding of what an entity and integration is, we would recommend first taking our Master Home Assistant Level 1 course.
If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact our support team: [email protected]
Even More Reasons to Study with Us!
Home Assistant is a very powerful smart home central control software program and like with many powerful tools, it comes with a fairly complex learning curve.
Smart Home Study's mission is to bring all of the information that you need to one place, drastically simplifying the learning curve so that you can more quickly and easily get to building the smart home that you dream of!
Here at Smart Home Study we understand that it can be both frustrating and time consuming to find the right information and we want to make a better resource for you.
We understand the frustrations that people encounter when trying to learn Home Assistant, we were once there ourselves!
There is a lot of good quality information about Home Assistant scattered around the internet, however it can be a challenge to find it and even then you must piece everything together from different sources.
Information is scattered across blog posts and YouTube channels, and is often out of date due to the speed in which Home Assistant has developed.
Our goal is to provide all of the information that you need and keep it up to date, so that you can quickly and easily master Home Assistant.
We are confident that you will have no problem progressing through our course, but if you need some assistance, our support team would be more than happy to help.
You can contact us any time using the contact form, or by emailing us at [email protected].
FINALLY a course which tells you EVERYTHING!
So I’ve had home assistant for around 3-6 months, probably longer! I’ve done everything I can with the limited amount of hardware I have that I can do using the UI. I always knew about yaml and that you could do so much more than you could do in the UI. Everyone says Home Assistant has a very steep learning curve and this includes yaml which almost felt actually quite intimidating. Using this course it has guided me through exactly what to do and when. It’s also mentions about the indentation which HA is very finicky about! I would recommend to keep doing this course until it’s stuck in your brain, I also followed along doing exactly what it said in my HA installation. I would recommend using the copy code button instead of typing the code in so you can get the indentation correct and just modify it from there. There are parts of the course which you can do once, like the file structure, and things you have to do each time, like the yaml coding for scenes, scripts and automations.
This is finally a course which tells you everything and guides you through in a step by step method of how to do it and integrate it into your system. I will most definitely go over this again and again till its stuck in my brain then hopefully I’ll be able to go even further and become a true HA pro!
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