How To Use HELPERS In Home Assistant - TUTORIAL

Did you know that HELPERS are very powerful in Home Assistant Automations and Scripts? Helpers are variables that can be used to store all kind of data in Home Assistant. You can store booleans, numbers, text, lists, datetime, date, time, timer and dropdown data in them to use them in your automations and scripts and create awesome intelligent events in Home Assistant. This tutorial shows you how you can set up helpers and use them to make your automations and script really intelligent and get from a Smart Home to an Intelligent Home! ⭐⭐⭐ I cannot do this without your support! If my videos save you time, you can support me in the following ways: ⭐⭐⭐ The code used in this video can be found here: ... See the list of Smart Home devices that I use and recommend here: If you got enthusiastic about Home Assistant, you can watch these videos too: Background music composed and produced by Smart Home Junkie Contents: 0:00 Introduction 0:21 General description 1:03 Description of the various helper types 1:50 First helper example: turn off devices at helper time 4:34 Example of automation that uses the helper time 5:55 Set temperature to a value of a number helper in YAML 9:40 Show Lovelace dashboard to manage helper values 11:45 Example of more advanced helper functionality using a script and YAML #smarthomejunkie