Mastering Home Assistant Templates: A Beginner's Guide

Home Assistant Templates 101 Let's walk through everything you need to know to get started making templates. I explain the foundational blocks of templates, walk you through how to transform your home assistant data using math, and wrap it up giving to a look at some different ways you can use templates. If you feel overwhelmed with #homeassistant templates, dont worry. After this video you will have everything you need to get started. Code Examples: Example Sensors: https://github.com/thejeffreystone/homeassistant-config/blob/main/config/sensors/sensor.yaml Jinja Examples from Temaplte Panel: https://gist.github.com/thejeffreystone/54df3dec788df5170998416ac9a1ed47 Today Is / Month Is: https://github.com/thejeffreystone/homeassistant-config/blob/34fd8aacbc744f41d78f44a071785fa21e41d605/config/sensors/house.yaml#L203 Jinja Resources: Crash course for Beginners: https://ultraconfig.com.au/blog/jinja2-a-crash-course-for-beginners/ Full Jinja Documentation (Use Search when needing syntax for functions): https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/ Video Chapters: 00:00 - Home Assistant Templates 101 - Intro 01:10 - Home Assistant Template Updates as of 2023.4 01:44 - What is Jinja? 03:07 - Template Basics: What do those Curly Braces mean? 06:57 - Home Assistant Entities in Templates 11:44 - Transform Home Assistant Entities using Templates 17:22 - Advance Templates - A Quick Look 23:00 - More to Come Who am I? My Name is Jeff. I am an DIY-er and Automator of boring things. And, of course, a huge Home Assistant fan. Oh, I also live in a house that tweets. Follow Me: Github - https://github.com/thejeffreystone Twitter - https://twitter.com/thejeffreystone / https://twitter.com/slackerlabs On the Web - https://slacker-labs.com/ Discord - https://discord.gg/YkMKGHnahh And if you like this video you could always fuel my automation habit - Grab SlackerLabs Merch: https://slackerlabsmerch.square.site One Time Donation: Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SlackerLabs Cash App: $slackerlabs Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/icE6DeBut . Or use my Amazon affiliate link which provides a small commission on things you buy without additional cost to you - https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?k=Home+Automation&ref=nb_sb_noss_2&linkCode=ll2&tag=thejeffreysto-20&linkId=18622d75c4923c69c2b7488cec58ad5e&language=en_US Video Gear: Canon m50: https://amzn.to/3ftldPH Desk Mic: https://amzn.to/3wkum40 Camera Mic: https://amzn.to/3tXk1cp Newer 660: https://amzn.to/3fwwejd Dazzne D50: https://amzn.to/3oGBK5y Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3u07chK Gimble: https://amzn.to/3ouKAoe Music - Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/o05z6m/ Video Assets - LenoFx: http://i.refs.cc/CJXU6Da9?smile_ref=eyJzbWlsZV9zb3VyY2UiOiJzbWlsZV91aSIsInNtaWxlX21lZGl1bSI6IiIsInNtaWxlX2NhbXBhaWduIjoicmVmZXJyYWxfcHJvZ3JhbSIsInNtaWxlX2N1c3RvbWVyX2lkIjo3NzE2MjM1MTd9