Take CONTROL Of Your EV with Home Assistant! (A Nerdy Show and Tell)

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