Second home setup

I’ve today set up my new Home Assistant Green in my second home, and can’t work out if there’s some way to make it aware of the one in my first home, and to synchronise with it.

My first one (in home 1) already has all the eWeLink and Tuya smart devices in home 2 and I’d thought that I’d be able to log into my account here in #2 and see the same; bringing in all the integrations, settings etc.

Am I wrong to think that they could in some way both know what the other does?

You have to install the integrations

if your setups are substantially similar, and if you’ve had your first for a while, what i did was to create a backup from my first house and restored it into my second.

that put all the integrations in, but it also carried over all the helper scripts i have, and it also has the same 2fa config which is super convenient (security wonks, close your ears)… so i can use one otp for both.

if you want one of the home assistants to actually see the live contents of the other (i’ve found this useful once in a while), check out remote home assistant:

this will surface entities from one home (recommend the second home) into the first home and let you view them on your primary home’s dashboards as well as create automations that span across. e.g. alexa notification in your primary home when something happens in your second home.