A collection of posts on how to perform common tasks and deal with common problems.
Getting Started With The Forum
- Discourse New User Guide (this forum uses the Discourse software)
- Hands-on Practical Courses to learn Discourse Commands
- How to help us help you - or How to ask a good question
- How to help us help them - or How to give a good answer
- Tips on Community Searching
- Custom Search Links for Frequent Searchers.
- Formatting YAML in Forum Posts
- Adding Links to Forum Posts
- Getting help in languages other than English
- How to exchange automations and scripts using the forum
Getting Started With HA
- 20 things I wished I knew when I started with Home Assistant
- HA Glossary
- Basic Common Home Assistant Tasks You WILL Need to Know
- Index to Home Assistant Documentation
- Integrations, add-ons and custom integrations
- Disaster Recovery Planning
Installation
Configuration
YAML
Database
Automations
- Understanding automations
- Why and how to avoid device_ids in automations and scripts
- Automations #1: trigger only fires when it changes from not true to true
- Automations #2: the condition block
- Automations #3: trigger_variables
- Turning lights on and off at sunset and sunrise
- Motion activated lights automation
- Automations, from Zero to Hero
- Organising and annotating automations.
- Troubleshooting
Frontend
- Dashboards #1: Themes
- About "This entity does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the UI"
- Markdown Cheat Sheet | Markdown Guide
- Easy date and time card, using only Markdown
Templating
Notifications
Energy Monitoring
- Basic energy monitoring
- How to use Utility Meter Tariffs to conditionally measure things
- Why an availability template is important for energy template sensors
- HA Energy Dashboard FAQ · GitHub
Voice Assistants
Technologies
Zigbee
- Zigbee networks: how to guide for avoiding interference + optimizing using Zigbee Router devices (repeaters/extenders) to get best possible range and coverage
- Zigbee #1: where can I find a list of supported devices?
- Not many people know that... A random collection of Zigbee trivia
- Is Zigbee right for you?
- Mains powered Zigbee devices that aren't routers
- Database of Zigbee devices supported by ZHA, Z2M and others
- Z2M supported devices
Z-Wave
ESPHome
Troubleshooting
- General Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting your configuration
- Automations
- Companion app
- How to Troubleshoot Raspberry Pi Crashing
- How to get to your log after restart/restore
- Blueprints: Target selector & entity selector errors
- Yaml: How to read configuration errors
- 2024.5+: Tracking down instability issues caused by integrations
For More Experienced Users
- How to Read Configuration Errors
- Installing Home Assistant OS using Proxmox 8
- Installing HAOS in a VM on TrueNAS SCALE
- Installing Home Assistant on VMWare Player / Workstation 16 (or 17)
- Template Select Entities
- Blueprints: Get your !input value into a template
- How to set a custom scan_interval
- How to add custom buttons to the side toolbar
- Read only sensor/helper display without templates
- How to use context
Contributors
New posts in this series (or improvements to existing ones - each post is a wiki) are welcome.
For this series we are limiting topics to items directly related to Home Assistant Core & Frontend, and not individual Custom Integrations, Custom Themes, Dashboard Items, Add-ons or Blueprints. Consider starting other lists for those.
Join the cookbook discussion if you have any questions or want to contribute in other ways.
- Make a post in Community Guides and tag it with
cookbook. - Include a link to this index
- Add a link from this index
Be aware that posts can be edited by anyone.