Learn how to take a YAML automation from another Home Assistant user and easily integrate that into your own system, with no knowledge of YAML.
Some Home Assistant users publish their automations, or even their entire configuration. You may have seen an automation you'd like to recreate in your own home, but may not be comfortable with YAML and copying and pasting the automation rarely works due to different structures of Home Assistant. Blueprints are a newer way to share automations, but not everyone creates blueprints (and as of time of publishing, blueprints do not support creation of helpers... needed in many automations). This video will show you how to take a YAML automation and use the Home Assistant Automation Editor to recreate that YAML automation in your own Home Assistant instance.
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00:00 Introduction
01:13 Parts of an Automation
04:08 Overview of automation to convert
05:47 Entities and Helpers Used
07:14 Creating Helpers
09:47 Creating the first automation
16:12 Comparing UI automation to original YAML
17:13 Creating the second automation
20:15 Creating an event-based automation
22:32 Comparing to original YAML
22:50 Wrap up and Outro
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