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


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