How to get Home Assistant working with MyCroft

In this video, I walk you through getting MyCroft, an open source voice assistant, working with Home Assistant, an open source smart home console. All that is required is a minor change to both systems and you are up and running.

Suggestions: Assign a static ip address to both MyCroft and Home Assistant Uses a DHCP reservation may be an easier way to do this

Home Assistant:

Add this to your configuration.yaml file -

mycroft: host: 0.0.0.0 (change this to the ip address of your MyCroft device)

Reboot Home Assistant

MyCroft:

https://market.mycroft.ai/skill/homeassistant

Add this skill Wait several minutes for the skill to be added and activated before using it

Note: If you have skills such as LiFX or similar active on MyCroft, you will want to deactivate or uninstall them before linking your MyCroft to Home Assistant

Both of these are required in order for things to work

To turn a device such as a LiFX bulb, you can say "MyCroft, turn on chair light" To turn off the device you can say "MyCroft, turn off chair light"

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*** Show Notes, Links and Resources **** For MyCroft:

https://mycroft.ai/

CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (B Plus) Complete Starter Kit (16 GB Edition) https://amzn.to/2S61IQg

Blue Snowball iCE Condenser Microphone, Cardioid https://amzn.to/2BpaLVp

Logitech Z50 speaker https://amzn.to/2QT2gf8

Etcher https://www.balena.io/etcher/

For Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/ CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (B Plus) Starter Kit w/ 32GB Micro SD https://amzn.to/2RlHq89

Etcher https://www.balena.io/etcher/

Here are the items mentioned in this video -

For a complete list, please check the videos for installing Home Assistant and Installing MyCroft videos.

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