AI in Home Assistant - A Complete Guide!

In this Home Assistant tutorial, I’ll explain how you can use AI in Home Assistant in just a few easy steps. I’ll show you two examples: the first one welcomes you home in a funny way, and the second sends a message to your phone describing the person at your door when the doorbell rings. Let’s get started! ⭐ You can download the blueprints that I created for this video at: https://ko-fi.com/s/f5c3ad44f3 ⭐ NOTE: Since Home Assistant 2025.3 you need to use the parameter "filenames" instead of "image_filename". Links referred to in this video: * Google AI Studio for Gemini: https://aistudio.google.com/ * Scenes on Steroids: https://youtu.be/JW9PC6ptXcM * This is the ULTIMATE Video Doorbell that we've all been waiting for: https://youtu.be/3ZRyJK3UpFI Blog version: https://www.smarthomejunkie.net/home-assistant-and-ai-a-complete-guide 👉 Get the desktop clock/message ticker that I use in the video: https://youtu.be/N0NKPJzGHuA ⭐⭐⭐ * Join this channel to get access to perks: 📺 https://www.youtube.com/c/smarthomejunkie/join * Please consider becoming my patron 🏅 at https://www.patreon.com/join/smarthomejunkie * Or please support me by buying me a ☕ at https://ko-fi.com/smarthomejunkie/ * Or sponsor me through PayPal at https://paypal.me/smarthomejunkie ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ If you want me to create a review of your product, please visit this page for information and rates: https://www.smarthomejunkie.net/review-and-advertisement-information/ ⭐ My Devices: https://github.com/smarthomejunkie/MyDevices Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smarthomejunkie/ X: https://www.x.com/smarth0mejunkie Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@smarthomejunkie Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smarthomejunkie/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@smarthomejunkie Discord: https://discord.gg/at8v5hW Music by: * 2TECH-AUDIO: https://2tech-audio.bandcamp.com/ 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:54 Use Case 1: Welcome someone when they come home. 00:04:12 Creating the Automation to welcome someone home. 00:07:06 Use Case 2: Send a message describing what is visible in an image. #homeassistant #tutorial #ai #artificialintelligence #smarthome #homeautomation