Home Assistant Templates - A Beginner's Guide

Home Assistant Template's are a very powerful way of formatting and manipulating data but they can be a little confusing to get start with. In this video I'll show you how to get started with templates in Home Assistant and we will cover 3 examples of templates - Using a template to trigger an automation, using a template as a notification message and finally using a template to create your own sensors, switches, lights or any other domain that supports templates. If you'd like to support me and future projects: Patreon:   / everythingsmarthome   Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/EverySma... Written Article: https://everythingsmarthome.co.uk EVERYWHERE YOU CAN FIND ME: Everything Smart Home Community Discord:   / discord   Twitter:   / everysmarthome   (@EverySmartHome) Instagram:   / everythingsmarthome   Facebook:   / everythingsmarthomeofficial   #homeassistant #smarthome ________________________ Some of the links above are affiliate links, where I earn a small commission if you click on the link and purchase an item. You are not obligated to do so, but it does help fund these videos in hopes of bringing value to you! 0:00 - Intro 0:50 - What are templates? 3:07 - Where to test templates and how to start 6:41 - If statement example for automation Trigger 11:23 - For loop example for notification message 18:09 - Creating a template sensor with For & If combined 26:20 - Outro