Did you know that HELPERS are very powerful in Home Assistant automations and scripts? Helpers are variables that can be used to store all kinds of data in Home Assistant. You can store booleans, numbers, text, lists, date/time, date, time, timer, and dropdown data in them to use in your automations and scripts and create awesome smart events in Home Assistant. This tutorial shows you how to set up helpers and use them to make your automations and scripts really smart and go from a smart home to a smart home!

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Content:
0:00 Presentation
0:21 General description
1:03 Description of the different types of aid
1:50 Example of first aid: turn off devices when responding
4:34 Example of automation that uses support time
5:55 Set temperature to a value from a digital assistant in YAML
9:40 Show Lovelace Dashboard to manage help values
11:45 Example of more advanced help functionality using script and YAML

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