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Indeed, it’s the AI, but it’s only part of the suggestions.

  • Bring one or more major investors into Gladys.
  • Ask the community to fund an integration / an upgrade 

  • Call on a communications company.
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There are advantages, disadvantages, and different costs for each solution that need to be studied to determine what might work best.

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Hi everyone :slight_smile:

New YouTube video coming out tonight: Home Assistant vs Gladys Assistant: The Honest Comparison 2026 (Which one to choose?)

In my opinion, it’s a video that’s going to do really well. I noticed that this keyword is highly searched, so it will fill a gap and answer questions from users who are hesitating between the two solutions.

In this video, I compare the two solutions across 6 criteria (installation, compatibility, automations, community
) with no sugarcoating: I say what HA does better AND what Gladys does better.

:rocket: A little favor? If you have 30 seconds, a comment under the video (even a quick comment) would greatly help the YouTube algorithm get it discovered by more people :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance!

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Really nice video :+1:

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The video is doing really well :star_struck:

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Very interesting as a video and very honest, knowing Home Assistant well.

Just YAML is only used when you really want to go further and BLUEPRINTS are (basically) templates of (complex

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Thank you for your feedback @McFlyPartages :slight_smile:

I agree with this point.

However, I notice a gap between theory and practice: I’m regularly told that YAML is not mandatory in Home Assistant, but in fact, virtually all video tutorials, blog posts and forum discussions refer to it :smiley:

It’s understandable: bloggers generally try to offer advanced configurations, but in my opinion that can intimidate beginners who are discovering the platform :slight_smile:

Do you think I can share this video on HACF or will it be poorly received?

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I would avoid it.
But it’s a very good video.
It looks like you’ll hit the mark with the dual setup!
I don’t know if you can make changes to an already published video.
I put myself in the shoes of an English person, so I enabled automatic translation. There were a few small mistakes, like « Gladys Â» translated as "Gladi

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I hadn’t seen it, but someone had just asked me a question on the HACF forum that called for this response, so I answered with the video :slight_smile:

My review is very objective and I put Home Assistant in the spotlight for what it is, so I think it will be well received :slight_smile:

The feedback on the video is very positive, and clearly it’s a huge hit — I’ve never seen anything like it on the channel :joy:

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I’m putting my comment here because I’m not a fan of YouTube & co. (the less I write on it, the better I feel).

The video is very good, it’s very clear, no « dissing Â» of the opposing solution but a highlighting of each one’s pros and cons, great! (and it also helped me understand the philosophy of Home Assistant (HA) a little better :wink: )

Regarding the stats, it worked well in 24 hours, especially with almost 50 comments — it’s really a great success. I don’t know if you can find out where the visitors came from but I think that would be really interesting.

And I’ll finish with the last slide about a dual install which is brilliant :star_struck:
I’m saying this because that’s what I do and I’m even on 3 installs (Gladys, Home Assistant (HA) and my old Jeedom) :sweat_smile:, everything communicates over MQTT. And I even went as far as adding Homey SHS to the mix to share and test Z2M (Zigbee2MQTT) and Matter for a month (after that, Homey requires payment)!

In short, MQTT and Matter make a great duo for sharing device values.

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Unfortunately we have some people who won’t accept it, too bad, but that’s how it is.

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There is a new channel on YouTube that could be interesting https://www.youtube.com/@alafrench.
I’ll let you judge for yourself.

Another idea:
It would be interesting to do an apartment or house project from A to Z with Gladys on video across several episodes

  • study of the structure (house or apartment)
  • study of devices to add (sensors, switches, bulbs, 
)
  • study of the person’s living habits to create the scenes
  • setting up the devices and installing Gladys
  • creation of specific scenes
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For that, you’d need an average person, a novice, wanting to equip their property.
Let them ask questions that the general public might have.

I didn’t use AI but it could come up with detailed scenarios for a series of videos.

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Actually, I already have all the content filmed about that; it’s called the Gladys course :joy:

That’s exactly what I filmed: my personal apartment, from empty to fully connected with Gladys!

One of the ideas I had to showcase this course was to make a YouTube video where I present my entire personal setup.

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That’s a very good idea!
I would envision a neutral video presenting a home automation assistant, to spark interest and show that it’s simple to make your apartment or house smart from a hardware point of view.
At the end of the video, there should be only a single pre-made dashboard showing only the products you demonstrated in the video, with Gladys of course, to show the ease of use (on/off, simple automation)
In this video, I wouldn’t yet show pairing devices or setting up scenes or commands on the dashboard (that’s more what the training will cover) but just explain that you did it in 5/10/15min.

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Gladys is listed directly on Z2M, I had never noticed!
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I really liked the Gladys / HA video! :+1:

Great work @pierre-gilles — I hope it brings you people.

Also, in my home automation journey I first went through HA; I was really taken by the fact that, without me asking, it suggested integrations for network devices (printer, etc
)
 but in the end I dropped the tool because I understood NOTHING about YAML, and because the more I tried to move forward, the more I broke things.

Hence my interest in Gladys, which, on the other hand, doesn’t break anything as you go! :+1: :grin:

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Same here, I followed the same path :sweat_smile:
I was won over by Gladys’s stability and simplicity :grin:

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Hi @pierre-gilles.

When reading a comment on the video, I thought maybe you should give people the option to try Gladys+ for a month before having to pay, so new users can get a full idea of what Gladys can do.

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Ongoing communication with a French YouTuber, Aylabs, who published a great video about Gladys!!

I appear in the video to answer his questions :slightly_smiling_face:

If you can take one minute to leave a short comment under his video, it would greatly help to push his content forward on YouTube!

Thanks to those who do :raising_hands:

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There is already a free 2-week trial included, and I extend it if someone needs more time, but generally, in 2 weeks you already get a good idea :slightly_smiling_face:

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I had certainly seen the info, but I no longer remembered it.

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