Awesome Tips Smart Light Ideas to ELEVATE your Smart Home! π
These smart light ideas are really useful! I’ll use new smart lights AND some older favorites.
These smart light ideas are really useful! I’ll use new smart lights AND some older favorites.
Govee night light:
Echo Dot kids edition:
Floor lamp:
Hue bulb:
Nanoleaf Matter bulb:
Light switch covers:
Inovelli on/off switch:
Zooz ZEN72:
(both Inovelli and Zooz need a Z-Wave hub)
Warm and cool Hue filament bulb:
Lutron Caseta dimmer:
SmartThings multipurpose sensor:
Aqara contact sensor:
Kasa light strips (in theater room):
Bathroom light strips:
Video on bathroom light strips:
Yeelight Cube lamp:
Non flicker ceiling B30 bulbs (cool):
Non flicker ceiling B30 bulbs (warm):
Hue motion sensor:
Lutrona caseta shades:
Tidbyt:
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0:00 Intro
0:24 Sound detection
2:25 Smart bulb + smart switch
3:57 Door open light
5:03 Notifications
6:42 Warm/cool lights
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Hopefully this gave you some smart light ideas! I linked everything in the description in case you want to check it out π
Reed, nice compilation. Did you ever get the Inovelli Blue 2-1 Zigbee smart switch?
Can you please come up with a tutorial on how to create an alarm that goes off when my dog tries to steal food from the counter while we are gone?
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You are such a blessing!
Thanks for the great ideas. We've stuck with Kasa receptacles and wall switches so far since we only have Alexa, but I'm debating if I want smart bulbs to automate the can lights in our front hallway or if I want to install the Kasa three-way dimmer lights. I'm not a big fan of the Decora light switches, and both locations are part of multi-gang switch covers, so they'd look weird. My primary goal is having the hallway lights turn on but not at full power when I open the front door at night.
Do the yeelights and the tidbyt connect to HA?
Can a Stream Deck be used without it being connected to a PC?? I would like to use one to control my lights and Routines.
Phillips has something called warm glow bulbs I think, which get warmer as they dim. Unfortunately the range isn't very wide and even at full brightness they aren't the daylight style bulb I want. Hopefully somebody can make something like this in the future. I want a "dumb" led bulb for my smart switch, that changes temp with brightness automatically so I can have my daylight lighting during the day and my soft warm light at night. (And it would make for a great "sunrise" light alarm)
Might lights will no longer connect to my wifi. They all quit at the same time along with all my ring devices. 2.4 GHZ boo.
ok, and what aboutn when is before night but sun is nice, not for shades down? In my opinion LUX sensor outside works great! i did it for my home and this is life changer!
what's that standing up pen thingy ! π
4:40 – If you have pets that aren't allowed in the bedroom (like us), you could create a timer helper in HA that would keep the hallway lights activated for a certain amount of time.
5:29 – I have a similar notification set up that if I'm using the air conditioner or heater in our office, that my wife won't turn on the coffee maker (and trip the circuit) – as these are on the same circuit. For the shower, are you using some type of water temperature sensor (if so, which one), or a sensor that is checking the ambient temperature in the shower?
Iβm curious about changing color temperature. Is that possible with caseta switches, smart bulbs, and home assistant? Iβm in the planning stages now, but have the caseta switches.
I used a Inovelli smart dimmer for a couple of years with Smartthings. It quit working manually & Inovelli has since supporting it so now itβs useless. I have another Inovelli dimmer Red series, that is still working but Smartthings is going over to Edge drivers with local control, dropping the Groovy IDE interface so Iβm not sure that the Red series switch will work natively with SmartThings, aggravating!
Anyone have any input on the innovelli switchas? I've seen a bunch of people who ordered the 1st batch of the blue switches and then get frustrated and turn around and sell them off.
I was gonna order 30 of them to replace all my instseon switches, but right now. I'm kinda glad I held off.
How did you program the kasa light strip like you showed in the theater room?
I think this matter BS is another hyped up conspiracy standard spin it off however, you want to get people to unnecessarily dump current perfectly fine, smart home products, and spend money and buy new products just to revive the Smart Home, industry and tech industry
Where did you get the .stl for that lamp? Iβd love to print one out for work π
Thank you for another great, informative video. I had been using a piece of tape on my light switch so those covers are great. And I never put together how using the cool vs warm could help. I will check this out and see if it helps.
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For me personally, adjustable colour temp is the only feature besides basic dimming that actually offers a benefit. All "colourful" lights do is turn an otherwise appealing room into a cheap massage parlour. But to each their own π
Reed I have a question, what smart switch should I use? I am trying to find some for 10$, IKEA seems good but I need a hub for IKEA devices. Can I get some cheap smart buttons that don't need a hub? (I am living in Europe, but not in European Union so I can't really use Amazon or whatsoever)
4:50, instead of that, I use a Eufy battery powered motion sensor light. I just mouthwash it to the wall and it lights the floor, so it's perfect for the night as it doesn't turn everything on super bright, just the floor. And then I use rechargeable batteries.
(Yes, they're Eufy lights, BUT, they DO NOT have wifi access, a camera, or anything fancy. Just a motion sensor and light sensor powered by batteries. )