Awesome Tips My New House is NOT Smart (yet)
Welcome to our new smart home! This is day one of my smart home journey in the new house, so these are my plans.
Welcome to our new smart home! This is day one of my smart home journey in the new house, so these are my plans.
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0:00 Intro
0:32 Hardwired security system
1:13 Detached shop WiFi
1:51 Smart thermostats
2:30 Smart lock
3:34 Ring doorbell
4:18 Security cameras
4:55 Irrigation
5:40 Wireless Access Points
6:14 Theater room
7:14 Speakers in the ceiling
7:35 Outdoor permanent lighting
7:58 Ceiling lights flashing
8:40 Fluorescent lights
8:50 Window shades
9:08 Lighting
9:38 Central vac
10:00 My smart home rules
12:41 Robot lawn mower?
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Above Planets by Patrick Patrikios
Ending song is The End by EVA.
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Thanks for checking out our new house! Lots of videos coming soon! 🙌
goddamn, i watch this at double speed and still you talk slow. now a good way to stretch a video.
You wont have to automate the ceiling lights cause of the fan blades, you can get recessed lighting that can have the angle adjusted and point it at a direction
Excited to start my home journey with you
Connect an auto emptying robot vac to the central vac, and automate it, that way you won't even have to empty the basestation.
Thank you for sharing. It is a great opportunity to start fresh and build a fully compatible and seamlessly integrated smart home, and I'll definitely be following along as I am currently rewiring my home network to increase performance and make way for new 'smart' technology.
11:45 "Bezos is watching you pee?"
For the speakers, maybe see what you can do with an ESP32?
wonder how much is his monthly electric bill…
Homey?
Your row of three garage doors looks like the Meross garage door opener is made for you, maybe no need to look for something more expensive or more complex
Excited to see all the new videos you have coming. When you install stuff for the Home Assistant, can you please show the automations?
I can picture the automations that will come as this makes progress after all local devices means fewer long term issues
For the included speakers I highly recommend making them play like lo-fi lobby music and also I really recommend making a series for your house like mrwhoosetheboss did.
But congrats on your new home it looks amazing and I can't wait to see it smart!
I wish unify would have actually come out with a new doorbell, and not an access reader…
Those built in speakers, you can tie them to something that can use them as a PA smart ennunciator for automations that warrant homewide announcements (or per room if you tie each to its own device), perfect for replacing the amazons integration with something local
Ikea's new Matter over Thread sensors and remotes are working pretty well for me so far. AAA batteries and dirt cheap prices.
With the speakers you should make a intercom system using the smart home
6:35 yeahhh what where they thinking?!?!
Maybe calling you out here… But this house does not appear to be much of an upgrade – assuming you need a new house to keep the channel and the $$$ coming… Which none of us blame you for… But, yeah, it could totally be staged for YouTube. All good, man, great content and edu.
You could also use UniFi SL relay for the garage doors!
That theater room is WEIRD. Excited to see how you update it!
I collect security systems. It looks like an ADT branded Honeywell VISTA 20P. If you wanted to keep it up, you could get something like an EnvisaLink eyezon to make it smart.
the irrigation timers is all ready expensive and the only ones that are smart are not unifi or home assistant compatible and trust me i work of irrigation
I saw the Minka-Aire fan remote. Depending on the fan model, it should be either RF-compatible with the "Bond Bridge" smart hub and/or have a "smart by Bond" RF/Wi-Fi adapter that wires into the fan's hub directly. I have two fans with these hubs and they operate flawlessly with HA for years now – remotes, phone app, and HA can all control the fans without interfering with each other so it's totally grandma-proof. You can also get an "aire control" wall switch that basically looks like a little remote in the same 1-gang you may have controlling the fan right now. I have one of those and it's kind of a toss-up if I like it, since it has a blue-LED that's always-on unless you de-solder it. Annoying for a bedroom.
When I started writing my smart home software 10 years ago my number one rule was no cloud servers. All devices must work on my home lan.
I also have a detached garage. I put an outdoor access point on the side of the house to provide WiFi for the driveway and yard and on the shop I put a device bridge pro to connect to the outdoor access point. Very stable so far!
For your blinds automation try setting their height and pitch based on the elevation and azimuth of the sun for automatic tracking. The sun.sun entity is built in and you can use online sun position tools to identify where the sun will be at different times of the year. This means you no longer have to adjust blinds positions as sunset and sun angles change through the seasons. It has worked brilliantly for me for years
I hope you can show an automation for the Samsung smart tv. Ie, select app such as DIRECTV and go to that channel or any other app and feed, such as sports on specific local channels. The Samsung only gives on off, volume, and left right. Soon, I tell myself.
🇦🇺 Aussie currently doing the same to our new house, built 6mths ago, which has not one bit of smart other than MyAir A/C controller, and I’ve gone Unifi for everything I can. I’ve bench built the system and have an elec for a day to run all cabling though the house as soon as we have the keys.
Ethernet to the lab, trust me on this.
Check out Eyezon to replace or upgrade that security system.
I recently got my Unifi network up and running. UDM SE and 3x U7 Pro XG APs. I probably didn’t need 3 in terms of square footage, but half of the house is bedrooms, where the signal doesn’t carry super well, and our hallway is fairly restrictive. I ended up putting one in the open living space, one in the primary bedroom, and one in the guest bedroom. To encourage AP roaming, I turned all of their radios to low Tx power. The only weak spot so far has been some devices on my front porch don’t have the best connection, but otherwise, devices roam pretty well and connections are consistent most of the time. Next upgrades include a 24 port Pro Max PoE switch, and their rack mount cable modem to get rid of the Xfinity XB8 lol
So when I went to wire up my doorbell (since there were wires there), it didn’t work. Turns out the transformer was dead and also buried somewhere in the wall so I couldn’t replace it. On top of that, I couldn’t remove and replace the two conductor cable going from the attic to the doorbell; it was stapled to the studs I think. I wanted to replace it with a cat 6 cable so I could do a PoE doorbell or just use some of the conductors for a standard wired smart doorbell, but since I didn’t want to destroy the existing cable and lose any chance to power a doorbell without opening the walls, I just ran a new two conductor cable and spliced it with the existing one near where it goes down into the wall. I was able to add my own transformer in the attic and power it via the duplex outlet up there to power the furnace. Someday I might open up the walls to get a new cable run, but it serves me well now haha
for the alarm…I left my Honeywell Vista 20P panel installed, and added an Envisalink module that integrates with Home Assistant. It uses the Envisalink/EyezOn integration. Works fine just took a bit of research to get working. It's all integrated into my dashboard now.
Also, had similar situation with remote office/shop…I just went ahead and trenched a fiber and connected it via Unifi switches. Glad I went that route vs using wifi antennas/repeaters. You can rent the trencher from Home Depot. Enjoy the new home!
Time flies. The kids are already growing up
Qolsys IQPro is a great wired alarm panel. The unifi alarm looks pretty interesting also
love this new house for you! Should lead to a lot of great content, but I do have an issue with ‘local only’ rule… I agree local is best and ensure everything has local backup etc like lightswitches and whatnot, but are you Not going to integrate your tesla to remind you to charge if the battery is low? do you have a fully local calendar in home assistant, or do you integrate google calendar or something else online? Do you have a weather station, or are you just not going to have weather in home assistant? I think you get the idea… Local is best when buying products, but you don’t need to artificially limit yourself just because the internet might go out for a few hours a year…. Also, please continue ‘unnecessary’ automations or scripts like games! my son has a great time with some of the games I’ve created for him in our smart home, even if it’s not “necessary”
I use Ecolink DWZWAVE25 with my wired door contacts. They are ZWave and have terminals to connect the door contacts. It all can be done at the panel.
9:42 This is a easy fix, one of the inlets where you plug in a hose is probably thinking its plugged in and closing the circuit when it not, or someone fixing the system wired the low voltage wires wrong. I have fully renovated my central vac by getting a new hose/tool set and new inlets so I defiantly curtain on my hypothesis. I understand the robot vac thing but vacuuming manually is good exercise every few days, and robot vacs can't clean ceiling fans (yet). I recommend replacing all of the inlets and the vacuum in the future if you ever sell the house bc its good resell value. MD vacuums is the company i recommend.