Awesome Tips 10 SmartThings Ideas to Automate Your Home
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There are SO many SmartThings ideas out there that it’s overwhelming. I’ll show you some really practical SmartThings automations and how I set them up, all in the new app. Whether you want to automate your dishwasher, lights, robot vacuum, door lock, or everything (that’s the right answer), this video will help you upgrade your SmartThings set up!
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Hi Reed, I need a big favor. I changed homes and had to unplug all my devices. After 2 years I've hooked up everything and noticed the smartthings app has changed, it had an option of setting up the weather report through the app. Essentially it was a time trigger announcement that will tell the weather report for today through zip code and announcement on Sonos speaker. In the new app I can create a time trigger but it has to be a pre-defined message. Is there any way to do it through the new app?
all these tacky motion sensors everywhere look gross asf 🤮
Please do a home automation switch fan light regulate by mobile Phone project.
I'm sorry, but this is too much..
Programing to know what weather you have whas cracking me up. Died from laughter.
Los de LATAM viendo esto 🤡
Motion sensors for lights – is so cool – which software you use for that. thanks
If you have money to make your house intelligent,, you have money to have a fridge with an alarm when the door is open.
some of these things are of no value and just over complicate what was never an issue. dishwasher clean– just open the dishwasher
🤣 The Werther will BE so Nice today!
Not gonna lie, 90% of the ideas are horrible and the idea of 'smart home' in this case is just an excuse to put 'smart devices in there' for the sake of just sitting there.
All in all, good ideas for reminders but many of these already have automation built in. My dish washer beeps when it is done and has an indicator light, my fridge beeps when it is left open….and I can hear it anywhere in the house. I put my smart vacuums on a daily cleaning schedule, Google Home has a "Good Night" Google option to turn off all lights, lock doors and set alarms. These things do not need to go through "Smart Things". It just adds an extra step. As for all the automation and reminders that is great, but if you need reminders to take pills, walk your dog, take out the trash…..etc, you need to be in an assisted living. I just feel that all this automation is just making us more and more lazy. Yeah, the ability to set it up and use it is cool, but really unneeded.
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You don't need the clean/dirty button and vibration detector for dishwasher, you can use smart plug with power consumption monitoring and create algo to know if washer is working or not, and when it stops.
If you cant tell if your dishwasher had finished its cycle or when you need to walk your dog, you are not a Smart thing.
The battery of the Ikea motion sensor does not last for 2 years. I change them after about 6 month. After that time they become erratic and trigger randomly every 10 minutes or so and then not anymore 😉
I even hacked one to use 3 AAA but the form factor is a lot larger and it's really heavy in comparison.
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Thanks for you video.Automation is amazing, We focus on Smart Sensor Alarms, They can work independent or control by smart phone .We hoping to provide safety protection for more people, smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, Door Sensor,motion sensor，etc.A small item may be able to help many families stay away from disasters.
3:35: why not use weather info to do something truly useful – such as raise or lower your automated blinds, in order to maximize heat/AC power savings? 6:40: most dishwashers only require 120v, with relatively low current. A better choice than a dirty/clean button would be to use a smart plug to monitor power usage. Combine that with a contact sensor, and indeed the device would KNOW the dishes are clean when you open it rather than relying on a human to tell it so. For Alexa, your ST routine would say: current draw > X watts for Y minutes = closed virtual contact. Dishwasher Contact sensor opens then opens that virtual contact sensor. Alexa sees this, and makes the announcement that the dishes are clean. I will be doing that exact automation tonight
Hello. Thanks for your videos, they are awesome.
I have one Philips Hue bridge, which is Zigbee compatible, but I'm heaving lots to connect other devices to my network, specially non Philips Hue presence sensors and buttons, and that's why I'm thinking of buying one native Zigbee bridge to plug Zigbee devices (non Philips Hue devices), but I'm in doubt which brand/bridge should I do it…
What do you recommend (I'm looking for easy to integrate and use with different brands, … I'M NOT looking for the less expensive).
Thanks in advance.
(PS: My instance of HomeAssistant is running in a Docker Container of my Ubuntu Home server)
Home Assistant is superior to smart things
When I open my dishwasher I can see if they are clean, dont people just empty the dishwasher when they get up anyway
I need a new Zwave hub
Hi, what wifi device do you use to handle so many devices?
Literally blew my mind. I hope our brains don’t get automated too!!!
Do it work whit tuya products
This is great, and helps open possibilities with HA. But it's just gone 2022. This is all still rather niche, and requires multiple, cumbersome switches – as well as a fair degree of user innovation. Hell, aren't we supposed to have jet-packs by now?
not sure about that, most of the ideas looks ugly.
So, you have a motion sensor to switch off lights at night when there's nobody, but if you're watching TV you need a power sensor to tell the motion sensor not to switch on lights when it's night and there's somebody. It's too complicated for just lights in the living room.
Could you recommend some simple smart buttons that would be cheap and would not require to replace the existing switch? (Battery powered)
I am having trouble actually finding some even after research. Thanks!
so when you open the dishwasher it tells you they are clean or not, cool if you are blind, i cant see (no pun) any benefit otherwise
I realy want a laundry folder machine.
And not the one at currently is on the internet. I just want to dump a pile inside and come out folded. I dont mind it beeing a long time.
i am sure my eyes can see the dishes are clean…
want to spend 80 dollars and 5 hours of your time programming sensors instead of enduring the laborious task of…looking at dishes? try this stuff!
Apple HomeKit users be like how to make my home be in 3021 and android users be like remind me when I’m too lazy to close the fridge. Haha so stupid.
"The button is ON" "The button is OFF" "The dishes button and battery is OFF, or ON" ………FAIL
I am pretty sure within 5 years all this will be useless and outdated, I would rather just pay a human to do all this stuff and they can answer when I talk to them
We must have the same house build! The living room and kitchen look identical except the brick work is different. I think the house design was called the Windsor? It definitely started with a W. Lol
I miss the smart things branded sensors… Now i have a mish mash of sensors and using home assistant… Samsung chased me away when they stopped making items…
2022 versión?
Using/setting up 3 devices to let you know if your dishes are clean?! Dude.. your face is already equipped with something "smart" that does not require any setup. They are called "eyes"… and they don't require any battery replacement, ever. Overkill-automation aside: keep up the good work Reed. Your video's give me good ideas… well, most of them 😉
Wow, seems a lot more complex than flicking a switch on and off and having a reminder in your calendar to do stuff.
Ok. You guys rate Alexa, google stuff to help decide which to buy. Make a list of comparable speakers/devices that will pair with each other
All of those sensors you are sticking on the doors of appliances are fugly. No way I would do ever do that. That has to be fixed by vendors.
Do you have details on how to do these???? Like how did you do the dishwasher??