Awesome Tips 15 Easy Home Automation Ideas ANYONE can set up!
Your home automation can be easy AND impressive! These ideas are easy enough to set up with just Amazon Alexa, or you can always use these same ideas with SmartThings or Home Assistant.
Your home automation can be easy AND impressive! These ideas are easy enough to set up with just Amazon Alexa, or you can always use these same ideas with SmartThings or Home Assistant.
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This should all be done locally with Home Assistant and nothing should use the cloud!
where can i find more info on the geolocation thing?
For the google doorbell how do you get the lights to turn on when it detects motion? I only see an option for when the doorbell is pressed not just sensing a person?
does your smart devices ever disconnect from your router/modem? mone always does and i have 14 smart devices connected to it..wonder if its the modem.
I was wondering if you had a video or article on Home Assistant and doing a basic home set up for automations? I'm just getting started on this journey as a new home owner and could really use the jump start!
I would prefer not to use Scamazon
Who TF eats dinner at 430?
Really nice ideas… keep ‘em coming
I am going to build my ADU and want to add all the cool stuff you have talked about. Do you have a list of the things that you recommend for automation?
What’s your recommendation for tracking home occupancy for everyone in your house in home assistant? Do you use a toggle that switches if nobody is home? I’m seeing lots of different ideas online for using this in automations but curious what you use
Lol I have a feeling most people the first thing they automate is front porch lights. Ik it was for me lol
I tried adding my status smart devices to smart things but only the scenes are detected? any ideas?
that's really cool I also have your language assistant and that's really nice these America things❤️
Please put a link for this automation document how to setup.
I have routines to control my outside lights. What I want to do is modify the routine so they will NOT come on at the scheduled time if it is above a certain temperature. I live in a rural area and when lights are on in the summer it attracts spiders and bugs leaving a mess around the fixtures. Leaving them off takes care of this.
I have two Amazon Echo in Two different rooms and both the rooms have a Smart Fan. Is there a way that I can configure the Echo to trigger the fan through voice but only when the command is given to the echo in that specific room? If it doesn’t make sense let me explain a bit more. My 2 fans have different names right now, one is named “Fan” and the other “Ceiling Fan” and I have to pay attention to which one I am making the command to turn on or off. But I want it to be programmed in such a way that When I say Fan from whichever room, only the fan from that particular room turns on. I hope my question makes sense now. Please help!
Bad Amazon Alexa
Seems UK doesn't have the Occupancy Sensor. Or at least I can't find it and a quick google other people in UK are asking the same thing 🙁 shame, was going to get it so if the light is on and no one is detected to turn off my lights. Once again we will just have to wait 3 years.
cannot believe after 2 years we in the uk cannot use geolocation to start triggers, Why ?
But I have a problem with the ultrasound motion sensor, when I enter the room nothing happend I have to speak to alexa or click any button to she know I'm in the room, can any one help me how can I solve it
Awesome video! Thanks for the ideas!
Relying on critical automations via Alexa is asking for problems because when Alexa servers go down (recently twice a month) it's over. In addition, problems with the Internet are possible.
Thank you for the great videos. The routine we use to trigger our vacuum is a “Good Bye” routine. We only run the vacuum when everyone is gone. To trigger this, we tell Alexa, “Good Bye.” This triggers all of our away settings and runs the vacuum. When we plan to leave, but not run the vacuum, we tell Alexa, “I’m Leaving.” This triggers all of our away settings except the vacuum.
For your ceiling fan, is that controlled by a toggle switch (via zwave/zigbee/WiFi) and then you use the bond receiver to adjust the speed via RF? Do you find that better than a zwave fan switch controller?
A question: is it possible to set the lights to light in Brite white in the morning, and to light them to light yellow in the evening? Like the lights to sense when i turn them on and based on time they light white or yellow? I tryed it with Hue Labs – Time Based lights, but they don't seem to work (maybe it's me) and i can't find any videos about it on youtube.
Does Kasa work with Google?