10 Next Level Automations in my Smart Apartment

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Now that my smart apartment is set up, I wanted to add a few more home automation ideas to really take it to the next level. I’ll be using Home Assistant to set up these ideas, and if you want more info on how to set up everything then read this article I wrote: smarthomesolver.com/reviews/a...
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0:23 Calendar Alarm
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2:21 Music Room to Room
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@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Here is my article with more details on how I set up everything: smarthomesolver.com/reviews/apartment-automations-next-level/

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

@Evan Ackert yes I'm really curious to see how the follow feature works. Seems like there could be a lot of ways it might fail but if it does work well then that could be a big step forward.

@prestonmorey8189 3 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeSolver have you considered using a the echo flex and the motion sensor for it? It might solve your problem with your automation at your computer that you ended up turning off. I literally cant trick that thing into thinking I'm not there no matter how slow or little I move around it

@liuesstuo9413 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if someone else asked. Why are you not using the HA App for presence detection?

@SpaceStrike 3 жыл бұрын

@@Auroramystic kid, a bidet isn’t hard to install and you don’t need a new house to get one. And it doesn’t replace tp

@MarkSmithMCS 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, Reed (@Smart Home Solver). That Automated Doorbell suggestion is fantastic. Managed to set it up so Person Detection on a Wyzecam V3 pointing out my front window will trigger Alexa to show the feed on our living room TV. That was pretty magic using just Alexa (not yet a Home Assistant owner), but what I'm wondering is how do I get the TV to turn itself off after. I tried adding the Wait 30 Seconds and Resume actions on the end of the routine, but it insists on my custom action being the final action, from some reason. Keep up the awesome content. You & Mr Hibbert are my go-to channels

@TheSuitedEngineer 3 жыл бұрын

I'm always impressed by how your kids are always such good actors in your videos.

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chase! I have to give a lot of ice cream for the kids to help out.

@xtremeideaz 3 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeSolver lol

@movableimages 3 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeSolver That's one automation method done to you by your kids

@shubinternet 2 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget the wife! She’s good, too!

@Jmcinally94 3 жыл бұрын

You could use room assistant for your music controls and set up some little bluetooth nodes for each room, this can track individual phones movements between room. I've been using a combination of PIR motion sensors to turn on lights and room assistant to keep them on if someone's present. It all ties into Home Assistant via MQTT.

@shawnco2006 3 жыл бұрын

I always love seeing the mini skit at the end of the videos 😍😍

@Salem324 3 жыл бұрын

Gold

@matejfoltyn 3 жыл бұрын

Yup, just keep your phone 😀

@travisrose2225 3 жыл бұрын

lol this is so true for us tech guys....

@randomtech787 3 жыл бұрын

That little ending always makes me laugh 🤣

@abcd124 3 жыл бұрын

Paul Hibbert AND Smart Home Solver posting a video today? That's how you know it's a good day...

@SmartLifeEnthusiast 3 жыл бұрын

A small thing that I like a lot: When I open the attic, the light turns on but with a 2 second delay. This makes it feel more natural. But more importantly, this also confirms that the light was actually off while the attic was closed. Otherwise you end up with a light-in-the-fridge situation.

@banana4725 2 жыл бұрын

hehe

@loganfisher3138 3 жыл бұрын

I love the calendar integration. I can't believe I never thought to do that for my wake up automation I highly recommend an automation that sets your phone to DND and turns on your office's do not disturb light when you have something on your schedule that is tagged as "busy". I do this using Google Calendar, Tasker, and SmartThings.

@YourFriendCole 3 жыл бұрын

I'm moving into an apartment soon and these will definitely come in handy! I hope you do some more renter friendly videos in the future so I can get even more ideas! :)

@SXJAYSX 2 жыл бұрын

The smart calendar is crazy! Can't believe you got that figured out. Reminds me of that episode of black mirror in which a lil digital slave copy of yourself in entrapped in a computer turning on and managing your house according to your needs... Since it's you doing it for yourself 😅

@Technology4Life 3 жыл бұрын

Using a power/energy monitor to tell if the TV is on is genius. Love that!

@racewiththefalcons1 3 жыл бұрын

I am so thankful you put links in the description to the products you mention. Saves me a bunch of hassle trying to search for them myself. Thank you!

@geetmadan1991 3 жыл бұрын

You should put a vibration sensor under your chair and add it to motion sensor light control automation in your office. The vibration sensor will make sure the light stays on

@gianniskotsakiachidis733 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Reed! I may have a solution for you for the motion sensor automation when inside the office. You could install pressure sensor pads under your office chair similar to the ones used for matress, so if the pressure sensor detects that somebody is sitting in the office chair, even if the motion sensor will not detect any motion, the lights won't switch off. And of course, if the lights are on and the pressure and motion sensors are not activated for more than 30mins for example, you can have your lights switched off. Let me know if that works for you :P

@dnoland77 3 жыл бұрын

Custom actions really deserve their own video. I'm the one that found it for Brian @ AYL and it truly has been a game changer. While ring doorbell presses now have auto display on shows, motion does not. Now with a custom routine motion can be automatically displayed on any show, fire tablet or fire tv. I'm using a contact sensor on my garage door to disable guard. When my bathroom motion sensor senses no motion it now sets a timer for 30 minutes so the bathroom fan switches off. Custom actions have really opened up automation for those of us using alexa only without any other hubs.

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

I agree that custom actions probably deserve their own video. There’s a lot you can do with them and you listed some good ideas.

@Humphrey181 3 жыл бұрын

For those persisting with SmartThings you can use IFTTT and a Google Calendar to trigger your wake up events. I created a new calendar called Home Automation and trigger events using hashtags in the subject line of the event. #wakeup, #timeforschool, #walkthedog, etc. this is for no reason other than bogging down the main calendar. Love your work!!

@Ailasor 3 жыл бұрын

"touch me and i will scream" made me laugh way to loud....

@adventurehapa 3 жыл бұрын

I have the same internal debate every time: NodeRed or built in automation. 😀

@MatSmithLondon 3 жыл бұрын

I think the good thing about Node-RED is that you can choose devices that have built-in automation but can also be used in Node-RED. My solution to your question is to do both :)

@matejfoltyn 3 жыл бұрын

For me, Node red is always the way. Not necessarily because HA automations cannot do something specific, but rather for the visual aspect of it all. That's why I keep struggling with the built in automations.

@jephindavis7216 3 жыл бұрын

I want these devices in my life. Love automation. Thanks for the video.👍

@ren.s6773 3 жыл бұрын

For the music following you, you could maybe use a bluetooth sensor in each room that can see that your phone is in the room

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

That's a good idea. I'll have to give that a try!

@seapanda-117 3 жыл бұрын

To have music follow you around, just use the nfc chips and the phone again.

@matejfoltyn 3 жыл бұрын

Tip for your thermostat since you're using Home Assistant now. If you replace your thermostat with a cheapo esp8266 based relay, and have a thermometer somewhere in the apartment, you can use Generic Thermostat integration. That's what I did and it works like a charm! No more dumb heating for me.

@awstott 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your tip on the light level trigger. I have the same Hue sensor and I was trying to figure out how to turn the lights on when I got to a certain light level. Watched this video and then read your article - it's stupid easy to do once I stopped overthinking it.

@homoerotic85 2 жыл бұрын

You spoke about how some people did you should have your night stand light turn on red in the night. I totally agree with them. I am super sensitive to lights and sounds at night- especially lights. So I closed my eyes and went thru all the colors and I noticed that I couldn't see blue or red colors which is really awesome. It's interesting that both colors are linked to your circadian rhythm blue helps you wake up and red helps you fall asleep. I personally like the look of blue better but I just went with red for the circadian aspect. I have under bed lights that automatically come on at sunset and go off at sunrise and I have an essential oil diffuser (it's an Ellia Adore in Charcoal- love it) and have it set to red as well. It's crazy the lights are always on and doesn't bother me while I sleep, if it was any other color there would be no way I could sleep.

@michaelrusso5438 3 жыл бұрын

For you presence detection I would look into room assistant using a couple raspberry pi zeros. It can use LE Bluetooth from your phone got not only detection but proximity. You can mesh multiple together in didn't rooms and it will use distance from sensor to determine room location

@NilsdeRooij 3 жыл бұрын

Hey man! For my office lights, I use a motion override switch combined with a working from home switch, when Work from home goes on, motion overwrite for my office as well, including music in my entire house. The work from home automatically goes on if there’s motion in my office between 08:30 and 09:30. It also switches off automatically when I leave the house or if after 17:00 there hasn’t been any motion in the office for 30 minutes Oh... And since work from home overrides the motion sensor with the override mode, it also turns the lights on in my office, but only if the main lights in my house are on. I have a dashboard for my office, but it’s the most automized room in my house, i never touch a button. Thought it would be good to share, seems like you can use it to get rod of having to press a button on your dashboard to turn on your office lights :)

@projectrunwaywatcher 3 жыл бұрын

I have been using the Smart Life app to do most of my more complicated automation. You can set up IFTTT type scenarios and use phones and presence sensors.

@noz3m 3 жыл бұрын

For the motion lights to stay on while you are sitting at the pc: use Ping Ane create a sensor for your PC. If motion sensor = clear and PC is online do nothing. If motion sensor = clear and PC is offline - turn off the lights.

@rhysdavies8947 3 жыл бұрын

Reed, you need some donation links set up bud. You’re one of the few channels that put a lot of work in and you don’t actively run Patreon or some other active donation channel and think that needs to change. Do it bud!

@racewiththefalcons1 3 жыл бұрын

You should switch to the red light scheme for getting out of bed at night and trigger it to also play Moving Mountains by Two Steps From Hell. Would make an amazing April Fools Day prank.

@robincobb8611 3 жыл бұрын

Your daughter is becoming quite the actress...if she’s acting. It’s hard to tell. I love your videos, man. Keep them coming.

@PrinceFame25 3 жыл бұрын

Love how your family is into it also!!! Keep it up 👍🏽!! Had me laughing from start to end of your videos!!

@williameduardo7020 2 жыл бұрын

You are awesome, I love your videos. In the smartthings app menu > labs you can create virtual switches, this was very handy to create a dishwasher "dirty/clean" routine that will announce in the speakers without any custom code. I can set the virtual switch on and off based on the status of the dishwasher, and create announcements when open and switch on or open and switch off. Very handy.

@soghacker 3 жыл бұрын

For lights turning off with no motion in my home office: I don’t have Samsung at all, I’m WiFi only with Alexa and a Wyze sense kit. I only have the lights turn off with no motion during certain hours, but when I work late I have no issues cause I don’t move enough to trigger the motion sensor. But then I moved the sensor to sit right on my desk in front of my mouse. Now my subtle mouse moves are enough, and it also still catches me whenever I walk into the room which is the only other motion I’m watching for in the office.

@smrven 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your videos. If you use BLE beacons you can know who is in the room, the beacon can send Room Id to your phone and you can react according to this. Good Luck!

@sygys 3 жыл бұрын

I would always go with home assistant. I think its the only platform that works well with all the others. FOr example node red has a full addon for home assistant. in which you can use practically everything node red has to offer in to home assistant. Also all samsung devices i have tested can be fully integrated into HA. Also homekit has a full working integration in HA.

@ygdiget4119 3 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to let you know that you can trigger automations when home assistant detects wireless charging which removes the need for the nfc tag.

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

That’s a good point. I have a wireless charger that I use on my desk during the day so the NFC tag makes it so I don’t accidentally trigger the automation.

@ygdiget4119 3 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeSolver You can add multiple conditions such as certain currently connected bluetooth devices or the time period during the day in which you want the automation to execute so as to not execute on the wrong charger. In the end it just depends on person preference of weather you would like to spend the extra time and effort patching hardware with software. Hopefully one day we will have a reliable solution to per room presence detection.

@tobyjohnson3898 3 жыл бұрын

I’d be really interested if you came up with a solution to only running the automation if it’s you in the room. Originally I thought of a camera but maybe you don’t want cameras watching all the time. Another thought would be to use WiFi extenders such as the tp-link ones that can be setup to be almost like a separate network which can then be used as a second presence sensor in home assistant. Both have there pros and cons and I’d be interested I’d there was an easier solution.

@Leonvolt28 3 жыл бұрын

nerver used it myself, but I think something like room assistant will do the job. www.room-assistant.io/ you can use esp32 chips that scan the bluetooth connection of your phone. Thay way it knows where in the house you are. I personaly use a guest mode input boolean. This will disable unwanted automations.

@Butzacooky 3 жыл бұрын

iOS and Android both have gps tracking available in the app that logs to a local home assistant server I’m not sure of the accuracy of it, but you can set up zones for home and work that can trigger when leaving home or even arriving at another location. You could write an automation to ping and check your phone’s rough position with 2-3 keyfinders like Tile and Apple airtags ( Airtags are still unreleased but I don’t doubt it’s already wholly integrated into iOS shortcuts , Siri, and HomeKit. There’s be no need to event set up a complicated home auction in the first place )

@niravniel561 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, what dashboard are you using on the Amazon tablet ?

@stevez182 3 жыл бұрын

You should definitely try Room Assistant as someone suggested already. You can use several Pi Zero around the house. Since you are wearing a smartwatch you always carry a bluetooth device with you which can picked up by the Pis and pin point your location inside the house.

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

I’ll definitely give that a try, sounds pretty cool!

@eladleviisrael 3 жыл бұрын

for the following music automation, you can use room assistant, (need to have RPI in each room you want) and you can follow your device (phone / smart watch) using Bluetooth tracking. (I have few automation that are being triggered by my phone location and it work good)

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Elad I’ll try that out.

@amywhitaker3961 3 жыл бұрын

I decided to use Hubitat when I set up my smart home, but due to unreliability have been considering switching to HA. Some automations work very inconsistently which is VERY frustrating to say the least. Great ideas and loved the skit at the end! 😊

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Amy!

@HannesMrg 3 жыл бұрын

HA has been very reliable for me on a rpi 3 for over a year now.

@WilliamNevius 3 жыл бұрын

Love all of these ideas I need to look deeper into my smart home automations. Thanks for this video bro

@HeyTechi 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely going to integrate some of these ideas into my set up! I wonder if it's possible to connect an Apple Calendar to perform similar smart HomeKit functions as you have here...

@TenchiMisaki45 3 жыл бұрын

Just another random idea for you: It looks like SmartDry just implemented triggers/routines for their Alexa skill. I've now automated my dryer to turn off using a SwitchBot button pusher to press my "turn off" button on my dryer when my SmartDry sensor senses that my clothes are dry. This saves a little bit of energy which is nice. If anyone wants to implement this, just remember to install their new Alexa skill named "SmartDryDevice".

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

That’s a great implementation! I’ll remember that and thank you so much for sharing!

@ronm6585 3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff Reed, thank you.

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate it Ron!

2 жыл бұрын

Quick tip: I have motion sensor aimed right at my "mouse hand" - this way, my lights dont just go off when I am working on PC :D

@andrekoczka3777 3 жыл бұрын

How did you enable background scanning of nfc tags on this iphone? Isn’t that only available for the Xs and up?

@pauleric195 3 жыл бұрын

I love your videos, great bit with your daughter, hilarious!

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul!

@adaml.5355 3 жыл бұрын

Friendly reminder that all of this stuff can be done with HomeKit automations and Apple Shortcuts. For all the HomeKit people out there.

@SpaceStrike 3 жыл бұрын

HomeKit. Ewww HomeKit lol

@eymenu7281 3 жыл бұрын

For the tone of lights have you checked adaptive lighting in homekit? I'm trying to integrate it with Hue and Smartthings but the homekit just needs to be setup again and again.

@wyx087 3 жыл бұрын

With the study/office light. You can have a condition to detect if computer is on/off by checking the network (HA nmap integration). So if the computer is on, the auto light on/off automations won’t run.

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

nmap is an amazing tool. That's a great idea on a way to use it!

@liminalnetworks7691 3 жыл бұрын

Great vid!! Is there anyway to make the sounds repeat over and over like an alarm? I have it working and as long as I keep copy pasting, it will play, but looking for something better? Thanks!

@Joseph-ko2kl 3 жыл бұрын

One possible way to get the system to recognize you as you enter the room would be if you had a camera that was set up using AI-Tool and deepstack. You would need to train Deepstack using a custom model that would know if it was you vs. another family member, you could also use the same concept so that when your driveway or doorbell camera sees you or you could train it to recognize your car(s) it would set off a coming home routine. You could then tie this into HA or whatever other system you were using.

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll definitely take a look into that!

@ChrisClark4703 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for that 1st one, i just finished setting it up and its awesome!!!!!

@blaed011 3 жыл бұрын

You are so creative, nice video! Love the lights on top of your kitchen cabinets, what kind are they?

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ed! They are Philips Hue. Since I have the Hue Gradient light strips behind my TV I just threw those there since they are basically in the same room.

@DIYReid 3 жыл бұрын

Node Red for sure!

@atiliolavoie5986 3 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel. A lot of great content. My wife and I just bought a condo and I'm looking forward to throwing some smart home and automation things into it. Subbed and looking forward to more content!

@Ryan.Manning 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVE your channel!

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ryan! I appreciate you watching the video so quickly!

@jorihiukka6483 3 жыл бұрын

me too.

@Ryan.Manning 3 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeSolver thank you for making awesome videos!

@PapaZeduke 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to automatically send the doorbell feed to a google home hub?

@ricardoromo96 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the video. Thanks for all the creative and useful ideas! What's that dashboard app you're using and whay device are you using as a hub?

@evi1yoda 3 жыл бұрын

Do you have other NFC tags that you recommend? The ones linked are out of stock with no known restock date.

@thepfleidi 3 жыл бұрын

Regarding presence detection: I found the wifi detection to be lacking. To fix this, I’ve exposed two input booleans in Home Assistant for me and my wife to HomeKit. I’ve set up simple automations in HomeKit to toggle these „switches“ in HomeKit when it detects a change. This also works when we have our phones in airplane mode at night.

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea.

@Joe-oj2mi 3 жыл бұрын

grate vid Reed thanks for the ideas . question: Is the broadlink RM able to recive IR or RF signals ?

@AH-gk3by 3 жыл бұрын

Only the rm pro can receive 433mhz rf and ir signals, but the rm4 pro can receive 433mhz and 355 mhz

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joe! I think Ali is right.

@Joe-oj2mi 3 жыл бұрын

@@AH-gk3by thanks

@ThatsFinn 3 жыл бұрын

great and really entertaining video as always. keep it up reed!

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Finn!

@ChickenWire 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Do you have a Samsung smatthings version of the same routine?

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Chris, right now the Alexa Routine isn't capable of using the calendar. Their routines are always improving though so maybe this could be available in them in the near future. Right now it would need some kind of 3rd party solution to dynamically change and trigger the Alexa Routine. I'll look for some more simple solutions as well.

@ChickenWire 3 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeSolver CORPORATE GREED!

@Geothy 3 жыл бұрын

It is really good that you say in the description that it are affiliate links

@rob-toolsandtech2521 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if you could use that thing that mounts over a dimmer switch and physically slides up and down sideways on your thermostat to change the temp, because when I caught a glimpse of your thermostat, it looked like it might be one of those that has the little arm that you slide along the top.

@tonypark8045 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Reed, love these videos, very inspiring. I'm interested in setting up Withings sleep analyzers to trigger automations. Do you have 2 analyzers in a single bed? Just wondered how you automated, as we currently have 2, and when my wife goes to bed before me, both sensors show as the bed being occupied. Have you managed to isolate one for you, one for Ally?

@sampathrsswamy 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, been looking for an app which has a home map. Where I can place the lights where I want. Do you know of anything like that?

@golden355 3 жыл бұрын

FLIC now has an Alexa skill. My life is changed! We now have an Elton John button!!!

@AlexPav788 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for ideas! For now im trying solve this - i'd like to to switch on pwer outlet when nest is active (A/C working.... in other words i want to ON purifier (aroma360) only when AC is on and working (acitvated by nest). I didn't find solution for that yet.... all routines is about set temperature on nest only . any ideas?

@ChrisM-wd8wx 3 жыл бұрын

I tried the Wifi route for iPhone and Android presence detection, it was definitely not reliable. I found that Bluetooth is much better. (Use Bluetooth the detect your device's MAC address within range. No need to actually connect etc...) Nice job with all the use cases! I really enjoyed the video.

@dansantoso48 Жыл бұрын

Hi im looking for smaart lighting for my home theater room maybe with phillips hue. So when i enter the room the light is on and when i sit on my recliner and play the projector the light is on. Can u give suggestion? Thanks

@kalylbmmi 3 жыл бұрын

How is your sound system setup? I’ve been looking into ways of doing exactly that but couldn’t figure it out. Can you select where the sound come from? I.e switching from tv to pc or something else

@Clem.E 3 жыл бұрын

Regarding the presence detection you might want to use beacons. These are small Bluetooth devices that can be detected by your smartphone where nearby and then trigger automation. The drawbacks: you need to have your smartphone with you.

@mateuszgazdzicki4197 3 жыл бұрын

For TV I'm using YeeMe plugin for KODI. Xiaomi bulbs and celling light with LAN mode turned on. Plugin allows for actions (on/off fade ) triggered by play/stop/pause.

@jandixon1867 3 жыл бұрын

For the music there is this think called Room Assistant. It uses Bluetooth and the new update uses BLE and works on Apple devices. Not sure how well it works, but you could check it out.

@mrdayz8 3 жыл бұрын

Great video btw why are you using HA instead of ST? would be great a video about it and what smart plug you use for the power consumption automatizations?

@SkyKiller63 3 жыл бұрын

What app are you using for all of the automation stuff? Is that in the smart things app using the smart things hub?

@SkyKiller63 3 жыл бұрын

Dang. 30 seconds later he said “I set up almost all these automations in home assistant” lol

@BradLoyo 3 жыл бұрын

what app are yo using to hook and set everything up?

@seapanda-117 3 жыл бұрын

How'd you set up the lights to fade as you left the room?

@atwixtor 3 жыл бұрын

Reed I have the Withings Home Assistant integration but currently it's broken -- sleep sensors don't update in HA. I use IFTTT with a wehbook as a workaround, but it's super sensitive and seems to go on/off when my cat or partner lays on the opposite side of the bed. Any tips?

@fofocho71 2 жыл бұрын

Alexa cannot trigger routines from Philips Hue Motion Sensor, despite it appears as a device. It only works if you remove the Hue sensor from the Hue bridge and then pair it to an Echo device with zigbee hub built in

@billmatic9059 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the dumb question but what program is that on the ipad??

@twobluestripes 3 жыл бұрын

I really want a lot of these so I am very excited by this. Especially since I am trying to learn HA!

@alpeshg6043 3 жыл бұрын

Hey im looking for a smart solution for electronic blinds controlled by the sunrise and sunset times from a weather app? do you have any suggestions?

@Butzacooky 3 жыл бұрын

You could set up a home assistant server running on any device, like windows 10 or a raspberry pi. That can interface with most wirelessly reachable smart devices. If the blinds are not smart, you could set up a smart switch specifically for up (positive current flow) down (reverse/negative current flow), and off (no current/power).

@alpeshg6043 3 жыл бұрын

@@Butzacooky Thank you i will check this out!

@admun 3 жыл бұрын

I use flic button with home assistant to turn on/off light instead of nfc tag. Work relatively we, except recently ha some time freeze and not responding when I click flic

@julianjunglas7856 3 жыл бұрын

Great videos and awesome ideas! I’m just new to your channel. Can someone tell which software is used for these automations? (Visible on the iPad in the video.) thanks a lot in advance!

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Julian! For this video I did everything in Home Assistant. In the article I have more details about each automation. You could also do many of these with SmartThings or another hub as well.

@julianjunglas7856 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your answer! I’m still thinking what software I will use. In Germany ioBroker is a big thing, but homeassisant looks great. Do you run it on a RPi?

@Bigbadbenji2008 3 жыл бұрын

Reed, where did you get those black lamp stands from behind you and do you have a link?

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Here are the two lamp stands in the back amzn.to/3cr0hcb and the other is made by this company but I don’t know if they sell that exact model anymore amzn.to/36rGgyx

@garrettswank5189 3 жыл бұрын

Hi I am trying to figure out how to set up a physical button or switch in my kitchen to send a message in my housemate's slack channel. I am using zappier for other things as well so I just need to figure out how to have the button either edit data in an excel sheet or something to that extent. Have any ideas? thanks!

@mwanbla5601 3 жыл бұрын

please replay did i have to buy smart things hub for use smart things sensor motion

@abiddinger 3 жыл бұрын

Love the calendar idea. Any way to do this in SmartThings?

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

I've looked before and I couldn't find a way unfortunately. If I come across a way I will let you know.

@matthewclements9439 3 жыл бұрын

I completely feel your frustration on the Samsung TV and SmartThings integration 🤦🏻‍♂️I’ve also gotten the music to follow me around my apartment, but I have trouble unjoining my speakers so they stay grouped, which is kind of annoying. Anyways, great videos per usual!

@nuria1223 3 жыл бұрын

Which app are u using to set all up? The one that u can trigger things from actions

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty much everything is set up in Home Assistant for this video. I wrote an article explaining everything. I’ll be doing more videos in the future using just Alexa or SmartThings as well.

@AndreiPetunin 3 жыл бұрын

The channel is growing :-) don’t go too crazy with the automation.

@JamesRea2 3 жыл бұрын

I do not see the SmartThings smart plug with energy monitoring: available anywhere. Is there another similar plug you can recommend?

@SpaceStrike 3 жыл бұрын

Search amazon for energy monitor WiFi smart plug

@SmartHomeSolver 3 жыл бұрын

Here is the link amzn.to/2NQda5p and all the others should be in the description as well.

@asm_canucks 3 жыл бұрын

Is home assistant the only option to trigger scenes from wattage consumption of a plug?

@mattiasring9501 3 жыл бұрын

On the topic of music following you, not maybe as smooth as a motion sensor, but if your smartwatch has an NFC function, you could place a tag at the door/hallway which you could "swipe" by when walking into a room to program the music to follow you into that room. Giving the option not to do it, if someone else is just walking into a room. Maybe a solution :)