STOP Your Home Automation Right Now with Conditions!

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Get your home automation under control! I’ll show you how to dial in your home automations perfectly using conditions.
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0:00 Intro
0:32 What’s a condition?
1:30 Time
2:51 Kill switch
4:23 Location
5:39 Thresholds
6:54 Bringing it together
7:56 6 months later…
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@SmartHomeSolver Жыл бұрын

If you had a kill switch to turn off all your automations, would your family press it? 😬

@jonnylikertrommer Жыл бұрын

Oh for sure! My son loves the automations, wife, not so much, its too advanced for her.

@jc_tuba24 Жыл бұрын

Maybe 😬

@MaxfieldAllison Жыл бұрын

My wife cackled when she saw this and then became deadly serious and told me to make it happen... or ELSE!

@jc_tuba24 Жыл бұрын

Also, Reed what if you have some lights that aren't compatible with home assistant. Bc I have some and if I had a switch to turn them all off, it would only turn off a few. Any ideas

@sebastianasebastian373 Жыл бұрын

Probably

@armando9953 Жыл бұрын

The New Years countdown bit was hilarious!

@CalebTerryRED Жыл бұрын

Actually had that happen, right at midnight too. Mistakes were made

@nodraw_ Жыл бұрын

I absolutely *love* how your family participates in the videos! Those mini-sketches really bring personality to your channel Great video, Reed! :)

@fecalfetus7902 Жыл бұрын

Funny story about the "Days since last incident" sign. In the military we had a "Days since last DUI" sign at the entrance to the base. I drove in one day, and it had reset to 0. It was always a big deal. I just remember my Staff Sergeant came moping into the office and said, "Guys... it was me".

@smartifi_egypt Жыл бұрын

Please keep doing automation ideas videos, these are great videos with a lot of ideas, of course no automation is perfect and everyone has his own needs but it lights up some ideas and everyone can tweak it a little.

@reggie2803 Жыл бұрын

My head hurts trying to wrap my head around all of your automations. 😂. I am definitely going to get started with mine.

@jefferygrantham5582 Жыл бұрын

I love how your channel has quickly become associated with home assistant. Another great video! Thanks, Reed!

@MaglevM5 Жыл бұрын

Love the family jokes/ cameo that you always have in your videos. I'd be happy if I even got to having half the smart automations in my dream home. Amazing video, as always!

@antoinereese4295 Жыл бұрын

Took me a while to complete but I went all in with Trigger IDs and Choose actions with multiple conditions. Massively complex but very efficient automations that don't misfire as often. Condensed my home from about 120 different automations to 31

@louisviciedo Жыл бұрын

Well done Reed! You've inspired me to 'step' up my automation's game.

@deseverolimus Жыл бұрын

Sorry newbie question - anyone know what is the automation interface that Reed is showing? Reed....great to see your automation initiatives & love the participation of your family in the videos....Thanks for the inspiration! I want to get on the journey, any suggestions on where to start? :)

@Inacurate Жыл бұрын

Came here wondering the same thing and not seeing it mentioned in comments or description. Hoping he's linked to the device in one of his videos, but none of them are titled talking about it.

@yehudaa3 Жыл бұрын

Looking the same answer. Interesting that he didn’t put it into the description or the video.

@harisjaved1379 Жыл бұрын

Man your automations are on next level!

@jaredmorse9957 Жыл бұрын

Great video Reid! Thanks for all your creative and practical ideas 🙏🏻

@MichaelRinghusGertz 19 күн бұрын

Thanks. Im just getting into home automation, and this video, gave me some good ideas how to deal with the automations.

@VegascomJeff Жыл бұрын

That dim automated to 95/manual to 100, that's a really good one!

@d_sellers1 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I may reconsider some of my automations in order to use that concept.

@SmartHomeSolver Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@themizellfamily6675 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love your videooooooos! You should do a master class video on this topic to teach us how to program conditions! As well as simple and advanced home automations. PLEASE!!!!!

@ecard0 Жыл бұрын

I really liked your threshold idea !! thanks 😊

@uweschuttoff7411 Жыл бұрын

You have such a cuuuuuute family! And I find your videos very helpful. Your doing a great job!👍

@timcash6372 Жыл бұрын

I get so many ideas for automation from your channel keep it up dude

@giovannivanhaaren9885 Жыл бұрын

Kill switch is an option i use for wall switches. When a wallswitch is used, every automated light in that room stays frozen. For the rest i use partymode, visitmode etc. Turning on partymode will set every light on de main floor and oudside to a specific scene and leave the electric gate open etc. Visit mode is about the same but with some tweaks. If you use Homey, better is to put these conditions in every flow from the start.. Saves you a lot of work 👍 Great vid!

@rileymather7582 Жыл бұрын

Great video! For my motion lights I have a wait for trigger step which requires the motion sensor to be clear for a certain number of minutes before it turns off. Typically 2 or 3 minutes works fine for me, but my rooms are much smaller so I trip the motion detector much more often.

@rodbrown6002 Жыл бұрын

What program are you using to run your house? I don't see the kill switch in Google Home.

@Cra1gst Жыл бұрын

I love this series of videos great ideas for my home !

@MrJono1999 Жыл бұрын

Great video, very helpful. This has helped me look at some automations in a reverse mindset. I have even managed to apply this to an Alexa routine, wahoo!

@StefRenaud Жыл бұрын

I really enjoy your videos! They are funny with your family.

@wyx087 Жыл бұрын

Niche idea for your auto lights: what is a giant sensor-like device on your roof that can detect amount of sun light? The solar panels! I have a condition for my hallway lights to only turn on if solar generation is below a certain value.

@robhopkins2602 Жыл бұрын

Really great video, insightful and so succinct!

@braxtonanderson3870 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos! Once Matter comes out I'm turning my house smart like yours. I especially want to mess around with that raspberry pi too so it can detect where I am.

@kelzz21 Жыл бұрын

love watching your videos your automations there great

@VPSmartTech Жыл бұрын

Awesome video as always. I had a lot of fun watching it 😀

@T00LF00L Жыл бұрын

The New Year’s Eve bit was good!😄

@ronm6585 Жыл бұрын

Great info Reed, thanks.

@GregGranito Жыл бұрын

Love the recent focus on automations.

@bobbyb69 Жыл бұрын

I always enjoy the skits!

@NL-Chaos Жыл бұрын

I like the jokes together with your family, funny but also reality. And above all your content is good information thanks.

@frankthedsigner558 Жыл бұрын

Love this video! This is probably the thing I struggle with the most as conditions mostly conflict with automations needing to run. @Reed, do you have any recommendations on how I can efficiently configure reconnecting devices to my network after a power outage? I have daily power outages where I live and have my fibre with my raspberry pi (running HA) hooked up to a UPS so it always stays on. My problem is once the power turns back on, reconnecting the devices to my network takes a while and some automations then fail to trigger due to devices being 'offline'. I have tried adding delays to automations giving all devices time to reconnect to the network, however this end up causing frustrations when quickly triggering an automation which then adds the delay... Any tips on how I can solve this issue?

@wisdomcb Жыл бұрын

3:02 your campy examples struck gold on this one 🤣🤣

@TravelTech_GR Жыл бұрын

Great video Reid! Could you let me know what kind of software you use (and if needed extra hardware???)

@tedhargiss1056 Жыл бұрын

Very cool stuff. What Automation platform are you running? Thanks

@SamMiguel Жыл бұрын

What app are you using to add these conditions?

@ajithprabhakar Жыл бұрын

Good Video, great ideas. I have override kill switches for pretty much all the motion based automations, I like the idea of location based automation, will refactor few of my automations to use location, Thanks for the great idea. BTW your family is so cute :-)

@garysam4528 Жыл бұрын

@Reed. Do you use Home Assistant automations only or do you use node red integration together with HA ?

@christiannielsen3863 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Do you have any estimate of how much power your smart sensors/triggers in all variations are consuming? I recently installed a smart valve to open and close to the hot water (heat exchanger) for two purposes. First one to save the energy the heat exchanger spends when idling. And second for me to be more aware of when I use hot water. I have to ask for hot water to get it. And it will of course automatically close again after 30 minutes. I don't know yet how well it will work but I will try it out.

@ruiamaroAKAstardust Жыл бұрын

Another great vídeo! Can you advise a pressure sensor? I'm more of a Tuya guy (not made it to big League yet... HA!), wifi based mostly, but some zigbee aswell. I'm thinking of adding a few pressure sensors and i don't know witch one should I get... I would like to get one for the front gate (outside), under a door mat so it would trigger routines if someone stays there for some time...or Another one to turn my doorbell into a routine trigger... What do you think is Best? Thank you so mutch.

@MarsMountain Жыл бұрын

2:08 In HA I usually just add a delay step at the end of the automation, preventing re-triggering for the desired time.

@DjBlaaack Жыл бұрын

That new year bit was really good lol

@7MBoosted Жыл бұрын

Time pattern as a trigger/condition in home assistant is an easy way to determine how often the checks for automations occur.

@TheJoaolyraaraujo Жыл бұрын

Great ideas!

@hadincampbell751 Жыл бұрын

Hey I am getting an aeotec smart home hub for my first ever smart home hub what would you suggest I buy and what I should do with it

@Josh-my1hm Жыл бұрын

Besides reading Consumer Reports are there any large appliances you recommend for smarthome i.e fridge, washer?

@HughD Жыл бұрын

Great video, Reed. I like the "Kill Switch" Idea.. A single Flic button, for example, could operate three different kill switches. I realize it doesn't have to be a physical "button" but if you have a lot of Flics around why not?

@SmartHomeSolver Жыл бұрын

That’s a great idea, Hugh!

@shojus Жыл бұрын

Nice! Thanks

@eneakote3537 6 ай бұрын

Hello, your animations are really advanced. What program do you use to control all this?

@ntwananombedhli5509 Жыл бұрын

Hi Reed do you have any solution or ideas as to how to automate my rf light switches with the motion sensors

@driver288 Жыл бұрын

Damn! I’m such a noob compared to you! I’m never going to get the level of automation you have, and not the time to implement it but you are inspiring! And I get good ideas from you!

@MARKOYENIYI Жыл бұрын

Hello, thanks for you videos. I just want to start automating my home. Get some light, bulbs socket etc. Now am thinking of a Hub go buy, am a Samsung lover, so my phone, TV all Samsung, am already using my TV with the smart things app. But the smart things hub is quite pricey for me right now, can I get an echo dot and still work with my Samsung devices and smarthings app? Or I need an iphone? Thank you

@ivlis32 Жыл бұрын

Great video, lots of ideas, thanks. Instead of adding a kill switch as a condition it's better to create an "all" group with the NOT of a kill switch and an entity you are triggering your automation and then trigger on the group. That way toggling the kill switch will shut off the motion lights immediately, not on the next time the automation triggers. I really like the 95% brightness idea, I was struggling to indicate the override for some time.

@MrHaniJraba Жыл бұрын

What's the app he is using?

@just_eric Жыл бұрын

Hey man, could you tell me what's the app i always see in your ipad, for all your automations

@CacaDoca Жыл бұрын

I have a disabled alexa routine to send a notification when the sensor detects movement. I saw it is possible to enable/disable routines with a voice command which could also be implemented into a smart button, but I think that feature is only available in the US. If anyone could think of a workaround with just Alexa it would be much appreciated.

@Yggdrasil42 Жыл бұрын

How would you detect if your iPhone is still on its charger? I doubt a plug measuring power draw would work since that's minimal when the phone has charged up.

@CarlFertig Жыл бұрын

What software do you use to set up your automations ?

@tommurphy1153 Жыл бұрын

Are these mostly only available in Home Assistant? *hip thrust* Or can you do them with Alexa?

@divyamtaparia4115 11 ай бұрын

Hello I was thinking of going for legrand wired automation. Does philips hue offer similar things at a cheaper price? Could you explain more?

@SuperMoula Жыл бұрын

Hi Reed Have a question for you plz I have a roborock vacum cleaner, would you please tell me how to connect it with google home , so I can let it work with voice command or with motion sensors?

@mattadulting Жыл бұрын

Most everything at my old house was automated and pretty fine tuned. The best thing I ever did for it though was to put a BLE beacon in my parents car and an old phone running tasker in the garage to pick up the beacon's presence. if they were there, 75% of my automations were shut down.

@takcracken Жыл бұрын

Hello, i love ur channel... i am looking to buy a hub. I am wondering how much MATTER is gonna change the need for a hub? Will I still need a hub to get the most out of my future automations?

@TheUnofficialMaker Жыл бұрын

I added a Caseta Motion Sensor and Caseta Smart Switch to my hallway light which works great. However, I need it to not turn on from 11pm to 6 am. I was thinking of adding a sonoff module in series to do this. Is there a better way?

@jdb6284 Жыл бұрын

Hey Reed, what is the bed pressure sensor you're using? I can't seem to find it anywhere, thanks!

@gian1000 8 ай бұрын

Question. I have a Google Nest mesh router, and it doesn't offer 2.4ghz. My devices that needed 2.4 did connect without any problems to the single band that I guess is 5ghz offered by the device. But now I got a PIR wifi sensor. It detects movement and it shows it right away in the app. Alexa was able to discover it and added to the app as well, but when I set the routine, it wont trigger it. If I hit play on the routine it self, it will do that, but not by movement. When I try diagnostics in the sensor app, it will fail the wifi part. I guess my problem is not having a 2.4, and I don't see any sensors that works with 5ghz. I'm trying to have my porch light to turn on when someone is at the front door. I have Wyze cameras, and a Wyze switch for that light, but Wyze takes to long to respond, so the light will turn on when we are inside the house already. What can I do?

@janssonjr1 Жыл бұрын

What did you use to get the brightness?

@jirehphotos Жыл бұрын

Cool video. What platform are these automations created on?

@PeeeKaay Жыл бұрын

First off, I LOVE these "automations" & smart home ideas, they are awesome !! 👍 Q: I have iOS 15.6 on my 12ProMax, Alexa App installed .. I don't have a menu that says: automations, conditions, time, or kill-switch.? How do I get around this, or is it called something else here in Australia.? Anyone.? 🤔

@fragil7251 Жыл бұрын

Yeah that was lot info there I’m keeping it simple.

@BudsSmartHome Жыл бұрын

There are days, for sure. Thanks Reed. Insightful video with a number of great automation ideas!

@ergonji Жыл бұрын

Which is the app you use to create all these automations?? The one that is shown in the iPad that is black

@garrysingh1645 Жыл бұрын

Hey, did you made any video that related to shelly device alexa routine. If yes please can you send me the link.

@b.maximus3169 Жыл бұрын

Great video! The whole time I was thinking this stuff is fricken cool! By the end though, I was thinking how lazy am I that I can't turn on a light or open my blinds a little? Struggling with this right now LOL!!

@hayleyharrison5127 Жыл бұрын

Which is the best platform for writing these automations? I notice you’re using home assistant but curious about others.

@hatefhz Жыл бұрын

Which app are you using for that?

@treyprewitt7085 Жыл бұрын

I want your help? I have a motion sensor in my living room, and I want to set up the same exact condition/motion automation like you did in your kitchen where the lights will come on at a certain percentage and then if I turn the lights on to 100% at the light switch the lights will not go off. I use Apple HomeKit and I have an a Aqara P1 motion sensor also use Lutron smart dimmer switches.

@gonzalorojo6815 Жыл бұрын

Hey there, any chance you could do a video on the best lighting setup for home assistant. Just started and was wondering about what to use in different cases: 1. Simple on and off (like for pantry rooms or closets) - I was thinking Ikea sensor but not sure which switch would be best as you don't need anything fancy here 2. Sensor and switches for locations used more often like hallways and kitchens 3. Sensors and switches for more customizable lighting such as living room, bedroom, office... (I assume these will also need smart bulbs to change colors...) Thank you so much

@Tony2dH Жыл бұрын

I'm sure you've figured this out by now but for anyone new reading: 1. I'd recommend contact sensors for closets and pantries. They work super fast. Lidl has some cheap ones that worked well in home assistant for me. 2. Motion sensors are great for hallways where you're mostly passing through. Ikea's are fine but Aqara's a bit quicker. Ikea's kitchen strips work well but they don't have colour temperature, so best to also use some smart bulbs. 3. Combine smart bulbs with ikea's remotes and if possible some presence detection. Also link your tv with a smart plug and a chromecast if it's not smart already. The living room might take some time to set up but take your time and figure out how you like it as you go :) Channels like these are great! Keep it up 💪🏽

@bijalsanghavi 8 ай бұрын

I have a tv, projector and ampiifier, that are not smart. So when I use automation to turn them on, I am asking a Broadlink RM4Pro to press the On button. But this is very flaky - sometimes the tv etc turn on, sometimes they dont. Also if the tv is on and I run a routine, I want to put a condition to check if it is on. Any sensors can help?

@brandonhatmaker7461 Жыл бұрын

What smart light switches are you using

@Gordidon Жыл бұрын

What do you use for the automations and conditions? I use homekit devices but I don’t get all those nice conditions.

@patrickst-arnaud9814 Жыл бұрын

How do you make hue motion open the lights IF the tv is off?

@dotsubmission Жыл бұрын

this video makes me what to switch from apple to android. how do you prevent lights from auto turning off when showering?

@MadHatter11371 7 ай бұрын

Can you do a video on how to connect motion to control a hue plug please?

@shivrajdalvi Жыл бұрын

what exactly are you using to write and integrate all these devices together into single automation with 6 conditions? Alexa routine wont support that

@nicole786 Жыл бұрын

Great video as always! What app do you use most often? Is it the home assistance app? Do you have a video overview on your apps that I missed? Thanks!

@SmartHomeSolver Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah I'm using Home Assistant for my app. My next video will explain more about apps and tech that I use to control my smart home, so hopefully that will answer all of your questions.

@MrDexterSr Жыл бұрын

Love the skits!

@Doeff8 2 ай бұрын

I love the familiy/wife interjections, laughed a little too hard.

@thomasparrish7403 6 ай бұрын

Hey can we get a video on setting kill switches and the other features

@dnoland77 Жыл бұрын

Cute with the echo button but the green light on the button never lit so the routine can't run. I have found that IF you are going to set a "no motion" action to turn off lights then set the time for twice as long as you might assume. Most times I find it easier to just use a button to turn off devices or setting a sleep timer when leaving a room.

@NicolasOdella Жыл бұрын

Great episode! What program/system are you using to create these automations?

@oldfarttech Жыл бұрын

I too am wanting to know what app you were coding your conditions in

@juliannesermon8057 Жыл бұрын

In practice, a good automation gets complex fast. Almost no real world scenario is actually as simple as it looks at first sight. So having conditions in place is an absolute must, otherwise your automations will quickly become a running gag around the household.

@RonJohnston Жыл бұрын

When your kid yelled "dad Roku just turned on the Roomba" my Roomba started up and I was watching this at 2:30 in the morning :-)

@DanBr0wn77 Жыл бұрын

Anyone know what that software on the iPad was?

@nathanboyer2939 Жыл бұрын

What software is that on your iPad?

@KrastyoKrastev Жыл бұрын

I have added dump lights and if they are turn on (by voice or automation) the lights in the room never go off. For example in the kitchen by saying to the echo dot there "I am cooking" or "cooking time" all lights go on (including the dumb one). That way no other automation can turn them off except of you use the real switch or tell Alexa "Done cooking".