Appreciate this one. I love technology, and sometimes hate it as well (been in IT industry for decades). One of the tough challenges I find is balancing between privacy, using only local devices (not reliant on a third party that might close tomorrow and leave bricked devices), and affordability. Trying to find that sweet spot ends up making it an unpaid, part-time job if I'm not careful.

would be nice if you could use Kiosk mod on the Show 15.

Do you consider yourself a smart home beginner, or are you already an expert - its important to be aware of the pros and cons of running a smart home! Let me know your experiences and thanks for watching!

Potential, but paying for promised features is always a concern. This looks like a sponsored or paid incentive (even a free unit) video without any visual and/or audio statement. This is an FTC no-no and a major question to your credibility - a long term subscriber.

Home Assistant meets Homey. Nice!

Nice content

This sounds perfect for me, love my smart home but NOT into the hours of trial and error, HA makes one do. So when you say locally controlled, what exactly does that mean and to you? If you have a certain device that a company just flat out stops, can one still use and control it? I ordered one about 5 weeks ago, of course it's a pre order, so I am still researching this and HA, so when it arrives I will be prepared, thanks for sharing!

Can you add this device to your existing home assistant instance? As in can I just use it as a hub/control device?

Can you add a zwave dongle

Can you access remotely without subscription?

💡💡💡Looking for the perfect device for your smart home automation - simple, but with super powers if and when you want to take it to the next level! 💡💡💡

Very nice, thank you for sharing.

Really cool, would love to see a smaller form factor option as well

So nice! U got a new fan from brazil, thnks!!

Following this tutorial, I got so many errors. Custom Button card doesn't exist, Mushroom template card doesn't exist, weather, etc. I just installed Home Assistant for the first time and came to this tutorial trying to add a font, and it seems the way he does his tutorials, I need to watch all his videos for them to work. As an expert KZfaqr, I'd recommend doing tutorials in a way that references everything you need to do the tutorial without trying to search through your old videos.

Do you get all soccer live?

Thank you so much for this video I have just finished converting my dashboards from multiple embedded custom grid layout cards to using the Button-card method you have described. The button-card method simplifies the code and allows much easier card placement, however I did stumble into an issue After converting my kitchen dashboard to use button-cards running on a Fire Tablet using Fully Kiosk the dashboard would occasionally fail to load when triggered by the kitchen movement sensor. Reverting the dashboard to the grid layout version the dashboard would load successfully every time. I am running the latest version of HA which ATTOW is 2024.6.3 I found reference to the issue under "custom:button-card fails to show intermittently on dashboards in ha-2023.4.xx" in github Implementing the suggested fix which forces the Button-card code to load after Lovelace cards has fixed the problem. I hope this might help anyone who has the same issue.

I've had Unifi for a long time - Unfortunately it's the night vision that lets these cameras down.

Great and informative video, what I needed to manage my HA dashboard

This brand is so bad don't buy it They break fast and the company don't care

I'm going with Bose headphones.

Have heard many other people saying there is buffering even with 1gb service ? Did you experience any of that ?

Hi and thank you for the review. Great info! I have a couple questions. Do I need to use a VPN ? I see there are multiple streaming choices with this Box. I don't want to be in trouble with my Internet Provider. Keep up the great reviews we appreciate all your info.

Does it have USA Network, LMN, Lifetime, Local Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, WWE Network, HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Starz, All PPV

Can you watch Netflix,Apple, Amazon, shows without having a subscription to any of them? Thanks. Awesome video of the device, Great job!

This was an awesome video. I learned new things

Have you tried integrating a second U100 lock, into the same hub... I tried but didn't succeed :(

@yoyoTech - Thanks for making this - Also appreciate you getting back to folks who comment!! New Subscriber!

Thanks. A complete walkthrough would be nice

you mention the viewport is wireless but the diagram shows a cable conected. is it truly wireless like a Chromecast or does it need a cable like the diagram?

Great review. Does anyone know of a Deadbolt Lock Cylinder brand/type that will work with the keys provided in the U100 installation kit?

@yoyoTech just found this video as i am looking to upgrade my Lorex system that is over 6 years old and the cameras are starting to show signs of age.. I have a Unifi cloud key gen 2, Unifi USG, a 16-port switch 150W, 2 AC Lites, and 1 AC-LR. I installed these like 4-5 years ago and i have the best WiFi and internet connection ever. How can i get the camera’s integrated into my system so i can ditch the Lorex. Thanks so much for this video! Gained a subscriber!

Hellll no. Wired all the way. Wifi jammers are real

Do you know about swapping the sound from and to the Arc and after a update other Sonos soundbars except the Playbar? That’s a real Sonos feature that you might have mentioned? It would have been nice to have that WiFi connection to other Sonos products though. Not being able to listen lossless with Apples iPhone is plain ridiculous. They should fix that too. The Sonos Ace is a Wifi/Bluetooth device and should be used better in the eco system.

Hi, I have installed some integrations from HACS, how do I know which integrations are from HACS when I look at all my integrations, thanks.

Problem, you can only use 1 pair to watch movies through the Arc, why! I purchased 2 pairs as advertised by Sonos thinking my wife and I could watch movies together.

Expiration unlimited for live tv and movies ? Are there paid channels ?

Sonos headphones integration with my Arc works perfectly and the resulting sound is quite incredible.

Come on. This does have a connection with the Sonos ecosystem. Only with Arc right now, but it will expand to Beam and Ray soon (they're probably busy trying to fix the terrible new app right now). Apparently they said that they did try making wifi headphones prototypes but it was either the battery life sucked or the headphones would feel too heavy. They didn't want either so they made this mainly Bluetooth headphones but still with P2P wifi capabilities with Arc (and Beam and Ray, in the future). So it's like how Apple only made the latest Apple Pencil to only work with the latest top of the line iPad, instead of making it compatible with older generation iPads too. And many other examples from many other companies that do this practice.

Glad you are making videos again Bill. I love my Sonos system,. Still gotta set up my home theatre Sonos room yet.

First tutorial video with music in the background, what a stupid idea

People don't buy Sonos speakers because they are the best speakers. There are lots of other speaker manufacturers outs there that make speakers just as good or even better than Sonos and at a cheaper price. *_People buy Sonos speakers for the Sonos ecosystem!_*

No

Thanks a lot jerk, you just made me realize that 2019 was already five years ago! 😂

No

It's supposed to work with the Arc sound bar, so it IS a Sonos product...

You CANNOT compare the Apple Ecosystem to the Sonos Ecosystem Two completely different types of systems !!! The Apple you just pair your Bluetooth headphones and it connects to all your Apple devices Sonos is basically equivalent to a streaming device. Kinda equivalent to an Amazon Fire stick/cube. Totally different concepts.

So what was this rant about again? I just want my headphones to pair with my device and play the audio through them.

thank you！😉

i am not into sonos ecosystem. but just like the styling. most important of a headphone for me is sound quality. is it better to sennheiser Momentums 4s? what about wired listening, does lossless improves the sound?