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@@DrHamazani yeah definitely, I use on via Home Assistant to turn a relay on which closes my skylight in my kitchen 👌

@@iamgigglz yeah very odd to me too. Would love it to have a permanent USB power option and connect to my Zigbee network to report to Home Assistant.

@@JB-fh1bb I wouldn’t have thought it’d be a crazy amount of data, still should be a lot less than even a single camera constantly streaming. Are you saying you’d actually want such a thing, or it’d just be difficult to do without using WiFi? I do actually want some sort of Zigbee variant of a WLED controller, but concede it’s a huge challenge to do without a web UI even unfortunately.

@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs personally I'm hungry for an addressable strip controller that's open and not wifi

@ open in what way? And without WiFi how would you interface with it to tell it what to display? Something hyper simple like a button to cycle through effects?

@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs this is spitballing a wishlist, but: Open means a controller with open source firmware (3rd party or otherwise) and a protocol that's unencumbered by license and patent constraints For interface: a standard protocol. I'd love to see matter here as in the controller can advertise itself as a string of addressable LEDs so any other UI can do brightness, colour. Then extend the protocol to take in a stream of pixel data. Maybe something like starting with the frame rate, bit depth, and colour sequence (GBR, RGB, RGBWW, others maybe even including UV, orange, etc) then accepting the binary stream. The sender would be able to send the pixel data directly to the controller which sends it to the strip

@@ArtherFocksake if it’s not reliable it’s probably because something, somewhere is not setup right 😉

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIsnope, it’s because zigbee is not strict with compatibility making it a massive pita if you happen to try to use devices from more than one manufacturer. Zigbee is garbage Zwave is miles better, but stupid expensive

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs isn't that always the answer? Sometimes it works and other-times it does not.

@@repatch43 some manufacturers aren’t strict with their compatibility, Aqara comes to mind. Which is why I’ve tried a bunch and recommend based on my experience. And with IKEA, Sonoff, Thirdreality my Zigbee network is great 👍

@@Cyberguy42 yeah I’ve not actually tried it myself so not as familiar with it. But it’s definitely another good option 👍

what if I want to wire my light switches with those smart control boxes? lets say 10-15 wifi based control boxes... would this be an issue? would my home wifi get slower or jammed?

@@walterrldias it really depends on how good your WiFi network is. If you’re just using the router your ISP supplied you might start to notice the connection degrading if you added that many devices to it. At which point you can either spend a lot of effort and money upgrading it (which might be worthwhile for you anyway for other reasons). Or you can just get some form of Zigbee hub and buy Zigbee versions instead.

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs bs, Wifi nowadays consists from several radio frequencies - 2.4 Khz, 5 Khz, 6 Khz. Each pair of them uses different antennas and transceivers on a router side. Smart devices could use only 2.4Khz wave only, as they come on one chip with BLE connectivity. Thus, if you main wifi devices consumes, Wifi 5, 6 & 7 (and supports frequency aggregation)- you would never notice anything - even if the home would have a lot of 2.4 smart home things, they are independent. As sum up, video apply to any WiFi 4 only or lower network, while on WiFi 5+ it wouldn't be notable and Wifi 7 were build for a lot of connections and data transfer channels separation to avoid data transmission congestion.

​@@s.i.m.c.asome of the cheaper routers that ISPs supply can struggle as you load up the network with devices. If you swap all your lights and switches to WiFi smart devices the number can add up quickly. I use unifi equipment myself with about 150 WiFi devices online across 3 APs, my WiFi devices are rock solid. I do still get the odd issue with ZigBee though.

@@s.i.m.c.a I think what you’re saying lines up absolutely with what I’m saying. “It Depends”. What you’re saying is that if you have a very well configured WiFi network with reasonably up to date infrastructure then you’ll be fine, and you will… But most people don’t have that.

@@Techlifeandmore yeah I actually largely agree with what you’ve said. WiFi is great for dipping your toes into smart home stuff, but as soon as you realise you’re down the rabbit hole switching to other technologies is definitely the way to go. And I really wish Thread was better too, I went all in on it with Nanoleaf bulbs etc and eventually gave up and ended up with much cheaper IKEA bulbs and couldn’t be happier.

what about up to 10-15 lamps and or devices? still good enough for wi-fi?

@ with your ISP provided router, yeah. If you have a high quality Wi-Fi router like an Asus mesh Wi-Fi system or other high-quality consumer grade gear then you can have like 40 to 50 devices without issues. But at that point if you’re just buying a new network to use smart home devices just use a separate protocol.

@ yeah indeed. I spent a REALLY long time trying to get my WiFi network nailed down so that my smart home would be stable. I have tried Ubiquiti, Aruba, Eero even, and finally settled on some from FS, separate 2.4Ghz SSID for the smart tech on 20Mhz only and the final thing which really helped was getting all my cameras off the WiFi to PoE ones 👌

@@RikAhlberg yeah I believe it does as long as I put them in their case on my known WiFi

@@AA-ou4zk sadly not currently since meta don’t give us a way to trigger Siri from the glasses. Only way would be to hold the Siri button on your phone to talk to it via the glasses.

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs maybe something like that: hey meta call chatgpt/ shortcut if call to chatgpt /end call/open chatgpt voice?

Glad you like it 😊 these were all things that were bothering me too, as I previously used the Tado system. And on top of what you mentioned I had occasional connectivity issues, and it was just too damn expensive to buy the necessary wireless thermostats in order to get an accurate temperature for each room. Per room, it’s still cheaper to buy the valve, smart plug/relay, and temperature sensor, than it is to buy a single Tado TRV.

@@Hollaback_Youngn there’s plenty more where that came from 😉 be sure to sub to see more of it

@@aroundsmart thanks! It’s very useful information to have 😉

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs Indeed!

@@simonsayshomeassistant thanks mate 🙏 just watching yours, great too as always

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs Thank you so much! This is a great journey!

Adults bumper car?

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs You mean you didn’t get yourself one too?!

@@garethjones5068 not yet… That was me very much squeezed into theirs 🤣

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs 🤣🤣🤣

@@garethjones5068 oh cool, thanks 🙏 someone commented the other day giving me an extra idea to see if I can tie into any actual delivery APIs, so that’s the next step now

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs well I’ve just subscribed so I’ll see how you got on with it if you make a vid

@@garethjones5068 thanks, sadly I have to give the wife the credit for the name 😂

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs Teamwork makes the dream work 🤣

@@friedegg1936 ironic spelling there

@@louisviciedo that’s the one bit that’s manual in the process. I run a shortcut on my home screen when I get a notification from Amazon or whichever courier so that the next ring of the doorbell does it all.

@@louisviciedo Damn you’ve definitely got me thinking about finding a delivery notice API of some sort into this now 🤔

@@ohwhatworld5851 you may have to tap More at the bottom of the list and drag it up if you want it nearer the top (should have mentioned in the video)

@@stephendevaney8494 I think so, the 30x30cm version, as it’s more than bright enough (way better than their B22 bulb I was using)

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIsthanks

@@RW-ql2wy I do yeah, I also use Home Assistant. And bridge all devices into Apple Home with its HomeKit Bridge Integration.

@@shaunfarrell I’m LOVING the black colour, the little orange contrasts look on point. I’m definitely with MKBH when he says “Matte black everything”.

I saw this comment and was very confused so had to rewatch my own video 😂 It’s just the background for my fitness focus, the best black background one I could find on a google 🙈

@@DuncanSmart oh amazing, glad to hear you got it all working. We have some updates coming to the hardware, so when that’s finalised I’ll post another updated walk through.

What’s wrong with Home Assistant?

@@callmeem9295 so you can extend the lifespan of your battery. And tweak the sweet spot between daily life and overall lifespan

@@jeffrey6577 it will need an Apple Home hub of some kind. I believe that is the case for all Matter devices, they need a controller. So for Apple any HomePod or Apple TV.

Very well put, people say 30% is high. But I say brick and mortar stores traditionally charge way more for rent than 30% of a store's income.

Thanks for the tips! Technically, the SSD is probably much older as the machine is second hand. My buddy bought it off ebay and set it up nicely under proxmox for me as a Wedding present, so yesterday I just had to learn how to do it myself lol

Very nice! I don't do things by halves, so within days of deciding to go the Home Assistant route, I had all my native HomeKit devices moved into HA lol It's all good as long as things are working, so situations like this leave my highly motivated to improve my backup and redundancy situation... Matter stuff is much better thankfully, as that all continued to work just fine within Apple Home while HA was dead.

@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs Yes, Matter is nice since it ought to work directly with HomeKit and HA. All my lights are also Lutron Caseta or Philips Hue, and it's great that they can work directly with HomeKit and HA, so no need for HomeKit Controller.

@@Wildling247 are you after Tado valves or the same wired ones I’m now using? (I’ll add both to my site shortly) But yes you’re right, atm things are a bit disjointed because I’ve half migrated some valves, so I’m relying on the Tado heating a room for my other valves to get hot water going through them. But I’ll ultimately have to wire another relay to the boiler in order to control it whenever one of the other relays is on, likely using a separate automation.

I have just created a custom dashboard view for my study and set the url in the app to go straight to that view which works pretty well without needing to create a user. Thanks for the tip.

Found a nice short cable which I’ve left in there for now 👌