I Made a NSFW Alexa Burglar Alarm & It's TERRIFYING!
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It may be mentioned elsewhere in the comments, but what's stopping the intruder just saying 'alexa stop' if they know its routine enabled?
The burglar can say Alexa stop and she'll stop talking, but they'll be too late to stop the smart home stuff because that stuff is before the speech. All the important stuff is done by the tuya Zigbee bridge anyway.
@@paulhibbert ahh I see, never used zigbee stuff yet but would quite like to at some point. Thanks for the incredible content Paul and everything you do, you're very helpful and avoid the BS. Keep it up 😊❤️
Paul "look everyone, my house is being burgled! That's why it's red!", everyone else "oh look, cool, a brothel!" :)
🤣 the Burglar might regret that even more!
@@paulhibbert in conjunction with the all new Echo Fart, with SMOG, due for release in April they are trapped and unconscious. They could be wherever their dreams take them x
"oh look, cool, a brothel!"
... Random condoms start falling from the ceiling. 🤣🤣🤣
@@paulhibbert especially the curtains opening! ROFLMAO 🤣
Rofl..... I only use red lights.... I didn't even realize my apartment looks like a brothel. It's so easy on the eyes though
You know the answer to a complex automation - Hoooome Assistant!
*humps the air 🤣 I'm not sure if Home assistant will recognise the keyfob. I am suspicious that it won't.
Paul, you nincompoop! Home Assistant uses your phones GPS or WiFi status to know if your in or out. No more carrying around key fobs etc.
I'm thinking, "Yeah, all of this seems sooo much easier than Home Assistant"
🤔 🤣
@@BenReese we'll find out. I will make a video to try to do all of these things and we can all have a good laugh at how I remain stuck at step 1 for the full week.
@@YorkshireHillbilly last time I tried home assistant's geofencing it had no idea I'd left the house, so we'll see how that works out this time!
You could done this all with Home Assistant, faster :) Home Assistant - Home Assistant - Home Assistant. Yep I won't be the only one making this joke. Seriously you've done a cool job (virtually) wiring all this together.
Would love to see DrZzzzzZZZZZZZ do a response this to show just how simple it is to set up in HOOOOOOOOME ASSISTANT! But as always, love the Hibbert show - starts my weekend with a chuckle
You guys are gonna regret this when my next video is me attempting to do this in home assistant and it all going tits up. 😂
Other than my HA tuya intergartion has been driving me crazy for the last month and I've had to disable it. It would be easy 😉. Though seriously going to setup tuya local as nothings worked properly since the new tuya intergartion came out.
@@xxxDaGoblinxxx I’ve heard a lot of bad things about the new Tuya integration. I use Tuya local on a couple lights that can’t be flashed with tasmota and it’s been great so far
@@paulhibbert I'd love to see that
Just getting off of a 16 hour shift to catch this video. Happy Saturday
Bro right. Tell me I’m pretty! Paul. Paul!!!!
I agree that they need to make the delay programmable. I have installed burglar alarms for over 25 years, and a 30 second delay is pretty standard. But we usually adjust it based of the individual installation. Great video as usual Paul!
Home Assistant would make this all so much simpler and durable. Oh the Home Assistant! Very enjoyable video nevertheless.
*humps the air. I'm going to make another video to establish if this is true. I suspect you will regret this 🤣
@@paulhibbert laughing all ready.
my Home assistant already dose all of this and more. ( yes I'm a nerd )
also alarm is set and disarmed as our phone enter or leave the house.
don't have to wait 30 seconds
@@paulhibbert I was a long time SmartThings user and switched to Hubitat... best decision ever!!! I think Home Assistant is to too difficult... Hubitat can EASILY make all those things you have accomplished MUCH easier and more reliable as it doesn't require INTERNET to work!!! And you could use your phone as a presence sensor to change those Amazon announcements to reflect the situation... no more advertising to the public about your "button" problem with the wifey!!!
@@paulhibbert I use Home Assistant to build a very similar set of functionality, minus a few of your more expensive automation devices. It's easy to fix the message on door open by placing a motion sensor inside and checking if it was already active before the door opened. I use this as a door chime at all times, open from inside silence, open from outside corner shop doorbell.
@@covertpuppytwo3857 To me Hubitat seems outdated and difficult. I hate how their UI is unintuitive to set up and doesn't work on mobile, how they have only a handful of integrations, and how weird their automation system is. Still cool to see competition and different visions of a perfect smart home!
Personally I would install strobe lights around the house, walking around an unfamiliar house in strobe is very difficult. Have all lights turn off except strobes, close curtains and any other light source,.
Haha, that would be amazing!!
Smoke machines would make this loads worse and also set off the fire alarm to add to the noise.
Bright strobe lights combined with a very loud "Prometheus" siren
( ua-cam.com/video/tNIa0eFYC8E/v-deo.html )
should be enough to get a burglar to run for his life.
"There's a wanker in the dining room." You're right. That never gets old.
Thanks for another informative and fun-to-watch video.
(Just so you know (and because I have some affection for Star Trek as well), the phrase for arming my system is "Shields up." :) )
I'm thinking that, instead of "Mr Socky has been released." (and in order to avoid copyright transgressions) I may have to use "Dystopian attack helicopters are now en route." (unless that too is copyrighted.)
You opening the curtains with the red lights on reminds me of Amsterdam RLD...😅
I can imaging getting this all setup and some how triggering the alarm after getting out of the shower curtains all open and the neighbors just see the red lights flashing and a naked person at the window... That will be a difficult one to explain.
Home Assistant!!! Hahaha 🤣 hip thrust 🤣 . On a serious note, I would do things a bit differently, but that’s because I use slightly different systems. Awesome idea mate.,thanks
That's the beauty of this hobby :)
@@paulhibbert Great work on getting everything to play together. As a home assistant user with no experience with any other systems its interesting to see how to get everything to work together.
Having a cascade of turning on lights just to make one ecosystem play well with the other sounds brutal. Hope we'll see more unified standards in the industry.
Matter is supposedly gonna solve all this but I have little faith that the greedy industry players involved will actually pull it off without messing it up with their corporate greed.
Hey Paul, I have something similar set up. The way mine arms is either by voice command (like when I go to bed) or automatically by geofencing my phone. My camera system is geofenced so the system goes to "Guard" mode when I leave. Which also calls my phone and sends me pictures of what's going on. But ...
I don't rely solely on electronics to "scare the crap out of burglars". The gizmos are just icing on the cake as it were. What *really* scares the crap out of burglars is *_the gaping maw at the business end of the 12 gauge pump shotgun loaded with 3" magnum #4 buckshot_* confidently resting in my hands. I prefer the old fashioned method of burglar interdiction.
Funny thing about that ... Most all of my neighbors use the old fashioned method of burglar interdiction too. Within a 5 mile radius of my house the most serious crime that has occurred in the last 10 years was a mailbox being smashed by some kids. Who were apprehended moments later. It seems like this method is very effective at deterring crime. Go figure.
As always l love and look forward to your Saturday morning video releases. I always enjoy your videos and watch them with my morning coffee, whether what you feature is relevant to me or not. Cheers, keep up the good work.
Ok to do the tuya to Alexa thing try this.
Using the same routine (without ifttt), if that specific light is detected in Samsung's smart things, you can create a virtual switch in smartthings that acts as a door sensor for Alexa. You don't even have to have a smartthings hub. If you link your tuya account in smartthings you will see many of your items are now supported.
To take this one step further, if smartthings can detect what brightness you have set the lamp to, it can run a different action depending on its brightness. And so make many virtual switches an trigger many routines.
Brilliant! What if you set the outside lights to alternate between red and blue? That might give the burglar the impression that there is a cop car outside.
Cop cars in the UK don't have red lights, only blue :-)
"Reginald we have futher testing to do!" "release Mr socky" (cuts to the robo vac with no warning 😂)
😂 Paul you really are on a roll at the moment, highlight of my week 👍😊
Eardrum related, I've got tinnitus which goes mental for a few days after loud noise. The Nest Protect fire alarms - instead of going straight to 100% apesh!t as soon as there is burnt toast, it calmly warns you in English and lets you cancel it for a little while first, before it goes full ear-bursting alarm. Very very much appreciated for the old sensitive lug holes, recommended!
Mainly here for the advertisement, the smart home stuff is just a fun addition
My sponsor will love that! 🤣
And rightly so! You're putting effort into them and they are very entertaining, everyone else's I just skip! 😂👍
Love tour videos love humour too. A tip I deployed - in living room when alarm kicks in red lights work a treat but as the curtains open you need to disorient the intruder may I suggested :-
1) after seconds you switch the red to super bright led followed by ridiculous strobe light - with alarms going
2) you could go extra mile and stick smoke machine in there with fan going so smoke bellowing out with fan blowing away
haha and tell the burglar that the toxic has been released
Great video with the Robovac inspiring me to finish off my alarm system. One way to automate a routine to avoid it going off whenever the door is open is through Home Assistant and Life360 (or possibly based directly on your phone's location). It arms when everyone in the house is absent and turns itself off when anyone is home. It can be done through the UI rather than the Yaml coding and you can effectively save the work you've done by the arming being a turning on the Tuya automation.
This is massively creative. I’m a big fan of pushing the existing smart home systems in ways like this.
Thanks man! Funnily enough I'm headed down the home assistant route this week to see how it would work. Stumbled across your videos more than once in my hunt 😂
@@paulhibbert Nice! I thought of doing a video in response to this on how Home Assistant would make this easier. And while jotting notes decided it wouldn’t actually be easier for someone without home assistant experience. Hahaha. Good luck! I look forward to seeing that video.
Did you know, that HOME ASSISTANT easily integrates both Tuya and Alexa ans you can build automations to trigger whatever you want on anything? ;)
But that requires Paul to use local control.
That is far to intimidating for Paul.
He is used to all kinds of long delays due to cloud services.
@@TheHellis Sod off. Seriously. 🤣 Almost all of this system is local. The only thing intimidating about Home Assistant doing this is that I wouldn't be able to achieve all of this stuff in the week I have to make the video, because nothing is ever intuitive and requires endless googling to resolve daft stuff that should work off the bat. Stop pretending to yourself that isn't the case.
I will make a video to prove exactly this, I will take you on the journey as I attempt it and we can all laugh the second that the keyfob is detected as a light bulb, and that I have to immediately pay a Nabu Casa subscription to get Alexa control of the bulbs, or that the geo fencing doesn't work and still thinks I'm in the house even though I've left (yes I've already tried this), or that I have to learn how to use node red because non of the standard automation functionality does what it says it will do. Then we can all fall over laughing when my SD card gives up the ghost and I have to start over with an SSD drive that I will have to learn how to get the Pi to recognise.
I love Home Assistant, and I love what it can do. What I don't understand is why a portion of its rabid fan base keeps acting like it's easy and can't wait to tell me how stupid I am for saving myself the hours of frustration by doing the exact same thing with Tuya in under a day. 🤷♂️ It's snobbery and pride I guess.
@@paulhibbert all I can say is that everything makes perfect sense to me after using HA for about two years.
I understand there is a learning curve, but if you don't get in there you won't learn to swim.
Nabu casa is not required and you know that. So don't pretend it is.
However I do know it's much harder to use Alexa than Google home.
Google home is just added automatically and TTS is fairly simple to add.
Node red definitely has advantages, and I can admit I use Node red quite frequently when it's more complex automations but none of what you did in this automation would be hard to do in native HA automations.
It's just a bunch of call services.
And because everything (I assume) can be controlled from HA you won't need third party apps to check for light bulbs being on, everything can be controlled in one go from HA.
Making all these dependencies on each other like this is bound to break at some point.
I'm not saying its a poor job, it's just that it will fail on you.
Perhaps I'm wrong but if you unplug your internet then then IFTTT, Alexa and Tuya won't be able to see what the other just did, right?
So Tuya might turn on the alarm light but the others won't see it and therefore not react on it.
And that is the reason why you want your alarm (especially) to be controlled from one place only.
But hats off for finding a way to do it, it's just not the route I would have taken.
Why your key fob is detected as a light bulb is beyond me.
But I'm guessing you're using Tuya integration to HA and not a USB co-ordinator like conbee or similar.
Using other platforms to pair it with means you rely on their information being correct. Adding it directly to HA then it will be just a switch if it doesn't know anything else.
@@paulhibbert oh forgot. The geofencing is working just fine and we use it every day.
It rarely does not work.
Last week we were on skiing trip and I could see the ski slopes my spouse was on and how many times she had gone up and down because I see 24 hour history of her and my tracking.
If we are in the car the position is updated every five seconds.
Ask for help if you need help with it, because it does work.
Very rarely do you see a phone modell that does not work with HA and the tracking.
We'll see soon enough. I'd been meaning to try home assistant again soon anyway.
Love your videos.. very informative and great humour, literally laugh out loud. Thank you my friend
Thanks man! ❤
Anyone else think the Paul's missus must have been away this week.
When the robot vac / soccy appears you want to try the music used for the robot “Gort” from the day the earth stood still - 1951 version. Awesome. I’ve always wanted a full size Gort outside the front of my house to keep away carol singers 😀
I don't have to tell my alarm to arm and disarm as it knows when I am home or not... Ooooh The Home Assistant... Ooooh The Home Assistant.
I love this!
I set up Alexa to arm my Ring too, now she begs me not to leave her as she is setting the alarm 😁 the wife thinks I'm an idiot!
This was a great video! I'm totally going to steal some of this for my own security alarm alarm! Especially love the robot vacuum getting in on it 🤣👍
Ah yes, I see you too have the wonderful "Alexa for your day" screen. I told my therapist it drives me to drink.
Really proud of myself. I have also used a random light to trigger an ifttt event outside of smart life. I'm glad we are on the same wavelength. I have also managed to get google to say something but she bleeps out the word "shit". Bloody funny though.
Amazon ought to have an adult mode for Alexa, we're not kids! If you want her to say Wanker just type in Wankeh 😂
Try "schitt"
Loving your work gentleman. I'll give that a go.
@@paulhibbert 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I just told my Alexa to say that and she pronounced it as ‘Wanky’ 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
sh'it, f'uck, w'anker... etc
Your neighbors must love you. If you're not dancing around in front of your video cameras you're setting off alarms at all hours. Well done.
Local nutter he will be thought of, neighbourhood watch trying to get him to relocate. 😂
I took a slightly different approach over the last month or so and built an esp8266 based wrapper that interfaces to my somewhat elderly existing alarm system. It allows Alexa to both set and unset the alarm using a relay output based on either voice commands or as part of other Alexa routines, plus triggers several different Alexa routines using virtual buttons from thomptronics depending on what phase the burglar alarm is in (unset, exit delay expiring, alarm set, entry delay expiring, alarm sounding and back to unset). Like you, I have chosen lots of siren noises that play out of various speakers around the house for the active phases, along with voice messages warning dire consequences. I actually missed the obvious use of triggering house lights , but I will glue those into the routines in a few minutes time !! All of those routines trigger notifications to my phone as well, granting me a monitored alarm system without paying anyone an ongoing fee for that.
My favourite part of the system though is being able to use 2001 references about pod bay doors to the car Alexa as I get near home and have her disarm the burglar alarm, open the garage door and turn on some lights.
Hibbert day!
However I must say... It all would have been SO much easier with.... HOME ASSISTANT!
I already have a routine to scare off burglars but I am so stealing some of these extra ideas 🤣
You already know that would have been ALOT simplier with ** HOME ASSISTANT **!! hahaha! :-D
I have something like this on my todo list. I have one addition though, i would have the 7.2.4 surround sound system in my home theater, start blasting porno sound at max volume. That should alert the neighbours, more than an alarm siren. Because what is your first reaction when you hear a car-alarm? "Turn that crap off!" Right? But if your neighbour starts blasting porno at 120db in the middle of hte night, you are going to get out of bed, and go tell him off!
This is an underrated comment 🤣 Absolutely brilliant idea!
@@paulhibbert Glad you approve :D
This have given me the perma-giggles - I have now replaced "Hello World!" with "There's a W****r" in the XXX room!" in all my demos and experiments! So amusing when you make Alexa say it, I think she secretly enjoys it!
Recommendation.
Take a cue from Mark Rober. Make up a dogs name and start a countdown with Alexa.
“Samson’s cage will be unlocked in 5…4..3..2…1. Samson is free to move about the premises. Good Bye.”
2:28 I forgot you guys in the UK have your clothes washer in the kitchen 😆 I'll never get over that! Great video!
Depends on your house. They get place next to a water supply and drain which in many houses is only the main kitchen sink. My house has a small utility room so the washer is in there.
i have a few of the cspan smartlife alarm sounders around the house, that fires instantly (you have to arm / disarm BEFORE you open the door and as an added bonus they also have a bright red light ring to go with the siren (which can be set from "bloody annoying" right up to "i don't need my hearing anymore" the keyfobs have the same four buttons (arm, disarm, sos and what's this for?) but have a slider to cover the keys when in your pocket.
All those red lights i hope the old bill don’t think it’s a knocking shop?. Ha Ha Ha.
14:13 …cue the movie key fumble….possible in multiple locations and scenarios lol
I have to imagine your neighbors absolutely loved you testing all this. Amazing job :D
OMG you make my day. I love seeing all the new technology that’s out there and what it does but YOU Paul are my hero. You always have me rolling on the floor laughing. I love that your wife is there and she’s just as funny. Your neighbours must just sit around wondering what you’re doing next! Thank you for the entertainment, education and the informative information on products that are out there. You are truly awesome!
Great video. I set up my burglar alarm with iobroker and Google home. When the delay starts, it's always play a random insult from Glados, bevor the real alarm starts. This is running since 4 years now and still makes me smile. ;)
all you need now are funhouse mirrors to flip open from the walls and clowns to pop out of closets
You should add a fog machine that goes off when the lights start flashing just to make it scarier! 🤣
Yes! and make it say "self destruct sequence activated" and it might make any nearby smart fire alarms go off so they'll definitely shit themselves and think the place is burning itself down
I always expect fun and informative videos from you, but this was above and beyond! A simple suggestion to make your system more “fun!” As you have multiple speakers around the house, get the sound of a large dog with a VERY angry growl (not a bark as it is very rare to find a speaker that accurately reproduces a barking sound). Now, take that sound clip and play it in one speaker, slowly fading it from that speaker as the next speaker picks the sound up. Have it “travel” about the house. Perhaps even have the “clicking” sound of dog claws (BIG dog claws) circling around with the growling sound… Such fun!
I LOVE this! Great idea!! ❤️
Brilliant. Just brilliant. Love the socks security system
I have a similar set-up in my basement but I use my Aqara hub built-in 🚨, an aqara sensor and flex motion sensor & a old dot which notifies me on my show 8 next to my bed 🤷🏼♂️✌🏼
very red dwarf - is it time to change the bulb !
hahah..I get a chuckle or a belly laugh every time. Thanks Paul
I managed to make use of an Aqara door sensor and an Ikea motion sensor together, to determine whether I walk in or out of the front door. Has been fun getting it to do different things depending on if I get home or leaving
What software/app did u use with them so it knows your home do 1 thing or away do another..
If you *really* want to burst the burglar's eardrums you should try a Master Blaster siren from Klaxon. It runs on mains and takes a 12v trigger input. Nevermind Star Trek noises, they're going to be hearing no noises ever again after it goes off. Ear defenders are a good idea when these are installed😆
*Immediately googles 🤣
@@paulhibbert They get installed in places like warehouses by security professions, they’re nuts in a domestic property
Had to put up with one of the wretched things for a few hours once, because someone thought it'd be fun to do a 'glass break' alarm in a building we were just moving into, so didn't know where all the important switches and stuff were yet, they're a bit quieter when they have a piece of cardboard sucked onto the air intake, but yeah, in a house, it'd be terrifying.
Pssst, with "HOME ASSISTANT!!!" you could make the message play only when nobody is home
Nice job and work around. Note I did something similar about a year ago but I found using Samsung smartthings will assist better in making Alexa do actions and routines. Just make a virtual switch in smart things port your tuya devices in alexa will see the virtual switch
This makes me wonder. Is there a video doorbell of decent quality that can be added as the action of an Alexa routine? Meaning if a generic door sensors senses something the doorbell can record video.
Normally I can't say this but "That Would be easier with home assistant!"!
Video idea: how to make a smart home that doesn't look like a smart home (no obvious sensors, no visible robot vacuum, switches that work like ole school switches, etc).
Hey Paul! I Recommend that you someday review the Nest Protect Smoke and CO Alarm, i am going to be buying them soon for my new house
You were placing ideas in a sequence to create more excitement along the way culminating in a crescendo or climax !! Master baiter you are. So was Ravel who composed Bolero.
Thank you for making me laugh once again, your videos are the most exciting part of the weekend and I hate to be that guy but I have to say it, you could have done that much easier in Home Assistant. Also what would be great is to eliminate the key fob entirely and use presence detection to activate everything when you are away and deactivate things when you get home so you don't have to worry about the door sensor triggering all that when you are at home receiving an Amazon package
If I broke in..
"Hm, automatic lighting.. Not scary."
"Hm, red lights, sirens, bells and whisles.. Pff! Doesn't scare me!"
"Mr. Socky is on the loose"
I'M OUT!
Great vid again Paul. I do similar using your mate Home Assistant... thrust the air....lol. I use life 360 and all families phones to arm and disarm. If no phones at home it arms then when any phone comes home it disarm. Maybe you could see if you could use this with tuya or she who should not be named. If you want to see how I did mine or want assistance feel free to message me.
EXACTLY - of course Paul will complain it’s beyond the average bloke to implement this…..duh
You definitely have the neater solution and I desperately wish Tuya did geofencing. This channel as pointed out by CJ is mostly about how the average Joe can achieve practically anything and very cheaply with practically no technical skill. CJ is wrongly inferring however that this would be easy to achieve in home assistant 😉. I will prove this wrong in a future video when I can't achieve in a week what I achieved in a day here and all the particularly angry nerds can hop around like angry gorillas accusing me of just being too dumb 😂
@@paulhibbert you need no more technical skill than you do to achieve what you achieved in this video. Practically everything I’ve done in ha that is complex I’ve done by following Drzzzzzzzz..zz.z..zz guides. Anybody with the capacity to construct a system like you show in this video will have more than enough capacity to run HA. It’s about envisioning the setup - that’s what takes the nouse. The rest would be Uber complex - I agree - without Dr zzz…. You know who I mean.
I love when you do videos like this please I know you've done nfc tags way back in the beginning. but could you do a updated one using alexa and other stuff? Please
Brilliant, what better way to start your Saturday 🤣. I so want to use the Star Trek self-destruct siren as my burglar alarm
I used to use the star trek self destruct sequence code to verbally disarm my alarm system 🥰
This video explains exactly why I use home assistant 😂😂😂
Turns all the lights red and opens the curtains to show the brothel is open 😂
This coud have been so much better and easier to make with home assistant....
HOME ASSISTANT. HOME ASSISTANT!
so funny. I have an 'Alexa, Red Alert!' routine which does something fairly similar. Literally just use it to amuse myself when i'm drunk ;) ....I tried to use MKSense to send an IFTTT trigger to Alexa to tell me when my 3D printer had finished and couldn't make it work...need to revisit that as you've obviously had more luck. Good vid :)
I have been working on something the same, but looking at flashing blue lights, to simulate a cop car, not only to freak out the un-welcome cock end, but to draw the attention of the curtain twitchers! They love a nice emergency vehicle lol
Your neighbour’s must love you with the red lights and sirens, look he has got it sock out again and he opened the curtains?
Mr Socky has been released. I mean I would actually break into your house to hear this. And then I'd have the crap scared out of me!
Brilliant and informative as ever, Paul, keep 'em coming
Man, this is a fantastic video. And whilst funny, also very informative. Well done Mr Socky
Hilarious and informative as always Paul! Laughed my ass off Dude! 😂🤣🙌🏻💪🏻
PS! To bad Torras don´t make protection cases for One plus phones!
This is a great idea and something I have seen before. I had a tool I wrote for the ADT Smartthings panel that could enable pretty much all of this same thing except for the announcements. The problem though is when you get so much stuff going sometimes it is hard for any local system to keep up. I had a guy that took my tool and enabled his entire house like this. It ended up being over 20 different devices of various types. The Initial response and function of it was great except for it made his hub so busy he had a very hard time disabling the alarm once everything was going. Kudo's for figuring it out. To me is also seems like this could easily be done with something like hubitat's HSM. Of course keep your voice announcements in alex with virtual switches from Hubitat.
Paul, wondful video as always! A suggestion if I may, if you can, please add cat lasers on pan/tilt heads in several places. That would add to the confusion and help scare the burgler even more. LOL!
The neighbours will think they have come home to the Amsterdam's RED LIGHT district :)))))
If I was doing it in home assistant (sorry) I'd use a boolean to track which state the system was in
Using a physical object to do the same is clever. But does raise the question what's the cheapest, lowest impact thing that can be used as marker. A usb switch would be unobtrusive but I don't know a cheap one
Don't forget to add a delay for 30 seconds and then another on a full minute before flashing the lights because HA would do it way too fast.
I created a switch in HA. You could also use a virtual sensor or create an automation that you turn off. I think Home solver might just use presence detection based in whether anyone's phone is there. Don't quote me on that last one though because he didn't share everything.
@@TheHellis I do wonder if Home assistant would find the Tuya zigbee keyfob, it's quite unusual in that I can't find it anywhere outside of this kit!
@Paul Hibbert I found the ags keyfob on amazon for £6 so I'm going to experiment with connecting directly to my zigbee hub not using smartlife
@@paulhibbert I don't have a Tuya keyfob to test, but aqara button could toggle the alarm on or off in Home Assistant.
or use your home presence detection to turn on and off of alarm.
or a tablet on the wall with a code
or you smart phone
or turning a light switch on and off a set number of times
Love your work by the way
i know you have been playing with home assistant. consider looking into adding node red to it. you can come up with some crazy automations
I have connected two sonoff basics with one supplying power to the second one.
Power goes to the first one called “Alarm switch” then that one supply power to the second one called “Buzzer switch” and this of course then supply power to a buzzer.
• If the alarm is disarmed the alarm switch is off and of course the buzzer switch then has no power and cannot be switched on.
• If alarm is armed the alarm switch is switched on and the buzzer switch is off but have power.
• If the alarm is activated by a sensor the buzzer switch is also turned on.
This will sound the buzzer and kick off any scene that is setup if the buzzer switch is turned on.
All my door sensors always try and turn on the buzzer switch but can only do so if the alarm switch is on and supplying power to the buzzer switch. Allowing me to arm or disarm the buzzer by turning on or off the alarm switch.
Recon you can also have a scene to insult a burglar only when the buzzer switch is turned on. In my case all lights are switched on.
I have done this in HomeAssistant but recon it should be possible without.
Hope it helped.
Hey Paul I’ve been playing with NFC stickers to trigger different automations and one that I think it’s kind of interesting is putting an NFC sticker underneath a switch plate near the front door because it goes underneath the plastic switch plate is totally hidden nobody would even know would even be able to find it if they knew where it was in a lot of times but you taking wave your phone over at the NFC captures at action and triggers she who shall not be named to do something in your home
You will be glad to know that you have become part of my Smart Home! Noticing you had an indoor sensor under cover at your front door, I moved my Shelly sensor out, too. Now, when it senses movement at my front door & drive it says “Paul Hibbert has sensed a Wanker approaching.” (Also, thanks for telling me how to get Lady A to say ‘Wanker’ as well as the F-word!) You are the best!! (No matter what those trolls say!)
I'm honoured 🤣
I did something very similar but it was much easier with HOMEASSISTANT, HOMEASSISTANT, HOMEASSISTANT! I call mine "level red".
How will you get wify to activate the alarm when she leave (and you already are away from home)?
I set up an auto-activation based on motion sensors combined with some wall plug energy readings (TV, computer monitors etc).
AAAA VERY GOOD SIR .
BUT WHAT IF YOU HAVE A POWER CUT OR IF YOUR INTERNET GOES DOWN. MMMM WARNING THE SYSTEM WILL SELF DISTRUCT IN 60 SECOUNDS ??????? LOL 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
Ι cried at the metal gear solid sound of mr socky!
And the only way someone could beat your security is if they somehow had a high quality recording of the disarm code being spoken in your voice, but where would they find that on the internet!?
What an extension last year and after removing and skipping the old back door, they found the new doors wouldn't lock. This was late one evening. I quickly used a normal motion sensor pointing at the back doors, with a siren and announce all trigger. Poor workmen when they returned the next morning
My daughter has dreams of becoming a popular UA-cam creator, the first thing I did was to point her to your videos.
I couldn't understand at first the "Mr. Socky has been released" phrase and heard "Mr. Sucky has been released" which also makes sense with the robo vacuum...and to be honest hearing "Mr. Sucky" would scare me even more.
ooooooo.... zigbee light strip on the front of the house .... need this!
LoL when the curtains opened It felt like a highish pitched guy should say 'allo' just before they finished opening
Some other tips...
- You need presence detection for the courier situation, and only trigger if not home.
- Use the siren when the lights get 'switched off' by unwanted fingers and that then only happens once more.
- Mine has freaked me out a couple of times when the presence detection thought I had left because it also gives a verbal countdown warning (it's a home ass, but we don't need to talk about that)
Oh and I was expecting Reginald to get one back on the ad guy, guess I'll wait for the next one to see that ;)
(I think I've run out of thoughts, great video as always)
Come on Paul.... Forget your robovac.... You know you want Amazon's dystopian attack drone with laser beams to come out when your Star Trek Intruder Alert is activated! 🚁 😆🤣
Headline: Family of deceased burglar sues man who triggered robot cleaner to trip him down the stairs.
"But it was Mr Sockey" is not a defence. ;-)
Okay this was funny, imagine robbing a house and the curtains open 😂😂
Kevin Macalister would be proud. I wish this came out last month, I just did (milder) version. With tuya, euphy, iftt (to cross ecosystems), Alexa and Google assistant.
The crossing over the ecosystem was a brain scratcher using a proxy bulb, Alexa and iftt.
That's pretty much what I'm doing here to cross platforms! 🤣
Now all you need is an Amazon drone with a knife taped to it to fly into the burglar.
Great I just wish I had all the things to make it work.
My Mrs always tells Alexa to stop playing Planet Rock when I go out of the room.
I have now set flex with sensor on it in another room, when motion is sensed to tell Show 8 to say "Alexa play Planet Rock" then the Show 5 hears it and plays Planet rock ,So when she goes back Planet Rock is playing again
You’ve already told me how to let Lady A say ‘Wanker’! (And mine does when drive sensor detects motion. “There is a Wanker approaching. . .”)