I'm building a new smart home
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2022
- I bought a house, and I'm gonna smarten it up! If you're looking to build a new smart home in 2023, or level up your existing home automations, then subscribe to the channel and come along for the ride!
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I may humbly suggest an additional requirement if not a hard one: The stuff added to the house should not be an issue when it is time to sell it some day.
That's a very good requirement actually!
I struggle with this one a lot. A similar one: what should my wife do with the stuff if I die?
@@PersonXes Im fucked then. If a battery needs changing she calls for me 😂🤷♂
I am very aligned to your philosophy, goals and plans. Looking forward to a lot of great videos in 2023!
Congratulations on you new home Alan. Can’t wait to go on the ride with you. 👍🏻
Look forward to watching you build out your new smart home. Congrats on the new home.
Congratulations on the new home. We are also finishing a new home build. Looking forward to joining you on the home automation discovery trek.
Hi, can't wait for the new videos, I suppose you will have a very enjoyable 2023 tinkering on your new home. :)
Awesome!
I live in the Philippines where my local ISP boasts an 80% uptime on their adverts, yes they really put that on there!
I was getting ready to setup my old laptop as a dedicated home assistant with offline support when I found your channel here.
Looking forward seeing what you're setting up!
Portainer is great but I wouldn’t use it to create your containers. There is no way of exporting the configuration and moving it to another machine. I would at least create individual Docker Compose files each container but would also consider Ansible. You can use it to set up the host and create tasks for each container.
I’ll be watching with interest.. I’m building a house next year and will be thinking about many of the same things - as well as thinking through the decisions that are best made while the house is under construction like what sort of wiring to run where.
Very much looking forward to this! Congrats on the new house :)
Hey exciting! Good luck.
This sounds like a great series. Just what I’m looking for. Thank you.
Hope you enjoy it!
Another thumbs up for PVE. I run it with a docker vm aswell cant fault it
Cool, Best of luck and will enjoy the journey in learning and see how it will workout
Really awesome! For sure I’ll follow them all along
Using PVE personally and im exited for you to experience that! One thing that i am hoping that you will do is outlining the cost of everything so people can get an idea of what level of home automation they can afford.
Congrats! This is going to be awesome. A suggestion - as much as possible, have devices be hardwired (at least for power) - so you don't have to deal with dreaded batteries.
Absolutely spot on strategy and one i personally aim for too! A Smart home should be as transparent as possible without the need for manual intervention and i look forward to seeing your journey! :)
Thank you! 🙏
Glad UA-cam recommended this video. I'm am techy but the only smart tech I got in my house are some smart plugs to automatically turn on and turn off some devices for electricity usage control. This video is timely as I am thinking about Smart home but got no idea what to do. Your 4 points for a smart home is spot on and makes 100% sense. Sub'd and looking forward to learn.
Congratulations, I'm anxious to follow along your journey
Thanks. Looking forward to your new smart home journey.
Me too! Thank you!
congrats on the new house and new project :)
I am along for the ride Allen...😀 I have my HA on a Proxmox server (HP Elite Mini) for the last 2 years...and I am ready to take it to the next level, rather than just voice assistant, but an actual "smart" home that runs... looking forward to following you...
Can’t wait for this!
Great plans! I look forward to seeing your journey!
It's gonna be a lot of fun! Let me know if you see any things I could improve
I love this idea and I'm so ready for your journey!!
I hope (and think) you'll be too!
Buying a house just so you can start a home automation project from scratch... 🤯 You're the man! I appreciate how you think about home automation and the information and pacing of your videos. Can't wait to dive right into your new series. Good luck with everything!
Thank you!
Congrats man
Congrats with your new home!. Really excited to follow this project as I'm hoping to make a similar journey here in the UK in the next year or so
Thank you!
cant wait for it! thanks from brazil!
Thanks for the kind words!
Awesome advice. This is what I've been doing pretty much to a T since I moved over to Home Assistant. I began with just smart bulbs, but now I've swapped over to ZigBee light switches and most of my other devices like curtain drivers, roller shade drivers, smart plugs, etc. are all ZigBee based.
Performance of all of these devices has been phenomenal and I've had little to no connectivity issues (touch wood).
Absolutely! My zigbee network has been rock solid in my current house!
Can you do an updated video on home assistant lighting, trigger ids, choose etc. Looking for an automation where everything is in one automation - ie it turns on and off with motion/no motion in the same automation. I understand triggerids have changed recently so an updated one would be good as new people coming to HA all the time and sometimes the UI has changed due to recent updates compared to the tutorial videos of even a few months ago.
Sounds like fun, congrats on your new home btw
Thank you! 🙏
5. Hardwire as many devices as possible, you’ll thank me! Looking forward to the new videos!
That's definitely part of it 😉
Nice Alan, we've just purchased our first house together and already starting the home automation journey - I'll be following all your videos. Even have enough space for a rack!
Congratulations! All the best getting it kitted out and set up - it's a fun ride!
Nice one, HAG. Congratulations on your move. Greenfield home. I like it. I'm looking forward to the epic journey. While the device and system strategy is the starting point do give some consideration to providing plenty of detail on the Docker and ESP initiatives, which is a leap many would like to take.
I'll be sure to do that! Thanks for the kind words!
Can't wait to see what you do!
I'm new here and found you after trying to figure out what Frigate does ... after going down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out a good non-RPi system to install Home Assistant. I've used Home Assistant in the past but found it to be redundant because I use an Abode Home Automation and Security System. Now I'm looking to use Home Assistant to automate my Elgato Key Light Air lights on a schedule to make sure I'm getting light into my eyes after watching MedCram's video: Sunlight: Optimize Health and Immunity (Light Therapy and Melatonin).
I wouldn’t be in a hurry to jettison docker.
Congratulations with your new home Allen, i am looking forward to see how your setup in proxmox will work out.
At the moment i am also experimenting with proxmox!
Can't wait !!
Looking forward to it.
Me too, thank you!
Can’t wait to see how your automation system reads people’s minds 😊
Subscribed 👍
Very much looking forward to the smart panel videos, NSPanel never really quite delivered.
Congrats! This is going to be awesome!
And probably excessive 😂
@@HomeAutomationGuy From someone that regular over complicates smart home stuff just to make it smarter I’m sure it’s the only way to go!
Very much looking forward to your future planned videos. I'll be watching all of them. Totally agree with your aims for a smart home.
By the way, your production values are highly appreciated. Very small point - I wonder if I can hear a bit too much noise reduction on your voice.
Seems likely, I'll try and work on that. Thanks for letting me know, I have very little idea of how to make my audio better and there's a ton of echo in this "recording studio" (Which doubles as my spare bedroom, office and currently is full of moving boxes)
I am keen as man let’s do this!
This is a channel I am definitively going to follow as I am in the design process of making my home smarter myself (and I am also an IT nerd with a serious unifi setup in my basement)
Welcome along!
I am also starting from scratch in a new home. I am looking forward to your content!
Thank you!
Looking forward to learning together. I’m greenfielding my smart home too so it’ll be interesting to bounce ideas back and forth.
Please do! I've learned so much from the comments on my videos!
I'd highly recommend permanent "Christmas" lights to leave up year round. Doesn't have to be music synced or anything, just something easy to customize by month / seasons.
I'll be looking at using WLED for something like this later next year.
@@HomeAutomationGuy awesome!! I look forward to seeing what you do.
Hi, Alan. I really like your channel and have subscribed to it. I've just discovered Home Assistant and want to use it, at least initially, for smart circadian lighting for a house I'm remodeling in Mexico. I'm 72 and it seems that a good circadian lighting system would help me get better sleep. I saw your video on Circadian lighting, but I think that using information about current ambient lighting would be an improvement over just time of day and whether it's after or before sunset. Anyway, I came across the STM VD6283TX45. I think it would be a good sensor to incorporate into Home Assistant, but I don't know anything about how to actually work with sensors. Could you make a video to explain this? BTW, I also like Everything Smart Home. I really like the videos that you two guys put out. If you can make a sensor video, then thanks. It you can't, then thanks anyway for a great channel. I've learned a lot,
One might surmise from your mention of Proxmox that you're at least considering moving away from your Linux/Docker environment for Home Assistant to running the HA OS on a VM? I've been thinking about that as well, but how to deal with Frigate has some challenges, since it doesn't play well with Proxmox. In my case, even though as you've pointed out earlier, it's possible to replicate most of the big HA integrations with Docker, there are still a few niggling instances where the full HA OS stack would be a bit easier to live with (plus there are all the advantages of Proxmox for management). Maybe a hybrid Proxmox/Docker environment built on a couple or three hardware platforms...hmmmm.... I've been following your journey and experiences with automation and looking forward to your adventures going forward. Cheers!
congratulations man! buying houses is such a stress!
i highly recommend fitting smart trvs to as many radiators as you can, i managed to get 11 off ali express for £210 delivered.
i have a daily schedule for each radiator to adjust it's target temperature 7 times per day.
I experimented and disabled the routines controlling them and compared it to the previous day (similar temp weather)
i had to triple check the results.
Apparently leaving all my radiators set to a dumb '21' degrees used 42% more energy than selectively adjusting them using my routine.
yes. 42%.....
I don't have radiators, I've got underfloor heating, so I'll be using smart thermostats to control the zones. But I was essentially thinking of doing something similar to you though - there's no point heating the bedroom during work hours, or the offices during the night. I also don't need to heat the guest room unless "Guest Mode" is on and we have people staying over.
Will be fun to try different routines and use Home Assistant's Whole Home Energy monitoring to get daily feedback and data to adjust my schedules!
Can you make a video on failover setup, which means that if one home assistant fails a second server takes over?
Most important thing… it needs to add value! There are many useless automations. And would be nice to present the ROI/TCO/business case as well
Hi HAG,
Greetings from down under!
I'm looking forward to these videos as this is something (server, home automations etc) I'd also like to do in my house. I'll be interested to see how much you'll be hard wiring and how much you'll be relying on non-wired sensors.
Keep up the good work
Thank you! I'll be trying to wire a lot in
The channel is exactly what I’m looking for. But that Adam’s Apple is really making me feel uneasy….
I shall get it seen to at once random internet commenter!
Can't wait to find out if there are any cats around the new house. "This week we set up a new system involving a Kärcher..."
😂
Just don't tell the Mrs how much you have spent on that lot 😂
I'd be interested to see the power consumption of a rackmount server vs other lower powered solutions vs the capabilities of the devices.
These days energy costs are reallly important to take into consideration when designing smart homes.
I've just discovered ur channel while I was checking the option to run home assistant on docker. What do you think about hubitat? Any plans to make comparisons between gateways/hubs?
Super excited to see more on ur project, wish u all success 👍👍
I've personally never used Hubitat so I don't really have any opinions on it. Looks like a great system though!
I really like Proxmox! I run HA in this setup, Also a lot of other servers on the same Proxmox system. Went from 6 hardware systems (physical servers) to two Proxmox servers.
Congrats on your new home! I am in the process of renovating both my home and my IT-stuff [data-server, HA-server, CNC-automation, home network]. I recently briefly ran into an IT-specialist who suggested / warned me to spend time making sure of my network security. He recommended to set up a [few] VLAN[s] 'to separate things out and make things less likely to be 'at risk'. Q: What are you currently doing to keep things safe. What will you be doing / changing in your new home / setup to make sure things are kept private???
Take a look at my two Smart Home Networking Security vidoes here. I'll be following these same guidelines in the new house, maybe adding a third network for my security cameras
ua-cam.com/video/GeQrtH1v174/v-deo.html
@@HomeAutomationGuy Thanks, I'll have a look.
Which Shelly do you have?
I'm so excited! Can't wait for the actual videos to come out. I've just recently started tinkering with home assistant on proxmox and I'm still mostly looking what devices should I buy rather than trying to automate existing things :D This will be a perfect series for me!
By the way, did you also buy Shelly 3EM? Might come handy in future.
Thank you! I just have the Shelly EMs, not the 3EM. But I will look into them too!
@@HomeAutomationGuy i think the shelly pro 4pm is worth a look too.
I'm right now about to install a heat pump with fan coils, but I'm surprised I can't find any fan coil with Wi-Fi or any other wireless technology!
How am I supposed to heat/cool my home remotely and set different temperature targets per room?
I hope you'll share a solution for that.
Im excited!
Me too!
@@HomeAutomationGuy I bet you feel like it’s Christmas 🤣
Would like to see you build your own devices also. My system is mobile off grid so none of it ever in the cloud. It is also all 12 volt so very little is available off the shelf and is quite easy to DIY.
Stay tuned!
Hi, just wonder if it possible to manage two smart home remotely? Like my grandparents house and mine
I have implemented some of what you mentioned already. One concern I have is related to my spouse's ability to continue to benefit from this tech if I were to pass unexpectedly. I'm the tech person, she isn't. How long before something breaks and she's not able to continue using the tech because she can't troubleshoot it? These technologies are largely still in a tinker stage and each person's implementation is highly customized. My spouse would be faced with having to un-automate the home. I had a career in IT and my employer spent substantial effort on succession planning. I guess this scenario I've raised in this comment is the same thing. I could document everything I've implemented but there still has to be someone with expertise in various products to give my spouse the help she might need in my absence.
That's a fair concern, good point. Hopefully things like using smart switches and thermostats that still function without their smart home brain mean that they can keep being used in that situation
I would love to have a quadruple smart switch. Either glass or button version. So i could change my standard light switches, as I have if you turn the light on, then switch it off using some smart tech (phone), and that the button is misaligned..
I 100% agree. I hate seeing light switches that are actually on but look like they're off!
Heatmister make a bridge to connect that old thermostat to your network
I did not know that until recently! I will definitely be checking it out
@@HomeAutomationGuy I recently brought a home with 11 of them, so was keen to try the bridge. The app is ok and it supports HomeKit. Their is an API and Home Assistant plug-in but not tried that yet.
When will you be publishing the first video of this series? Thanks.
After the holidays, in January 2023.
which video do you suggest to start with? Did you start with the Hub or the network?
Take a look at the playlist on my UA-cam channel page. I tried to put them in a sensible order
1:00 what lighting and app are you using to dim that lightbulb manually and via app? Is this on a different video of yours??? So interested
I'm using Home Assistant and that is a Candeo Zigbee dimmer switch. Take a look at my smart light switch video for more info
why no KNX for the base? itˋs solid and you have a an adapter for nearly all other system…
What are you going to do with the non-pro NSPanel at the beginning, using it with NsPanel Lovelace UI Firmware?
I don't know. Sonoff sent it to me to test out and I was disappointed by the build quality of the physical buttons, so I wasn't planning on using it
Hey Alan. I'm currently building myself a new home and we're framing right now. I'd love to be able to build out my house as you've described in this video but I can't wait for your videos to come out. What can I do?
What a great project, congratulations! This is what I suggest:
1. Make sure you have channels in the walls that you can use to pull cables to different rooms later on. I would suggest running Cat6 network cables to a central location so you can put all your networking in one place.
2. Run neutral wires to all your light switches if you can, this gives you greater flexibility when choosing smart light switches later on.
3. Make sure there is lots of room in your back boxes to put bigger fatter light switches or relay devices later on.
Most devices you can retrofit later, and most things use some sort of wireless technology so I'd just make sure that you've got a solid home network that is both wired and Wifi.
@@HomeAutomationGuy Thank you so much for the reply. I'll be sure to give these suggestions to my low voltage contractor. They are experienced in designing smart homes so hopefully they're familiar with the concepts in this video. It's exactly what I'm looking for.
Which heatmiser thermostats are those they look like neostat, which aren't dumb. They are zigbee, ( I'm yet to try get them on z2m) although they work locally on the homekit integration if you have the neohub. Also have a hacs cloud based integration
I don't have a neoHub and they don't seem to talk to anything other than a UH4 heating manifold thingie.
@@HomeAutomationGuy where can we discuss this in more detail? I have the heatmiser system and it's great.
(I cant post much more here because youtube remove links etc)
Thank you! It would be great if you could send me an email. My email address is listed on my channel page.
@@HomeAutomationGuy I sent you a DM on twitter with some details instead, I'm not really an email person. Hope that's ok
Your need to look at yolink they can be local too
My recommendation based on watching Linus Tips that don't have too many wireless protocols mixed which might give you headache with the interference with each other
Congrats on new house, I will definitely watch the series. I have at my cottage and at home Home assistant running. Still feeling as noob to understand the complexity of home assistant. But awesome tool to get things done and no need to be dependent on cloud services or multiple apps.
First thing i would do is secure that electric box outside, otherwise anyone with the key can open it
I was wondering that. I've never seen a house with the meters just hanging around outside before. Are you allowed to lock them?
@@HomeAutomationGuy yea absolutely, it’s part of your property and potential risk
no, stop scrolling in the comments, seriously.
you haven't subscribed. that's a shame, if only you could fix that...
(srsly, this guy is hella talented, go ahead and click it)
Well thank you!
get rid of the awful looking cables on the outside of the house!
It's not that easy, they belong to the telecommunications company and I'm forbidden from touching them 😕
Hello
HI!
Started something similar year ago, and its not 'smart' at all. just a bit automated. All these devices are extremely stupid, sometimes the integration is not that simple. I would say we are years from having this technology accessible to most ppl if you are not techie. Good luck to you!
I'm hoping that these things keep getting easier and more accessible to a wider range of people
How old is This video? Because with matter around the corner why would you buy or invest in anything until we know where that is headed imagine having to repurchase items parts because you decided to stick with the old system.
I disagree.
Matter is already here, with the version 1.0 specification having been released in October 2022. That doesn't mean that Zigbee or Z-Wave stop working. Just because a new system is available doesn't stop the old system from working, and you can mix and match protocols like Zigbee and Thread in your home without huge issues
I am surprised that when you mentioned keeping things local you didn't make any mention of security or privacy
Very good goals for a smart home, I'm trying something similar, but not to that extend due to limited time. Therefore I'm focussing on heating (16 radiators, 3 floor heating) and the necessary time shedules for 4 adults with very different jobs and therefore very different shedules. My goal there: ideally neuer touch pne of the valves manually, have every room warm when needed and cool when not, balancing comfort and energy consumption (and thus money...). @homeautomationguy just ask if interested...
Damn, I wish I hadn't just migrated from a Pi to Proxmox - could have done with seeing you do it first!
Instead of Proxomx you should take a look at Unraid instead. ROCK SOLID and a lot other benefits !!!!