8 Must-Have Smart Home Devices (for your Garage, Shop & Home)
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- Here's my favorite smart home devices I've added around my house, garage, and shop! Smart home automation can be a huge time saver. List of the of the devices I talked about in the video : amzn.to/3YuKIWV
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List of the of the devices I talked about in the video : amzn.to/3YuKIWV
What about Home Assistant
Eufy is not great, major privacy concerns, they have a history of mishandling data (lying about how it’s stored and used, and not encrypting live feeds of video). If you can, avoid it!
If something is free, you're the product. They're selling anything they can mine from your data.
You just described literally every smart home company. They are all absolutely terrible.
@@SvenTheMoose Yep, when it comes to cameras, I stick to Unifi, though it does price out the average consumer. They have great access control, doorbells, and cameras (wired & wireless), and it is all stored locally.
Blink Cameras (Amazon) are also decent; they store locally, free, without a subscription. But they do require a cloud connection for the app to work.. falling into a similar category as Eufy (though no scandals or major vulnerabilities have been made public... yet)
Don’t forget Home Assistant
Yes, it's literally all you should use. Luckily he said use Matter which also will work with Home Assistant. Don't vendor lock your house.
100%. Came to the comments to say the same
should be number one option
The horrible, generic name holds it back. And the versatility and customizability turns off users that want turnkey systems. HA could do with some real wizards for more common setup tasks. But it is far superior.
@@OscarSommerbo that's basically the common problem with Open source lol
the noobs complain that it doesn't assume everything for your and the pros will complain that the software assumes things and treats you as dumb XD
Booo on not including Home Assistant which is SOOOOO much better. I only use the Alexa for the voice stuff but it sends it all to HA to actually execute.
Very strange that you have said nothing about Home assistant, makes me think this is just an amazon add
Return the Eufy as fast as you can.
For real. Or maybe he likes strangers being able to see whatever his camera's see. I doubt it, but who knows. lol
Eufy is an unfortunate choice.
Very helpful video and a nice break!!!
Great video. You have a lot of tech in your workshop. Great channel.
Great info...thanks!
Pretty interesting stuff, Johnny! 😃
I think about putting some of those things here at home as well!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
We use ecobee thermostat with room sensors and smart ceiling fans. When a specific room gets warm, the fan can speed can be increased automatically to keep temperature balanced or can be controlled by the motion center in each ecobee room sensor. This means that the ceiling fans can be controlled by one thermostat profile.
We have the ecobee to balance temperature in rooms with people in them during the day and monitor the bedroom thermostat sensors (only) and adjust ceiling fans and AC/heat at night.
Also Leviton has great smart plugs and switches, they also have great customer service
Can you make a video of what kind of stuff you make in your shop? What keeps it open!? I've been curious
Why not Home Assistant? one ring to rule them all ;)
I use Amazon Alexas in each room to control lighting. I can even control down to the individual light using unique names for each light. No switches. It is all done on my home computer network with a Philips Hue bridge ($50 TO $70) dollars each needs only one for 50 devices. I have set up zones, floors, rooms. You name it you can do it. I also set up automations for light groups to turn on and off at various times. It took a while to get it set up but persistence paid off. I use all Philips Hue bulbs and only do lights and Alexas for the switches. One in each room. I am looking to do HVAC thermostats next.
I would steer away from EUFY for ANYTHING that is connected to the network as their parent company (Anker) is straight up lying about what they do with your personnal data.
I don't know how common this is with other environments, but at least most of my Zigbee stuff that uses mains power (lights, power plugs etc) act as routers on their own, since they always have power. So that reduces the need for extra hubs, I only have one single USB stick I use as a hub and then let the devices figure out the mesh routing on their own.
Make a video when you get the smart plug, dehumidifier, sensor set up.
Using smart switches for exterior lights and setting a schedule to turn them on just before sunset is something I highly recommend.
I was coming down to the comments to ask about seeing schedules on smart switches, which brand do you recommend?
There's only two thing that matters for smart home and iot-devices, and that's:
#1 establishing a VLAN intended only for IoT devices like termostats, lamps ect. with it's own wifi connections.
This will ensure that your devices don't talk on the same network, causing "congestion" remember, every device waits for the last speaker to finish talking, and these talk all the time.
#2 making sure your devices are up to date at regular intervals.
If you do these things properly, you are as safe as you can be from hackers and bot-nets that scan the internet for open ports to these devices for a shortcut into your network.
I'll add one more thing, don't buy ali-express or banggood android TV-boxes, they are rooted and many come with back doors and malware preapplied.
This is confirmed.
Came here to say this. Great tips.
🙌🏼 Congrats on 1M Subs.
Update on your Mr Cool? Bought a multi one myself for our home currently being renovated
Works excellent, I’ve been using their systems for probably 5 years between both shops and my tiny house.
can you pls help what do i need to make a battery powered AA micro speaker with 3.5 mm jack wired? i want to diy to make a speaker grip to my gameboy micro
Home Assistant and Hubitat too..
I have some Big Ass Fans. They integrate with Alexa, and voice is my primary means of fan control. I don't touch the remote. Hopefully they'll add HomeKit or Matter support at some point.
I do too and have been waiting for HomeKit integration for years. I tried integrating my fan through HOOBS with very buggy results unfortunately.
Something about having access to home or business through the internet irks me. I'd rather a key and an actual garage door opener. I can understand ease of access and letting people in and what not but not my cup of tea. Smart plugs/bulbs/switches is nice makes my life easier.
Convenience is the enemy of security. Anything that is more convenient very often comes at the expense of security. Using them for less mission critical things like lights is one thing, using them for locks on your home entry is… bad.
Another benefit of the Amazon system is the ability to use it as a intercom to other alexa devices, to video call (Echo Show series) and chat with other devices or people who have alexa devices or the app. Additionally the Echo show series cameras allow drop in capability so one can use them as additional monitoring points for one's spaces.
looks super hackeable hahaha
Can we talk about how telling Google/Alexa/Siri to yurn something on is not home automation.
Home automation means that things just happen.
20 apps to control everything is crazy. Why not use Home Assistant to connect them all together in 1 app
Informative video. But it's bad enough our phones spy on us, no way I'm making everything in my house "smart".
Hum... Thread does not help your wi-fi. It's a competing standard for wireless communication with a focus on not always connected devices. The only way it helps is by not having an equivalent device on Wi-Fi therefore reducing the number of devices overall on Wi-Fi.
Sorry, no 'smart' surveillance for me or my house.
Paying for control and surveillance devices voluntarily. Your government thanks you.
Ecosystem? I think you mean Geekosystem.
My complaint is these devices are way overpriced.
Its a great pity that US does not have the same requirements re gifted items or sponsored content.
What do you mean? I paid for everything I mentioned in this video.
You know I really liked your channel when you renovated the shop and built the backyard home. Now its like sharting down the hole. What in the world happened? Maybe the dealer is selling some bs. WOW. Just shart. YAHHHHHHHH😢
talk slower