Advanced Smart Home Dashboards Made EASY
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- It’s smart home dashboards time! Even if you have zero dashboard experience, I will show you how to get up and running with everything you need. It’s easier than you might think! Plus I’ll show you what my own dashboard looks like.
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0:00 Intro
0:42 SmartThings
3:54 HomeKit
4:46 Home Assistant
8:31 Out of the box
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Disclaimer: Smart Home Solver was sent some of the products in this video for previous unbiased reviews. As always, our opinions are 100% our own and not influenced.
Thumbs up for Jimmy Hawkins for sharing his setup! Go follow him www.flowcode.com/page/automated_house
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Hi Reed,
Can u get the wallpanel app on apple iOS?
Does JH have a youtube channel?
Jimmy's setup was ugly af
Jimmy’s sweet on Elaine; Jimmy LOVES the Velvet Fog!
Tip: @05:15 I'd recommend connecting the charging station to a smart plug/socket.
On a 15 minute automation check if the tablet >80-90% full and switch off the charger.
Then (/15min) if the tablet is
Jeebus that sounds terrifying! Thanks for the tip. I was gonna plug in an old iPad 24/7. I will reevaluate.
Lipo batteries are best stored and last longer at 50% charge, so a smart plug that keeps it between 47-52% is ideal
Reed, great video, as always! Thanks so much for the shout out.
Having a smart home dashboard is really cool. I love having that "birds eye" view of everything at a glance... especially late at night or early in the morning when I may not want to use smart speakers to control things. My kid has also used it. I have found my daughter using the wall-mounted iPad to make FaceTime calls to grandma in the past lol.
I appreciate it Shane! When I was researching for this video I came across your dashboard video again and I was like dang there is no way I can come close to your video with HomeKit. That’s a great use case for FaceTime calls as well!
@@SmartHomeSolver I have Alexa echo shows but ai want the dashboard as well. Can I use a fire table or even mount the show into the wall?
I just started down the Home Assistant road and im having sooooo much fun!
Hey Erik, is it cost effective?
@@kossiscott1002 Home Assistant is free! And fun to use if you have the patience
If Paul is going to complain about how much hue cost, he is going to love brilliant... 99% sure it's going to be my next smart home add-on.
This is great. I am thinking about moving everything over to HomeKit so I can use that for iPad/wall installation.
Hey, I have been watching you for a while and just subbed because I want to see what you do with your new home.
My home is 88 years old and has come a long way since I bought it. I plan to sell it as a smart home when I finish rehabbing it soon. Before this happens I want to add at least one dashboard.
I can relate to the excitement you had when you got a function to show up on your dashboard and your wife was like "oh, how exciting". I recently added a smart switch on my furnace power so I can turn it off while I wash my filters without having to go in the basement. I love that I get notifications on my watch if the furnace has no power or heat tape on my water meter has not come on when the outside temperature dips below 33 degrees. The water meter is in an unheated space and to move it will cost hundreds of dollars so as of now it is automatically controlled and I don't have to worry if it will freeze and cost me more money to fix it. If I am curious about it when the outside temperature dips to 33 degrees, I just ask Alexa what the heat tape temperature is. Otherwise I get a push notification that the heat tape has come on right on my watch.
People who are on the outside do not understand that it is not just convenience, but necessity to be able to control so much that not only makes it easy on you to have smart devices. It saves your time and money to have the most efficient home. When I first got my home it cost $800 per month in energy during winter & now I spend 20% of similar homes in my area on energy. The value has increased by five times what I paid for it & have invested in to it. The fact that it is full on smart, will help sell it too ( I hope).
Holy cow, that floorplan view at 7:33 is awesome (if it actually does what I think it does).
The Sandlot!! Well played sir
Dude, my wife just gave me that same look when I showed her the video...Lol.
Great presentation!
Always love your videos. Full of good information and dad humor. I like that you include your family in the fun & jokes.
Good stuff as always.
Thanks Gary!
I have an iPad (OR an old Kindle!) I'd LOVE to use for a home dashboard! I have a couple Google mini's in the house. The Echobee thermostat, which has Alexa. I have a couple Wyze cameras. I have some WEMO plugs, with lights plugged in. I have some Philips Hue smart bulbs/lights. Samsung smart TV. XBOX...THAT'S where everything stops for me. I HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO GET EVERYTHING WORKING TOGETHER!! 🤣😂🤪😜 Just stumbled across your video. So I plan on watching a LOT more!
Great video. Yours is one of my fav channels. Also I like how you recommended Shane’s channel as well as my other favorite channel.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra 14.6"
I can't wait to see what you do with that tablet huge tablet. I think it's going to be an amazing home screen.
I just got into HA as well. Unfortunately I installed some integrations that aren't letting it start properly anymore and I'm now kind of stumped on how to troubleshoot it. Thing is definitely a labor of love!!
I've been waiting for this video for SOOO LONG!
I had seen one set up with a PI behind a bathroom 2 way mirror. It was super cool. I think I'd like this in my master bathroom so I can look at everyone's calendars and the weather and everything while getting ready. I'm definitely going to make one of these.
The reason I love out-of-the-box solutions is if one device should fail a few years later I know I can just replace it with a new one rather than remembering what I did to get the device working with HA. Case in point I set up a computer with cameras and one failed after a couple of years and I ordered a replacement and was off and running in few hours.
Really like the status icons for door locks and garage doors. I rigged up a similar status report using night lights. This is a much more elegant solution.
I'm using an iPort mount with buttons bezel with an iPad mini 4 on the wall. It's the most beautiful frame i found and it has 10 physical buttons you can program them as you wish. I use Roomie remote app for these buttons. The good thing is that you can create different Activities and you can use these 10 buttons for multiple purposes based the activity you have selected. The iPad mini 4 itself has Homekit as a dashboard which i think is beautiful, easy to use with all devices separated by rooms and it's very fast. All my smart devices are appearing to this dashboard after setting up the non compatible by using Homebridge on a Raspberry Pi. Remote access for all my accessories using an Apple Tv gen 4 as the main hub of homekit. Love from Greece.
I'm still looking for an explanation on how to get started from the beginning, ie. What is the URL all about, and what else do you need to do to get up and going.
What setup do you recommend for Airbnb rentals where you don't want anyone poking around the settings? I use Samsung smarthings and z-wave devices for sensors, etc. Also want to be able to have the video feed from my Dash to automatically display on the screen when someone rings the bell. Other functions to control lights, a Sonos player to play pre-defined music/playlists from Spotify, turn on z-wave devices around the home, etc. Thanks!
Well, that’s just great 😩 Now I can’t live without that camera sense feature, geez thanks Reed 🤬🤣
I too am building a new house and want to set up a smart home. Start off basic. Some lights, switches, cameras, doorbell, locks, garage door remote. I can't wait for new home tutorials.
The part I struggle with, is knowing what to get. I currently have multiple Amazon Alexas and 1 Google mini, smart things mesh (but have never used it) I'd like to keep the number of apps limited and have most things integrated. Can you create an updated "all in one getting started video"
Thanks!
It's always great fun when you interact with your family in these videos. :-)
Looking excellent and really in depth my only concern that may be missing would be having the devices' child-friendly and safe (partially locked) to stop sticky fingers playing with your connected devices.
wow best video ever on that subjet, very thx sir
k - I just got the notification for this video WHILE I was currently investigating exactly this stuff for my Hubitat. Smart Home Solver indeed...
Great Stuff man! I hope to start up my home automation soon. Thanks!
Hi Reed,
Can u get the wallpanel app on apple iOS?
Question please, what is the best Dashboard to work with Home assistant?
You always seem to time your videos perfectly for me! About to move house and change my setup to HA. Thanks for the tips, especially editing the demo dashboards - didn't know that one!
Excellent video, I wish I had thought about a wall mounted iPad when we built our house a couple of years ago. Luckily the basement is unfinished so we can access wiring. Love the end, Your daughter definitely wins! Lol
Not sure if you have a video or instructions of how Jimmy got Dakboard to switch to Sharptools when it senses motion. Great video by the way!
New to this smart system i am overwelmed i gotta do this step by step is there a a good place to learn about this ?
If you use chrome you can make a simple plugin for kiosk mode. Its only a couple of files.
Love the quote from the Sandlot!!!
Hi you you are so smart and full of knowledge but dont you think you are talking so fast for other people that for first time they are listeni g to these su jects. Consider it in your next video . Thanks. This has been best video about home automation i have seen by FAR.
Did I miss the hone assistant setup video? I’d love to see how you got to where you can use the tablet to control your smart home products. I feel like this is my next adventure down the rabbit hole
oh man, crestron does it all.
Love that you are getting into home assistant:) going to get that fire tablet too!
Hi friend, i´m a follower from Brasil, tanks for the tips and tricks, you help us a lot!
I love your comedy cut aways 🤣🤣
I don't know where to start 🤣 Thinking the new Fire Tablet? Mainly want to control Alexa Rountines, use Sonos system, use Hue lights and be able to see time, date, weather etc. Any advice? Kind of a newbie lol.
is it possible to use an echoshow to do this???
I recently started doing my research on smart homes. And your videos are really interesting and engaging. Can't stop watching.
I don't know if you can help with this. I live in an apartment and I want to make it smart without removing or modifying any original things that comes with the apartment. E.g. switch, blind, and lights. I've been doing research on sensors to make my switch smart. But I'm kinda in the loop. I use Alexa echo 4th gen.. I'll appreciate if you can give me a solution. Thanks
So is home assistant an app you download or a website? How do you begin for a first timer. After buying all my smart bulbs lights and everything, what do I need to get home assistant
I do enjoy having my iPad as a control hub for all of my HomeKit accessories and scenes. She’s also got some pretty awesome content I have to admit!
We need a regular series Wife vs Smart home guy!
Hello! What’s the table lamp you have behind you? (With the Phillips Hue (I guess) lamp)
What’s your opinion on power over Ethernet for lighting
Is there a delay before the screen saver on the Fire tablet switches? If not, how can you ever read the weather info?
Is there any way you could make a video on how to use the Phillips Hugh motion detector to turn on and off the wall mounted iPad display. Thank you so much
I have been wanting to do a dashboard. Great vid! Love your content!
I just recently switched my phone to a Samsung S10+ and I'm really wanting to get more into SmartThings, I wonder if this would be possible using a Samsung Tablet....... O and YOU'RE KILLING ME SMALLS!!!
Aloha! Great and awesome video. Very knowledgeable to what I want to do for my home light situation. Love the dashboard on the tablet but I’m wondering if you can give me advice to HOW to make my current normal home light switch to digital like on the tablet??? You showed only a tablet plugged into a outlet. How would I convert my light switch to digital like how it controlled on the tablet. Thank you in advance.
Awesome setup! Btw Reed, give that sweet baby her ipad back... lol. 😃
Domoticz is another dashboard. If you combine dashtics with domoticz then you get even more customization
The sandlot awesome movie knew instantly haha
I've started watching more and more of your videos now that I'm a homeowner. Great content!
Video is amazing. I really like smart home dashboards but I think they are for people with lots of devices and if you a beginner it is not the best option. But this is only my opinion. I love you content.
Thanks Nikolay! Yeah if you only had a few smart devices a dashboard may not be necessary but they make controlling smart lights really convenient. So even if you had a few smart lights, a calendar, to do list...etc it might be worth it.
Great!!! How about adding a Soulaca bathroom TV into this system?
WallPanel app isn't working anymore for some reason; and is there an apple version of it?
Can I use an Alexa ready Insignia TV as a dashboard with inhome visual intercom function?
Great ideas 👌🏽 will implement in my ecos
Is smartthings working with Nest products??
I can relate to the interaction with your wife about your exciting dashboard! 😂
That was really cool! I have been waiting for this video for a long time!
Can something like hubitat connect my singled and lumary lights or do those stay connected through alexa and hubitat connects to alexa?
Brilliant out-of-the-box dashboard, cannot find any product reference or website???
Hello. Can you suggest any other ways to host the home assistant, because my budget is not enough to buy raspberry pi but i have ton of old pcs i could use, how could i install home assistant on one or what other device/service i could use
I've had a weird problem with the Wallpanel app on my tablet. I have it set of the default home app, and it's set to screensaver mode so the screen never turns off. It works fine but every three days or so I find the screen off and when I turn it back on it's popped up again asking if I want to always use Wallpanel for the home app or just open it once. I hit always, and then a few days later it does it again.
What is your smart shades that you have
Best budget tablet to use?
Do you have a link for the simple black lamp you have in the corner of your desk?
I'm in that clip!!
TBH i wish you would of made video including home assistant a while back. I just recently found out about it a month ago and its 100x better than whatever is out there. BUT what does means is I can not wait until you make more videos about HA. Yes I think you channel is for more general consumers but trust me, you will find a niche for advance users
HA has gotten much more user friendly recently so it’s become easier to use and recommend. I will mix in more advanced videos though.
Just found out of Home Assistant Cast, where you can cast a dashboard to your Nest Hub. Not sure how well it works though yet
I wonder, do you know a way to only see the thermostat temp and use that as a sort of ambient mode/AOD? I don't have a tablet or anything yet, so feel free to recommend anything.
Should we remove the battery from the tablet?
so much fun. need to do this ASAP
When we using gateway, is smarthome automatitation could working when internet off?
Can I use Alexa with home assistant?
It is a pity that all this work stops working when there are problems with the internet.
hey if i were to get a smart led rgb bulb what should i get i strictly want color, the brightest and the clearest color no white and i would want something cost efficient.
Hi R, do you have any ideas for a smart bathroom ( esp in rental) ?
You should try out the lutron ra2 system. That way you can have physical buttons that trigger scenes.
Great video man, got some really good ideas.
any thoughts on the brilliant smart home control? is it worth the price?
Hi, is it possible to connect the Sonoff switches with the Philips Hue bridge??
What smart temperature sensors are you using? I am trying to do this dashboard and put some of those sensors around my house please and thank you
Sounds nice, Reed. I’m interested in something that doesn’t have to go out to the internet. Something like a Intranet. Any ideas?
haha, i love all the non-expected fun stuff 4:00
Yea, that scene at the very end is way too familiar for me. What a sense of defeat after all that hard work lol
It doesn't take those kids long to figure out does it. The first thing my kids did with the nest hub max was find cocomelon.
Does anyone know if smart home solver has ever talked about the lifx beam or nanoleaf? I value his opinion cause I feel he gives an honest review on smart home thing. But just curious if he talked about them I know they have been out for a little while.
Is there any option for Mi Home ecosystem on Windows?
Which cameras does the amazon fire tablet builtin dashboard support? I want to know if the Blink xt2 is supported because it is not supported on the amazon alexa app dashboard for live viewing but the ring camera is.
Exactly what my son's do, he figures out how to watch youtube on any smart screen/tablet 😂.
Really curious on your diy batman signal light. What lamp is it? Or is there a vid on how you made your diy lamp?
It’s an IKEA ps 2017 table lamp that has been recently discontinued unfortunately. I put a LIFX light inside and cut out a bat signal.