5 Smart Home Ideas You Really Should Have Thought Of
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- **Checkout Paperlike 2.1 here: www.paperlike.com/paul ** This video is all my favourite Smart Home ideas and how I implemented them. Can't believe I didn't think of some of these before!
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If you're looking for some really cool Smart Home ideas that work with Amazon Alexa, or Home Assistant, or in fact Google Home, or Apple Homekit then the same principles apply for most of these, and almost all of them can be implemented VERY cheaply and in some cases entirely for free!
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0:00 - Intro
0:48 - How To Connect Existing Outdoor Lights to Alexa
3:14 - How To Turn XBOX On Using A Contact Sensor & Alexa
6:13 - How To Track Your Family Using Home Assistant
8:07 - How To Stream ANY Doorbell To Your TV
10:50 - How To Use Flic Twist As A Light Switch
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**Checkout Paperlike 2.1 here: www.paperlike.com/paul ** Happy Saturday Everyone! This video is all my favourite Smart Home ideas and how I implemented them. Can't believe I didn't think of some of these before! What are your favourites? Enquiring minds need to know!
morning Paul 🌞🌞🌞🌞
Good morning Philips Hueeerrrggghhh🤮
@@paulhibbert still waiting for you to say you will genuinely
'love me forever' 😂😂😂
I do, it’s just a secret love
My mother in law is one of those "let me know when you get home" and totally does freak out when we forget. So I made a Home Assistant automation that utilizes the Gmail integration and it "emails" her number when we make it home after leaving her house, which shows up on her end as a text. This way, I don't have to have the HA Companion app running on her phone.
Similar to your "Neesha has arrived safely at work" automation, I've created Zones in Home Assistant for each of the hospitals in our city. Each member of our family has the Companion app on their phone, so I've created an automation that will alert us if someone enters one of those zones and stays for longer than 7 minutes (eliminates false positives if someone happens to drive past a hospital). I should mention that our children are all of driving age, so the fear is real. 😆
Maybe a G-Force sensor in the cars would be a little more pro-active. 😜
That has to be the only ad I've actually wanted to watch in years, great production levels, keep it up!
OH MAI GERD HE'S DEEEAAAAD!
Haha, thanks dude!
I got the geofencing notifications for me and my wife as well. We both receive a home assistant notification whenever we enter/leave home, our works and some other frequent visits. It saves us from separately sharing location or send a message we arrive.
Also, I've got a small overhead light right outside the entrance door. I have it set up to turn on whenever my wife or I arrive home after dark so we can open the door inside. It will turn off after the door has been closed for 5min. This light also turns on whenever we pass through the inside motion sensor and open the door in the nighttime. This serves to properly close home and to welcome guest into our home.
Next, we have a couple of automations that will turn on a small indoor water fountain from 7am to 11pm, only if either or both of us is home. If we both happen to leave home in this time slot, the fountain will turn off... And will turn on again when we arrive and open the front door (only if isn't past 11pm).
Finally, we leave our cat a small bulb that will only turn on when nobody's at home and is nighttime, and will turn off whenever we arrive home.
Big wall of text here, but I do love sharing my smart home automations!
Whoever wrote the comment about extended slapping, please get a life lol. I remember the extended slapping joke and it made me laugh… a lot (seriously)! Don’t stop being you Paul, you’re amazing!
Mega bonus points for using a Red Dwarf reference 🎉🎉
You have no idea how long I had to search UA-cam for the clip! I was like "It is NEEEDED for my video, where the heck is it??!"
@@paulhibbert for going to all that trouble all I can say is "What a guy" 😉
Two thumbs up for the use of an obscure Red Dwarf clip!
Admiral Sir James Tranter : If you're interested, I'll be in my quarters at lunchtime, covered in taramasalata.
Ace Rimmer : I didn't know your bread was buttered that side, Bongo.
Admiral Sir James Tranter : It isn't, I've been happily married for 35 years. It's just, a chap like you can turn a guy's head.
Ace Rimmer : I'm sorry, Bongo. Lunch is... on Mellie.
I kinda wish I lived near you so I could *ohhh the zigbee!* , just once, at the shops 😅
Great stuff! Thanks for the ideas
That was a fun video and some solid ideas! Thanks!
Paul here's one you might like, when my front door is opened within x-minutes of me returning home, Alexa greets me, gives me some updates on the house (like thermostat and robot vacuum last activity) and then asks "would you like me to get the PS5 ready for you?". If I say yes, Home Assistant switches on the PS5, the TV backlighting, IR candles and changes the TV to the right input. If I ignore or say no nothing happens. I did this using the Alexa Actionable notifications.
I've also used the same method to have Alexa heat up water in an electric kettle for tea. Makes the house feel like it's really "smart"
That flipping awesome!! I need to do this! 😳
I need a boil the kettle command on Alexa. Good idea.
@paulhibbert if you don't already have alexa actionable notifications just be warned it was kind of a bitch to set up. It could be easier now, who knows what's changed in the last year and a half. I think I watched a Mark Watt Tech tutorial. If you try it you gotta show us what you do with it!
This was a great video. I liked that you showed how to setup routines in the Alexa app.
Another great video 👌🏻
You inspired me to sort out my outdoor bulbs. You are 100% right - you forget about them as we're always so focused on inside. Trying out the Ajax bulbs with your affiliate links.
Me and my wife have the notifications when we get to work. Also, when we are near home so we know to move the car out of the drive to arrange who leaves earliest for work the next day. We also have "Husband has left the curry house. Expect farts"
That last automaton has blown me away
Your automation trumps mine.
@@paulhibbert Mike is on a streak since he had that curry
@@paulhibbert Is that a fart pun? Respect!
“Your wife and yourself”😜… sound very co-dependent 😂
Happy Saturday Paul. Thank you.
Happy Saturday Ron !
Watched your OG NFC tag video just before Christmas, loved it!
Informative and entertaining … brilliant presentation.
Thanks dude, means a lot!
A very easy routine I setup that I like is my “You’ve got mail” routine. Basically I put a contact sensor in my mailbox & setup and Alexa routine to announce in the house “You’ve got mail”, & a blue light turns on in my office incase I forget. Also I dont get those scary road runner cartoons anymore on Saturday mornings, been watching you for a few years on Saturdays. Lol
Love it!! 🥰
lol - did almost the same thing - I put a battery operated motion sensor in the mailbox -- I wanted to find the sound from the Addams Family. One of these days when I have more time :)
I could see that with a Ring Doorbell having the "Gong" & "You rang" from Lurch. LOL
@@blackmanxrjc
Thank you for another great video. I have used some of these and they work great in my home. Cannot wrap my head around the Flic quite yet, just does not seem to work with my setup yet. and at 65 I still watch Saturday morning funnies - just not the road runner anymore
Smart wifi lights are such a gateway drug
As always Great video this week Paul.
"I've made loads of really cool automations over the years.": Aside from the platform fan-boys who absolutely _must_ tell you what platform they're using and why you should be using it too, this is perhaps the most common way that home automation enthusiasts can cause their friends, relatives, and people standing in the grocery check-out to glaze over in the eyes and try to find some way of being anywhere else.
I'm not sure it's a full solution but I restrict myself to mentioning or showing one automation to folks who, for some reason I can't fathom are rather uninterested in home automation. It helps if they're the ones who bring it up.
On the other hand, the folks that are here are already interested in home automation (unless, of course, they're here for head's exploding and doing things on the fly.) So, they've tacitly given you permission to turn on the deluge of automation ideas.
Your videos often give me ideas of what I'd like to buy, but this one gave me ideas of automations I would find useful and could do myself. (So, mission accomplished. Good work.)
I have a set of automations that I'll mention that's about mid-level:
It's for lighting the back porch/deck. The standard operation is to turn the deck light on when motion is sensed and turn it off after there's no motion for two minutes, but only if it's between dusk and dawn. However, sometimes we sit outside on the deck, and I'd like the lights to stay on. So, I have a virtual switch that determines whether motion or lack thereof will switch the light. I've added one more automation that switches off the lights and turns motion triggering on at 11:30 pm in case I forget to turn the lights off or turn motion sensing back on.
Presence sensing with notifications: I do this too for the same reasons you mentioned. Home assistant lets you set up "zones," each with a location. I have an automation that lets my wife and I know when we arrive at and leave several common locations. This information also shows up on the dashboard so we can see where the other is at a glance. (It's sort of like Mama Wheazley's clock.)
Thanks again for some neat automation ideas. I'd like to see more of that.
Great to see a return to automation ideas video, the geofencing one is something my family use frequently. I like the game control one but need to think of alternative starters for non-gaming applications.
Love the videos Paul. Always great info. I’d be interested in the automation systems you use for outdoor lighting. You turned me on to the Aqara system from Hue and the routines work flawlessly, but not sure if their P1 is IP rated. A single eco system is also the way forward in my view especially when you take into account Alexa routines only work 2% of the time and I have no interest in home assistance. So a single ecosystem for outdoor motion that enables lights and opening doors to turn lights on would be amazing
FFS I just spat out my tea at the "abusing my self" gag 😂😂😂
“Why break the habit of a lifetime”…. Omfg, BRILLIANT!
Also, wonderful Paul, nothing ever happens to the roadrunner, it’s always that Coyote that gets the pain. 🤣
Wow these are great Paul. Loved the xbox controller idea.
Morning dude! Fully agree with you about sharing food!
Food is not to be shared, it’s unnatural!
@@paulhibbert the world is full of weirdos! I had overlooked automation number 1. Wonder how water proof the aqara motion sensor is?
Only suitable for ladies and tramps.
I hadn't realised you could type in commands to run, like show the front door cam on Fire TV. I've now set this up and it's awesome. Will have to think of more routines like this...
At 3:20 I love how it looked like an old phone!!!!
Loved all of the ideas. Thanks
Great video!
Thanks dude! ❤️
6:38 😂😂😂
Love the jab at Downing Street. Nice one. 👍🏻
Great video this week Paul. Idea for the door bell. My ring turns on my tv to show the feed, then if my LinknLink radar, yes I followed the link 😉, doesn’t detect anyone one in the Livingroom, or bedroom it turns that TV off. Lights to if they are on. I’m using all this to stop my kids leaving everything on ask the time. Working well so far.
i love gadgets just getting into sonoff and hence your video popped up on my youtube i don't understand half of what you said but man your humour cracked me up i haven't watched an informative video that made me laugh out loud before sufficed to say im subscribed and tick the bell
If you want to stop people pressing wall switches, a blanking plate will fit over them. I did this just using longer screws that hold the plate over the switches through the same screw holes.
Correct!
I'm most proud of automating keeping my girls in their room at night unless they need to go potty. Yes this has been one thing added on top of another.
First I started with a smart switch for their lights making it turn off if turned on between specific times. They found out that they could just have the light on before that time so they started going to bed early so they could stay up (you will find a lot of these are cat and mouse).
I then turned off the lights at a specific time and that worked for a while until they found a race condition when they turned the lights on and off quickly enough the lights wouldn't have enough time to respond and would see that the lights were off when they were on.
I then added a routine to check if the lights were on or off and turn them off if they are on. They of course found out it was easier to just set the switch to setup mode.
I then setup a routine to check if the switch was online and if it wasn't check if another switch on the same circuit was online and if it was turn off the power at the circuit breaker. I then set up a routine of the breaker if off in the morning turn it on. They started getting up and going to the bathroom and turning the lights on and playing in the bathroom.
I then setup the bathroom so the light only stays on for 10 minutes then turns on the fan for 5 minutes then turns the fan off (this happened throughout the day as well which helped save on electricity and water and paid for itself). I then setup the light so if it was offline it would be turned off at the circuit and the circuit would also be turned on in the morning. I also realized they were coming out into the main room to get items to play with so I put up a camera that can detect people. If a person comes into the main room through one zone and enters another zone then the camera will play a recording of me telling them to go back to their room. If the person is still there after a minute or moved into another room it will again tell them to go to bed and start counting down from 5 to 0. If it gets to 0 and someone is still visible on any cameras an announcement is made that we need to go handle putting the kids back to bed. Before they could figure out that not looking like a person would circumvent this i got a presence sensor that does the same thing and they haven't figured out how to defeat this one ... Yet
Sounds like your kids will be essential in defeating Skynet. Watch out for the Terminator.
The Flic Twist is pretty amazing, but it is still somewhat limited and its integrations, though you managed to pull off some pretty great automations.
For years I've been using wide clear packing tape over the paddle style switches we have here in the USA to prevent others in the house from turning off switches that power a smart bulb. Works quite well & easily reversible.
Plan on making a new automation to turn in relaxing dog music based on me and my fiancé's phone being away from more than 5 minutes.
I think the fur kids will partially enjoy that, or we may create 2 mini Amadeus's based on all the classical music they're likely to listen to 😅
Paul… I have a similar outdoor light to you (up and down gu10) but it has a PIR. If I put smart bulbs in there would it still function as a pir when not under any routines etc?
Expanding on the person tracking, I have multiple shopping lists in Home Assistant and zones setup for the relevant shop. This way I get a notification for each place which links to the correct shopping list. Just today I went to the hardware store and was automatically sent the shopping list notification.
Love the Red Dwarf shirt. Have one myself
I'm amazed how many people have got the reference! ♥️
Morning Sir, happy Saturday!
Happy Saturday dude! Hope it’s glorious!
Hi Paul it looks like the GU10 bulbs are not available at the mo on that link but they maybe if you go to the Ajax main page?
What hub do you use with the IKEA sensors?
I got a Hubitat C-8 based off your review last year, but if I place my IKEA sensor just outside my front door (about 15 feet from the Hubitat) then no signal!
Google can do the typed commands as well, as if you spoke them, but for the Camera on the TV, I'd use Home Assistant as it can be told not to do it when no one is home quite easily :).
Thanks for the great review of some really helpful automations
I've got Shelly, Tado/Kasa and Smart Life products. Is Home Assistant really the only way to have them all come together on a single configurable control panel?
Probably old hat now but I have an Alexa rule to monitor front and back door sensor and if they are left open for more than 5 minutes they switch off the heating. Teenager friendly 😁. Great video as always 👍
How did you link your Flic Twist to Home Assistant?
Got any tutorials, links, ...?
I’ve a notification saying “inbox me hun” when attending hospital, much saner than a Facebook post about it and probably more authentic in its care.
I am also playing around with NFC stickers on cards to load up audiobooks for the kids to listen to - removes the issues of shouting at Siri/whoever and also means youngest can identify the book he wants by sight of the cover. The biggest pain is wishing I could more easily play to the right speaker depending on what device scanned the NFC instead of always outputting to the same default speaker. It can probably be done so I’m considering this a PEBKAC error for now.
My best and most used automation is the morning routine that turns relevant lights on and then boils the kettle for me when my regular alarm goes off, or will also trigger if I turn my phone off sleep/do not disturb within 3 hours of the regular alarm time anyway so I always start the day with a brew ready by the time I am out of bed
On the idea with the door video feed going directly to the TV, could you not introduce a presence sensor in your lounge to detect if you were watching TV or not and use that to decide if you turn TV off or resume the program you were watching previously?
Only using something a little more powerful such as Home Assistant. Alexa doesn't have an "ONLY IF" statement sadly.
My go to smart home recommendation for people early in their journey is always using motion sensors to turn on dim or low-level lighting at night as people move around the house. For example, if a child gets up from bed to go to the bathroom, have the lights come on at one percent for two minutes.
You suggest the SENCKIT Door sensor for the Gamepad , but previously you'd raved about the Aqara contact sensor, I know the Aqara one needs a hub and is a few £ more expensive, but long term wouldn't it be better to have the higher quality one with the better ecosystem,? Or am I missing something?
Yay, more Reginald!
I love the smile that Neesha has when turning off the light switches. So mischievous.
Here here… more Reginald!
Neesha cameo in this one was spot on ... the annoying family. Little Mercedes? hmm... when are we gonna see her? Great video. My one and only automation gets Alexa to say " Welcome home, hope you're having a great day", and turns a light on when I unlock the front door. Need to work on some more.
I really love my chosen way of implementing my home entertainment being referred to as the "last resort" "quite complicated". LOL
I know I can do it, just haven't gotten around to it yet. Smart home stuff....so many things I haven't gotten around to.
Family defeating smart home stuff is like a super power...they find the easiest way to disable it every time. And yes, I like to think it's done in nefarious ways too :P
Like turning the dimmer off on our main living room light instead of pressing the smart button to turn it off.
Or locking the bottom lock on the smart lock in our mudroom...making it impossible to get into the house briefly when my dad fell in said mudroom. It's honestly a little different dealing with smart home stuff when said family member actually can't remember that something has been setup in a specific way. My dad has dementia, so remembering that the button turns it off but there's still the dimmer on the light....is a bit out of his grasp at times. Keeping things super simple for him is top of my priority list.
That said, smart home tech has actually stepped up to help me take care of him better.
Is there any hope for a Ring doorbell cam + AppleTv + Home Assistant re: the TV cam automation?
Just put the new Google routines to use to get my doorbell to TV automation the same way you have shown for Alexa. Nest doorbell and Google TV combo gives you that option through the Google home app too!
Awesome! It's always nice when you have two products from the same manufacturer that work well together. Wish I had more of that in my life 😂
Love the TV notification idea, but with my eufy security dual doorbell it takes about 2 minutes to load the feed... Is there any way to speed that up?
My Eufy cameras have always been super quick, so could be a regional issue if it's their end, but as they're a fairly large organisation I would imagine it's a poor signal issue at your premises. Could take a bit of faffing around to diagnose the problem
We need more Red Dwarf clips dammit! Thanks for putting that in, it made my day ya smeg head. ❤
Not sure if you read comments on historic videos(?) but I wonder if you could help with a specific scenario that I'm looking at.. I'm trying to find a simple push button that can send a notification or email to a remote mobile device or email account whenever it is pushed. The challenge is that 1. It must be idiot proof to use. 2. There is no power at the button's location (although it may be able to tap into a nearby 4g or WiFi signal). 3. It cannot rely on a local hub of any sort as there is nowhere to power a hub. 4. It cannot rely on the button-pushers own phone or that any other phone will be nearby... Can you think of anything that might suit such a specific scenario? TIA 😊
Paul, how have you never used a sonoff mini. They solve your issue of the mrs turning off the switches. They’re awesome
Hey Paul, great video, love your channel. Maybe a little improvement suggestion for your video-doorbell-automation: You might want to start your routine with a virtual switch, instead of the doorbell itself. With that, you would have the advancement, that you could implement a required expression, when the switch can or can't be turned on. So in the end, you would have to split your one routine into two separate routines but with the advancement, that your TV neither turns on, when you're away nor turns off, when you are watching a movie.
The two automations could look like this:
No. 1 (doorbell turns on switch):
Required expression: Anyone is home
Trigger: Doorbell is pressed
Action: Virtual switch turns on
After 2 minutes, virtual switch turns off
No. 2 (virtual switch starts Alexa routine)
Trigger: Virtual switch turns on
Action: Alexa shows doorbell feed on TV
At least that's how I would solve that, using my Hubitat. If that's total bullocks for home assistant, just ignore me. 😅
Anyway, greetings from good old Germany. 😇
Oh no it's even easier with Home Assistant, in a single automation. You have conditions to prevent the automation running - eg as you suggested, require that there is someone home. But then you can capture the state of the TV first, do all the loading the camera feed thing, and then after the 2 minutes, you only turn the TV off, if the TV was already off - based on the variable of the TV state you captured right at the start. I'd probably have a second condition, that my phone is not in Do Not Disturb mode. Because sometimes - I don't care who is at the door, if I have a plan to watch a movie or something, I'm going to watch it, I don't want to be interrupted by someone at the door.
Uuuuuh, that's nice, too. I'll have to check, if this is possible with Hubitat, too. 🤩
Thanks gents! Both great solutions. My video was specifically about the ‘everyman’ being able to achieve it with Alexa, but these are great for home assistant and Hubitat. I also need to look into using my presence sensors so the tv comes on in the room I’m in, all solvable with a bit of time and effort!
It is possible to hack "only if" logic into Alexa routines by using routines to enable and disable other routines. For the "everyman" automator I would suggest an Alexa routine that replicates an "away mode" and another routine to replicate an "at home mode" by enabling and disabling relevant routines as you leave and return home. This can be done with routines that include a series of actions such as powering devices on or off and enabling and disabling other routines (including a doorbell stream to TV routine) as appropriate through repeated use of the "Customised" action within the routines. As Alexa in the UK lacks geofencing support, I have opted for a Flic button at my front door with a single press to trigger the "away mode" and a double press to trigger the "at home mode". In my setup, these two routines enable or disable a dozen or so other routines depending on whether I'm leaving home or returning. To provide redundancy, I have replicated these routines to ones using alternative triggers including voice or motion depending on the scenario. And yes, I do sleep with a lady!
Here’s a challenge for you Paul. We have kids, you know the germ carrying small humans 😂.. anyway they are afraid of the dark. So we have an Alexa routine that turns their night lights on at sunset and off 30 min before sunrise.. all simple. HOWEVER we don’t have the kids all the time (blended family). So some days we have rooms lit up with no one in there! Is there a way of disabling Alexa routines based on events in a Hotmail calendar.. when we have the kids, enable the routine, when we don’t disable it.. if that’s possible that would really be a smart home 👍
10:32 how about a routine that powers off your TV at the switch when it isn't already in use, and/or Noone is in the room and/or house
I ordered three paper like protectors and pen grips last year. The import duty cost me as much as the product itself doubling the already fairly high price tag.
😳 Woah, sorry to hear that man! I hope they've resolved that since!
Created one for the baby when he goes to sleeps - we tell Alexa to look after the baby - this toggles an unused aqara switch in the house that in turn activates motion sensing on Aqara camera through Aqara app. Then the number of motion toggles in the Aqara camera starts getting counted up through a home assistant virtual counter and when a certain number is reached HA tells Alexa to show the camera on Alexa devices and say baby is moving and go and check. If baby moves only briefly and goes back to sleep HA resets the counter and start watching again. When Alexa is told to stop watching over the baby - the entire automation shuts down. Got a decent wife approval factor by this. 😃
And you Paul are the reason I setup and learned Home assistant for my house ☺️
This is incredible! Love it ❤️
I often wonder who would win in a fight, Paul or Techmoan. 😂
Great video.. gives me a good idea of what HA can do.. and FWIW, I think one of the problems in the world today is that there's not enough slapping going on. Stupidity should be painful.
:-)
But how did you get the companion app to report back to HA server the location of the device/person?
Well, just tried to jump into HA. But I can’t even get it connected to my router …. I managed to get a fan started as soon as my cat enters the litter box. Remotely controlling the apartment intercom would be wonderful.
The doorbell notification is a feature on the AppleTV. When the doorbell is part of your Apple Home and the button is pressed, the AppleTV opens a PIP window in the upper right corner and displays the video feed.
Privacy matters aside. Wouldn't running on home assistant make things slightly faster? Since it's more localized? Just curious.
Another great video Paul. I have tried to use the location thing in home assistant but find the updates very slow, like it will update 15 hours, so when I have a routine set up for me leaving the house it never triggers so I have to use a manual switch helper :( I have enabled location services all the time to home assistant for the app.
I had issues when I set it up originally, but strangely not anymore. To my knowledge I never did anything special to make it work, I think a Home Assistant update resolved it one day!
1) Check that you can actually communicate with your Home Assistant when you are outside the network. 2) Ensure battery optimisation is turned off for Home Assistant. Samsung phones in particular are known to be stupidly aggressive about killing apps like Home Assistant in the background.
@@AndrewJonesMcGuire Thank you yes I use tail scale to communicate with HA when out and about, I do have a Samsung phone that could be a problem I will check that Thank you, edit I've just checked the app and it's set to unrestricted on battery use
I think a motion sensor would make sense for the doorbell/TV part, if no one is home then dont turn on the tv to show the doorbell feed
Your sponsor spots are the only ones I watch 😂
Completely unrelated to the hard work you’ve put into this video; but love the London Jets T-shirt!
Boys from the Dwarf! 👊🏼
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!
Nothing ever happens to the Road Runner. The coyote on the other hand...
Great video. Your routine videos are always amongst my favourites
Shh! Stop with your logic! 😂
4:30 almost spit my tea onto my 1 year old 😅🤣
I use our location to send our shopping list to us when we go to our main shops- it comes from Alexa shopping into home assistant
😁look at this way if there’s ever any little Hibberts running around you’ve got the dad jokes covered!
I’m rather fond of the gaming automation, I might create something similar with a contact sensor on my box of Andrex by the bed xxx
For research purposes?... for research purposes xxx
@@paulhibbert if you don’t do thorough research, sooner or later you’ll come unstuck xxx
For the TV part, here a solution using HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME ASSISTANT
if wife or husband is at home or if there is presence of the room (maybe you have kids without a smartphone) turn tv on and show doorbell
that would be a problem if the robot vacuum cleaner is doing his biddings and turning on the PIR(s)
ok, so you have two options:
a) check if the robot cleaner is running (Robot Cleaner Status)
b) turn off tv after there is no more presence in the room
I did somthing similar with a door bell, I have a home/away virtual switch, if it's away the routine won't run, you could also do the same with location data.
Just to play pedant, the road run was fine it's the coyote was the one that gone blown up :D
As a fellow baldy I'm going to have to make a gif of myself coming out of clevage now 🤣
Awesome videos sorry I’m Soo late
Covering or replacing light sockets aren't automations?
Isn't there a way to get the fire stick to do picture in picture. Also could you use presence sensors to prevent auto turn off of the TV if you were watching it or is that only in my head lol
Great idea, but not in Alexa sadly as there is no "If ONLY" statement in Alexa automations. Could definitely do it that way with Home Assistant though 😁
@@paulhibbert Thought it wouldn't be that easy lol. What about a general rule with a motion sensor to turn off the TV via a smart plug after no movement in the area for 20 minutes? I use my echo flex and it's plugin motion sensor with lights for that purpose.
@@Space-O-2001 Generally people don't because unless it is a radar based sensor - a standard PIR is likely to not detect enough movement while you are sitting watching a movie, and the TV suddenly turning off 20-30 minutes into a movie, will get really frustrating really fast, I guarantee it.
@@AndrewJonesMcGuire That makes sense , thank you
There has to be some logic that you can program into the app to check if cec triggered tv turn on. i.e. if (doorbell pressed && (tv ontime
. Meep! Meep!
I have no home internet for a week and it's been very bad to control my devices. Yet I didn't have patience to set up home assistant. 🤪
Paul day today. Finally, I am having a connection issue with my ezviz C2C
Happy Saturday dude! Hope you figure it out!
Same problem, i ended up hard wiring it in, no waiting for Wi-Fi to play catch up 👍
How about a system to save money and have fresh air in the house by simply automating the opening and closing of a window. All you would need is two temperature gauges and a rain sensor (for all the houses that don't have awning)
New ways to stalk my husband. Perfect 😊
I have considered doing the TV - doorbell link (using Google as i backed the wrong horse in the early days 🙄) as it is quite the faff to pull out and open your phone to check who's there when the bell rings. However as i don't want every TV in the house turning on and showing the Nest image, i'd have to figure out some sort of proximity sensor so that only the TV in the room I'm in powers on.
Given how the increasingly senile Google Home now seems to struggle with even simple tasks like turning lights on and off and playing music, i'm not especially eager to start tinkering with it. Wish Google would either fix their very broken ecosystem or kill it off properly, fortunately most of my smart home kit is cheap Tuya stuff so transitioning to Alexa would only involve replacing my Google speakers and Nest thermostat.
Definitely a Home Assistant job that! Sadly Alexa doesn't have the complexity. Very cool idea though, I might have to look into that myself!
Watch your videos via my Nvidia shield every Saturday while munching the breakfast, great channel.
Via this way we don't see pop up video links, can you also put them in the description just to save the searching time? Currently watching nest doorbell to Nvidia
What might help would be if I actually added the card! 🤣 Thanks for the reminder. It's added now, I THINK you should still them on the shield, I think I do!
@@paulhibbert ahhhh that's why I couldn't see it on my phone either 🤣
I'll need to look at that for a setting change or something, I never get cards coming up
Omg Paul with hair... 😳 What a difference...
I forget to text. "Oh my god he's dead!" I feel you brother. My Wife is the same way.
I like your channel, very funny but I have to admit I dont know what you are talking about most of the time. I have some smart plugs which Alexa switches on/off but thats about it. Maybe you could do a beginners set up for simple things??? for us that are less tech savvy
Been trying to convince my wife for years to do some mid week videos for me for beginners. I’ll come be once her eventually!!
Google should do what it does best and copy Alexa (and everyone else) by doing a PIP of who rang the doorbell.