Alex's Full Smart Home Tour: Automations Galore!
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Quite possibly the last smart home tour to take place at 2 MarzManor! Welcome to our latest smart home tour 2022!
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I bet everybody else's houses in your street dim a little bit when that lot switch on, lol. Great video Alex.
Nahhhh, he's plugged into the streetlights.
If there's a power cut though, he will be the only one with the house lights on, ha ha ha
You should really look into Home Assistant! You can consolidate all those devices into a single hardware (and essentially throw away all the hubs) rather than using 4 separate hubs. Not to mention you are now using Philips Bridge and Aqara Hub who are both Zigbee meaning two seperate zigbee networks on top of each other rather putting all into one network which would make a better mesh.
I'm an avid HomeAssistant user, and I actually use both, because no matter what I do, Hue has always been significantly more stable than a Zigbee stick for lights. Everything else though, I use direct zigbee connections.
If I have Aeotec/Smartthings smart hub, do I still need different hubs/bridges from hue or aqara? I want to buy their sensors but it says their own hub is required
@@darshanshukla4079 no I have aqara set up on smartthing you just need to find the right edge drivers.
isn't that his girlfriend's or wife's if he has ether🤣
Not sure if the definition of a smart home is a home that can turn on a boat load of lights.
I was just thinking that XD
Spoiler alert. It's all lights.
You’re a champion my boy 😂 thanks for saving me 14 minutes
Should've read this comment before watching. I totally wasted my time. Thanks man. You tried 😂
Thank you
You give me inspiration to design my place man love your style
go with home assistant you wouldn't notice internet outages unless you get notified. pairs beautifully with unifi network and protect
Bro i love your house i been watching your videos for at least 4-5 years now and love all the content you upload. Keep up the great work.
It seems the concept of smart home is understood as a whole shit of light here
Good to see another video from you
@4:28 your downlight wants pushing back in to the ceiling
The state of your network rack gives me nightmares!… I live just down the road from you and am a professional AV & Smarthome installer…. I’d literally tidy that thing up for you free of charge and expect nothing in return just so I can sleep better at night!
Fantastic to hear how your smart home is getting on!
Not a lot automated tbh other than lights and a few blinds. Home Assistant blows this to bits.
Great tour!
Alex, love the vids!! Would love to see how you manage all of the smart stuff on the network! Thanks for the content!
You could get rid of most of those hubs using Home Assistant and a Raspberry Pi or similar. It would give you much better scope for really fancy automations, and it would tie in all your current and future platforms, all locally and no cloud if you choose to do so.
I have just stumbled onto this channel today and it is already one of my favorite tech channels! I love all the WISP videos. I would love to do this. Keep it up Alex!
Anyone else notice the UniFi G3 Instant security camera pointing directly at the sofa in the lounge at 5:22? 😬
Casting couch.
probably where his dog sleeps during the day so he can check on it
safety glasses on, always prepared
Great video! I was kind of hoping for links to all your smart home gear as well.
This house inspires me. Got my bathroom listening experience after getting inspiration from this channel. Now onto the lighting
Crazy to see how far you’ve come. Watched you since your minecraft days
sick setup i wonder how long it took you to figure everything out
I'm honestly shocked you have this much smart home gear and are not using Home Assistant! Also a couple of the issues you are facing like not being able to control the exact position of the blinds without the remote can be solved using HA. More over you can also condense all your Zigbee hubs down to a single stick plugged into a HA server. And it also means you wouldn't need to use routines to check if other lights are on or off to activate. Much more reliable that way.
Yes! He NEEDS Home Assistant!
love the curtains hanging on clamps
random person: oh nice lights, where'd you get them?
me:
I hope you don't take offense to all the haters to much, keep it up be happy with what you like ;)
Alex, you were triggering my siri devices when u would give yours a command. HAHAHAHA
Just a general criticism of tech you-tubers. It's not difficult to mute the audio for a second when calling Siri or Alexa or Google. Save viewers having to stop their assistant from doing something.
Totally agree, I'am a smaaall smaaall youtuber and pay attention to that, in almost all of my videos. It's simple 😄
Hey I would love a video showcasing how you hid the wires on all your light strips and your wall art. Thanks
Check out Home Assistant, but don't run it on a Pi, run it on a real computer. I think you'd quite enjoy the ability to integrate everything into one hub capable of powerful complex automations as well as the ability to expose any of the devices out into an Apple Home for Siri control.
To be honest, I don't think Home Assistant is a great choice for Alex.. He will get fustracted and whine about it on his channels. Not good for the otherwise very nice platform that HA provides
@@c7ndk HA gives me headaches as well, but that's mainly bc I don't like coding. I know how to write coding, like for Minecraft, Python etc, but I'd rather not do it. Ppl like me, ChatGPT has been a blessing. But he really should be using HA.
I'm guessing things are connected to his wifi...via wifi then? 😁
Great video - you mentioned that on your Somfy blinds that you can only do the “my” custom mode from the remote but what I do is set a scene for the “my” button. As I have night and day blinds so I need open, closed and custom. Works well.
It connects to wifi. via wifi ;)
Love the video, I added it to my smart home tour playlist
just use home assistant and you dont need any hubs
Awesome!
Hi Alex, love how you have full control of your home. Has given me all the info I need to finish doing my home. Now how about getting my power unit that I won last month in your office giveaway.Colin
nice tour fellow Alex! for somfy you can consider getting the bond hub to give you more control
Your have beautiful plants!
did u record with a potato?
Alex you can configure your Hue remotes in HomeKit to do different scenes. So you can have all 4 buttons doing different scenes without it needing a routine/automation to decide what to do. Like your living room play bars turning the other stuff on. You can set what each button on the Hue dimmer does in the HomeKit app. For example, I’ve got mine so when I press lights off button on dimmer my blinds close, my heating turns off, the lights turn off, all Apple TV’s turn off and my house alarm activates for night mode. I think it gives more customisation options so you can change lights without it making others go on or off. 👍🏼
It’s so crazy that there’s pretty much a smart device for anything you can think of in a standard home.
You buy a house for a lot of money, then you spend a whole lot more money to make all your stuff automatic
hey bro we just want to say we missed u😜
Amazing to see well done i like all the inside work & outside excellent.
Thanks for talking to my Siri too 👀
Love the new intro and dope smart home
the guy dint blink.
He must be smart home cyborg
HOME ASSISTANT!!!
It's all lights. Lol
If only I had the money and ability to do all this
God will bless you someday bro....I also wish to have all this but i know God has a way in it....
You can do a lot of stuff cheaper if you’re fine with a bit of tinkering. HomeAssistant can make all the things mentioned in the video and way more than that. You are also able to do a lot of the things way cheaper by for example using a Shelly which makes all your existing lights that are controlled with a standard light switch smart. All that for about 10-15€ per light switch and and a bit of tinkering.
I would love a somfy review on how it works.
The OCD in me would configure your hue switches in HomeKit instead of having your hue config + HomeKit automation. The reason being there is currently a delay between your hue device turning on and your other devices turning on. Having all the lights just set to turn on when the switch is pressed through HomeKit would get rid of that delay as everything would activate at the same time. The downsides to this would be you would need to rely on HomeKit to do the processing which is less stable and has more downtime than the hue hub imo, but you could also configure the switch in both hue and HomeKit so your hue devices turn on with the hue app config and the other devices turn on with the HomeKit config. This would still reduce the delay between all the lights turning on and also provide at least your hue devices the extra reliance of having your hue hub do the processing so you at least have some sort of light available if HomeKit decides to fall over.
Question: can you configure the Hue dimmer switch in both Homekit AND the Philips Hue app. I thought they were mutually excluding, or rather conflicting with each other.
I like to have all my automations in Homekit but the Hue motion sensor that turns the bathroom lights on has a considerable delay. Most of the time I’m standing in the dark for a good 2-3 seconds before the lights turn on as they’re supposed to. I wonder if I should set the automation in the Philips Hue app as well. If that’s even possible of course
@@misstubbie1313 yes you can, but it can get messy depending on what you want to do. I’d stick to one or the other personally
No way this only has 12 comments lol. Can’t wait to watch when I get to my Dad’s
Thinking about forgetting how all the lights are setup and debugging it gives me so much anxiety
For Somfy you can program the My position to have a third position other than up and down (for like halfway). You can activate the My position from Google Assistant. I did it at my old place that had
Somfy.
more of networking videos please!
Home assistant bro. Let me say that again. Home assistant.
If it wasn't for blinds it would be curtains for all of us.
Pretty cool setup!
electric bill over 5 million
How did you connect SwitchBot to HomeKit? I didn't think they supported it.
I use HomeBridge on a raspberry pi 👍
Cool, you turned lights on and off. My home assistant makes this look like cave man shit.
What does yours do?
Deirdre Barlow wants her glasses back
Alex for the somfy blinds to rise up by 15% or something like that you need to change the moter and the remote. Your current setup of the blinds is using a wireless moter called sonness RTS. it can only go up, down , and a favorite position that you can set up. for correct moter that will give you the ability to rise it up by % its the sonness IO. if you change them to IO then you need to change the remotes as well because there using different technologies.
I would love to live next or near this dude.
just to mess with all that shit
Does Alex have a doorbell camera? Currently have a ring but it’s so annoying doesn’t work with HomeKit.
Very nice setup. I made an home automation system built on top of OpenHAB 3 on raspberry and some sonoff (flashed with tasmota firmware) and esp8266 device. It's simpler than your but it works :) I never made a video tour just like your...maybe it's an idea for the next video on my channel. Thanks for showing
I wanna be like You, Like Actually A Wisp. i've been wanting to already, and i'm 11 years old and like networking videos.
I use RGB LEDs from Energizer in my server rack. They were $15 USD each and work very well.
i will have to say it's been awhile since I have watched your vids.. kinda glad i tuned in this time I like how you have changed things around for your media room and kitchen.. look so much better than what you have done before.. although i do all these animations my self along with a few others you haven't mentioned but I am sure you are aware of them. for daily tasks that require nothing more than your existence in your home. But have you thought about doing a scheduled shower/ timer turn on and off at a certain time? or at certain times of day that is turns on then timer off? it is one thing i would do if i was in my own home. and I am curious why you do not use Alexa since it's app can do IFTTT type of format now. far exceeds what Google can do
You should have a bunch of links (affiliate of course) for all this stuff. Especially interested in the festival lights you've got outside. Been trying to get something like them for a while, but can't seem to find the right set.
Just hack into his house 😂
Do you have a link to the smart button on your nightstand?
Put your toilet paper on the roll mate.
Unpopular Opinion: When I see RGB lights setup in every light socket of a house I can't help but feel like the owners of the house went out with some friends for the night and their 12-13-year-old kids invited friends over while they were gone and made blanket forts and changed the lights to RGB to look "cool" and match the blanket fort vibe. I've never understood how a grown adult can change their living room lights to purple, pink, and blue and think that's what the living room has been missing all along. RGB is only impressive to people young enough to still be in school and any anytime I see someone with RGB everywhere, I instantly think they must still be in high school or at the latest still an undergrad, and it all happens subconsciously without me realizing.
Totally agree, I can see if they have it in their bedroom or maybe a game room or an office, but all through their living room or kitchen is off putting lol
When I dated my ex we had them in our room bc the apartment we got literally had no ceiling light, just a switch for the electricity in the room.. it was strange, but we used the RGB strips cause the white setting is super bright, and then we’d usually set it to red, blue, or purple while gaming or watching a movie or something just to set a vibe
Alex's electricity bill:📈📈📈📈📈📈
Great video!
Sick!
I have a smart home. I use 5 hubs that I have to daisy chain together to make them work and will refuse to operate when the internet is out. Also my blinds can only have 2 states and i can push the button of my garage door from anywere in the world, although i don't know if i am opening or closing it.
you should consider using Home Assistant, can have all your smart devices paired as one ecosystem so you'll have no need for 5 different hubs
Shame there isn't an automation to change the toilet roll ;) :D (@11:10)
That’s a very nice looking turntable, who makes it?
I love the Philips hue! but Alex, You are not using them properly… I don’t know how big of a kino fan are you BUT with the Philips hue sync box and Philips hue app for pc/Mac, You can synchronize audio or video and get an insane immersive ambient experience, I would recommend trying that.
You program your lights to come on during the day so you can see...have you heard of daylight?
If I am using motion sensor linked with light, and the wall switch was off, is there any way to make the light turn on based on the motion?
Home assistant... no more hubs....
Fancy stuff, how secure is it from being hacked into?
Not really that impressive this day and age to be honest. Could probably have purchased a Control4 system for the same ballpark cost and have more.
How many remote control do you have?
What do you find breaks the most? I always seem to have a least a couple smart devices down at any one time
So you living in a cell with 24/7 constant monitoring and recording?
Questions. Are your garden string lights smart or running off a smart plug? If so which ones, and do you not find that the bathrooms the lights turn off all the time because they don’t sense movement when your in the bath ect?
Alex, the Aqara Sensor or the Hue Smart Sensor, which one is more responsive for your smart home?
TechFlow~hwo u doing?~ like it. gorgeous .
In terms of brightness, are the LIFX LED strips the brightest? I've got some 3rd party strips in my home, but they're not too bright when set to their max.
I like your smart blind. It is not roller blind. Where to buy this type of blind as I am building my smart house as well.
Loved it, gud man
Where did you get the blinds from, I can’t find those style blinds powered by Somfy? Thanks
Another great video, dude you have too much lol 😂 any chance you could do a video on portable hard Ives please, I really need your help, cheers 👍🍻🌈 Alex
Of course you can have all this if paying your bill is not an issue
Every light in his house combined probably uses about as much electricity as one old-fashioned lightbulb.