12 Of The Best Smart Home Automation Ideas!
You can never go wrong with hearing more smart home automation ideas & in this video, we find out from some of your favourite smart home YouTubers what their favourite automations are in their smart homes. With features from Smart Home Solver, The Hook Up, Paul Hibbert, BeardedTinker & many more.
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My eight-year-old just showed me how to make an automation for my IPhone for when I plug it in and unplug it; so that it says funny saying in the process. 📱🔌
Everything I just saw this video is way advanced and over my head. But eventually, I’ll get there by watching all these channels. 😂
Good collaboration video. I now have to go back and watch the ones from all the other years too.😊
Another great video, I got some great ideas for my morning routines, BTW I have few automations that you may like
1) Keep the Switches on – I have few bulb outlets connected to the smart bulbs and my light automations go bananas every time my wife or daughter turns off the switches, I created an automation which will be triggered when the switches as turned off and it turns the switches back on, sends an announcement using the smart speaker of the room not to turn off the switches and turns of the lights after 15 seconds ( 15 seconds delay to ensure that the bulbs are connected to Wi-Fi)
2) in-store shopping reminders using HA zones, this will send a reminder to other person( if i am at store notify my wife and vice versa) to update the shopping list
3) turn off the lights and motion sensors in my home theater (Based on Denon AVR status) and turn lights and motion sensor on when the HT is turned off
Wishing you and your family Merry Christmas and a happy and successful 2023, hoping to see more products and videos from your side
So cool to see everyone in one place . Good job binging everyone home for Christmas , Lewis
I want to share my smart home automation idea too. I’m still building it, but should be done soon.
Problem: I hate cleaning and my wife gloats about how she does all the cleaning
Solution: Make our smart home do more automated cleaning and disinfecting then me wife ever could
Semi-Detailed automation explanation:
Install 36W UVC lights inside every bathroom and on the ceiling in the kitchen.
Install motion sensors and door open/close sensor + wifi outlets.
Create interruptible routines that start 30 seconds after bathroom door closes but only if motion not detected so that UVC light turns on for 15 min for 99% disinfection.
Basically every time someone uses a bathroom I want it to self disinfect. The kitchen’s UVC light I’d just have run at 4AM everyday while everyone sleeps upstairs.
Hello community! New member from Brazil here! Happy to receive all this useful tips! Thanks!
Hey Lewis, im personally wanting to replicate your morning announcment idea, with my own few twists, now that i have a speaker in my home. I was wondering what your code is for the annoucement itself, so i have a starting point.
1:55: my front door automation: a) if door (contact sensor) open, lock remains unlocked. b) if door closed, lock locks. c) if lock unlocked but door closed for more than three minutes, lock locks. This spares me ever closing the door while the lock is locked, and ensures that if someone unlocks the door but for some reason does not open it the door is quickly re-secured.
doors closing during a fire to block your exit??? yes perfect
Is that dude saying "artimation"?!
Make it a HUGE LIVE STREAM event next year, with LIVE Demos, calling in from different places, countries etc.
Lewis can get it 😅
Thank you Lewis for all your ideas and contributions to Home Automation. I wish you, including your family and friends a Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year . All the Best.
That’s genius. Close your doors when a fire is detected to make it easier to get out.
My favorite home automation is this: I eat dinner (and sometimes lunch) in the family room and that almost always includes watching tv. The automation is as follows: when you turn off the tv (logitech harmony) it turns on the moen smart faucet in the kitchen to the hottest setting so that by the time I get to the sink I can rinse off my dishes to put them in the dishwasher. It then will turn off the lights in the family room (if they were on which is conditional from a light sensor) 5 minutes later.
Hibert is the fucking man
The part at 8:30 was great. Awkward, but great 🙂
backlight on TV? UGH NOOOOOO
Loved you bringing in all these great creators!
What a great community. As someone who has just been digging into home automation for about a year now, it’s cool to see so many creators I’ve learnt something from come together and do 1 video. Can’t wait to keep discovering the knowledge guys. TY!
Chatgpt set up my home assistant triggers to my exact preferences
how about a 2024 one?
Who tf is this guy on 15:00 I love this cut 🤣 master class
why would you need a motor to close the door you can just use one of those things that shut the door idk what they are called but you know the things over the door that makes sure it closes and cant be slammed
This button has never been used
Great video from you guys and very funny as well 😂😂
Why does Hibbert have sooooo many lube options on the night stand?
A 65" TV ISN’T large? whoa… 😀
I’m sorry but that doesn’t make your livestream fun my man
If someone could figure out not only to run YouTube on my Sony android TV, but to play a specific video, it would be awesome
After carefully watching this, I’ve 2 comments: 1) wow, technology has come a long way; 2) I definitely don’t need any of it 😂
Only thing that blows; if you lose wifi, most of these dont work
What a cool idea with excellent execution! You’ve taken collaboration to a whole new level! I’ve finally finished evaluating all of the different HA solutions and have decided to make the move from ISY / Insteon to Home Assistant. I have a pretty extensive investment in Insteon switches, outlets, sensors, etc., so my goal is to continue using that gear as I grow / expand my automation capabilities!
Thanks for putting this out here, it was awesome! Maybe next year, I can share one of my favorite automations!
Loved this video! Super inspiring! It’s fun to see all the youtubers i have seen when informing myself about smart homes and automations to be a kinda like a lil community i love it!
this is so sweet 🙂 Good job on this collab with everyone!
I have a question, once you told me that for security/privacy I may create a vlan or use my smart home as local network, which I get it, but what I really want to knowz, if there is a way to use "Alexa" or building a voice helper similar to Alexa, that won’t spy on my lifestyle or network or whatever 😂❤ thanks
My first automation will be to have a temperature sensor inside my crock pot which is making yogurt – if the temperture goes above 42 C then it turns off the crock pot, if it goes below 38 C – turns it on. This way I can make 3 litres of yogurt instead of 1 in my little yogurt maker.
A dude created a motor to shut his doors if the smoke detectors go off? 🤔
This is awesome!
Handsome bearded man 😍
Late to this video but I LOVE LOVE LOVE the collaboration! Thanks for bringing all these folks together!
How to avoid missing batteries that die…
Hard wire.
I’m a little late seeing this video, it just now made it into my stream. Most of these guest are already in my stream. I think the only one that was missed was the handydad guy. Cheers for the share! I hope this continues to be a tradition.
I have a Tapo S200B Button, so when my mom press it once, it rings a bell in my room, that she needs me, Since I live on 1st floor and she is on Ground floor it makes so easy for her to call me whenever she wants, its a small battery operated button which she can carry everywhere.
When she double press it, it starts her favourite prayer playlist on her TV and it turns off after the video ends.
Please cover "alexa" word with some sound, to not activate watchers echo devices.
I love TechnoTim’s idea! I had the same idea back when I wanted to start streaming for real, but I just didnt have enough devices, or control over those devices, since they are Wi-Fi based
This was good. I was going to skip the Apple people but their ideas work without that stuff. Outtakes were good too.
Something weird about 17:21 or before, is that really a 65" TV??? Standing just that distance from my 55" it would be as tall as my entire shirt, not just about half of it…. Don’t want to say he’s lying as I seriously doubt he is, but it’s just weird. It doesn’t look like he’s standing that far from it. Has to be some weird camera lens, dunno… but looks like my 42" would be at that distance…
Awesome job! Brought some of my fav youtubers together into 1 video. Well done!
It’s actually insane to me that anyone making smart home content would actually say “Alexa” in a video without censoring it
6:15
????????
besides that awkward thing, great video..