Home Automation CONSUMED MY LIFE (and you're next)
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- Must... integrate... ceiling... fan...
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Home Assistant: www.home-assistant.io/
HomeSpan (HomeKit for ESP32) github.com/HomeSpan/HomeSpan/...
HomeBridge (HomeKit for non-HomeKit home automation kit) homebridge.io/
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The ADHD is strong in this episode. It's like you're giving a play by play of my own devolution into home automation.
This whole channel is throbbing with ADHD
@@isthattrue1083Hi, I'm James and my printing problem has a home automation problem.
@@isthattrue1083 can i join ya gang?
@@isthattrue1083can we automate that? 🤔😂
I'm only half way done and I've sent two clips already.
When you mentioned Home Assistant, I literally muttered: "oh no" out loud, because I know how much of a time sink that can be.
Hahaha... 😮💨(Knuckles "oh no")
The dreadcitement
Just started out. It's just too easy nowadays. Passive cooled ThinClient for EUR50 and you've created yourself a new timesink...
Pro-Tip: with most dehumidifiers (that i know of) you can typically hook a tube up to them on a port or under a cover on the side and they'll just drain from that tube without needing to be discharged by hand.
I was 100% expecting the current-sensing adapter to trigger a reservoir-emptying pump. Definitely room for further tinkering there!
And if you need to pump it up, like from a basement, you can connect dehumidifier to a condensate pump. Works like a small sump pump. Some of them you can even wire the dehumidifier to shut down if the pump malfunctions.
Some dehumidifiers come with a pump included.
True, but you have to keep an eye on said tube. They get clogged with gunk.
We have a dehumidifier running in our basement and have to keep an eye on it because of that.
There's also the issue of having a hose long enough to go over to wherever your basement floor drain.
But hey, it's still indeed better then emptying them by hand.
And everyone with a basement in a damp environment SHOULD have a dehumidifier in it. It's 100% a must. Trust me, I moved into a house without one that had no door to the basement and the whole house smelled like mold and mildew most of the year. (I'm in the PNW). Put in a dehumidifier and the issue was gone.
Hey Zack, as a fellow ADHD having, half project doing dude, your videos are some of the few that I happily watch through the whole length. You always manage to keep my attention the whole way pretty much no matter what you’re talking about. It’s clear you put a lot of time into the script writing and delivery, and you’re getting better and better. Thanks for always sharing with us
To this I fully agree since I have same condition in a different manner and often I find myself doom scroll, but from zack It peeks My interest to watch it all
Zack is to my 3D printing and maker content as Maxor is to my video gaming content.
The funny thing about the Sonoff having the exposed serial port is that it's not accidental, they officially support modding their hardware with custom firmware. There's a section on their website talking about DIY mode (how to flash)
More like Sonoff caving to their diy customer base. For a long time they were against it, but the dollars whispering in their ear did change their goals a little.
@@onimus93 and that's a bad thing? fuck i wish more companies realised how much money they could make allowing shit to be fucked with like Sonoff
@@alexwoodhead6471"allowing shit to be fucked" 😂😂
you're right tho
The question of Home Automation or 3D printing and how I got to watching the video. The answer is I got to Voidstar through 3D printing. At the same time I have lots of Home Automation experience. At one point I was even a partner in a Media Company that produced podcasts about Home Automation.
THIS. I would've happily loaded up on Wyze stuff if they embraced letting me put ESPHome on their wall switches and use them in Home Assistant, but no, they don't allow that, so here we are with me having a bunch of TP-Link Kasa switches.@@alexwoodhead6471
I felt the 'Home Assistant finds stuff you didnt know was IoT' in my soul. I spun up an HA instance just to play with it, and let it run for a few days to test. After checking after a few days, I saw that it had found my Canon inkjet printer... I could check the levels of each color of ink, AND it was storing logs of the ink levels. When I clicked on it, I nearly lost my mind, HA was automatically giving me GRAPHED historical data of the ink levels in my crappy printer...
Then I was addicted...
And that's the stuff you know it found. What about the stuff it found and hasn't told you, yet. (looking cautiously over my shoulder at the faint green "eyes" peering out of the closet).
…and with the improved Bluetooth support earlier this year, HA suddenly discovered my housemate's _toothbrush!_ I had no idea her toothbrush even had Bluetooth 😐
@@AndrewGillardtoothbrush? You sure about that?😅
@@timothymusson5040 Home Assistant shows it as an Oral-B Smart Series 7000, which is indeed a range of toothbrushes with Bluetooth. So yes, I'm sure :)
@@AndrewGillardmine just found the same. Now I can make sure my girlfriend brushes for the whole 2 minutes without putting too much pressure!
As a 3d and home automation nerd, I can affirm this is the crossover we were secretly waiting for, including all the stages of going crazy with home assistant! Love it
Don't give up on your voice assistant, the home assistant team has been working hard on a custom voice assistant this year and its finally in a pretty decent state (as of this week). Just need an ESP based board, a mic and a speaker
Good news, Home Assistant is doing "the Year of Voice" this year and putting a bunch of development work into voice assistants.
Modern voice assistants prove that its harder to listen than to speak lmao😂
Super exciting for HA!
As a new homeowner becoming obsessed with home automation AND a 3D printing nerd, this video is slapping on several levels. Bad ass, Zack. Funny as hell as always too.
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Same here!!!
I've been using Home Assistant for a while now, and I share Zack's amazement at how easy home automation has become. I feel sorry for all the people stuck with proprietary hubs.
I absolutely love the fact that the community is building up open options to do this stuff. At the same time the default - and easier to set up, usually - firmwares and apps for all this are Orwellian nightmares and usually a remote killswitch once the OEM designs to make a new product. I worry that a lot of new customers will just use those and regret it later.
Major props for using open source and DIY tools for your own system.
I'm a 3D printing nerd who works as a software developer watching a video about home automation from a cybro who specializes in enthusiastic levels of 3D printing and software development. The direction this channel follows can best be described as Bailey Yard.
The 2 hardest things in programming is cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
Lol I love all the puns and the word carnage. It makes me happy.
You could always do a video on how to design a case for a raspberry pi. A pimp your pie video if you will.
I'm both as I make my own home / personally assistant software but I also a 3d printer.
I am all of this too, but I'll shorten it for you.
I have ADHD.
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All the RGB Gridfinity needs now is NFC tags on the bins so you can have a living inventory that knows where everything is and can light your way when you need a part :D
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I only checked it a couple years ago, but there was an addon (GROCY) that was primarily made for automating shopping lists etc.. Iirc there was a tutorial about using it with home assistant by philhawthorne.
I haven't tried it in a couple years (and maybe there are better options now anyway) but at the time it probably could have been used to completely manage a living inventory.
There was a guy in Discord#gridfinity working on that. I think we lost him because he hasn't been around for months. :(
Throw in a script that links the lights to Lego kit build steps, and I’ll buy eight.
This was friggin amazing; as a software developer, 3d printing person, and diy home improvement person, this hit all the sweet ADHD "You need a project" buttons
You're actually the only tech - electronic - engeneering channel where i watch videos multiple times, just because of the incredible entertainment value. Your writing is through the roof, your delivery is on point and you're projects range from genuinely interesting to absolutely amazing. I just wished you were able to release more often, but i'd rather wait then see you crumble under the crunch and let your quality suffer. Big
I am both a 3D printing and home automation nerd. This video is the crossover we needed.
I'm a home automation journeyman and a 3d printing observer. Hoping to delve deeper into both soon.
Me too.. I suspect the middle of this Venn diagram we both live in is actually pretty crowded!
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Amen, brother.
yess same; home assistant all the things and indeed.. need to integrate that ceiling fan. also the mechanical ventilation. also my ceiling windows
The problem I’ve always had with home automation was how little you could do without replacing all your switches, lights, etc and the cost of it all assuming you can even modify that stuff where you live.
But it’s definitely gotten easier.
A lot of things around which don’t require changing switches, they just get wired behind the existing faceplates
And it all is broken a$$ China schit or American. Over35% lights just randomly won't work.
My trip down the wormhole started with smart bulbs. Then others in the house started complaining that they were not happy with having to use their phones to turn the light on or off, so we're onto smart switches now. And two different hubs, and Google home thingy, almost ready to set up Home Automation (when I can find a Raspberry PI4!). Also have blinds automation motor ready to install and an ever growing heap of 'tried that, found better' stuff in the cupboard. Oh well... what will happen to it all when I snuff it nobody knows!!
they make widgets that you mount over a light switch, and they physically flip the switch underneath them
@@stepheneyles2198do you know about Homeassistent?
I'm a professional D&D nerd and a former IT pro, who has not enough money, and not enough time, but somehow ended up being both a 3D printing geek and a home automation weirdo.
Pray for my cyber-soul.
Listening to Zack discover Tasmota and Home Assistant is trippy, espeically because of the massive overlap in hardware with microcontrollers and SBCs, but also deeply satisfying. Now I feel like I need to see @EverythingSmartHome discover making...
My brain just melted, there is so much amazing stuff going on in this video it makes me want to buy machines and parts I have absolutely no knowledge about. Love your energy and videos so glad I found your channel
Been following your channel since it started, though I'm not at all into 3D printing. I have however, been quite into hacking IOT/smarthome junk for projects for many years. Watching you discover WLED, HASSIO, Tasmota etc. in real-time was hilarious. Watching you also fail to get voice assistant working in any useful capacity was deeply validating.
"Coming back to the smarthome stuff after a decade away feels like returning to a remote tribe and finding a space program." Is the realist ish ever. This stuff has exploded so fast. Unfortunately, most of "home automation TH-cam" is just boring dads blowing their disposable income on off-the shelf ecosystems and annoying their wives and children. There aren't very many sweaty hardware hackers who are making high-production content in the space ..... There's niche here for you!
As someone who wants to get into home automation.. any TH-cam channels you'd recommend?
I'm a home automation nut getting into 3D printing. And I love Home Assistant, WLED, Tasmota, etc. At first I'm like "Why doesn't he just use ESPHome instead of coding the Arduino stuff from scratch", and then my questions were answered lol.
I tried tasmota first, but it turned out ESPHome is much better and VERY awesome because i can just bang some hardware together and I will have running software in 10min.
Yeah, I am using ESPHome more and more these days, it's come a long way.
Great video man! I took the easiest route into home automation in an older house and just got Wi-Fi controlled bulbs and so far they’ve been great for us!
Originally subscribed for the 3d printing and electronics projects and as a tinkerer I see the home automation as almost inevitable add on to the projects "to do list" so having someone having a go at it from zero in the current times is most welcome and looking forward to it.
RGB gridfinity sounds awesome and a "natural" step in the evolution
I assume you mean "natural" in the sense that Frankenstein's monster was natural, cause let's face it, I think the Omnissiah would like to pass an argument or two to Zack.
I know the feeling. You don't want to look into HomeAssistant because the problem you're solving isn't that complicated. Then as your attempt to avoid Home Assistant grows into a frightening monster you give a try and realize that you wasted so much time by not just embracing it from the beginning. And then you realize all the crap that you can do now that you couldn't before and you'll be wasting much more time.
It is really easy to tell if someone uses Home Assistant. They will tell you within 1 minute into the conversation.
@@DanielBulyovcsityI rarely wait that long - at least you know I’m not vegan 😂
Oh god this is just refactoring...
-I find code that looks bad
-I replicate 90% of the logic but miss an edge case
-I spend 3 hours handling edge cases for a total savings of 7-15 lines and slightly better control flow
Home Assistant is just refactoring.. replacing your own stupid code with code people wrote who actually spent enough time to build a generalized framework for handling many interoperating state machines and work with more than just your stupid relay board driven by a parallel port.
This is exactly what happened to me
Watching someone else discover home assistant is it's own kind of joy.
I anxiously await the video you post when you discover the black hole of data logging and analysis combo of HA + Ingress + Grafana.
Tracking your utilities in tandem with weather, individual room temp and humidity, individual appliance power usage, etc. Is just excellent.
I even had a hydroponic tent set up with real time VPD calculation set up as a sensor for Home Assistant to control my humidifier, dehumidifier, lights, and fans. For growing plants.
The one thing that might tempt me into this den of madness right there...
Then you connect your health data to this whole thing and ascend into the higher tiers of data addiction
I already went down the home assistant rabbit hole so it was very pleasing to watch that you ended up finding the good existing solutions
This is the first time I've watched one of your videos (great work btw!), and I left to check out Home Assistant in another tab while the video played out. I thought I was having a stroke part way through you reading your subscribers' names ✨
I’m working professionally in a industrial IoT company and followed your channel initially for the thumbnails, then the alliterations and now to witness you walking through the home automation wormhole. Brilliant! Please add home automation content and merge it with your creative and yanky made-up projects. Love the channel!
I love seeing your solution to “humidifier tank filled up”
I would’ve tried adding a drain tube and a small pump to simply siphon off the water as it filled up.
Have 2 probes to see when the water is full and have a small pump pump out the water somewhere at a lower elevation and boom no more water
Hack the "turn off" switch to instead be rigged to a pump. Or have the dehumidifier drain to a much larger container and just buy a the cheapest sump pump you can find. Or put the dehumidifier on a high shelf and just add a drain tube to the existing tank so it drains by gravity to a sink, toilet, out a window, literally anywhere you're fine having water go.
I would get so annoyed at having to drain the thing every day. That's way too often.
@@modsandendsGG-3883 You can also buy a dehumidifier with a built-in pump. And the ones that don't have pumps usually still have a garden hose hookup, so you can use gravity to drain without modifying the tank.
@@johncip he did make a video about turning on the lights but more complicated lol, also gave up on that morning stretching routine that was probably not bad for him
You mean, automate the problem instead of the notification? ;)
Oh my fucking God JUST PUT THE HOSE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TANK
I really recommend buying some (zigbee/z-wave?) 2-gang or 3-gang light switches. That way you install it instead of your old light switch, and have 1 or 2 more buttons that can be tied to anything smart in home assistant. So you can turn on and off all your LED strips with the other button on your light switch, that's not physically connected to anything. I use it in a lot of rooms, like turning LED strip for my 3D printer on and off.
My journey into the automation hellscape started with a dimmer switch with an integrated sensor for my bedroom...
Fast forward 6 months and nearly 3000$ spent on PLCs, sensors, relays, and contactors, I am now back in school and studying Automated systems and electromechanics.
I have no regrets.
So glad you discovered Home Assistant! For someone that has so many connected devices and hacks on microcontrollers, you're gonna extrude an absolute cluster fart of great automation ideas! Cant wait to see how things boil over into total chaos!
Please more home automation stuff!
I've wanted to go down the rabbit hole before but as you said it used to suck bad but now it looks like especially with MATTER there's a chance a lot of formerly incompatible devices might all just work together?
My biggest analysis paralysis has always been what protocols to use (thread(?), zigbee, zwave, Bluetooth, WiFi..) for best use and minimizing security concerns (especially when you approach connecting things like home NAS, door locks, and security cameras etc. to these IOT hubs etc.).
Would love to see your take on tons of different brands, when it's worth it to DIY vs buy COTS stuff (like Aqara relay vs a Shelly vs pure DIY), crazy projects and ideas.
Would also be super cool to see you do some tutorials or more raw long form of all the things you do.. perhaps you'd need a second TH-cam channel so you don't offend the precious algorithm though.
Just found your channel, there is something about the way you talk that is relaxing to my brain.
So many words come at me so fast that I can’t think of the 5 other things my brain wants to think about.
I love everything about this video. Keep them rambling
As a fellow ADHDer, I feel you. Nothing is more exciting than not doing what you should and jump into a new project!
As the owner of many cheap ESP32 Dev boards and a home assistant install I've sunk way too many hours into, I enjoyed the heck out of this.
Super stoked for rgbled gridfinity content.
Found you for your 3D printing designs to use in my home automation habits. I could not agree more with HA is a worm hole. Hope to see more crossover of the hobby. You got a sub from me.
So great, thank you so much for this level of content. Your videos just get better all the time.
Total home (and other things) automation nerd here, watching your videos which occasionally are about 3D printing.
I think this is your best work so far. I do not often laugh out loud like an idiot while sitting in a room watching something alone, but maaan, your writing, your timing.. love it!
Oh man, Home Automation is what got me started as a maker. We've gotten years and years of experience and improvements and its still a huge pain in the ass!
I spent the first half of the video expecting him to say "And then I went to Home Assistant and it made it so much easier to do everything" so I'm happy he eventually got there. I'm a home automation nut that recently got in to networking and then 3D printing. For 3D printing I've sent up a custom dashboard to monitor the camera from octoprint and the temperatures of the printer plus enviroment aws well as an automation that I turn on before going out or going to bed that turns off the printer when it is done.
But he didn't shout it and hump the air! That's against the rules
For those of you looking for a more off-the-shelf solution for smart switches, TP-Link's KASA switches are the most simple and robust plug-and-play switches I've found and they are pretty inexpensive compared to a lot of the other options on the market. Did my whole house with them and use Google home for automation and it's working out really well. Just make sure you have the proper wiring in your house for them to work.
I love this episode, as an electrician with specialization in smart homes and alarm systems, and a novice hobby user of 3d printers, this is just what I needed, thanks Zack.
Hahaha your history of home automation reminds me of when I was a kid sketching out my plan for an automated room and having everything controlled by a ball of IR LEDs hanging from the ceiling 😂
I'm a huge Home Automation nerd that has been enjoying your content since I found you through Gridfinity. I needed a way to organize all my smart home electronics parts. This was a great "crossover" episode, I'd love to see the crazy shit you come up with as you dive in deeper. I was the opposite of you, I thought Home Automation TH-cam was bigger than 3d-Printing TH-cam.
Faaark..... I never knew the home automation rabbit hole went so goddamn damn deep..... LUV YA WORK... keep it up dude
I was once a Home Assistant user. I was lucky enough to move somewhere where i cant do much for home automation. I was saved.
I'm definitely a 3d printing enthusiast with a home automation habit 😂
I'm actually a niche hardware and longform information enthusiast, so while 3d printing got there first I'm already well into the home automation wormhole. It started with Wiz bulbs and now we have a robot vacuum, and as always you've given me some new ideas
My mind was going so fast watching this. The speed and anxiety. It speaks to me. Your videos are very entertaining btw, keep it up :).
I work with home assistants and I love watching zack strugle to do anything
I am both a 3D printing weirdo and a home automation weirdo, it's a match made in never finishing a project :)
Really great video man! This is the kind of content I love
I always liked watching your projects, not just 3D printing stuff
Your channel is what I imagine if Bill Nye, George Carlin, South Park, This Old House, and the entirety of MIT Opensource Ware was condensed down into a new Power Thirst energy drink.
Your channel rocks! Been subscribed for a while and love the discord. This episode was really awesome dude, thank you for these videos!
I’m a home automation nerd who’s getting his first 3D printer in the mail tomorrow… been sucking up your videos and stumbled across this one. I love it! Everything in my house is automated, and HomeBridge connects my cameras to it all as well for improved presence detection everywhere. My wife would describe it as that special level of hell you were talking about.
I am glad I found your channel after I have my home. Now I need to finish electrical work so that I can get the printers into an insulated space I can put my printers and the dehydrator in a cool, dry, smart room.
I had known that some of that had come along, but not all of it. Thank you!
There's something I find very sad about home automation. It overcomplicates a system and removes its robustness, but also, it gets rid of the rituals in our daily routine by overcomplicating it.
it can also give you new possibilities
As an Industrial Automation Enginerd, hard agree about overcomplication and robustness. There's a reason physical controls are left in place - sometimes the automations fail.
Any hobby is of course a personal decision of balancing time and passion, but I find as we begin to automate everything the beginning thesis of it making processes/life easier and more efficient can get twisted into an end result of more time and energy being put into a system than it began with.
I've always aligned with the axiom "engineering is to simplify."
Will there be a Home Automation channel in the discord? I'm currently integrating a local AI into my home Automation system 😂
I've been waiting on you to discover this lol. I'm definitely a Home Assistant nut on a 3d printing channel. Couple words of advice: 1) Get off that SD card and onto a hard drive. The sd card will fail without warning due to too many writes. 2) Avoid anything that uses the cloud like the plague, unless you want them to randomly cut off your access one day.
Have fun!
"Coming back to the smart home stuff after a decade away feels like returning to a remote tribe and finding a space program." Tell me about it. I played with PIC microcontrollers and BASIC stamps in 2004, and then came back ten years later to the Arduino world (okay, OSEPP, but same thing), and I couldn't believe how spoiled everyone was. The chips were orders of magnitude faster (ideas I had 10 years earlier were literally impossible on any chip, and now quite doable), and you could just plug the board in over USB. I had to MAKE my own cable back when, and program in assembly, and upload from a boot loader. 10 years later, they could just plug in a USB cable, fire up an IDE based on the Processing one, and look at dozens of sample scripts up in the menus. I chose the one that blinks the light on the board, and seconds later it was blinking. It took me a week of soldering, splicing, failing, assembling, and wiring up my own clock to get that far before.
Im intigued.
Home Automation guy watching a 3D Printer Channel! 🤪
^^ BEST CHANNEL EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@homeauto9099LOL - THANKS 💖
Good episode for October. Truly a chilling descent into madness.
Love your "live" PS ... presentation ... slides ... thingy! Unless I finally give up, let the hyperfocus energy flow and dive deep into home automation, I'll maybe try something similar in my PhD defense (I keep procrastinating) to get people's attention. This is so fun to watch :). Oh and nice projects btw. You can feel really lucky to be able to do all this stuff as a creative outlet. Truly inspiring!
Ahh, another virus for the collection. Very good... 😈
Zach please help me automate my toilet i always forget to put the seat down and mu wife hates it
buy the lid with the almost auto soft closing spring maybe? touch it and voila... or code up a dog collar buzzer to buzz you if you forget? idk plenty of ways to skin that problem
That rgb gridfinity looks interesting! Looking forward to the video!
This was the absolute best home automation video I've seen. Thank you.
I'm just a trans girl watching a train's rights video by mistake.
Long-time viewer of you, but also been half-obsessed with home automation for the last 10 years as well. God, yes, watching the changes is always so nice. Wanting to do something specific, giving up when it's too complicated, then stumbling into a brand-new way of easily doing it two years later is always a dopamine hit. Home Assistant is very nice, I agree. You should add Grafana plugins ;) (no, don't, it'll make the wormhole deeper (but so much yummy data)).
I like the GF LEDs, too. I will resist the urge, I'm still trying to get normal setups fully printed for all my junk.
Dude, I struggled to follow you this time and I'm a massive fan and user of home automations (regrettably, with only 2 involving my printers). Loved the demo of falling into the rabbit hole, thou! Brilliant video!
can't wait to have all my things stored in gridfinity led bins and have a lookup table light up the according bin & drawer
I’ve been diagnosed with the home automation virus. But I’ve been watching your printing videos mostly. I arrived by searching for office organization. I subscribed literally because I love your use of language. Two things pushed me across the finish line:
“…as ASAP as possible…” and “my very third project” 😂
A tip for that high CRI led and overheating, its best to mount it to aluminum flat bar. It acts as a heat sync, and if you drill screw holes in it, it makes it much easier to install. That is how we install all the high CRI product in film/television.
Amazing video! As a big HA user seeing you get into it was exciting!
Hell yes! I printed some gridfinity bins with translucent filament for the first time and was thinking how cool it would be to use the bases that let you run wire to route LEDS to the bins. Would great for lighting up the bins you're looking for based on the item. And here we are the man Zack coming out GridfinitaRGB...lol This is awesome and creates a whole new way to use the gridfinity system. A wall of bins will no longer look so industrial and they can be lit up for some good vibes that will be balanced out by my electric bill.
This is super cool and I am so happy for you but it makes me so glad I have never decided to dive into this stuff
I followed for 3D printing content, but I'm deep into home automation myself, so I'm always happy to see more content :)
I loved those video so much! As a 3D printer who has spent countless hours hooking anything I possibly can to Home Assistant it hit all those checkboxes!
I never realized I enjoyed the patron name rambling until I was without it for a while. Love your videos Zack 😎👉👉
I always love Zack's energy,
I love this sooo much because this is a painfully accurate re-enactment of how my falling down the hole of home assistant went
Both 3d printing and home automation are both interests. I just installed a WLED based light for my front door. I haven't added it to home assistant yet. There is a 8 inch tablet mounted in the hallway that controls all the lights with the home assistant app. I will check out your thangs later
Here for HA reasons, linked by a friend into both HA and printing. Was surprised you didn't even mention HA until 13 min in!
With my adhd I can't usually make it thru a 2:40 video let alone a 24min video, and although I don't know how the things you're talking about ( thanks for making me feel dumb) I enjoy watching all your vids. Keep the content coming. Good work
I got recommended this video having never watched any 3D printing videos or home automation videos. I do watch tech and computer videos and am a software dev so it definitely makes sense why this was recommended to me.
Oh my god that dongle stiuation would have sent me over the edge. I'm enjoying your videos more and more.
I've been actively avoiding my Home Assistant setup since the weather turned nice back in April. I've got lights to add, buttons to fix, and screen layouts to fix. But, I know as soon I a jump back into it I'm going to forgo all other responsibilities for the next few weeks. Winter is coming and I'm not ready.
I cant believe this channel doesn't have more subs, all off zacks videos are amazing!
Sonoff and Tasmota are incredible sleepers, I've used several of their basic boards to make smart switches (also inspired an Instructables page because I wasn't satisfied with any of the existing instructions to turn a normal switch into a toggle button)
I felt like I had been watching this video for 2 hours, and was loving every minute. I checked and i was only 17 minutes in. how do you do that? Very interesting and ty for sharing. Man that was some pretty epic entertainment. If I was retired I would totally implement some of these ideas in my home
I fell down the HA rabbit hole around 3 years ago, set up a whole bunch of automations and stuff I could control with my phone and then kinda didn’t touch it until recently. And even in those 3 years I was shocked by how much progress was made in terms of ease of setup and compatibility. I am fully sucked back into the rabbit hole and that’s probably why TH-cam suggested this video for me
Yes... my exact thoughts when i saw home assistant. I was dreading coding my own control system then i found home assistant. Now i keep using it for everything
Haha. Welcome to the wormhole. I'm one of those weirdos where the Venn diagrams overlap between a 3d printer and a home automation builder. With a touch of RGBled curious. Glad you found home assistant. And tasmota. Look forward to the future content!
Those xbee boards!! I had experimented a lot back then for a smart gardening on battieries. Those things were ahead of time
I’ve finally watched this, and you’re already f*king up my recs with home automation videos 😭