How to setup sensor automation with Apple HomeKit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- Smart switches, smart bulbs, and other smart home accessories really start paying dividends when paired with great automations that make your home feel like it's magically adapting to your needs. Let's take a look at how to set up these kind of sensor based automations in HomeKit with Apple's Home app and beyond...to take your home automation game to the next level!
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Hey Eric - Just want to take a moment to thank you for the time you have put into your videos - you have been a huge help to me in making my transition from Alexa to HomeKit. As I was watching this video, I was figuring out in my head that this automation was similar to what I created using shortcuts, but I love how easy it was to do that in Eve!
Eric - your videos / walkthroughs are great! Well done & thank you for putting together such well produced/ detailed helpful HomeKit instruction guides. I never even new Eve existed- but this will allow me to take the home automation game up to the next level! Keep it up!
Hey, this is the second video I have seen and I‘m already a fan! Good videos, good explanations! Keep it up! 💪🏼
Getting into HomeKit at the moment and your videos certainly are helping! Appreciate the content. Subbed!
This was really helpful thanks. Helped me get automatic lighting going properly in my closet and bathroom
Great video, mate! Thanks for the tip about the Eve app🙏
Your videos are brilliant, I’m new to HomeKit and you have really helped. Thank you.
I have the same problem as you. Only when I watch your video finally find the solution. Great video. Thank you!
Amazing video. Thank you.
You had to run the stairs with/without baskets quite some times. 🙂 for how silly it is, it makes it so much easier to understand the points you’re making.
Great videos man, I just recently discovered your channel! I hope the TH-cam algorithm suggests it to more people over time. Cheers!
Excellent explanation of conditions in the Eve app. The information in that part of the video is very useful.
Thanks Paul!
Thanks a lot, wierd to have to use several apps, depending on what you want to achieve with HomeKit
Thanks for the video! It really helped to solve a very annoying issue and it is incredible that apple did not include this on their home app.
Awesome man...just awesome. Just what I needed to get going on my new Eve motion sensor. THANKS!!!!
Awesome channel! Love the apple HomeKit videos!
I love your videos. I actually went back to this one because there is no videos explaining the eve app and value automation. I hope you will make such a video. You would be the first on youtube. A good in deepth video... thx
Thanks for the suggestion. I have a video planned for next week already, but I’ve added this idea to my list
Really helpful. Thank you.
Thx for this. Very helpful. I wanted to turn on a light if a door sensor was open, but not shut it off if another door opened and remained open before the first one closed. I downloaded the Eve app and was able to figure out how to do exactly what I wanted. Really appreciated your tips.
Well done, just subscribed, and hit the bell.
New to HomeKit coming from Alexa, Love the EVE app thanks for the tips
Very useful tips Eric 👍🏼
Great tip
Thank you so much for what you do for the community. I love this video! i re-watch it every few months to setup new Sensors. Could you do an updated video of this since homekit has updated from 4 years ago?
Great suggestion!
@@EricWelanderthe motion turn off never works why Eve montion sensor suck with this
Wonderful tip mate, was wanting to see if Apple did this in Home, never happened (so far), but fantastic that we can use another app 'Eve'!!!!!!!
Apple now has an app called Shortcuts which can do exactly that. Check it out.
Hi Eric. Thanks for all you are doing to assist a Homekit newb. My beginner's question is what type of bulb or switches are you using to turn the basement lights on and off by motion sensor? What brand sensor as well. Thanks! and Kudos for quality.
Great video! Just what I was looking for. Is there a way to set a vacancy sensor? I.e. if the same light was turned on manually, create an automation that would shut it off after a set period of time?
These automations are one of the main reasons why HomeKit makes the best Smart home application. Google has to learn something from apple. HomeKit is simply unmatched. But i do miss those google assistant routines. But im happy with what i have since scenes are also easily accesible.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks man. The Eve is the key here ... hopefully iOS16 will add this ...
Another great video! I like the B-roll! Great job! And congrats on 1500 subs!
Good tip in using the Eve app for more complex automations. I haven't set up too many automations using sensors, but that's definitely coming in the future. One that I like is turning on the back porch lights when the back door is opened (only at night). We're always letting dogs out so this one is great. Also, I'm really starting to like the Aqara system since they have so many different, inexpensive sensors available.
Thanks Shane! The back door idea sounds great 👍
Awesome video! Thx. What do you think about the app „Controller for HomeKit“? It should do the Same.
Ye the eve app is really good. I prefer is a lot over the Home+4
Good video. I am new to Home automation. I bought this sensor but I don’t have a smart bulb. What smart light bulbs do you use and which one do you recommend? My wifi does not reach to the 3rd floor on my house and very week in the 2nd floor. Please let me know.
Eric have you used the Phillips Outdoor Sensor? it worked well with configure in Apple HomeKit but it has stopped working in HomeKit under IOS 16.1... Thoughts? Great sensor video keep up the good work...
Thank you for the great Video! As usual…
I’ve a question for you, i seen your review on onvis motion sensor, but nothing about the eve motion sensor, i’m sure you know the product, so I’m here to ask you, for the same price which do you buy, eve or onvis motion sensor?
(I’m not interested on the humidity and temperature sensor)
Thank you so much
Could you go more in depth with the eve app and the types of rules you could make? Very interesting!
I have a smart plug that my wife's hair curlers are plugged into.The hair curlers do not have an on/off switch so my wife has to remember to unplug them each day. I have created a scene called "Good Morning" that will turn this plug on so her curlers will heat up while she is taking a shower. I would like to create an automation in the EVE app that will turn off this plug after 30 minutes when it detects that the plug has turned on. Can you help me with this as I can't seem to be able to figure it out. I was able to set an automation through another scene called "I'm leaving", but again my wife would have to remember to "activate" this scene which defeats the whole purpose of having HomeKit do this for us automatically. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Frederick Falk I'm not sure if you're asking me, but I don't know how to do this. I don't know enough about eve.
@@joshx413 Actually, I was asking Eric Welander how to do this and it mistakenly got attached to your previous comment. I think I may have figured it out. I'm still working on the automation.
Hi Eric, Like your video good in detail explanation, I am trying to create a shortcut for my Ring Door Bell. When motion is detect on my RING DOOR bell would it be possible to get txt message when motion is detected Thank you for your help.
Hi Eric! I am new to the HomeKit Eccosystem. I am based in Denmark, and what to turn my 'old' switches smart with the Fibaro single switch. Do you have any experience with that product?
Best regards, and thanks for a amazing Chanel (Y)
Hi Eric, please let me know if it is possible to use one hue motion sensor to set up thre different light in one room with different rules
Now I got a home hub so I can access it remotely but it still is not letting me set up when people arrive or leave for some reason
Hi Eric, I just bought a few smart light bulbs and set them up in the apple home kit. These bulbs will be used for my outdoor backyard and patio. Do you know if I can set up the way I can schedule the on and off time? I'm ok if it is set up on and off by time or by sunset and sunrise.
I found out when to turn it off but only after 4 hours but I want the light will be on all night, let's say from 6 PM to 7 AM.
I try to use the ecobee sensors to activate the Philips hue lights but don’t work when I add automation in home kit Apple any idea way? Thank you
Thanks for the explanations. But one question. The sensors "feel" the change in status for example from Closed to Open and these can trigger an action on another homekit device. But if I want to "read" the closing or opening status to perform an action, how do I do it? Example: I want if the contact is closed (from 4pm) when it is 6pm to activate, for example, a homekit socket. Thanks for your answer.
Does Ring Pro work with it? for my Apple TV
Is there anyway to do this with stuff like Alexa, and/or SmartThings?
Thanks Eric - the Eve app looks interesting. If I use this Eve app with homekit - where does it store the automation steps or instructions? Does an IOS device with the eve app have to remain at home? Of course my phone is going to be with me. I have two Apple TV's which act as homekit hubs - and I also started using lutron devices and their hub. I know Lutron is separate - and wouldn't really expect Apple TV to store these EVE app instructions either. So I'm guessing that I'd need eve on an Ipad that stays at home. Is that right?
Wouldn’t it be better to do to automatizations , one to turn on if lights are off and another to turn off if lights are on? That way they will go on when you go down and off when you come up. And not get left in the dark if you stay more than 10’ or left on more than necessary if you o let go down 1’ ? Would that work ?
Great video! Can I use variables to create automations? people at home Forget to turn off the lights here all the time, so I want to use 2 motion sensors in the doors, for example: sensor one facing the hallway and sensor two facing the bedroom, motion on sensor 1 then on sensor 2 add 1 to the people counter of the bedroom, if sensor 2 detects motion them sensor 1 detect motion, it removes 1 from the people counter in the bedroom and adds 1 to the hallway people counter, so if people’s counter in the room is above 1 the light turns on, and if it’s 0 the light turns off, what you guys think? Can be done?
How do you get a motion sensor to flash a light a specific colour when motion is detected and then go back to its normal state?
Can you tell us what sensors work with Apple HomeKit though please?
Hey Eric! I know this is an older video, but I'm curious if you know if the default motion behavior has changed in Home or maybe it is manufacturer dependent.
If your video you say that every time motion is detected, a new 10 minute timer is set. I am not experiencing this and I'm quite literally left in the dark.
My lights are going off, even if someone is still in the room and they're moving around and motion is confirmed in the home/eve app.
Hardware is a Lutron Casetta switch and an eve motion sensor.
Thanks for all the great homekit content!
Hi Eric. Great video. I have used Smartthings for 6 years bit having Apple Phones, ipads, macs and Apple TV's wanted to move to Homekit, especially with SMARTTHINGS stock seemingly disapearing worldwide and it just not look as slick. However it does just work as you would expect which Homekit does not. So in my Homekit quest i purchased a Hue sensor to test if can mimick all basic settings. For example, light comes on with motion, and goes off after 15 minutes of no motion. You can't do this however. It appears movement only pauses the countdown and doesnt reset this. I have found shortcuts to reset it, however due to scripting this appears to only work for a few minutes because just refuses to work. Can the Eve app help? Is it a limitation Hue Sensors? please help
Can it off automatically after a while? Or we have to manually turn it off?
1:49 have you also noticed that in ios 16.2 it is no longer that loop reset every time there is new movement? 😮 The timer (any number of minutes) just runs out even with new movement. i really miss it! Can you test this in your HomeKit automations? No one on TH-cam has talked about it yet.
Has HomeKit since introduced conditions?
in my HomeKit system motion detection doesn’t restart the auto turn off function clock :( so I got a question regarding motion sensor and light automation. I would like my light to turn on as sensor detects motion, and then turn off the light when sensor does not detects light for a specific period of time. So like the light is turned on, and then during 5 minutes there is no motion and the light turns off. How can I make it happen? Either in Home app or Eve app. Thanks in advance for the help.
I have the same question. I want it to work like an occupancy sensor light switch.
@@scottpugmire5449 i just step 2 automations, first one turns the light on when motion is detected, set it to never turn off, set another to turn off the same light when no motion is detected. does that sound like a good idea?
@@mkbaharris so does that mean the only way to turn the lights on and off with motion sensor using in a room like small kitchen is to set turn on in Home app, but set turn off the light in Shortcut app with a script?
@@pc006886 no, i mean you could write a script i guess, but the simple way i did it was to create 1 automation to detect motion, set to never [during night time only] and create another to turn off the light when NO motion is detected [also set to night only] works great for me
@@mkbaharris Ah I got it! I’ll try it now! Thanks!
Use two sensors ehen going to basements. First will turn off lights, second will turn on. On the way back, u will turn on(no chsnge) and then turn off automatically
How can I make a light turn off after one minute of no motion detected?
Can a sensor trigger an audio alarm?
I wonder why the conditions are not configurable via Home app, I feel like it should eventually
hello can you help I purchased a hue motion sensor and set it up to control my wall cupboard lights it works flawlessly however after off setting time they switch off fine you say but I want them to stay on from Siri command which they will not do!
Sound like maybe the motion sensor is being triggered shortly after you ask Siri and then starts the timer to shut off the lights?
With iOS 13/ iPadiOS using Workflows, you can set “if then”. IE, If light on then... You don’t need anymore EVE’s app.
That’s great! But with that you still need your devices around right? So if you were gone with your i-devices, the automation wouldn’t work for other people that live with you.
Hi Eric, have you tried Netatmo echo system with HomeKit? Any plan to test it?
I have not tried Netatmo yet but I would like to
what motion sensors do you currently use in your home?
EXCELLENT. Your Eve solution appears to be one way I have to go to setup my two dream automations. But! Is Eve still the answer, or have you found another way without going outside Homekit? DREAM1: I wanted to turn on my AppleTV and LG with one command. My solution was to put them on the same VOCOlinc smart plug because my LG didn’t support the fancy features, and my AppleTV wouldn’t wake up/turn on without calling it on separately. DREAM2: I wanted to have my VOCOlinc color flux light bulb on the front porch to turn on at sunset to red at 50%, then flare to yellow at 70% when a motion sensor (from a camera) detects a person, then after an interval returns to red-50%, and finally at sunrise just turns off. This I have failed so far. I set the “Schedule” via VOCOlinc app, but it didn’t stick to the schedule. I tried the “turn off” option in Homekit, but that turned off the light bulb altogether-no return to red-50%.
Nice. Woke-up kinda early to The TH-cams telling me to watch a new #homeautomation video. 😏
So. Do you think that #HomeKit will offer similar functionality for ‘conditions’ in future releases? IOS13?
While I understand that using a 3rd-party App isn’t really all that big of a whoop in the grand scheme, I just have issue with it being the necessity...
Perhaps (probably) I’m just too lazy, but it seems like a hassle/annoyance to have to use multiple Apps to configure what (I believe) is a function that would be commonly used scenario.
Maybe my expectations are too high?
Also - can you offer a reminder of the manufacturer of your motion sensors? I’ve been considering adding a motion sensor(s) and a water/leak sensor to my #smarthome - but don’t want to have to add another Bridge to the system...
I’ll likely just go with #Samsung #SmartThings, as they are supposed to work with the #LutronCaseta Bridge - but I’m open to other suggestions.
Oh. Yeah. Congrats on your 1500 subscribers!
Thanks Bradley!
I will be talking about motion sensors more in a future video but I use the Nest cameras as motion sensors (although don’t count on that for long given Google Nest) and I’ve recently been trying an Onvis motion sensor in this stair location. Onvis makes a Bluetooth HomeKit sensor that doesn’t require a hub.
So Apple officially supports this condition functionality in their API for developers, they just haven’t built it into their own app. It’s still pure HomeKit once it’s set up. But I understand it’s one more added bit of complexity.
Does a motion sensor have to trigger an accessory or can I have it simply send me a notification when motion has been detected? Thanks.
It can.
The trick is this is not done in the "automation" tab, but the settings of the sensor. For every sensor that you have set, go to that rooms tab.
Then you'd see the sensor icon on the top of that room. Press and hold - and the settings page will come up. Scroll all the way down and select "Status and Notifications". Now you can select "Notifications on this phone". By default this is turned off.
I hope this helps.
The thumbnail: you just offended that motion sensor and now it's TRIGGERED
Why don't you just do this automation in the hue app. With hue essential you can even trigger different scenes depending on the day. In addition, you can define dependencies, so that the scene is not started, for example, if certain lights are already on.
what sensor brand have been used in this video?
Onvis is in this video. Eve and Aqara are also great
Can anyone tell me why the automations tab of homekit gives me no option and just tells me to use an ipad or purchase an apple tv?
You probably don't have a HomeKit hub setup in your home. You need a HomePod mini, Apple TV box, or an iPad always on in your home to perform automations. There needs to be some device computing the logic for the automations, which is a HomeKit hub.
@@EricWelander Yeah that makes sense, I am just surprised my phone itself can't be the hub holding all the automations in it. Of course my phone won't always be at home so it will miss some automations. I am just surprised I can't link a phillips motion sensor with nanoleaf without using a hub. Thanks so much for the response though
The easiest way that I will do this is to just put a switch on the wall on the way up from the basement which you simply just press to shut everything of once u get pass the motion sensor.
Waiting for the time when Apple allows Shortcuts to run without user prompts - so my heating will turn on when I arrive without me tapping "Run" 🤦♂️
iOS 13 has native Shortcut integration! Third party apps will no longer be necessary for custom conditions.
That’s great! But with that you still need your devices around right? So if you were gone with your i-devices, the automation wouldn’t work for other people that live with you.
@@EricWelander That's what I thought at first as well, but turns out that's not the case! When creating a new automation in the Home app on iOS 13, at the screen where you select which accessories to control, scroll all the way down to the bottom and there's an "Add Shortcut" option under "Advanced". This allows you to create HomeKit-specific shortcuts that run without a personal device!
Love your channel, BTW. Keep up the great videos!
Thanks Brian! That’s great added information! As a developer I’ve been using the betas for other projects but I need to dive into the home automation part of it more soon.
@@EricWelander You're very welcome! FWIW, I just verified that the Shortcut ran correctly even with my iOS 13 device being off the network (home hub is an Apple TV on the tvOS 13 beta).
Condition: When Basement Fan is turned on
Shortcut: Wait 5 seconds > If Basement Desk Light is Off, then set Basement Desk Light to 100% and blue > Otherwise, do nothing.
Nice 👏
Bed occupancy sensor
God !
People are willing to give _access_ to their home information, including cameras to any corporation (Eve in this case) for a little convenience. *Homekit data are not encrypted !*
Can you turn the background music down please or turn it off altogether
Agree w/ Elie - the background music is too loud, and distracting.