Thanks to Dan for letting me tour his house! I added some of the links to what Dan is using in the description. 👉Want me to tour your smart home next? Fill this out: docs.google.com/forms/d/1YguzPKbs6m8LppW5mEPKzjLkk4-q0lgzqv1CEN5P2lU/edit
Thank you ☺ (I'm the guy in the video) It's been a challenging and fun journey creating it and I'm still making changes and improvements. Thanks to Reed for making the video about my labor of love and obsession 😏 I'm very grateful
@@dandixonus Dan, it shows more of love than obsession 😀 (mean that as a compliment). Would you please be willing to share some code, tricks, or other how tos through Reed's site or gitgub? As you show, the tech is fun, but the UX makes all of the difference, especially for those of us whose families likes to say, "why can't I just flip a switch to turn on the light?" It turns our families of begrudging participants into fans.
Nice to see that even a high level automater like dan says "When it works." That's how I feel. 3 or 4 years into my smart home journey and while there is a ton going on here, it doesn't always work. Nice home Dan, nice video Reed. Thanks guys!
He must have invested a lot of money and time to customize all these smart gadgets. His dashboard is amazing and I think he may use his programme knowledge and experience to start selling these to help others to set up the dream home.
From my small amount of experience with conditional cards and custom dashboards, the thought of maintaining and updating that dashboard terrifies me. Impressive, but like he said "hundreds of hours"... well done, sir! And good luck
Same, I would love to do something similar. but i don't need 5+ tablets. maybe 3 at most. I am a absolute N00B when it comes to coding, I have been able to make a basic barebones dash that works reasonably well. and has about everything I need. would love to see how he did those auto-close tabs/menu's as that is something I would like as well
I am blown away by the amount of sheer hours he has just working with home assistant. Home assistant is easily the most frustrating interface to work with... I am the kind of guy that thinks up an automation tries to implement it... Puts like 6-12 hours into it. Gets it half working and doesn't look at it for another week hoping the update fixes my problem. Dashboard dedication is off the scales
I'll see what I can do. I plan on doing some major updates to my dashboard inspired by a lot of what Dan has done. So maybe Dan can give me some tips and I'll share with you guys along the way.
@@SmartHomeSolver thanks @smarthomesolver! I shared one of your other videos in the Node Red HA discord earlier this week, because your advice and sample automation code could help another community member that was looking for help using Tesla car location detection entities. Thanks for giving all of us opportunities to "pay it forward" by learning and growing from each others' innovations!
Thank you! I'm happy to share more, but documenting what I've done would be a full-time job itself. Is there anything specific you have questions about?
@@dandixonusthanks so much for the quick reply. Among it all, the most compelling Ux I saw runs from 2:39-3:10 in the video, where the lighting scenes open a section on the same screen (no scrolling, etc.) for a range of toggle brightness and hue presets with the color palette displayed as well. This functionality would be ideal in my home, and I’m confident that I and many others could adapt this core functionality to many use cases. Thanks!🙏 Btw, I loved how you named scenes by city.
@@ha_tinkerer1191 I'm using tons of conditional cards on the dashboard to show and hide everything. Every section and reminder has its own input_boolean helper/variable to toggle visibility. The preset name, modes, brightness, speed, and twinkly light mode are also all helpers (what Home Assistant calls user defined global variables) that are used to assemble the final command sent to the lights in a final lighting script that applies the settings. There are around 10 scripts that all work together to make this happen. All of the visible controls in the lighting scenes are created with the Custom Button Card addon (along with lots of custom templates and javascript code). The color palette is created by reading the results of a python script that reads the light colors after they've been applied, saves those values to helpers, and then assembles HTML code in a custom_field inside a custom:button-card to display the colors in use. The whole thing was a very slow iterative process where I got one thing working, then built upon that effort with the next.
UX is an obsession of mine. Thank you! Two things I think about a lot: How do I make more things happen in my home automatically? AND How do you make manipulating the universe easier and more intuitive?
Dan seems a great guy and what a HA build! I hope Dan has a tolerant partner who's been patient enough to put up with the thousands of hrs its obviously taken to build this and is now appreciative of the effort involved. We would certainly be - if y'all shared how he did it! Thanks!
@dandixonus That was really sweet! I am assuming you're using conditional cards for all the items that appear and disappear? It's interesting how at first it looks "messy" - but once you see how it works, it makes sense. Thanks for letting us have a tour of your home! And thanks @smarthomesolver for the video.
Thank you for the kind words. I haven't looked into that at all. What would be the best way to share this? Perhaps a GitHub repository of the scripts, automation, helpers, and dashboard templates and code?
@@pandaboy6621 You can create an automation that triggers when Home Assistant shutdown (search for Home Assistant in the triggers) Then I set 2 helpers/varaibles with the requested icon and message. I play an audio notification using my primary notification script (the one that chimes before the message) I loop through each dashboard and use the service: fully_kiosk.load_url to change the dashboards to a dedicated message page that is a single Custom Button Card that shows the helper values with the icon and message. The URL is actually a javascript command so the whole page doesn't have to refresh: javascript:history.pushState(null,"","/lovelace-main/message");window.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent("location-changed"))
@dandixonus, yes, please can you share your config file. I'm in love with the functionality of your dashboard. This is the best dashboard I have ever seen in all my years of using Home Assistant.
Dan once gave me a free copy of the original universe sandbox because of a reddit post I made about my kid enjoying the stars. He's an awesome dude. Since then, of course I have purchased the newer one. Thanks for an awesome game Dan!
Great Video As Always Reed! Your Channel Was one of the first I started watching, while setting up my smart home. Only 14 years old And have learned a lot from you about The smart space! I would love to be featured in a Video of yours!
That’s crazy! Dan should show Amazon how it’s really done! … What I do want to know is if he has almost 100 Hue bulbs, how many total smart home devices does he have and what kind of network does he have to support that? 😳
I was trying to figure out how to replace a couple of bright, but non-controllable LED lamps I bought years ago for working on projects. I also experimented with the Hue Play lights, but they weren't bright enough. It turns out that the Hue outdoor floodlights are the brightest color-controllable lights that Hue makes (correct me if I'm wrong), so it was just a matter of figuring out how to mount them.
@@dandixonus Well they'd better be for that price right? I have them on the front of my house and I thought it was ridiculous how they are set up to be mounted. High on the wall in the back of my TV room will be awesome though!
@@yellowmello There's a small box in the base of the outdoor lights that is where you connect in the main power (and is where the Zigbee antenna is); the power from that to the LED lights themselves is lower powered (since LEDS don't need as may watts). I used a cut-off extension cord to run power to the small box, then added a 2-3 meter long smaller cord that was rated high enough for the power coming out of the box and ran that through the monitor arm and to the light itself.
I'm not that familiar with professional home automation systems, but for me, most of the joy was in doing it all myself. Looking up the KNX dashboards (the first time I've heard of these, and maybe I'm wrong), it doesn't look like they provide the customization that the wild-west of Home Assistant dashboards allow for 😏 That said, hard wiring is always superior to wireless, regardless of the system, and I wish more of my devices were wired.
@@dandixonus for sure no objection to the building and tinkering part of it 😀 We have a KNX installation (that came with the house when it was built) and dashboards, which I think are structured in a visualization server that then has control panels, can do pretty much anything you can think of. It kinda depends on which system you choose and some are locked to be configured by professional installers. We actually just upgraded the server to a 1Home one. At the moment is actually still bridging the old system while we configure this one because we had a closed system from ABB which frankly was terrible. But in practice you can do whatever you can think of with KNX and in fact our old system has all the sensors and controllers for the pool setup on the dashboards which was a custom feature made by the contractors when they built the house. But yeah I totally get your point tho because I like to build stuff too. On the other hand we have a more than average complexity system here and have yet to have something fail and or lag to do whatever whilst being able to still work offline and integrating with all the normal switches my mom is used to when she comes around xD
this is why Ai is so important that every one can have these automation.. how long it spend to automate that...Ai and Smarthome can maybe the next level
Agreed. What I've done isn't reproducable without hundreds of hours of custom work. I'm also excited by how AI could make this level of automation possible for more people
Please don't use AI to try to help you with your automations and dashboard design. AI does not "know" what it is doing. It's just performing some searches and tries to piece together information. More often then not, it does it wrong. In fact, referencing AI for a solution is against the rules in the HA forum. You can read about it in the blog from January 23, 2023. The same applies in the Discord. StackOverflow has a similar policy.
My mans is doing too much and I love it. I literally just installed an Amazon Echo Hub half and hour ago (really like it) and I feel very inferior right now.
I'd like to see how he mapped ll this out before designing it. This is insane, and friggin awesome! Or even a complete list of all the smart devices he has in this setup.
There wasn't ever a master plan. What you see in the video is the result of 2 years of continuous iteration and improvements. What cool thing could I add or improve today? For example: My curtains weren't closing soon enough in the evening, so yesterday I changed them to close based on the outdoor light level instead of time relative to sunset. Not at all dissimilar to the software I make (Universe Sandbox) there wasn't ever a grand plan, but slow and iterative improvents that continuously build on one another. That said, thoughtful naming of every device is super helpful. I spent a long time renaming all my hue lights before importing them into Home Assistant when I started this journey 2 years ago.
Very interesting video tour of Dan’s smart home and dashboard, can you ask Dan if he could make a step by step video guide for beginners, if and when he has time, Thanks
Really Great Dashboard which integrates with smart home😮. Love these videos you make. Just one question how the power about dashboard tablets being handled.
That's awesome. Curious to what method he is using to prevent battery pillowing on the tablets? Also like to know what wifi routers he recommends for that many devices
Can you please let us know how he has wall mounted all the tablets? I don't see charging cables which is really nice installation. Please let me know about his wall mounting method or things he used
It's difficult to see, but I think he's using flat cables. In some shots (e.g. 5:00 & particularly 8:10), it looks as though the cable may have been customised (cover removed at the point it connects to the tablet; it appears to be bare metal and very thin). At 8:15 you can see a very thin connector in the charging port (unless it's just a cover for the charging port!). If you search for 'flat usb c cable' on Google search, and select 'Shopping', you'll see some examples with very thin cables and sharp 90 degree connections to the cable.
This is quite interesting, but I'm honestly not one to use a dashboard for more than information display. Voice control and feedback is more the sort of thing I want to implement in mine, all within the Home Assistant ecosystem.
I bought my first Hue light in 2016, so the entire transformation took about 8 years. I agree that's a lot of money to spend on lights. Until I got home assistant setup, I wasn't really using the lights to their full potential, because making changes required pulling out your phone plus another 6+ taps.
@@dandixonus I’m an all Hue bulb house myself, at close to 100 bulbs now. Do you still have all your bulbs on the Hue bridge(s) or do you have them all going straight to your Home Assistant server now (using Zigbee2Mqtt or ZHA)? I’m currently still on the Hue bridges but am considering dumping them and going straight to HA. Thanks!
I don’t know if I could do all that. What I did in my house is more simple. I reassigned the description in Google home to the switches and plugs to “light”. So when I come into a room all a say is “Hey Google lights” and that one speaker turns on all the lights in that room..then I say Hey Google Lights off and it knows it’s just for that room. If I go to another room the same thing. I know I could get motion sensor, but at 64 I like to keep my brain active 👍
What do you mean by the front end? Most of the dashboard is made with the Custom Button Card addon (with lots of custom templates and code) for Home Assistant.
@@drumslapper Home Assistant is running on the free version of VMware Workstation Player on a Windows 11 machine. The PC is a Minisforum Mini PC NPB6 Intel 13th Gen Core i7-13620H with 32GB RAM This may be way more power than is needed, however I'm also running a 2nd virtual machine on this computer as well.
@dandixonus I'm interested in how you have buttons on your dashboard that when pressed, change a section only of that dashboard. Its amazing, I think all the work you have done on this is excellent, nice one.
Friends that have door codes can punch those in to turn on guest mode and let the house know who's arrived. Guest mode changes the default volume levels for music and voice notifications along with sometimes muting less important notifications. When I leave everything shuts off automatically, unless guest mode is on.
It absolutely looks nice but what I don’t understand is that you need dashboards all over the place when you call your home a smart home and have to push buttons. That worked 50 years ago as well. My home is smart but only have to push a dashboard for an override of one of the many automated scenes.
Will there ever be a download for this dashboard? It'd be nice to use it, stuff like this is completely out the reach of 99% of the people watching this video so having a download would be nice
The biggest issue with this are the Hue lights... You are using some proprietary garbage that might get cancelled anytime. When the first light goes out you gotta replace 100 of them and rewrite all your automations.
I've got a few Hue dimmer switches around the house as backup, but mostly use the dashboard controls, motion sensors, and automations to control the lights. (and thank you, I'm the guy in the video)
@@dandixonus Gotcha, my only problem will be other people and future kids. Any suggestions for dealing with others ha? I dont want to make it to complicated for my wife on turning on/off or dimming lights. Thanks for all the help!
The UI to me looks far too cluttered. Too much info and too many buttons. I’m sure anybody would get lost in using that.all the background automations are great though
Thanks to Dan for letting me tour his house! I added some of the links to what Dan is using in the description.
👉Want me to tour your smart home next? Fill this out: docs.google.com/forms/d/1YguzPKbs6m8LppW5mEPKzjLkk4-q0lgzqv1CEN5P2lU/edit
Would it be possible for Dan to provide us some of the scripts he wrote? Maybe a Github link, would really appreciate it, thank you!
This is by far the most impressive smart home I have ever seen
What's crazy is that I had to leave so much out too. I just didn't have enough time to film everything it could do.
@@SmartHomeSolver how about publishing a B roll on your other channel as a further compendium of inspiration and ideas? 😀
Thank you ☺
(I'm the guy in the video)
It's been a challenging and fun journey creating it and I'm still making changes and improvements.
Thanks to Reed for making the video about my labor of love and obsession 😏 I'm very grateful
@@dandixonus Dan, it shows more of love than obsession 😀 (mean that as a compliment). Would you please be willing to share some code, tricks, or other how tos through Reed's site or gitgub? As you show, the tech is fun, but the UX makes all of the difference, especially for those of us whose families likes to say, "why can't I just flip a switch to turn on the light?" It turns our families of begrudging participants into fans.
@@dandixonus Honestly very impressed by the time and effort you put into your dashboard it is absolutely incredible
Nice to see that even a high level automater like dan says "When it works." That's how I feel. 3 or 4 years into my smart home journey and while there is a ton going on here, it doesn't always work. Nice home Dan, nice video Reed. Thanks guys!
Touring really cool smart homes is one of my favorite videos your channel makes! Do more!!
He must have invested a lot of money and time to customize all these smart gadgets. His dashboard is amazing and I think he may use his programme knowledge and experience to start selling these to help others to set up the dream home.
Don't tell Paul that there is someone with 95 hue lights in his house!
From my small amount of experience with conditional cards and custom dashboards, the thought of maintaining and updating that dashboard terrifies me. Impressive, but like he said "hundreds of hours"... well done, sir! And good luck
Same, I would love to do something similar. but i don't need 5+ tablets. maybe 3 at most.
I am a absolute N00B when it comes to coding, I have been able to make a basic barebones dash that works reasonably well. and has about everything I need.
would love to see how he did those auto-close tabs/menu's as that is something I would like as well
Amazing. Although like Dan, I can’t wait till I no longer have to prefix my smart home with “when it works…”
I am blown away by the amount of sheer hours he has just working with home assistant.
Home assistant is easily the most frustrating interface to work with... I am the kind of guy that thinks up an automation tries to implement it... Puts like 6-12 hours into it. Gets it half working and doesn't look at it for another week hoping the update fixes my problem.
Dashboard dedication is off the scales
My dashboard is over here looking really sad now 😂😂😂. His dashboard looks so basic but yet, it is so damn powerful.
I love the idea of the desk task light. I’ll have to steal that idea
Me too. I guess he just wired them into a cord.
Wow, this is something else! Amazing smart home thanks for showcasing it!
Impressive stuff. Could you or Dan please share some “how to’s” with example scripts or css files, etc.? Keep up the great tours.
I'll see what I can do. I plan on doing some major updates to my dashboard inspired by a lot of what Dan has done. So maybe Dan can give me some tips and I'll share with you guys along the way.
@@SmartHomeSolver thanks @smarthomesolver! I shared one of your other videos in the Node Red HA discord earlier this week, because your advice and sample automation code could help another community member that was looking for help using Tesla car location detection entities. Thanks for giving all of us opportunities to "pay it forward" by learning and growing from each others' innovations!
Thank you!
I'm happy to share more, but documenting what I've done would be a full-time job itself.
Is there anything specific you have questions about?
@@dandixonusthanks so much for the quick reply. Among it all, the most compelling Ux I saw runs from 2:39-3:10 in the video, where the lighting scenes open a section on the same screen (no scrolling, etc.) for a range of toggle brightness and hue presets with the color palette displayed as well. This functionality would be ideal in my home, and I’m confident that I and many others could adapt this core functionality to many use cases. Thanks!🙏
Btw, I loved how you named scenes by city.
@@ha_tinkerer1191
I'm using tons of conditional cards on the dashboard to show and hide everything.
Every section and reminder has its own input_boolean helper/variable to toggle visibility.
The preset name, modes, brightness, speed, and twinkly light mode are also all helpers (what Home Assistant calls user defined global variables) that are used to assemble the final command sent to the lights in a final lighting script that applies the settings. There are around 10 scripts that all work together to make this happen.
All of the visible controls in the lighting scenes are created with the Custom Button Card addon (along with lots of custom templates and javascript code).
The color palette is created by reading the results of a python script that reads the light colors after they've been applied, saves those values to helpers, and then assembles HTML code in a custom_field inside a custom:button-card to display the colors in use.
The whole thing was a very slow iterative process where I got one thing working, then built upon that effort with the next.
This is so impressive! Amazing job Dan! Love the UX simplicity! 👏😎
UX is an obsession of mine. Thank you!
Two things I think about a lot:
How do I make more things happen in my home automatically?
AND
How do you make manipulating the universe easier and more intuitive?
Is there a place where I can download this as a template?
this.... my new life goal
Dan seems a great guy and what a HA build! I hope Dan has a tolerant partner who's been patient enough to put up with the thousands of hrs its obviously taken to build this and is now appreciative of the effort involved. We would certainly be - if y'all shared how he did it! Thanks!
@dandixonus That was really sweet! I am assuming you're using conditional cards for all the items that appear and disappear? It's interesting how at first it looks "messy" - but once you see how it works, it makes sense. Thanks for letting us have a tour of your home! And thanks @smarthomesolver for the video.
Amazing!! I guess Dan lives alone - otherwise it would be a mess with all the automations:)
Love Dans house, great automation ideas, another great video Reed!!!!
Nice video Reed. This smart home is really impressive and you can see how much time and effort was invested.
This dashboard is sick! Has Dan published any of this code somewhere so we can disect it and begin implementing these features into our own homes?
Thank you for the kind words.
I haven't looked into that at all.
What would be the best way to share this?
Perhaps a GitHub repository of the scripts, automation, helpers, and dashboard templates and code?
@@dandixonus A GitHub repo was what I was thinking. I was also particularly wondering how you made the dashboard that showed when HA was rebooting?
@@dandixonus Yes! A github repo would be amazing. How can we find it if you post it?
@@pandaboy6621
You can create an automation that triggers when Home Assistant shutdown
(search for Home Assistant in the triggers)
Then I set 2 helpers/varaibles with the requested icon and message.
I play an audio notification using my primary notification script (the one that chimes before the message)
I loop through each dashboard and use the service:
fully_kiosk.load_url
to change the dashboards to a dedicated message page that is a single Custom Button Card that shows the helper values with the icon and message.
The URL is actually a javascript command so the whole page doesn't have to refresh:
javascript:history.pushState(null,"","/lovelace-main/message");window.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent("location-changed"))
@dandixonus, yes, please can you share your config file. I'm in love with the functionality of your dashboard. This is the best dashboard I have ever seen in all my years of using Home Assistant.
Dan is living in 2040. Reid, thanks for going out there and showing us this awesome smart home!
WOW, this it next level stuff. Dan is THE MAN! Can we know about adding the mp3 chime for the Google Mini's
I agree! The link for the mp3 chime is github.com/nimroddolev/chime_tts
The perfect interface is the one that fits the user. I would make difference UI choices, but I'm a different person!
Incredible work! To think, I was thrilled to get actionable notifications to work on my garage door… 😂
Epic level of detail. 90 hue lights? Makes me feel a LOT better about my collection of 30. Great tour Reed, golf clap golf clap for Dan!!
WOW! 🤯 I would love a tutorial on building this dashboard. Maybe on your second channel. Thanks for the tour.
Oh My God is this unbelievable. This is what you think of when imagining home automation.
Damn, that has to be the most impressive setup I have seen yet! Nice work, Dan. You should make this into a project!
Dan once gave me a free copy of the original universe sandbox because of a reddit post I made about my kid enjoying the stars. He's an awesome dude. Since then, of course I have purchased the newer one. Thanks for an awesome game Dan!
Seeing Aqara temp humidity sensor working in this dashboard legitimately got me excited lol
Heeey.. Dan the creator of Universe Sandbox is a fellow Home Assistant user ?
Lets goooooo !!!
Great Video As Always Reed! Your Channel Was one of the first I started watching, while setting up my smart home. Only 14 years old And have learned a lot from you about The smart space! I would love to be featured in a Video of yours!
That’s crazy! Dan should show Amazon how it’s really done! … What I do want to know is if he has almost 100 Hue bulbs, how many total smart home devices does he have and what kind of network does he have to support that? 😳
Please more videos like these🙌
Love the idea of using the Hue outdoor light inside. They can be used with my sync box entertainment group!
I was trying to figure out how to replace a couple of bright, but non-controllable LED lamps I bought years ago for working on projects.
I also experimented with the Hue Play lights, but they weren't bright enough.
It turns out that the Hue outdoor floodlights are the brightest color-controllable lights that Hue makes (correct me if I'm wrong), so it was just a matter of figuring out how to mount them.
@@dandixonus Well they'd better be for that price right? I have them on the front of my house and I thought it was ridiculous how they are set up to be mounted. High on the wall in the back of my TV room will be awesome though!
@@dandixonus how did you go about powering them. Did you just wire them to a electrical cord?
@@yellowmello There's a small box in the base of the outdoor lights that is where you connect in the main power (and is where the Zigbee antenna is); the power from that to the LED lights themselves is lower powered (since LEDS don't need as may watts). I used a cut-off extension cord to run power to the small box, then added a 2-3 meter long smaller cord that was rated high enough for the power coming out of the box and ran that through the monitor arm and to the light itself.
With the amount and time and money I'm not sure if a dedicated KNX installation wouldn't make more sense.
I'm not that familiar with professional home automation systems, but for me, most of the joy was in doing it all myself.
Looking up the KNX dashboards (the first time I've heard of these, and maybe I'm wrong), it doesn't look like they provide the customization that the wild-west of Home Assistant dashboards allow for 😏
That said, hard wiring is always superior to wireless, regardless of the system, and I wish more of my devices were wired.
@@dandixonus for sure no objection to the building and tinkering part of it 😀
We have a KNX installation (that came with the house when it was built) and dashboards, which I think are structured in a visualization server that then has control panels, can do pretty much anything you can think of. It kinda depends on which system you choose and some are locked to be configured by professional installers. We actually just upgraded the server to a 1Home one. At the moment is actually still bridging the old system while we configure this one because we had a closed system from ABB which frankly was terrible. But in practice you can do whatever you can think of with KNX and in fact our old system has all the sensors and controllers for the pool setup on the dashboards which was a custom feature made by the contractors when they built the house.
But yeah I totally get your point tho because I like to build stuff too. On the other hand we have a more than average complexity system here and have yet to have something fail and or lag to do whatever whilst being able to still work offline and integrating with all the normal switches my mom is used to when she comes around xD
So cool! Do you think he is willing to share that chime sound?
Great video! So many ideas!
Love Universe Sandbox in VR!!
Very inspiring. It looks like its time to start my home automation journey.
This place is intense… and I want my house to have all of it!
this is why Ai is so important that every one can have these automation.. how long it spend to automate that...Ai and Smarthome can maybe the next level
Agreed. What I've done isn't reproducable without hundreds of hours of custom work. I'm also excited by how AI could make this level of automation possible for more people
Please don't use AI to try to help you with your automations and dashboard design. AI does not "know" what it is doing. It's just performing some searches and tries to piece together information. More often then not, it does it wrong. In fact, referencing AI for a solution is against the rules in the HA forum. You can read about it in the blog from January 23, 2023. The same applies in the Discord. StackOverflow has a similar policy.
Maybe you’re just teasing this at the end but I seriously need a replacement for all my Harmony remotes that are wearing out.
Wow! So impressive. The UX is next level!
@dandixonus this is awesome! What are you using to hold and charge your tablets that you have scattered around your house?
Is he sharing this, or is this blueprint available for purchase? I'd pay Dan. He did remarkable work.
thats so cool, i'm bit jealous now.
This feels like a dystopian home of the future where someone has zero contact with the outside world. Maybe a space station AI
Haha. No worries, I do go outside 🌲
@@dandixonus lol not knocking it I was more so saying that I could see this in a movie 🎥
At this point, he needs to be sponsored by Philips with the amount of hue lights in his house lol
His lighting sells hue so well
Dan is the smart home endboss
He has to make this available to buy!!!! 😮
My mans is doing too much and I love it. I literally just installed an Amazon Echo Hub half and hour ago (really like it) and I feel very inferior right now.
These definitely feel like going to your friends house who just got the powerglove 😂
I'd like to see how he mapped ll this out before designing it. This is insane, and friggin awesome! Or even a complete list of all the smart devices he has in this setup.
There wasn't ever a master plan. What you see in the video is the result of 2 years of continuous iteration and improvements. What cool thing could I add or improve today?
For example: My curtains weren't closing soon enough in the evening, so yesterday I changed them to close based on the outdoor light level instead of time relative to sunset.
Not at all dissimilar to the software I make (Universe Sandbox) there wasn't ever a grand plan, but slow and iterative improvents that continuously build on one another.
That said, thoughtful naming of every device is super helpful.
I spent a long time renaming all my hue lights before importing them into Home Assistant when I started this journey 2 years ago.
Very interesting video tour of Dan’s smart home and dashboard, can you ask Dan if he could make a step by step video guide for beginners, if and when he has time, Thanks
Is this the creator of the universe sandbox game ?!
Dan could redesign the UI for EVERY EV car!
Really Great Dashboard which integrates with smart home😮. Love these videos you make. Just one question how the power about dashboard tablets being handled.
Super impressive smart home, but that dashboard is an absolute nightmare. That has got to be like 100 icons on one screen
That's awesome. Curious to what method he is using to prevent battery pillowing on the tablets?
Also like to know what wifi routers he recommends for that many devices
Pffft... the "perfect" smart home set up doesn't exi....😧 uhhh woooowwww 🤩
Can you please let us know how he has wall mounted all the tablets? I don't see charging cables which is really nice installation. Please let me know about his wall mounting method or things he used
It's difficult to see, but I think he's using flat cables. In some shots (e.g. 5:00 & particularly 8:10), it looks as though the cable may have been customised (cover removed at the point it connects to the tablet; it appears to be bare metal and very thin). At 8:15 you can see a very thin connector in the charging port (unless it's just a cover for the charging port!). If you search for 'flat usb c cable' on Google search, and select 'Shopping', you'll see some examples with very thin cables and sharp 90 degree connections to the cable.
This is quite interesting, but I'm honestly not one to use a dashboard for more than information display. Voice control and feedback is more the sort of thing I want to implement in mine, all within the Home Assistant ecosystem.
Awesome, some great ideas here. Thanks for sharing!
this really is next next next level!!
Nice! Thanks Dan/Reed.
This is, of course, very cool. But nothing works in Kharkiv (Ukraine) during a blackout😢
Amazing work Dan & Reed!!! Is there a model (customizable) available on home assistant shop?
$5,000-$6,000 on just light bulbs is insane.
I bought my first Hue light in 2016, so the entire transformation took about 8 years.
I agree that's a lot of money to spend on lights.
Until I got home assistant setup, I wasn't really using the lights to their full potential, because making changes required pulling out your phone plus another 6+ taps.
@@dandixonus I’m an all Hue bulb house myself, at close to 100 bulbs now. Do you still have all your bulbs on the Hue bridge(s) or do you have them all going straight to your Home Assistant server now (using Zigbee2Mqtt or ZHA)? I’m currently still on the Hue bridges but am considering dumping them and going straight to HA. Thanks!
Bros just out here making better software than smart home tech companies
Wow this is beautiful
95 Philipps Hue lights is nuts lol... I need to hit the lottery lol
You can tell he lives alone with all that setup. Love it but no way the Mrs. would approve all that.
Can we please get a list of this coding? Could break it up in features or even sell the code if need be. This is awesome
WOW very nice, I think this could be the best dashboard to date that I have seen. Thanks for showing us it, can we get some code?
Everything is phillips hue EXCEPT the washing machine. A project for the future maybe?
I don’t know if I could do all that. What I did in my house is more simple. I reassigned the description in Google home to the switches and plugs to “light”. So when I come into a room all a say is “Hey Google lights” and that one speaker turns on all the lights in that room..then I say Hey Google Lights off and it knows it’s just for that room. If I go to another room the same thing. I know I could get motion sensor, but at 64 I like to keep my brain active 👍
Impressive! I wonder how he did the "Restarting" screen when home assistant reboots...
Coolest part was that smoke wand. Was it diy or purchased.
Nice dashboard! Nice Lego sets. Got to be single or one accepting partner 😂
amazing video, how he made the mailbox, so that it works from a distance
Apple should consult him even if the only outcome they end up with is the animated rain icon.
Haha seriously!
Haha...I still have 16 zones of x10😮. Nice work Dan. Would be nice to know the front end he's using.
What do you mean by the front end?
Most of the dashboard is made with the Custom Button Card addon (with lots of custom templates and code) for Home Assistant.
@@dandixonuswhat processor to run the HA?
@@drumslapper
Home Assistant is running on the free version of VMware Workstation Player on a Windows 11 machine.
The PC is a Minisforum Mini PC NPB6 Intel 13th Gen Core i7-13620H with 32GB RAM
This may be way more power than is needed, however I'm also running a 2nd virtual machine on this computer as well.
@dandixonus I'm interested in how you have buttons on your dashboard that when pressed, change a section only of that dashboard. Its amazing, I think all the work you have done on this is excellent, nice one.
Very nice. But would love to know what is happening when Dan has guests... :D
Friends that have door codes can punch those in to turn on guest mode and let the house know who's arrived.
Guest mode changes the default volume levels for music and voice notifications along with sometimes muting less important notifications.
When I leave everything shuts off automatically, unless guest mode is on.
Very cool video!!!
Wish he had a how-to guide on what all he did and how he set it up. Or even sold it.
Interested on how his network is set up to handle all the wifi connections
It absolutely looks nice but what I don’t understand is that you need dashboards all over the place when you call your home a smart home and have to push buttons. That worked 50 years ago as well. My home is smart but only have to push a dashboard for an override of one of the many automated scenes.
5:12 that’s 7 devices clogging wifi
This is so cool. Does he share the code or anything so we could try to recreate similar.
Will there ever be a download for this dashboard? It'd be nice to use it, stuff like this is completely out the reach of 99% of the people watching this video so having a download would be nice
The biggest issue with this are the Hue lights... You are using some proprietary garbage that might get cancelled anytime. When the first light goes out you gotta replace 100 of them and rewrite all your automations.
Absolutely crazy! ❤
What Light switches does he have though ...? Love the set up, and Love the video!
I've got a few Hue dimmer switches around the house as backup, but mostly use the dashboard controls, motion sensors, and automations to control the lights.
(and thank you, I'm the guy in the video)
@@dandixonus Gotcha, my only problem will be other people and future kids. Any suggestions for dealing with others ha? I dont want to make it to complicated for my wife on turning on/off or dimming lights. Thanks for all the help!
ALSO, I Love Philips Hue Lights, which is another reason why I am asking haha
When your home is your toy
My friends think I’m an automation nerd. Now I can play this for them….
I’m not sure if it’s just me, but how did he make my phone vibrate when he pressed play?!! 😅 5:08
Nice. Is the code for those dashboards available to look at?
The UI to me looks far too cluttered. Too much info and too many buttons. I’m sure anybody would get lost in using that.all the background automations are great though