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.
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.
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
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 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!
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.
@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.
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
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!
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.
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!
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? 😳
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.
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
I'm curious about the parts used for the desk lamps. The part numbers of the monitor mounts, and what attachments are used to mount the flood lights. Anyone know? Seems out of the ordinary to be able to mount something facing downward on a monitory mount.
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'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 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.
@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 cool features he added in. not sure I like the dashboard layout. too much everywhere. I think id prefer navigating to different sub menus or a different main screen based on where its located. definitely stuff he made I would love to incorporate though. I really want graphs and data logging. and I'm in the habitat platform. unfortunately it does not seem nearly as easy to do in habitat.. I would need a separate SQL server or similar.. and at that point why not just switch to HA?
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 👍
I'd like to know more about how he mounts these dashboards... that is one thing that has stopped me from doing more with dashboards is mounting and power. I have a pretty low tolerance for dangling wires and things like that. Right now I'm using Tileboard on a super old iPad but I feel like it's a little out-dated and clunky. Might be inspired to update mine after seeing this video
(copied this from a reply I made earlier) Before switching to the Samsung tablets, I was using Google Nest Hubs (which were so slow and unreliable that I got rid of them). All of the tablets are mounted using magnets and by adding a metal sticker on the back of every tablet. For the desk mounted tablets I used these (and painted them black): Scosche MPOHM MagicMount Pro Magnetic Phone Holder Mount But ripped off the suction base and added large 3"x3" decorative washers for weight and then set those into "Rubber Furniture Caster Cups, 3 x 3 Inch" that just happened to fit well. For the wall mounted tablets, I had already cuts holes in the wall for the Nest Hubs and had installed "Mount Genie Google Nest Hub Wall Mounts." To make them work with the tablets, I added a tablet wall mount magnet inside the space to hold the tablet there instead. It was an experimental process to get it to work with a mount not designed for it, and it is hard to describe without photos. I also secured a string to the back of the tablet so if the magnet or adhesive fails, the tablet won't hit the ground or pull on the power cables. The 2 tablets mounted inside the wall are both very near an existing outlet or light switch, so I added an extra outlet inside the wall (consult an electrician unless you know what you're doing) which has a USB plug that is connected to the tablets with a flush USB-C cable.
i recently set up home assistant myself but the smart home devices i most wanted to get on there aren't available. so far all i've been able to do is when the dining room light turns on at dusk, it will just leave it alone if it's already on instead of effectively dimming it. i'd love to do similar things with my shades but there's no integration. they also frequently don't work even within their own app's schedules so probably need to replace the hub with something home assistant compatible that doesn't constantly drop its wifi connection. as far as i can tell it's an ezlo 100 and the shades themselves have somfy motors, in case anyone has a suggestion
Hey I love that voice announcements on Google Home Mini. I do use the same in my smart home. I use TTS, but it will stop any music that is playing on Google Home Mini and it doesn't continue. If announcement feature us used it starts "Incoming broadcast that says..... " Which is annoying. Is this problem solved.? How is this problem solved.?
Im at the start of the video (1 min in) and my first reaction is that his dashboard is insanely cluttered and non intuitive when looking at a glance. To me, thats an immediate failure for an effective dashboard, but lets see how I feel about it by the end of the video :)
Great set of automations and integrations. The data available is fantastic. But Dan needs a hand with his user interface and layout. That shotgun-blast of data all over the screen isnt being done justice.
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?
@dandixonus I eger to know the intentions you used for the Miele washing machine as well as the automations because I have the same brand and struggling to get anything out of that
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.
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!
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
Touring really cool smart homes is one of my favorite videos your channel makes! Do more!!
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!
My dashboard is over here looking really sad now 😂😂😂. His dashboard looks so basic but yet, it is so damn powerful.
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.
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.
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
Nice video Reed. This smart home is really impressive and you can see how much time and effort was invested.
Amazing. Although like Dan, I can’t wait till I no longer have to prefix my smart home with “when it works…”
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 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
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.
a guide to build a similar dashboard would be nice!
This would be basically be learn how to write code 101
It's higly customized... you have to be a developer to be able to do that. What we saw in the video is probably the 500th iteration of that dashboard
Love Dans house, great automation ideas, another great video Reed!!!!
WOW! 🤯 I would love a tutorial on building this dashboard. Maybe on your second channel. Thanks for the tour.
this.... my new life goal
Love Universe Sandbox in VR!!
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!
Amazing!! I guess Dan lives alone - otherwise it would be a mess with all the automations:)
Incredible work! To think, I was thrilled to get actionable notifications to work on my garage door… 😂
Damn, that has to be the most impressive setup I have seen yet! Nice work, Dan. You should make this into a project!
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.
@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.
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
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!
So cool! Do you think he is willing to share that chime sound?
Great video! So many ideas!
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.
Very inspiring. It looks like its time to start my home automation journey.
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!
@dandixonus this is awesome! What are you using to hold and charge your tablets that you have scattered around your house?
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? 😳
Seeing Aqara temp humidity sensor working in this dashboard legitimately got me excited lol
Oh My God is this unbelievable. This is what you think of when imagining home automation.
This is, of course, very cool. But nothing works in Kharkiv (Ukraine) during a blackout😢
These definitely feel like going to your friends house who just got the powerglove 😂
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.
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.
Please share the code for the automation and the dashboards.
Maybe you’re just teasing this at the end but I seriously need a replacement for all my Harmony remotes that are wearing out.
Is he sharing this, or is this blueprint available for purchase? I'd pay Dan. He did remarkable work.
This place is intense… and I want my house to have all of it!
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 🎥
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
Dan is the smart home endboss
Is this the creator of the universe sandbox game ?!
thats so cool, i'm bit jealous now.
He has to make this available to buy!!!! 😮
Really Great Dashboard which integrates with smart home😮. Love these videos you make. Just one question how the power about dashboard tablets being handled.
Apple should consult him even if the only outcome they end up with is the animated rain icon.
Haha seriously!
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
This is so cool. Does he share the code or anything so we could try to recreate similar.
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
I'm curious about the parts used for the desk lamps. The part numbers of the monitor mounts, and what attachments are used to mount the flood lights. Anyone know? Seems out of the ordinary to be able to mount something facing downward on a monitory mount.
this really is next next next level!!
Pffft... the "perfect" smart home set up doesn't exi....😧 uhhh woooowwww 🤩
How is it possible to detect "Connection Lost" and Restarting in order to change the background colour of cards ?
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.
Wow this is beautiful
Nice dashboard! Nice Lego sets. Got to be single or one accepting partner 😂
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
95 Philipps Hue lights is nuts lol... I need to hit the lottery lol
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
Impressive! I wonder how he did the "Restarting" screen when home assistant reboots...
Coolest part was that smoke wand. Was it diy or purchased.
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?
Amazing work Dan & Reed!!! Is there a model (customizable) available on home assistant shop?
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.
Dan could redesign the UI for EVERY EV car!
@dandixonus any update on a Github repo ?
Absolutely crazy! ❤
@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.
So how many hubs does Dan use?
Home assistant yellow, google and Samsung?
very cool features he added in. not sure I like the dashboard layout. too much everywhere. I think id prefer navigating to different sub menus or a different main screen based on where its located. definitely stuff he made I would love to incorporate though. I really want graphs and data logging. and I'm in the habitat platform. unfortunately it does not seem nearly as easy to do in habitat.. I would need a separate SQL server or similar.. and at that point why not just switch to HA?
Reed, it's not clear from your tour, but does he have voice control set up as well or is his home only controlled by the dashboards?
amazing video, how he made the mailbox, so that it works from a distance
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 👍
Interested on how his network is set up to handle all the wifi connections
What ist the home‘s standby power consumption!?
I'd like to know more about how he mounts these dashboards... that is one thing that has stopped me from doing more with dashboards is mounting and power. I have a pretty low tolerance for dangling wires and things like that. Right now I'm using Tileboard on a super old iPad but I feel like it's a little out-dated and clunky. Might be inspired to update mine after seeing this video
(copied this from a reply I made earlier)
Before switching to the Samsung tablets, I was using Google Nest Hubs (which were so slow and unreliable that I got rid of them).
All of the tablets are mounted using magnets and by adding a metal sticker on the back of every tablet.
For the desk mounted tablets I used these (and painted them black):
Scosche MPOHM MagicMount Pro Magnetic Phone Holder Mount
But ripped off the suction base and added large 3"x3" decorative washers for weight and then set those into "Rubber Furniture Caster Cups, 3 x 3 Inch" that just happened to fit well.
For the wall mounted tablets, I had already cuts holes in the wall for the Nest Hubs and had installed "Mount Genie Google Nest Hub Wall Mounts."
To make them work with the tablets, I added a tablet wall mount magnet inside the space to hold the tablet there instead. It was an experimental process to get it to work with a mount not designed for it, and it is hard to describe without photos.
I also secured a string to the back of the tablet so if the magnet or adhesive fails, the tablet won't hit the ground or pull on the power cables.
The 2 tablets mounted inside the wall are both very near an existing outlet or light switch, so I added an extra outlet inside the wall (consult an electrician unless you know what you're doing) which has a USB plug that is connected to the tablets with a flush USB-C cable.
@@dandixonus oh nice, thanks for the details! I hadn’t thought about using a magnet mount for some reason
i recently set up home assistant myself but the smart home devices i most wanted to get on there aren't available. so far all i've been able to do is when the dining room light turns on at dusk, it will just leave it alone if it's already on instead of effectively dimming it. i'd love to do similar things with my shades but there's no integration. they also frequently don't work even within their own app's schedules so probably need to replace the hub with something home assistant compatible that doesn't constantly drop its wifi connection. as far as i can tell it's an ezlo 100 and the shades themselves have somfy motors, in case anyone has a suggestion
Hey I love that voice announcements on Google Home Mini. I do use the same in my smart home. I use TTS, but it will stop any music that is playing on Google Home Mini and it doesn't continue. If announcement feature us used it starts "Incoming broadcast that says..... " Which is annoying. Is this problem solved.? How is this problem solved.?
I want to do this....but in my SKOOLIE RV! There must be a way to have a 24/7 network and 12v 😢!
Im at the start of the video (1 min in) and my first reaction is that his dashboard is insanely cluttered and non intuitive when looking at a glance. To me, thats an immediate failure for an effective dashboard, but lets see how I feel about it by the end of the video :)
Great set of automations and integrations. The data available is fantastic. But Dan needs a hand with his user interface and layout. That shotgun-blast of data all over the screen isnt being done justice.
Very cool video!!!
Cool setup, but you can only do this if you're single. My wife would throw a fit.
You just have to factor in the WAF (Wife Accessibility Factor) 😂
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?
Freakin Radd !! 👍👍🍻
@dandixonus I eger to know the intentions you used for the Miele washing machine as well as the automations because I have the same brand and struggling to get anything out of that
Definitely the best dashboard I've seen yet. Samsung, Google, Amazon needs to hire him for the next smarthome app 😂
Bros just out here making better software than smart home tech companies
Man's paradise and wife's nightmare.
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.
Wish he had a how-to guide on what all he did and how he set it up. Or even sold it.
I just wonder how spotify is streamed/cast to the speakers?
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
You can tell he lives alone with all that setup. Love it but no way the Mrs. would approve all that.