My Massive Smart Home Tech Unboxing - EP 9 (Amazing New Gear)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Ready for the best new smart home devices? I unbox, review, and showcase all the latest and greatest from the world of home automation. These products all solve an issue or make your home better, and I'm excited to bring you the very best the smart home industry makes.
This one has some of the best products we've ever had on the channel, and we have some brand new smart home hubs that are top shelf. I can't wait for you all to watch this one.
Products and timecodes in today's video will follow just before we do the live premiere!
Links to smart home gadgets in today's video:
SwitchBot Hub 2 - geni.us/SwitchBotHub2AYL (Amazon affiliate link) or at www.switch-bot.com/automateyo... (affiliate link) and use code: SJ15HUB2 for 15% off (Until May 10th)
Govee Night Light - geni.us/GoveeNightLight (Amazon affiliate link)
Aqara G4 Video Doorbell - geni.us/AqaraG4Doorbell (Amazon affiliate link)
Hubitat Elevation C8 - geni.us/HubitatC8AYL (Amazon affiliate link)
Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni - geni.us/DeebotX1OmniAYL (Amazon affiliate link)
Tuya Zigbee Soil Sensor - amzn.to/3JYEI1T (Amazon affiliate link, and not the one I bought exactly) OR www.aliexpress.com/item/10050...
Eve Door and Window Sensor - geni.us/EveDoorWindowSense (Amazon affiliate link)
Onvis Door Sensor - geni.us/OnvisDoorSense (Amazon affiliate link)
Wyze Mesh Router - geni.us/WyzeMeshRouterAYL (Amazon affiliate link)
Shelly Gas - geni.us/ShellyGasSense (Amazon affiliate link)
Handfan Water Bottle - geni.us/HandfanWater (Amazon affiliate link)
AmazonBasics Smart Bulb - geni.us/AmazonBasicsBulb (Amazon affiliate link)
Link to our video doorbell comparison: • The Ultimate Smart Vid...
Timecodes for today's video:
00:00 - The Best New Smart Home Products This Month
0:10 - SwitchBot Hub 2 Review
5:50 - Govee Night Light Review
10:39 - Aqara G4 Video Doorbell Review
18:20 - Hubitat Elevation C8 Hub Review
22:16 - Deebot X1 Omni Review
33:40 - Tuya Zigbee Soil Sensor
36:11 - Eve and Onvis Door Sensors Compared
41:30 - Wyze Mesh Router Review
46:31 - Shelly Gas LPG Review
49:54 - Handfan Watter Bottle Review
52:55 - AmazonBasics Smart Bulb Review
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I have to say the IR Blaster on the Switch Bot Hub Mini, which I got with the Kickstarter for the Blind Tilt, is freaking amazing. It doesn't even need full line of sight to work. I have a half wall between my Switchbot mini hub and the TV and receiver and the activation is 100% reliable, so if the new hub is even better than that, then this will be an absolutely brilliant IR Blaster.
Regarding Z-Wave. The 700 Series introduced Long Range with upto a mile range with 700 Series chips. 800 Series extends this to a possible 1.5 Miles, and also adds Vault security options. Aside from that, the 800 series is quite similar to 700 series Z-Wave chips
Oh man, if you loved the Hub Mini...this thing's next level. I don't even need to point it at the device. I think if I'm seeing things right there's a few on the Hub.
Plus the readback thing is great. I just hope there's more electronics we can use that with.
Thanks for all you do!
My pleasure!
Aww man I was all excited for the soil sensor until I saw I didn't read ph. Granted that would make it way more expensive, but more useful.
Huh, looking at your username I have no idea why ;)
@@AutomateYourLife tee hee hee
Yet another fun video from our friend to the north!!! I don't really have a need yet for the newest Hubitat hub, but was thinking as you showed the moisture sensor that if it was being used somewhere in the yard, you might get it to work because of the better radios (antennae) where other hubs won'.. I really believe that for the most part Matter won't matter much with a Hubitat hub in play. It already doesn't Matter to me as my devices connect fine to Homekit, & Amazon. They'd also connect fine to SmartThings if I still used it. I have the Switchbot hub coming so am anxious to check that out. I have the Aqara doorbell but since I don't really need one, I decided to take a chance and try this as a driveway camera attached right to the side of my garage door. It's only rated as IPX3, but I can say after exposure to a number of hard spring rains here, it's behaving perfectly and the wide angle is well suited for what I'm doing. BTW, in this area none of the delivery folks ever ring the doorbell. It's even true with my neighbors who aren't cored with cameras .Keep it up, Brian!
Yeah I haven't had much use for those new radios personally just because most of what my Hubitat Hub has in it is indoors and the mesh worked fine previously, so...to me that one's a real nice to have feature. However, I could see some of those situations outdoors being great like you said!
Also, does anyone ring a doorbell?
My kids gave me that coffee cup for Christmas lol.
Twins!😃
The soil sensor looks more suited to larger flowerbeds. For the pot, you can find something smaller, an efekta soil sensor would be perfect, particularly with an e-ink screen, though I suppose finding them in stock is going to be hard and the price is quite high
Yeahhhh, I was excited to try it...but honestly, it's been pretty good even in that smaller pot!
Very well done! Have you run across any contact sensors that allow use as a dry contact sensor WITHOUT any modifications, i.e. offer a jack
Hmmmm, not in a while Frank! Sorry!
Thank you sir.
Oh thank you sir!
I didn't know that you have background music playing until I plugged in my headphones to my phone today.
ahahahahaha! Caught ya!
Do you know if the Aquara doorbell can be used with Smartthings? I cant find anything one way or the other - yes or no.
Nope. It cannot be used with ST
Yes there are zwave 800 products out. Innovelli New zwave switches are 800
Oh good to know!
Another great video Brian! It seems that many existing hubs could simply all update to include matter support with a software update if they are using thread.. am I missing something?
You're not Mikey! That's my hope for lots, but I have been watching development of many hubs and their Matter connectivity, and it doesn't always go well from a hardware standpoint. Soooo, it's best with new hardware (so far).
@@AutomateYourLife, good point.. plus it sells new products that keep companies going and covers that development work for the new standards. Lol
@@mikeyfl yeah I mean... companies are fine with new easy hardware deployment. Nice to see SwitchBot dropping in a lot of new features for this one though!
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Brian: Although the Wyze Mesh Router(s) support up to 100 devices, does either router move devices to the other router when the first one hits the 50 device limit? The eero does not. I gave up on eero 6e because it would not.
Sorry Obi Juan, I didn't get to a full router to see if it re-balanced! And I removed them now. I need that third one before I'm gonna put it back in
@@AutomateYourLife Brian: I understand. Frankly I don't know how you manage to review, compare, and prepare presentations of as many products as you do. I can affirm for your audience, that is is very much appreciated. We can rely on your honest assessment and that means a lot to us.
I want to add. I've been using the ASUS ZenWiFi ET8 now for about 8 months. If I would stop tweaking the Wireless settings, I would see great system performance. But I often mess up and must reload a safe configuration. Yes, we can reload a previous configuration without blowing away and starting over. But I digress.
I want to share. I just realized and now I understand, the ET8, has a DUAL WAN mode. We can hook up a second ISP as a failover backup. WOW. I also have Starlink. So, I made it my backup LAN. When the main ISP connection fails, the Routers simply selects the backup and I don't look a "bit". Very cool. Please put this on your list as #1 Nice to have features on a Router, and talk about them next time.
Are you planning on doing a review of the Samsung SmartThings charging hub in the future?
I've been planning it forever...but it's never come. I'm trying to get one in!
I've seen soil meters from hhcc but this GXM-01 size... woah... humidity meter daily, tactical missile launcher or ultimate intruder eliminator if needed
ahahahaha, that's my favorite tactical missile feature in the industry!
Why no range/speed comparison between your old Hubitat hub, and the new one with those giant antennas?
I dunno! Didn't really affect my home personally. Those mesh networks are built to deal with hops, and they were fine that way
Great video!! Much appreciated. Is it possible to do a demo video where you connect the devices to the Samsung Smartthings Station hub? I bought the hub a week ago and can not connect any Aqara products to it. There are no QR codes, nor the scanning for devices "nearby" work. I try also tried connecting by "selecting from a list of devices," and the connection always failed. What I am doing wrong? There is not a lot of Smartthing Station help videos on TH-cam. Is that I already have my devices connected to my Aqara hub?
Any assistance would be appreciated.
I answered on your other comment there Khareem. Just hang a bit :)
As for the SwitchBot hub 2 segment of the video, SwitchBot better bring matter support over to its other hubs.
We'll see. I don't know if it's possible for those hubs to run that much in terms of integrations.
Why does nobody make a mailbox sensor yet?
I put a Wyze sense gen 1 motion detector in my mailbox and I have an Alexa routine that announces that "I Got mail YAAAY"
but it only worked some of the time because of the Faraday cage effect of it being inside a metal mailbox.
signal strength was terrible and then the bridge stopped working with the camera that was close to the mailbox so now it gets no signal at all.
They need to make a sensor that is basically a contact sensor but with the magnetic reed switch extended on a wire so you can place the main part of the sensor under the mailbox
and then stick a magnet to the mail box door/lid and run the wire with the magnet sensor inside the box.
Aliexpress just had a big sale and I ordered a cheap Tuya contact sensor for $2!
I am hoping I can modify it to extend the magnetic red switch.
They should make one with a JST connector and a switch to switch between the internal reed switch and an optional one that you just plug in to the JST connector.
Good luck on that one!
Es muy buena para cargar algunos aparatos electrónicos y es muy útil para sociedad de ciudadanos
Links to smart home gadgets in today's video:
SwitchBot Hub 2 - geni.us/SwitchBotHub2AYL (Amazon affiliate link) or at www.switch-bot.com/automateyourlife (affiliate link) and use code: SJ15HUB2 for 15% off (Until May 10th)
Govee Night Light - geni.us/GoveeNightLight (Amazon affiliate link)
Aqara G4 Video Doorbell - geni.us/AqaraG4Doorbell (Amazon affiliate link)
Hubitat Elevation C8 - geni.us/HubitatC8AYL (Amazon affiliate link)
Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni - geni.us/DeebotX1OmniAYL (Amazon affiliate link)
Tuya Zigbee Soil Sensor - amzn.to/3JYEI1T (Amazon affiliate link, and not the one I bought exactly) OR www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005086034692.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.16.12e21802Enuy0a
Eve Door and Window Sensor - geni.us/EveDoorWindowSense (Amazon affiliate link)
Onvis Door Sensor - geni.us/OnvisDoorSense (Amazon affiliate link)
Wyze Mesh Router - geni.us/WyzeMeshRouterAYL (Amazon affiliate link)
Shelly Gas - geni.us/ShellyGasSense (Amazon affiliate link)
Handfan Water Bottle - geni.us/HandfanWater (Amazon affiliate link)
AmazonBasics Smart Bulb - geni.us/AmazonBasicsBulb (Amazon affiliate link)
Link to our video doorbell comparison: th-cam.com/video/Al7WYZ0x-2w/w-d-xo.html
Timecodes for today's video:
00:00 - The Best New Smart Home Products This Month
0:10 - SwitchBot Hub 2 Review
5:50 - Govee Night Light Review
10:39 - Aqara G4 Video Doorbell Review
18:20 - Hubitat Elevation C8 Hub Review
22:16 - Deebot X1 Omni Review
33:40 - Tuya Zigbee Soil Sensor
36:11 - Eve and Onvis Door Sensors Compared
41:30 - Wyze Mesh Router Review
46:31 - Shelly Gas LPG Review
49:54 - Handfan Watter Bottle Review
52:55 - AmazonBasics Smart Bulb Review
brian i was building a house, and i'm interested in smarthome. but I hope to be able to use matter products so I won't spend any more money in the future. so can you recommend a smarthome product for my new home I want the best of the best and Im okay if I have to wait for a matter product to be released. thanks Bryan
I always recommend SmartThings as a good place for people to start. High compatibility, allows lots of automation options, isn't too difficult, readily available. However, your location, what you have already, and your hopes for automation affects my recommendations. A good thing to do is to look at our channel membership Automater III and then you can send me all the questions you want :)
Nice
Thanks!
I don't like how the vacuum base station doesn't have a collection box instead of the vacuum bag.
I haven't seen a lot of those on base stations. Have you!?
@@AutomateYourLife no. Just that's how my standup vacuum has been the last 10 years+.
This is the only weak point of this robot. Everything else is great. All my friends want to have one.
You do realize the Hubitat C8 also supports built in wifi?
I do!
Brian got the SwitchBot hub 2 set up with HomeKit why my curtains gen 1 not showing on my HomeKit does it work on the 2 gen curtains
You got the Hub 2 already!? I didn't try with Gen 1 Gio, so I can only tell you about the newer generation at the moment. Don't even have those older ones anymore...
@@AutomateYourLife yes I have the SwitchBot Hub 2 I ordered it on Amazon UK 🇬🇧 for £79.99
Shelley gas detector - at beginning you LPG (propane) and at the end you are talking about natural gas. Aren't they different?
Yep! There are two models 😃
Is it really gonna go live on April Fools day? If so how much of it can we trust. I am just saying!!!!
LOL...yeahhhhh it's going live and I swear, I'm not fooling on too much ;)
Really, really , really hoping for some Aqara FP2 news!...
We can't talk about Fight Club, or the FP2. Till it's released in North America ;)
But soon Tony!
Didn't Aqara say Q1?
I'm just so anxious to stop my "lost in space robot" impersonations
They did launch in China. That's where they start.
SO I guess that's an A versus AA battery...
Ahahahahaha! Ok you win