Alex's Full Smart Home Tour: Automations Galore!
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- Quite possibly the last smart home tour to take place at 2 MarzManor! Welcome to our latest smart home tour 2022!
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I bet everybody else's houses in your street dim a little bit when that lot switch on, lol. Great video Alex.
Nahhhh, he's plugged into the streetlights.
If there's a power cut though, he will be the only one with the house lights on, ha ha ha
Spoiler alert. It's all lights.
You’re a champion my boy 😂 thanks for saving me 14 minutes
Should've read this comment before watching. I totally wasted my time. Thanks man. You tried 😂
Thank you
Not sure if the definition of a smart home is a home that can turn on a boat load of lights.
I was just thinking that XD
You should really look into Home Assistant! You can consolidate all those devices into a single hardware (and essentially throw away all the hubs) rather than using 4 separate hubs. Not to mention you are now using Philips Bridge and Aqara Hub who are both Zigbee meaning two seperate zigbee networks on top of each other rather putting all into one network which would make a better mesh.
I'm an avid HomeAssistant user, and I actually use both, because no matter what I do, Hue has always been significantly more stable than a Zigbee stick for lights. Everything else though, I use direct zigbee connections.
If I have Aeotec/Smartthings smart hub, do I still need different hubs/bridges from hue or aqara? I want to buy their sensors but it says their own hub is required
@@darshanshukla4079 no I have aqara set up on smartthing you just need to find the right edge drivers.
isn't that his girlfriend's or wife's if he has ether🤣
I have just stumbled onto this channel today and it is already one of my favorite tech channels! I love all the WISP videos. I would love to do this. Keep it up Alex!
Bro i love your house i been watching your videos for at least 4-5 years now and love all the content you upload. Keep up the great work.
Great tour!
go with home assistant you wouldn't notice internet outages unless you get notified. pairs beautifully with unifi network and protect
It seems the concept of smart home is understood as a whole shit of light here
You give me inspiration to design my place man love your style
The state of your network rack gives me nightmares!… I live just down the road from you and am a professional AV & Smarthome installer…. I’d literally tidy that thing up for you free of charge and expect nothing in return just so I can sleep better at night!
Love the video, I added it to my smart home tour playlist
Not a lot automated tbh other than lights and a few blinds. Home Assistant blows this to bits.
Alex, love the vids!! Would love to see how you manage all of the smart stuff on the network! Thanks for the content!
Fantastic to hear how your smart home is getting on!
This house inspires me. Got my bathroom listening experience after getting inspiration from this channel. Now onto the lighting
Amazing to see well done i like all the inside work & outside excellent.
@4:28 your downlight wants pushing back in to the ceiling
Crazy to see how far you’ve come. Watched you since your minecraft days
Good to see another video from you
safety glasses on, always prepared
nice tour fellow Alex! for somfy you can consider getting the bond hub to give you more control
Great video! I was kind of hoping for links to all your smart home gear as well.
Your have beautiful plants!
love the curtains hanging on clamps
Pretty cool setup!
Love the new intro and dope smart home
Great video - you mentioned that on your Somfy blinds that you can only do the “my” custom mode from the remote but what I do is set a scene for the “my” button. As I have night and day blinds so I need open, closed and custom. Works well.
Hey I would love a video showcasing how you hid the wires on all your light strips and your wall art. Thanks
Anyone else notice the UniFi G3 Instant security camera pointing directly at the sofa in the lounge at 5:22? 😬
Casting couch.
probably where his dog sleeps during the day so he can check on it
For Somfy you can program the My position to have a third position other than up and down (for like halfway). You can activate the My position from Google Assistant. I did it at my old place that had
Somfy.
sick setup i wonder how long it took you to figure everything out
I hope you don't take offense to all the haters to much, keep it up be happy with what you like ;)
Great video!
Loved it, gud man
Very nice setup. I made an home automation system built on top of OpenHAB 3 on raspberry and some sonoff (flashed with tasmota firmware) and esp8266 device. It's simpler than your but it works :) I never made a video tour just like your...maybe it's an idea for the next video on my channel. Thanks for showing
Where did you get the blinds from, I can’t find those style blinds powered by Somfy? Thanks
Do you have a link to the smart button on your nightstand?
You could get rid of most of those hubs using Home Assistant and a Raspberry Pi or similar. It would give you much better scope for really fancy automations, and it would tie in all your current and future platforms, all locally and no cloud if you choose to do so.
What do you find breaks the most? I always seem to have a least a couple smart devices down at any one time
Questions. Are your garden string lights smart or running off a smart plug? If so which ones, and do you not find that the bathrooms the lights turn off all the time because they don’t sense movement when your in the bath ect?
Awesome!
Hi mate..where did you get your bed from please ..thanks
random person: oh nice lights, where'd you get them?
me:
Hi Alex, love how you have full control of your home. Has given me all the info I need to finish doing my home. Now how about getting my power unit that I won last month in your office giveaway.Colin
Alex, you were triggering my siri devices when u would give yours a command. HAHAHAHA
In terms of brightness, are the LIFX LED strips the brightest? I've got some 3rd party strips in my home, but they're not too bright when set to their max.
It’s so crazy that there’s pretty much a smart device for anything you can think of in a standard home.
You buy a house for a lot of money, then you spend a whole lot more money to make all your stuff automatic
Alex, the Aqara Sensor or the Hue Smart Sensor, which one is more responsive for your smart home?
If I am using motion sensor linked with light, and the wall switch was off, is there any way to make the light turn on based on the motion?
I would love a somfy review on how it works.
You should have a bunch of links (affiliate of course) for all this stuff. Especially interested in the festival lights you've got outside. Been trying to get something like them for a while, but can't seem to find the right set.
It connects to wifi. via wifi ;)
HOME ASSISTANT!!!
I use RGB LEDs from Energizer in my server rack. They were $15 USD each and work very well.
What Workbench are you using?
That’s a very nice looking turntable, who makes it?
Hi Alex, what other GU10 bulbs work with the Aqara motion sensor?
more of networking videos please!
i will have to say it's been awhile since I have watched your vids.. kinda glad i tuned in this time I like how you have changed things around for your media room and kitchen.. look so much better than what you have done before.. although i do all these animations my self along with a few others you haven't mentioned but I am sure you are aware of them. for daily tasks that require nothing more than your existence in your home. But have you thought about doing a scheduled shower/ timer turn on and off at a certain time? or at certain times of day that is turns on then timer off? it is one thing i would do if i was in my own home. and I am curious why you do not use Alexa since it's app can do IFTTT type of format now. far exceeds what Google can do
Hi Alex, i have a Philips hue motion sensor, and it seems to register motion sometimes eventho no motion is
where did u get that beehive cabinet?
How many remote control do you have?
the guy dint blink.
He must be smart home cyborg
No way this only has 12 comments lol. Can’t wait to watch when I get to my Dad’s
Alex for the somfy blinds to rise up by 15% or something like that you need to change the moter and the remote. Your current setup of the blinds is using a wireless moter called sonness RTS. it can only go up, down , and a favorite position that you can set up. for correct moter that will give you the ability to rise it up by % its the sonness IO. if you change them to IO then you need to change the remotes as well because there using different technologies.
did u record with a potato?
I'm honestly shocked you have this much smart home gear and are not using Home Assistant! Also a couple of the issues you are facing like not being able to control the exact position of the blinds without the remote can be solved using HA. More over you can also condense all your Zigbee hubs down to a single stick plugged into a HA server. And it also means you wouldn't need to use routines to check if other lights are on or off to activate. Much more reliable that way.
Yes! He NEEDS Home Assistant!
Sick!
Does Alex have a doorbell camera? Currently have a ring but it’s so annoying doesn’t work with HomeKit.
Check out Home Assistant, but don't run it on a Pi, run it on a real computer. I think you'd quite enjoy the ability to integrate everything into one hub capable of powerful complex automations as well as the ability to expose any of the devices out into an Apple Home for Siri control.
To be honest, I don't think Home Assistant is a great choice for Alex.. He will get fustracted and whine about it on his channels. Not good for the otherwise very nice platform that HA provides
@@c7ndk HA gives me headaches as well, but that's mainly bc I don't like coding. I know how to write coding, like for Minecraft, Python etc, but I'd rather not do it. Ppl like me, ChatGPT has been a blessing. But he really should be using HA.
hey bro we just want to say we missed u😜
I'm guessing things are connected to his wifi...via wifi then? 😁
Thinking about forgetting how all the lights are setup and debugging it gives me so much anxiety
Great Casey Stoner
just use home assistant and you dont need any hubs
What blinds are they?
Thanks for talking to my Siri too 👀
I like your smart blind. It is not roller blind. Where to buy this type of blind as I am building my smart house as well.
audio system from what?
Alex you can configure your Hue remotes in HomeKit to do different scenes. So you can have all 4 buttons doing different scenes without it needing a routine/automation to decide what to do. Like your living room play bars turning the other stuff on. You can set what each button on the Hue dimmer does in the HomeKit app. For example, I’ve got mine so when I press lights off button on dimmer my blinds close, my heating turns off, the lights turn off, all Apple TV’s turn off and my house alarm activates for night mode. I think it gives more customisation options so you can change lights without it making others go on or off. 👍🏼
Another great video, dude you have too much lol 😂 any chance you could do a video on portable hard Ives please, I really need your help, cheers 👍🍻🌈 Alex
If only I had the money and ability to do all this
God will bless you someday bro....I also wish to have all this but i know God has a way in it....
You can do a lot of stuff cheaper if you’re fine with a bit of tinkering. HomeAssistant can make all the things mentioned in the video and way more than that. You are also able to do a lot of the things way cheaper by for example using a Shelly which makes all your existing lights that are controlled with a standard light switch smart. All that for about 10-15€ per light switch and and a bit of tinkering.
electric bill over 5 million
It's all lights. Lol
The OCD in me would configure your hue switches in HomeKit instead of having your hue config + HomeKit automation. The reason being there is currently a delay between your hue device turning on and your other devices turning on. Having all the lights just set to turn on when the switch is pressed through HomeKit would get rid of that delay as everything would activate at the same time. The downsides to this would be you would need to rely on HomeKit to do the processing which is less stable and has more downtime than the hue hub imo, but you could also configure the switch in both hue and HomeKit so your hue devices turn on with the hue app config and the other devices turn on with the HomeKit config. This would still reduce the delay between all the lights turning on and also provide at least your hue devices the extra reliance of having your hue hub do the processing so you at least have some sort of light available if HomeKit decides to fall over.
Question: can you configure the Hue dimmer switch in both Homekit AND the Philips Hue app. I thought they were mutually excluding, or rather conflicting with each other.
I like to have all my automations in Homekit but the Hue motion sensor that turns the bathroom lights on has a considerable delay. Most of the time I’m standing in the dark for a good 2-3 seconds before the lights turn on as they’re supposed to. I wonder if I should set the automation in the Philips Hue app as well. If that’s even possible of course
@@misstubbie1313 yes you can, but it can get messy depending on what you want to do. I’d stick to one or the other personally
Damn! i wanna live here!
I also do
How did you connect SwitchBot to HomeKit? I didn't think they supported it.
I use HomeBridge on a raspberry pi 👍
Please share the wallpaper in your bedroom
What are the small buttons by the bed?
I'd like to know this too!
Tell me about robotic hoover
Great video 👍
Awesome videos sorry I’m so late
Just hack into his house 😂
Just a general criticism of tech you-tubers. It's not difficult to mute the audio for a second when calling Siri or Alexa or Google. Save viewers having to stop their assistant from doing something.
Totally agree, I'am a smaaall smaaall youtuber and pay attention to that, in almost all of my videos. It's simple 😄
I have a smart home. I use 5 hubs that I have to daisy chain together to make them work and will refuse to operate when the internet is out. Also my blinds can only have 2 states and i can push the button of my garage door from anywere in the world, although i don't know if i am opening or closing it.
you should consider using Home Assistant, can have all your smart devices paired as one ecosystem so you'll have no need for 5 different hubs
If it wasn't for blinds it would be curtains for all of us.
I love the Philips hue! but Alex, You are not using them properly… I don’t know how big of a kino fan are you BUT with the Philips hue sync box and Philips hue app for pc/Mac, You can synchronize audio or video and get an insane immersive ambient experience, I would recommend trying that.
I would love to live next or near this dude.
just to mess with all that shit
How come there is spring clamps keeping the blinds in place?
(Sorry if there is a previous video mentioning this!)
The blinds sat a little bit off the wall so when the sun rises in the morning, it let quite a bit of light in...So I clamped the top of the blind closer to the wall to stop so much light coming in😂 a DIY blackout blind if you will? 😂