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How can i monitor my Merlin-4 electric fence Energizer to control it remotely (instead of the premitive keypad) and to current sense the alarms from the strobe output in order to add HA automations?
@@andrieshatane8503 It's a security device so having any ways of bypassing the keypad would be a security issue. You probably have to wait for Merlin to release a new version that support smart home integration.
One of my favourite automations I did recently when we had friends coming over. I created 3 input boolean's one for each of there names. I had to manually turn each one on when that guest headed to the bathroom. Once motion was detected, the Echo Flex in there welcomed them to the bathroom by name, made a funny comment about them, and asked if they would like some relaxing music while they had a wee. Went down a storm, especially with there 8yr old. Mind blown 🤣🤣🤣
Hah nice I use unifi as a device tracker that'll turn on a guest mode input boolean that will stop certain automations from running. Stops lights from turning off and stop pausing the TV when I open the door.
Great video. I used a voice synthesiser to have Yoda say "your laundry, finished it has. Dry it now, you must" and it got the wife's seal of approval. Also set up a daily actionable notification to reminder her to take her pill which she has said is a god send. Electric blankets also turn on automatically at 11pm if it's cold outside, with a timer for 1.5 hours whenever they are switched on because someone never turns hers off 👀 Love seeing other people's automations ❤️
Since I live alone, I've found it extremely useful to have a "Guest Mode" helper toggle! That way my more "aggressive" automations don't make my guests feel like there's a rampant AI taking over the house. For example, the alarm won't arm when I step outside, and the interior cameras automatically stop recording.
A way, way under-rated comment. Presence awareness (explicit or via detection or a combination) can give smart home some "emotional intelligence" / soft skills. My walking in through the door at 7pm on a Tuesday and alone isn't the same as my walking in through the door at 2am on a Saturday and not alone - in how commands like "lights on" and "entertainment" ought to be interpreted, without making 500 different scenes. We currently live in the infancy of this line of thought. Our state variables and automatons are cave drawings.
A power monitor for my laundry was my very first automation. Sadly the gas dryer still managed to trip the load protection on the plug when I turned it on, even though the normal load was 7A, so it was annoying to have to press start multiple times. Unfortunately load protection was the one protection I couldn't disable.
2:03: my washer and dryer alert the household when their cycles are complete, with both alerts requesting the dryer lint screen be cleared. My dishwasher does not alert when the cycle is complete, but it DOES announce “the dishes in the dishwasher are clean” the first time the machine is opened after a wash cycle. This (hopefully) prevents someone from putting dirty dishes in with a clean load. That is accomplished via a strategically positioned contact sensor plus a small but strong neodymium magnet.
You just need to be careful with large appliances and their load on smart plugs. Not all smart plugs can handle for example a 13amp load that could be used for the heater element in a UK/Irish tumble dryer.
These videos are the best when you already have a steady system and dont need the basics. Give us more on that PC standby and PC control integration and notification stuff. looks useful.
I’ve put an Aqara vibration sensor on my trash bin. If the trash can doesn’t move during my window to take it out, HA spams me every hour until it moves. These are actionable notifications with a "silence" action. The next morning, whenever the vibration sensor detects the can was moved (i.e emptied), I get a separate notification to bring in the bin. Had to play around with sensitivity settings to avoid false triggers but works great now.
My simple automation: Trigger: Every time somebody approaches my house (my flat is the only flat in the last floor, so I’ve placed a zigbee motion sensor directed towards the last flight of stairs) Actions: Home ammostante sends me a Telegram massage + if somebody is at home, flashes the lights in the room where I am (if any light in my flat is on, that means - due to other automations - that somebody is at home and is not sleeping, so I flash the lights where the person is, in order to let him know that in approximately 15-20 seconds somebody will be at the door of my flat!) Trick: motion sensors placed under the bed, so that thy are not triggered when somebody is sleeping! Thank you for your awesome videos!! :)
We have wall-mounted side tables next to our bedroom and put our motion sensors underneath. It blocks any movement from the bed and works perfectly to turn on a dim underbed led strip when one of us gets out of bed at night. Husband says it is his favorite automation so far (but I haven't gotten the garage doors hooked up yet).
Daylight simulation for the morning alarms is just beautiful. I personally use the companion app for android to get the time of the next alarm and trigger my daylight script if the alarm rings between 1 am and the sunrise. Otherwise I just open up the blinds. Additionally you can check whether your Android smartphone is home to not make the lights turn on if you are not home.
Any HA connected lamp would work. I used some cheap wifi lamps that can show cold to warm white. In combination with brightness it does the trick for the "simulation"
One of my simplest automation is also one of my most useful: If phone start charging AND bedroom light is on, activate "Good Night" scene. (turn off everything) Might as well add my PC to the list, great idea!
I have NFC tags near my washing machine and tumble dryer which I’ve programmed with timers. When I put a quick wash on I scan the 30 minute one with my phone, if it’s a spin I scan the 10 minute one. The machines have a beep to notify when programs are finished but they are pretty quiet. I get a notification when the time is up which tells me the program is done, which is useful when I forget what on earth the timer is for!
This has been incredibly helpful, especially the shopping list and the Washing Machine notifications! Just to say that for the washing machine notifications although the notification "persistent: true" means it can't be swiped off, clicking on it will take you to the Home Assitant page and clear the notification from your phone. I couldn't find a way to stop this happening except I found was if you also set "sticky: true" it means it doesn't disappear even if clicked until you hit the "It's done" option, so mine reads as - persistent: true sticky: true tag: washing actions: - action: MACHINE_EMPTIED title: It's done Hope that helps
hey , im trying to make an automation where it reminds me to take medicines incase i havent already (the medicine box has a contact sensor and helper which checks if the sensor has been opened that day or not) , but yeah i want it to send a notification to my phone if i havent taken them and then clear the notification automatically once i open the box , any idea how i could do that? thank you
I've just got into home automation in the past 2 weeks to automate my grow tent in time to start of my peppers and tomatoes later this month. It's now crept outside the grow tent a little. Suggestion 1 - just done it, with a power plug and door monitor so that it nags until you open the door. Due to do the tumble dryer later on. Suggestion 2 - making a shopping list using NFC tags which will be in the relevant cupboards so that when I go in and notice that I'm almost out of teabags I can just tap my phone on it and it will add it to my shopping list. Nice idea about the Geo-location, I might have to borrow that idea. It's a pity that you can only have one shopping list though, as I would prefer to split things to different lists for different shops. Suggestion 3 - just got a smart bulb that uses the Smart Life app and this has the circadian rhythm built into it so I'm trying that hoping that it will help me get to sleep as well as wake up. Suggestion 7 - I'm thinking about how to get my computer to shut down and want to get a way that will work with linux as well as windows. Not sure how to do this as if I've left it to render then I don't want it to shut down half way through.
What bulbs do you use for your bedside tables? I find that my Philips hue filaments are way too bright at 1%, waking me up instantly when the automation starts 😂
I mostly have simple automations that do things like turn on lights (motion or time), notify me of things, or turn climate controls up and down. But have recently setup a few door/window sensors that turn off the climate controls, when one of those doors or windows are left open, so we're not heating or cooling the outside world. Another automation that turned out to be pretty simple (after I learned how to add API calls), announces a Joke Of The Day on my daughter's smart clock when she presses an Aqara button. It was all her idea and was a great learning experience for both of us.
I have exactly the same morning brief automation, it also ends up playing soft music while I prepare my coffee in the kitchen. But it also includes api integrations that fetch a joke and a daily quote. Loved the shopping list one though. Keep up the great content 👍
Since the kids can walk up the stairs and pop up behind me when gaming on the attic and scare the crap out of me, I made this: up to 5 min after motion detection on the middlefloor passage, the top floor passage detects motion AND my HUE play is on; All light in the attic office flash. Saved me from a heart attack at least a dozen times now.
Hi. Love the channel! I second the GitHub idea for your yaml files. Do you do anything in Node Red? That’s my preference. I have LEDs in our bedroom closets that are triggered by Z wave door sensors. If the door is opened, I check if it is within an offset of sunset to sunrise. If so, then it checks if the bedroom light is on. If it is within the nighttime period and the bedroom light is off, the lights turn on at 20pct brightness, so the light isn’t too bright to wake anyone else in the room. Otherwise, they are at 100pct. Once I add the blackout shades (on order now from Leviosa), they may factor into the logic.
10:35 are you having success with the calendar automation trigger for garbage? I was pulling my hair out getting my notification to work and discovered it was the trigger that was the issue. I've only been able to trigger x hours before the calendar event by writing a template trigger to do so!
It's the simplest thing but I have 2 bedside lights and plugging in my/wife's phone after sunset (and checking we're in the bedroom) starts a 5 second timer before turning off said person's bedside light. It gives you just enough time to pull the covers up before the light turn off. Wife loves the simplicity...
I use a CPAP with a smart plug and then a smart plug on husband's phone charger. If both are drawing power then we are in bed and everything turns off. I had to play with the automation because he drives a truck and is gone several nights a week, so it also checks who is at home before making the decision to turn off the ligths.
My favourite automations are lights that come on (or not) at different brightness through the day in different rooms and passageways. In the evening, once LUX levels get low enough then they motion trigger on at normal levels between 80-90% Between sunset and sunrise +1, they trigger on at 60-70%. Between midnight and 4am they come on at 30% If sleeping (boolean triggered by calendar sensor) then lights motion on at 1% + if in the kitchen then only 2 (of 4) spot lights come on During the day if it suddenly gets dim like when a storm passes through, then they'll come on with motion until the storm passes. Automations, scripts and scenes all coming together in harmony :)
One of my useful automations is that to conserve energy I have my bed sensor (built after seeing your video BTW so thanks for that) telling a HA instance running on a NUC to shut everything down at night and to start up a RP3 (that also shuts down the NUC) that only runs a few lights and sensors and when I get up after a certain time it turns on the main HA that turns everything back on and shuts down the RP3
One note about smart switches with energy consumption monitoring is that they consume an extra 1 to 2 watts of power when turned on. Electricity is expensive here in California and if I leave one of those switches running for a year it'll cost me an extra $7 annually just for that one switch. Something to keep in mind. I ended up using a light sensor on the instrument panel of my LG washer to sense when the wash is over. Not the best solution but it doesn't cost much in electricity.
@@RafaMazurekRMZ Yeah then you'll need a routine for turning on the switch when you start laundry, and the wife is not always on board with extra instructions. :) I happen to have a panel that lights up when the washer is on, so I taped the Aqura motions sensor (with light sensor) on the panel and I finally get notification without having to pay the energy "subscription fee". :)
Curious if you have a video on how to do that persisting push notification? All I can find is how to do it as a notification in home assistant, not push. I currently have a notification for the rumba when it’s finished to empty the bin, but I would like to make it a persistent notification.
Please check the power consumption of the household appliance and the maximum allowed wattage or Amperes of the plug that you intent to use. During my career as repairman for appliances I saw many adapters fail from blown fuse to charred adapters and even open fires from being overloaded. Especially washers , dryers and dishwashers might take more power than your adapter is able to handle in the long run.
Absolutely, goes without saying! Although not sure if you are US or UK but I'm in the UK and we use 240v here rather than 120v - most of the plugs sold here are 13a which is pretty high at 240v, not many regular household appliances would exceed this
@@EverythingSmartHome Location is Switzerland, 230V. Many plugs I saw were rated around 6-10A. Just checked my IKEA plugs: 10A While appliances bought in the last 5 years should be fine, some older ones might still consume more than 2.3kW at peak. Why I named the biggest offenders.
There is some really cool ideas here! Are you planning to delve deeper on any. I like the sleep automation for the pc. How did you set that up if you don’t mind?
Starting my "Shower-scene" will do the following: Check if the door and window in the bathroom are closed, check the temperature. When it's "cold" and both are closed: activate heater. Warn me (smart speaker and/or notification on smartphone, depends on other things...) when the temperature in the bathroom is ok or when the door/window is open and it's cold. And of course will turn off the heater when no motion in x-time after activating. Or when it's hot or the door/window is opened for some time. Also turn offs the heater when the light in the shower is back off after x-time.
I like this one. I've been monitoring the bathroom humidity and once I make the switches smart I plan on having the fan turn on automatically as the humidity rises.
Lovely ideas, but as a beginner some really simple, step by step videos on how to do some of these things would really help to get started with HA. Even to the level of how to set up an energy monitoring plug.
Bin collection: I did one of these in WebCore. It voice-alerted me the evening before, and then again the morning of, each collection. We have a weekly recycling day that’s different from rubbish day that’s different from yard waste day, so it knew those. In addition it knew the local holidays that are observed by the collection company, so those auto-broadcast alerts would not occur if the collection day is instead a holiday! I’m rebuilding it, slowly.
The best alarm clock also uses another feature of the homeassistant app on Android: Read the next alarm from Android directly, which works perfectly practically every alarm clock app - and then use this to trigger the wakeup: To configure create an automation with a template trigger like this: {% set t = as_timestamp(states('sensor.my_phome_next_alarm')) - 1200 %} {{ now().timestamp() | int in [t] }} This makes this a no-touch effort, as soon as I change my alarm in Alarmy (yes, I need the encouragement to get up) the Android system knows about it, and goes tell homeassistant. And with that I get awoken gradually over 20min (1200s) with light, and then forced into awakeness by Alarmy.
After a 'strange' event, I set up an automation that simply announces that the front door is open in the rooms upstairs and furthest from the front door on the first floor. Since I have google Mini's in these rooms, any time the front door opens, the automation uses google tts translate to speak 'The front door is open' concurently on those speakers. Think I'll ad the same for the back door to the upstairs speaker, but not the downstairs speakers. Ultimately adding similar for garage and basement doors (into the garage) though those are much less concerning at the moment. I could add a light flash as well, but I'm less interested in that than some people.
You could probably do that qithout too much trouble using a pressure sensor on it and checking if your phones are home or not to trigger an annoying noise or a 'her get off that!' voice alert.
just today i created an automation that sends a notification when the washing machine finishes. how? by using a smart plug that measures the power consumption. for the future i'm planning to change that to give me a spoken message using TTS, but that isn't up and running yet. 0:51 that looks EXACTLY like the ones i use.
@@EverythingSmartHome Thank you, I have some of Kasa ones which work well but they seem to no longer be making them anymore and the tapo ones apparently need to be connected to the Internet. So will look into the ones you suggested. Thanks again!
I created simple automations to turn off heating/cooling in a room when a window in that room opens. Did the same for doors to outside, but with a 1 minute delay. Also created an automation to charge accumulation heaters based on tomorrow's outside temperature. Both are absolute energy savers.
And the Tv backlight, it will only turn on if the illumination of the room is below a threshold, and only when the tv is being used. That's done by using a power measuring plug on the tv and a lux measuring motion sensor
How did you automate the charge accumulation heaters (storages heater)? Not the software side, that one I can figure out on my own. What kind of hardware did you use?
We don’t have individual room conditioners, but we have dual zone upstairs and down. As the upstairs can heat far more rapidly on sunny days, we sometimes had a scenario where heat would be on downstairs while AC kicked in upstairs. By using HA to coordinate the two zones, that scenario no longer occurs. And we also have it so if a window is open in a zone, neither heat nor AC can go on in that zone. I do have a voice command to turn off the window automation, because sometimes cooking smoke or aroma needs an open window.
One question I have on the gradual light alarm (and this isn't necessarily smart home related 😅) how do you and your partner cope when you have to get up at different times? Doesn't the alarm for whoever has to get up first wake the other person up as well? I can just imagine my wife having a go at me for waking her up before 9am with my "stupid smart lights" 😂
The computer sleep automation is brilliant. If only Microsoft could build some sort of power management features into the operating system that would turn your display off, or put your PC to sleep without the need to use sensors an external server and Home Assistant....
Awesome video, what plugs are you using for the washing machine? Been trying to do this recently and can only find the Tapo plugs that don’t cost a fortune but they’ve been disconnecting from wifi constantly… have just ordered aqara vibration sensors from aliexpress because I’d given up 🤷🏻♂️ but if you’ve found reliable energy plugs….
Aqara makes a couple of zigbee plugs that can report power usage. Both a smart plug and an in-wall switch T1 that both report on power consumption. I have the smart plug up and running already and have just ordered a pair of the T1 switches.
Do you have a github repo where you can share your config and automations that you share in your videos? If not I suggest you do to make it easier for the kids to follow along at home :). Love the videos! I've implemented similar things in a few of you and others videos.
Pretty much every video that is a "how to" or guide has the code on GitHub yes - since this one is an ideas list I never thought to put them up - but I can if people are interested :) Thanks, appreciate it!
I would appreciate seeing the code on the morning routine or better yet a how to! Been wanting to do this but still to new to HA to figure it out myself.
I made some automations for my use. The first automation is when my computer starts (can use home assistant to start the computer via wake on lan) my monitors turns on. My monitors a connected to a smartplug. I use a smartplug from ikea. Then i have some automations with nfc tags.
My garbage schedule is.. chaotic. Is there a way to use Google calendar to automate the notifications and some days counters in home assistant ? I have a separate calendar just for the different bins
I have it set up to check if the next calendar event contains "bin day" if so, It will send a notification to a couple of phones the day before. It also checks if it says bins or recycling as we have staggered weeks for our black bins. I added the calendar events manually as our local council don't have an API or even machine readable text on the bin site, just a PDF poster with the dates on :/
In the US it's hard to find 240V current-measuring plugs as it's a completely different socket. For sunrise/sunset lights, IKEA Tradfri lights are actually really good for transitions... both in brightness and color! Many RGBW lights will support transition of brightness and RGB color, but it's not as common to see something that can transition between a specific color temperature and an RGB color.
I saw you have an app/service running on your computer for notifications and I am sure more. I skimmed your website for a write up on this but maybe I missed it. What is that app called and where I can check it out? I am currently using hass workstation service but I wanted to compare to see if there are any other features needed. Side note, I use the idle time from my machine to control my lights and lock screens so I do not have to action a notification. As always, thanks for the video
hi could you maybe do a tutorial on how you set up your "wake up light alarm" ? or just a short explanation on how you set it up ? i would really appreciate it. i have tried to use a blueprint created by Sbyx, but i cant get it to work right
For washing machines or dishwashers with doors that open automatically: Simply use a window sensor for notification that the washing machine is finished. 👍
my washing machine doors don't open automatically but when its finished a light on the washing machine lights up that tells you when its finished. I used a smart plug with energy monitoring and when that light comes on the plug shows that theres between .6 and 1.2 watts being pulled so i trigger on that and when someone opens the door that light goes out and the wattage drops to 0.0
I have the smart plug notification, but plan to add a door sensor as well, so it knows both when it has finished washing, and when someone has opened it (to hopefully empty it!)
I use a Select Helper along with an energy monitoring plug. When a power increase is detected the Select option is changed from "Idle" to "Running". When power drops (for 5 minutes in my case) the option is changed to "Clean" and a message is sent. If the option is "Clean" and the lid is opened, the option is reset to "Idle" and reminder messages are stopped. The Door sensor is an automation game changer.
Hello, i really liked the video. But what i didnt understand is where you programm all of these? I played a little bit with google home scenes, but your overview looks way different.
Hello, I am trying to set up my dishwasher according to the instructions you did on your washing machine. I am having some difficulties. When the automation runs, the status goes as off, running, off. It looks like it is not triggering the waiting period. In my case, the dishwasher is always at 1.2 W in the off state. When it starts, there is no waiting, it is pulling straight up to 40ish W. After approximately 2 hours, there is 10 minute drop to 2.8 ish W. Then it starts back up. At the end, the drying period is approximately 1 hour 20 minutes with 8.5 watts, then it drops back down to 1.2 again in off state. I am struggling with how to set the thresholds for each state and for how long especially because of that drop in the middle. It would be really helpful to get your guidance on this.
5:07 is your weather entity a curse word(s)? I understand you probably don't have all that good weather out there on the island but isn't that a bit too much?
Allright allright, good one. I created a door/window sensor group to notify me when i leave the house. Is it possible to use an actionable notification so i can press "which one are left open" and then get feedback which door/window is left open?
Current plan is to find a LED strip with individually addressable RGB lights and use it to display percentages, temperatures and timers as a function of how many leds are on.
Thanks for this. I've got Hass Agent notifications working, but I cant see my laptop as a device in Home Assistant. Not much information online. I've restarted my HA instance multiple times and I used the installer to install Hass Agent. Hope you can help?
My all time favorite is the automation i made fir my daughter. Her light turns on on a speech command and turns off aftershave 30 minuten. In the mornig it turns on depending on google calendar schooldag, off days and weekends. All only work when we are home. TG for Node Red. Now only a brightness fader, that will work. Would you please shareware your automation off wake up light and alarm module?
Does anyone has recommendations for power monitoring UK plugs for the washing machine style automation? Ideally looking for Zigbee but seem to be rare as hen's teeth.
Love the ideas, but some of them are a real challenge for not only a house of two, but moreso in house with kids - such as the wake up or greeting routines without the ability to ID the person first. Besides that, can you suggest a Zigbee plug that doesn't boot to the OFF state when power is reset? Most reset to OFF, so if you have a power failure you're going to have to remember to turn the outlet back on before using the washing machine. I suppose you can include something in HA' startup to power on such outlets, but it should really be already build into the product. Zigbee outlets just really suck compared to Z-wave - but they're cheap.
Has anyone found a Zigbee UK Power Strip (Ideally 4 sockets)? I can only find WiFi ones. The only ZigBee one I have heard of was the 3 socket Lidl one, which is no longer available.
Great video as always, but could you please do a video on an idiots guide to setting up and configuring HASS.Agent for windows. I've tried to install it and set everything up but I can't see any PC entities in Home Assistant.
so i setup my shopping automation like yours and when i get to the store, i get the notification on my ohone but when i click it, i get 404 not found black screen. i have external access and can access HA when i am away from home
Thanks for the great list! Some of these I already do (washing machine detection), but haven't taken them to the next level yet (persistent notifications that require action). You might want to do something about that persistent cough before it gets worse! ;-)
i would like to do smart energy plugs for washer/dryer. Washers tend to be able to use the normal plug in the US. but the dryers need bigger ones. no one seems to make a smart dryer plug
What are your favourite simple automations? Let me know, I don't want to miss out! 😆👇
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Amazing automations in here! Awesome work and we are proud to be a sponsor of this great content. While we work on local control and Home Assistant support a lot of these types of automations are triggerable by the smart buttons from Alexa routines that are now shipping with the Doppler. If you have any other questions let us know and make to use that coupon code!
How can i monitor my Merlin-4 electric fence Energizer to control it remotely (instead of the premitive keypad) and to current sense the alarms from the strobe output in order to add HA automations?
@@sandman4139 lets please focus on finalizing Home Assistant automation, Alexa comes after.
@@andrieshatane8503 Alexa support is already done, certified, and working great! Home Assistant is coming soon. Thanks for your interest!
@@andrieshatane8503 It's a security device so having any ways of bypassing the keypad would be a security issue. You probably have to wait for Merlin to release a new version that support smart home integration.
One of my favourite automations I did recently when we had friends coming over. I created 3 input boolean's one for each of there names. I had to manually turn each one on when that guest headed to the bathroom. Once motion was detected, the Echo Flex in there welcomed them to the bathroom by name, made a funny comment about them, and asked if they would like some relaxing music while they had a wee. Went down a storm, especially with there 8yr old. Mind blown 🤣🤣🤣
That sounds amazing 😂😂
up the game and use presence detection in combination with their phone. Works unless all 3 come to visit you at once
Hah nice I use unifi as a device tracker that'll turn on a guest mode input boolean that will stop certain automations from running. Stops lights from turning off and stop pausing the TV when I open the door.
@@DaFunkShun I keep a genetic fingerprint of all guests, more reliable than phones. Just sucks for people that hate needles. ;)
You must have had some of them worried, hanging around the restroom, spying on them as they went in….
Great video. I used a voice synthesiser to have Yoda say "your laundry, finished it has. Dry it now, you must" and it got the wife's seal of approval. Also set up a daily actionable notification to reminder her to take her pill which she has said is a god send. Electric blankets also turn on automatically at 11pm if it's cold outside, with a timer for 1.5 hours whenever they are switched on because someone never turns hers off 👀
Love seeing other people's automations ❤️
Haha that's brilliant 😂 good automations sir!
Since I live alone, I've found it extremely useful to have a "Guest Mode" helper toggle! That way my more "aggressive" automations don't make my guests feel like there's a rampant AI taking over the house. For example, the alarm won't arm when I step outside, and the interior cameras automatically stop recording.
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A way, way under-rated comment. Presence awareness (explicit or via detection or a combination) can give smart home some "emotional intelligence" / soft skills. My walking in through the door at 7pm on a Tuesday and alone isn't the same as my walking in through the door at 2am on a Saturday and not alone - in how commands like "lights on" and "entertainment" ought to be interpreted, without making 500 different scenes. We currently live in the infancy of this line of thought. Our state variables and automatons are cave drawings.
A power monitor for my laundry was my very first automation. Sadly the gas dryer still managed to trip the load protection on the plug when I turned it on, even though the normal load was 7A, so it was annoying to have to press start multiple times. Unfortunately load protection was the one protection I couldn't disable.
2:03: my washer and dryer alert the household when their cycles are complete, with both alerts requesting the dryer lint screen be cleared. My dishwasher does not alert when the cycle is complete, but it DOES announce “the dishes in the dishwasher are clean” the first time the machine is opened after a wash cycle. This (hopefully) prevents someone from putting dirty dishes in with a clean load. That is accomplished via a strategically positioned contact sensor plus a small but strong neodymium magnet.
You just need to be careful with large appliances and their load on smart plugs. Not all smart plugs can handle for example a 13amp load that could be used for the heater element in a UK/Irish tumble dryer.
These videos are the best when you already have a steady system and dont need the basics. Give us more on that PC standby and PC control integration and notification stuff. looks useful.
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Def interested in this!
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I’ve put an Aqara vibration sensor on my trash bin. If the trash can doesn’t move during my window to take it out, HA spams me every hour until it moves. These are actionable notifications with a "silence" action. The next morning, whenever the vibration sensor detects the can was moved (i.e emptied), I get a separate notification to bring in the bin. Had to play around with sensitivity settings to avoid false triggers but works great now.
Nice 🙂👍
My simple automation:
Trigger:
Every time somebody approaches my house (my flat is the only flat in the last floor, so I’ve placed a zigbee motion sensor directed towards the last flight of stairs)
Actions:
Home ammostante sends me a Telegram massage + if somebody is at home, flashes the lights in the room where I am (if any light in my flat is on, that means - due to other automations - that somebody is at home and is not sleeping, so I flash the lights where the person is, in order to let him know that in approximately 15-20 seconds somebody will be at the door of my flat!)
Trick: motion sensors placed under the bed, so that thy are not triggered when somebody is sleeping!
Thank you for your awesome videos!! :)
That's a nice one, thanks for the tip!
We have wall-mounted side tables next to our bedroom and put our motion sensors underneath. It blocks any movement from the bed and works perfectly to turn on a dim underbed led strip when one of us gets out of bed at night. Husband says it is his favorite automation so far (but I haven't gotten the garage doors hooked up yet).
Daylight simulation for the morning alarms is just beautiful. I personally use the companion app for android to get the time of the next alarm and trigger my daylight script if the alarm rings between 1 am and the sunrise. Otherwise I just open up the blinds.
Additionally you can check whether your Android smartphone is home to not make the lights turn on if you are not home.
That's a good one thanks!
What lamps would you suggest for that?
Any HA connected lamp would work. I used some cheap wifi lamps that can show cold to warm white. In combination with brightness it does the trick for the "simulation"
One of my simplest automation is also one of my most useful: If phone start charging AND bedroom light is on, activate "Good Night" scene. (turn off everything) Might as well add my PC to the list, great idea!
Awesome video Lewis as always. Thank you.
Don't suppose you could do videos on each of these ideas please?
Thanks
I have NFC tags near my washing machine and tumble dryer which I’ve programmed with timers. When I put a quick wash on I scan the 30 minute one with my phone, if it’s a spin I scan the 10 minute one. The machines have a beep to notify when programs are finished but they are pretty quiet. I get a notification when the time is up which tells me the program is done, which is useful when I forget what on earth the timer is for!
This has been incredibly helpful, especially the shopping list and the Washing Machine notifications!
Just to say that for the washing machine notifications although the notification "persistent: true" means it can't be swiped off, clicking on it will take you to the Home Assitant page and clear the notification from your phone. I couldn't find a way to stop this happening except I found was if you also set "sticky: true" it means it doesn't disappear even if clicked until you hit the "It's done" option, so mine reads as -
persistent: true
sticky: true
tag: washing
actions:
- action: MACHINE_EMPTIED
title: It's done
Hope that helps
hey , im trying to make an automation where it reminds me to take medicines incase i havent already (the medicine box has a contact sensor and helper which checks if the sensor has been opened that day or not) , but yeah i want it to send a notification to my phone if i havent taken them and then clear the notification automatically once i open the box , any idea how i could do that? thank you
Computer sleep mode:
What a cool idea!
HOW exactly CAN I RECREATE THIS??
+1
You don't have to. Windows already has a built in sleep timer.
I've just got into home automation in the past 2 weeks to automate my grow tent in time to start of my peppers and tomatoes later this month. It's now crept outside the grow tent a little.
Suggestion 1 - just done it, with a power plug and door monitor so that it nags until you open the door. Due to do the tumble dryer later on.
Suggestion 2 - making a shopping list using NFC tags which will be in the relevant cupboards so that when I go in and notice that I'm almost out of teabags I can just tap my phone on it and it will add it to my shopping list. Nice idea about the Geo-location, I might have to borrow that idea. It's a pity that you can only have one shopping list though, as I would prefer to split things to different lists for different shops.
Suggestion 3 - just got a smart bulb that uses the Smart Life app and this has the circadian rhythm built into it so I'm trying that hoping that it will help me get to sleep as well as wake up.
Suggestion 7 - I'm thinking about how to get my computer to shut down and want to get a way that will work with linux as well as windows. Not sure how to do this as if I've left it to render then I don't want it to shut down half way through.
What bulbs do you use for your bedside tables? I find that my Philips hue filaments are way too bright at 1%, waking me up instantly when the automation starts 😂
I mostly have simple automations that do things like turn on lights (motion or time), notify me of things, or turn climate controls up and down. But have recently setup a few door/window sensors that turn off the climate controls, when one of those doors or windows are left open, so we're not heating or cooling the outside world.
Another automation that turned out to be pretty simple (after I learned how to add API calls), announces a Joke Of The Day on my daughter's smart clock when she presses an Aqara button. It was all her idea and was a great learning experience for both of us.
I have exactly the same morning brief automation, it also ends up playing soft music while I prepare my coffee in the kitchen. But it also includes api integrations that fetch a joke and a daily quote.
Loved the shopping list one though. Keep up the great content 👍
Since the kids can walk up the stairs and pop up behind me when gaming on the attic and scare the crap out of me, I made this: up to 5 min after motion detection on the middlefloor passage, the top floor passage detects motion AND my HUE play is on; All light in the attic office flash.
Saved me from a heart attack at least a dozen times now.
What smart plug did you use for energy monitoring for washing machine?
Hi. Love the channel! I second the GitHub idea for your yaml files. Do you do anything in Node Red? That’s my preference.
I have LEDs in our bedroom closets that are triggered by Z wave door sensors. If the door is opened, I check if it is within an offset of sunset to sunrise. If so, then it checks if the bedroom light is on. If it is within the nighttime period and the bedroom light is off, the lights turn on at 20pct brightness, so the light isn’t too bright to wake anyone else in the room. Otherwise, they are at 100pct. Once I add the blackout shades (on order now from Leviosa), they may factor into the logic.
Shopping list integrated!! Just after the release of the video start implementation. Thank for the idea
Great stuff, well done!
10:35 are you having success with the calendar automation trigger for garbage? I was pulling my hair out getting my notification to work and discovered it was the trigger that was the issue. I've only been able to trigger x hours before the calendar event by writing a template trigger to do so!
It's the simplest thing but I have 2 bedside lights and plugging in my/wife's phone after sunset (and checking we're in the bedroom) starts a 5 second timer before turning off said person's bedside light. It gives you just enough time to pull the covers up before the light turn off.
Wife loves the simplicity...
So long as the significant other is happy, we are happy 😂
That one's brilliant. I think my wife would love that too. I'll surprise her.
I use a CPAP with a smart plug and then a smart plug on husband's phone charger. If both are drawing power then we are in bed and everything turns off. I had to play with the automation because he drives a truck and is gone several nights a week, so it also checks who is at home before making the decision to turn off the ligths.
What smart plugs do you use Lewis? I can’t find anything reasonably priced and zigbee or anything wifi and Tasmota flashable
Is there a link for the blueprint forum link for "7:56 - Flashing Lights when someone comes home"?
My favourite automations are lights that come on (or not) at different brightness through the day in different rooms and passageways.
In the evening, once LUX levels get low enough then they motion trigger on at normal levels between 80-90%
Between sunset and sunrise +1, they trigger on at 60-70%.
Between midnight and 4am they come on at 30%
If sleeping (boolean triggered by calendar sensor) then lights motion on at 1% + if in the kitchen then only 2 (of 4) spot lights come on
During the day if it suddenly gets dim like when a storm passes through, then they'll come on with motion until the storm passes.
Automations, scripts and scenes all coming together in harmony :)
Another great video. The shopping list was very nice. The washing machie as well. Do you have the code for this video somewhere public? Thanks
One of my useful automations is that to conserve energy I have my bed sensor (built after seeing your video BTW so thanks for that) telling a HA instance running on a NUC to shut everything down at night and to start up a RP3 (that also shuts down the NUC) that only runs a few lights and sensors and when I get up after a certain time it turns on the main HA that turns everything back on and shuts down the RP3
I suppose the reason is to save energy, but is there really that much of a difference between those two devices?
One note about smart switches with energy consumption monitoring is that they consume an extra 1 to 2 watts of power when turned on. Electricity is expensive here in California and if I leave one of those switches running for a year it'll cost me an extra $7 annually just for that one switch. Something to keep in mind.
I ended up using a light sensor on the instrument panel of my LG washer to sense when the wash is over. Not the best solution but it doesn't cost much in electricity.
You can turn socket off after cycle, you save power on socket and idle dryer
@@RafaMazurekRMZ Yeah then you'll need a routine for turning on the switch when you start laundry, and the wife is not always on board with extra instructions. :)
I happen to have a panel that lights up when the washer is on, so I taped the Aqura motions sensor (with light sensor) on the panel and I finally get notification without having to pay the energy "subscription fee". :)
Curious if you have a video on how to do that persisting push notification? All I can find is how to do it as a notification in home assistant, not push. I currently have a notification for the rumba when it’s finished to empty the bin, but I would like to make it a persistent notification.
Please check the power consumption of the household appliance and the maximum allowed wattage or Amperes of the plug that you intent to use. During my career as repairman for appliances I saw many adapters fail from blown fuse to charred adapters and even open fires from being overloaded. Especially washers , dryers and dishwashers might take more power than your adapter is able to handle in the long run.
Absolutely, goes without saying!
Although not sure if you are US or UK but I'm in the UK and we use 240v here rather than 120v - most of the plugs sold here are 13a which is pretty high at 240v, not many regular household appliances would exceed this
@@EverythingSmartHome Location is Switzerland, 230V. Many plugs I saw were rated around 6-10A. Just checked my IKEA plugs: 10A
While appliances bought in the last 5 years should be fine, some older ones might still consume more than 2.3kW at peak. Why I named the biggest offenders.
Hi, thanks for the video, are you doing only Home Assistant automations videos ot Smartthigns as well ?
There is some really cool ideas here! Are you planning to delve deeper on any. I like the sleep automation for the pc. How did you set that up if you don’t mind?
Don't modern PC do that without any automations? Power Options on Window Control panel for example.
Hi Lewis, what smart plugs (with energy monitoring) do you recommend ?
Starting my "Shower-scene" will do the following: Check if the door and window in the bathroom are closed, check the temperature. When it's "cold" and both are closed: activate heater. Warn me (smart speaker and/or notification on smartphone, depends on other things...) when the temperature in the bathroom is ok or when the door/window is open and it's cold. And of course will turn off the heater when no motion in x-time after activating. Or when it's hot or the door/window is opened for some time. Also turn offs the heater when the light in the shower is back off after x-time.
I like this one. I've been monitoring the bathroom humidity and once I make the switches smart I plan on having the fan turn on automatically as the humidity rises.
Lovely ideas, but as a beginner some really simple, step by step videos on how to do some of these things would really help to get started with HA. Even to the level of how to set up an energy monitoring plug.
Bin collection: I did one of these in WebCore. It voice-alerted me the evening before, and then again the morning of, each collection. We have a weekly recycling day that’s different from rubbish day that’s different from yard waste day, so it knew those. In addition it knew the local holidays that are observed by the collection company, so those auto-broadcast alerts would not occur if the collection day is instead a holiday! I’m rebuilding it, slowly.
The best alarm clock also uses another feature of the homeassistant app on Android: Read the next alarm from Android directly, which works perfectly practically every alarm clock app - and then use this to trigger the wakeup:
To configure create an automation with a template trigger like this:
{% set t = as_timestamp(states('sensor.my_phome_next_alarm')) - 1200 %} {{ now().timestamp() | int in [t] }}
This makes this a no-touch effort, as soon as I change my alarm in Alarmy (yes, I need the encouragement to get up) the Android system knows about it, and goes tell homeassistant. And with that I get awoken gradually over 20min (1200s) with light, and then forced into awakeness by Alarmy.
After a 'strange' event, I set up an automation that simply announces that the front door is open in the rooms upstairs and furthest from the front door on the first floor. Since I have google Mini's in these rooms, any time the front door opens, the automation uses google tts translate to speak 'The front door is open' concurently on those speakers. Think I'll ad the same for the back door to the upstairs speaker, but not the downstairs speakers. Ultimately adding similar for garage and basement doors (into the garage) though those are much less concerning at the moment. I could add a light flash as well, but I'm less interested in that than some people.
Love your videos Lewis! Always helpful and informative. Any suggestions for an automation to keep the dog off the couch while we're away from home?
You could probably do that qithout too much trouble using a pressure sensor on it and checking if your phones are home or not to trigger an annoying noise or a 'her get off that!' voice alert.
I found some car seat pressure sensors attached to a moisture detector that I'm playing around with under the seat cushions for this.
just today i created an automation that sends a notification when the washing machine finishes. how? by using a smart plug that measures the power consumption. for the future i'm planning to change that to give me a spoken message using TTS, but that isn't up and running yet.
0:51 that looks EXACTLY like the ones i use.
Great minds!
Make it better - only remind yourself when you're close to the washer (motion in adjacent rooms)!
What light strips are those flashing behind your monitor? Or any similar with loads of configuration options in HA. Thanks!
Hey,
Great work!
Would you mind sharing the automation yaml for the washing machine notification please?
thanks!
Yes will do indeed!
@@EverythingSmartHome I would like that too. TIA
What smart plugs with power consumption measuring can you recommend?
What energy monitoring plugs do you use please?
I would like to know that as well. The few cheaper ones I've tried didn't do real-time monitoring so there was to much delay to make them useful.
I have one from Develco/frient that works well
Are they tasmota compatible?
@@EverythingSmartHome Thank you, I have some of Kasa ones which work well but they seem to no longer be making them anymore and the tapo ones apparently need to be connected to the Internet. So will look into the ones you suggested.
Thanks again!
I created simple automations to turn off heating/cooling in a room when a window in that room opens. Did the same for doors to outside, but with a 1 minute delay. Also created an automation to charge accumulation heaters based on tomorrow's outside temperature. Both are absolute energy savers.
And the Tv backlight, it will only turn on if the illumination of the room is below a threshold, and only when the tv is being used. That's done by using a power measuring plug on the tv and a lux measuring motion sensor
Both good ones, thanks!
How did you automate the charge accumulation heaters (storages heater)?
Not the software side, that one I can figure out on my own.
What kind of hardware did you use?
We don’t have individual room conditioners, but we have dual zone upstairs and down. As the upstairs can heat far more rapidly on sunny days, we sometimes had a scenario where heat would be on downstairs while AC kicked in upstairs. By using HA to coordinate the two zones, that scenario no longer occurs. And we also have it so if a window is open in a zone, neither heat nor AC can go on in that zone.
I do have a voice command to turn off the window automation, because sometimes cooking smoke or aroma needs an open window.
Which smart plug do you use to monitor the washing machine electricity?
check out the shelly plug s 😉
One question I have on the gradual light alarm (and this isn't necessarily smart home related 😅) how do you and your partner cope when you have to get up at different times? Doesn't the alarm for whoever has to get up first wake the other person up as well? I can just imagine my wife having a go at me for waking her up before 9am with my "stupid smart lights" 😂
Really helpful videos, cheers from Portugal! :)
The computer sleep automation is brilliant. If only Microsoft could build some sort of power management features into the operating system that would turn your display off, or put your PC to sleep without the need to use sensors an external server and Home Assistant....
Awesome video, what plugs are you using for the washing machine? Been trying to do this recently and can only find the Tapo plugs that don’t cost a fortune but they’ve been disconnecting from wifi constantly… have just ordered aqara vibration sensors from aliexpress because I’d given up 🤷🏻♂️ but if you’ve found reliable energy plugs….
Aqara makes a couple of zigbee plugs that can report power usage. Both a smart plug and an in-wall switch T1 that both report on power consumption. I have the smart plug up and running already and have just ordered a pair of the T1 switches.
Do you have any guides on how you implement these? I'm interested in putting the computer to sleep. Thanks.
I'll try to get something up this week on the website, thanks
your computer should be able to do it on its own :)
Same here. Would love to know how to do this!
Was looking for the same
Why would you want to use an external software for that?
Just use the build in feature in your computer.
It just takes two clicks.
Do you have a github repo where you can share your config and automations that you share in your videos? If not I suggest you do to make it easier for the kids to follow along at home :). Love the videos! I've implemented similar things in a few of you and others videos.
Pretty much every video that is a "how to" or guide has the code on GitHub yes - since this one is an ideas list I never thought to put them up - but I can if people are interested :)
Thanks, appreciate it!
That would be a great idea ! Thanks for the inspiration 👍
I would appreciate seeing the code on the morning routine or better yet a how to! Been wanting to do this but still to new to HA to figure it out myself.
Would love to see the code for washing machine automation, struggling for last few weeks with setting this one based on power consumption alone
I made some automations for my use. The first automation is when my computer starts (can use home assistant to start the computer via wake on lan) my monitors turns on. My monitors a connected to a smartplug. I use a smartplug from ikea. Then i have some automations with nfc tags.
My garbage schedule is.. chaotic. Is there a way to use Google calendar to automate the notifications and some days counters in home assistant ? I have a separate calendar just for the different bins
I have it set up to check if the next calendar event contains "bin day" if so, It will send a notification to a couple of phones the day before. It also checks if it says bins or recycling as we have staggered weeks for our black bins.
I added the calendar events manually as our local council don't have an API or even machine readable text on the bin site, just a PDF poster with the dates on :/
Have you tried the garbage collection integration in HACS? It's really flexible and gives you a calender entity
Hi. What do you mean about "hoocking up computer to HA"?
Computer sends sensor information back to HA, plus is controllable (sleep, shutdown, restart etc) from HA itself
... such as HassAgent, IoT link, ...
@@EverythingSmartHome I would be happy to see a video about PC to HA integration. Thank You)
@@susugar3338 Nice. Thank you) I will learn more about IoT link. I used RPC shutdown 1-2 years but was not impressed at all.
In the US it's hard to find 240V current-measuring plugs as it's a completely different socket. For sunrise/sunset lights, IKEA Tradfri lights are actually really good for transitions... both in brightness and color! Many RGBW lights will support transition of brightness and RGB color, but it's not as common to see something that can transition between a specific color temperature and an RGB color.
I saw you have an app/service running on your computer for notifications and I am sure more. I skimmed your website for a write up on this but maybe I missed it. What is that app called and where I can check it out? I am currently using hass workstation service but I wanted to compare to see if there are any other features needed.
Side note, I use the idle time from my machine to control my lights and lock screens so I do not have to action a notification.
As always, thanks for the video
Great video, huge thanks for your content! What LED strip are you running behind your monitor?
It's actually a ZigBee strip from Lidl from way back in the day - probably will change soon!
hi could you maybe do a tutorial on how you set up your "wake up light alarm" ? or just a short explanation on how you set it up ? i would really appreciate it.
i have tried to use a blueprint created by Sbyx, but i cant get it to work right
Hi ESH, what brand is that smart plug used for washing machine notifications?
Have you done or can you do a video on actionable notifications. Great video thanks.
He has one. Check the channel videos.
@@areks4397 thank you will do
I have, I've done two now! Make sure to use the latest one
For washing machines or dishwashers with doors that open automatically: Simply use a window sensor for notification that the washing machine is finished. 👍
That's a neat trick!
my washing machine doors don't open automatically but when its finished a light on the washing machine lights up that tells you when its finished. I used a smart plug with energy monitoring and when that light comes on the plug shows that theres between .6 and 1.2 watts being pulled so i trigger on that and when someone opens the door that light goes out and the wattage drops to 0.0
I have the smart plug notification, but plan to add a door sensor as well, so it knows both when it has finished washing, and when someone has opened it (to hopefully empty it!)
I use a Select Helper along with an energy monitoring plug. When a power increase is detected the Select option is changed from "Idle" to "Running". When power drops (for 5 minutes in my case) the option is changed to "Clean" and a message is sent. If the option is "Clean" and the lid is opened, the option is reset to "Idle" and reminder messages are stopped.
The Door sensor is an automation game changer.
Hello,
i really liked the video.
But what i didnt understand is where you programm all of these?
I played a little bit with google home scenes, but your overview looks way different.
This is Home Assistant and ESPHome - there are many videos on the channel about it if you want to learn more about it :)
Excellent suggestion, keep sharing these ideas!
Thanks, I will! 😁
Do you have the yaml for these?
Which ones are you interested in? I can put them up for sure
I would love to see washing machine scripts
The Shopping list example would be nice also. Please?
@@EverythingSmartHome The computer usage one also the hass agent for Windows
If you post the washing machine one, it wil save me from trying to copy down what is on the video by freeze frames.
how do you set up the persistent notifications for the washer being done?
how can you have the shopping list open when you click on the notification
Hello, I am trying to set up my dishwasher according to the instructions you did on your washing machine. I am having some difficulties. When the automation runs, the status goes as off, running, off. It looks like it is not triggering the waiting period. In my case, the dishwasher is always at 1.2 W in the off state. When it starts, there is no waiting, it is pulling straight up to 40ish W. After approximately 2 hours, there is 10 minute drop to 2.8 ish W. Then it starts back up. At the end, the drying period is approximately 1 hour 20 minutes with 8.5 watts, then it drops back down to 1.2 again in off state. I am struggling with how to set the thresholds for each state and for how long especially because of that drop in the middle. It would be really helpful to get your guidance on this.
5:07 is your weather entity a curse word(s)?
I understand you probably don't have all that good weather out there on the island but isn't that a bit too much?
Or could it be that perhaps it contains my location that I don't want to disclose...? :O
@@EverythingSmartHome no...
I still believe it's curse words 😃
Allright allright, good one. I created a door/window sensor group to notify me when i leave the house. Is it possible to use an actionable notification so i can press "which one are left open" and then get feedback which door/window is left open?
You should be able to do that in the first notification 😅 you would probably want to use a template for that
Current plan is to find a LED strip with individually addressable RGB lights and use it to display percentages, temperatures and timers as a function of how many leds are on.
hmm then you have to remember a lot to know what it's indicating
Thanks for this. I've got Hass Agent notifications working, but I cant see my laptop as a device in Home Assistant. Not much information online. I've restarted my HA instance multiple times and I used the installer to install Hass Agent. Hope you can help?
Where do you even find smart plugs that monitor energy? I haven't been able to figure out what you're using.
What’s application do you use on phone? You show it when talk about computer sleep automation
I want the same kind of notification you have for the washer but I can not get it to work... Mind sharing that automation in full?
What zigbee strip lights do you use in the back of you monitor ? i looking for one of them
My all time favorite is the automation i made fir my daughter. Her light turns on on a speech command and turns off aftershave 30 minuten. In the mornig it turns on depending on google calendar schooldag, off days and weekends. All only work when we are home. TG for Node Red. Now only a brightness fader, that will work.
Would you please shareware your automation off wake up light and alarm module?
That's a pretty cool one, can see how that would be fun!
Yes I'll get something up on the website
Does anyone has recommendations for power monitoring UK plugs for the washing machine style automation? Ideally looking for Zigbee but seem to be rare as hen's teeth.
Love the ideas, but some of them are a real challenge for not only a house of two, but moreso in house with kids - such as the wake up or greeting routines without the ability to ID the person first. Besides that, can you suggest a Zigbee plug that doesn't boot to the OFF state when power is reset? Most reset to OFF, so if you have a power failure you're going to have to remember to turn the outlet back on before using the washing machine. I suppose you can include something in HA' startup to power on such outlets, but it should really be already build into the product. Zigbee outlets just really suck compared to Z-wave - but they're cheap.
Why z wave plugs are better?
Great selection of suggestions there Lewis, thanks.
Poor Sarah though 🤣
😂 poor nothing!!
@@EverythingSmartHome was it Sarah who added 'new attitude' to your shopping list?
@@EverythingSmartHome Dairy Liquid still makes me laugh too 🐄
Has anyone found a Zigbee UK Power Strip (Ideally 4 sockets)? I can only find WiFi ones. The only ZigBee one I have heard of was the 3 socket Lidl one, which is no longer available.
Great video as always, but could you please do a video on an idiots guide to setting up and configuring HASS.Agent for windows. I've tried to install it and set everything up but I can't see any PC entities in Home Assistant.
Are you sure there isn't already a TH-cam video showing that?
That chipmunk announcing your daily info is funny :)
is the software you are running on your PC for the local control (Sleep functions)
What voice is that on your smart speaker in the first automation?
My best one after 23:00 and my phone is plugged in and charging it turns all lights off downstairs
Hi Sir, sorry if you already mentioned it but what brand smart plug are you using for your washing machine?
I have one from Develco/Frient which is quite nice!
Great videos as always 😁 and is the smart plug that you used for power monitoring the washing machine ? And is it Zigbee or wifi?
Thanks! Yes it's a ZigBee plug I'm using on the washing machine!
@@EverythingSmartHome would you mind sharing the name or a link? I have been using sonoff but I would like to switch from wifi to Zigbee
so i setup my shopping automation like yours and when i get to the store, i get the notification on my ohone but when i click it, i get 404 not found black screen. i have external access and can access HA when i am away from home
The shopping list is using Grozy? Or how are you creating this?
How is that notifcation thing working. Im trying to implement the exact same thing with my vaccum. If i dont respont to the push it will start
Great video! Nice tips for a beginner! But, could you also post your robovac construction? That looks so awesome and I would like to copy it ;)
Thanks for the great list!
Some of these I already do (washing machine detection), but haven't taken them to the next level yet (persistent notifications that require action).
You might want to do something about that persistent cough before it gets worse! ;-)
Omg I need the PC one 😮
How do you access HA outside your house?
i would like to do smart energy plugs for washer/dryer. Washers tend to be able to use the normal plug in the US. but the dryers need bigger ones. no one seems to make a smart dryer plug
Ah that sucks, we don't have that problem here!