Ultimate Guide to Starting and Growing a Smart Home in 2024!
Ultimate Guide to Starting and Growing a Smart Home in 2024!
Whether you’re starting or growing a smart home in 2024, this video is packed with tips for beginner to advanced level!
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Getting started with Home Assistant
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0:00 Intro
0:09 3 Smart Home Goals
0:46 Controlling Your Smart Home
3:17 Your Smart Home System
6:23 Adding Devices
8:26 Automating Your Home
10:28 Smart Home FAQs
14:18 I’ll never let go…jk
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MUSIC
Rinse Repeat by DivKid
All of the music throughout is by Nihilore.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7LVYQYkdLFkkpJiGdkzX9K
Ending song is The End by EVA.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6UIs5b0zSXztIW5GHkCTkK
very useful
The biggest fear I have about automation in the home, is if anything should happen to me, like long term injury or even worse like death, how does my family take over the home…I mean as a man we Must!! Think about our family needs and that also means what will they do if I’m no longer here, this is the only thing that stops me as I cannot design a system around that possible eventuality…. Any ideas
Can’t do those mundane tasks. Opening a door knob is SOO inconvenient.
Hello I’m curious, I am trying to set up a handful of cameras inside my one bedroom apartment, running an experiment, I do not want Wireless, I want everything fully analog tethered to motion sensors, I want the feed to go to one hard drive that I can just access the footage by plugging in that hard drive to my laptop and watch it through VLC player, I want no other bells and whistles outside of the obvious audio, Does anyone have any recommendations for a possible bulk purchase to achieve this? I’m imagining it would be a total of about five cameras only, but again I want them completely in sync at all times with zero Wi-Fi or Bluetooth nonsense, no interface outside of saving the footage to a hard drive then I will then use my laptop as a screen too pick and choose what I view, doable?
Ask that bro in the background to wear fullhand shirt not sleebeless stupido
Smart home ⁉️ what 💩‼️ For decades without electronic appliances, that lasted at least 20 years ‼️ If you were cold you walked to the house thermostat and turned up the heat ‼️ freaking people are so lazy today ‼️
And the electric car, you can put where the sun don’t shine. And sun , solar panels are 💩‼️ There’s other options that are much better ‼️ If corporate and government are telling you that it’s ok , IT’S NOT ‼️ BTW ‘ they’ are telling you that your garden is not healthy for the planet ‼️ If you believe in any of these lies , I have a bridge that has a lot of traffic going over it for sale ‼️ I will take gold and silver and I will pick the place you can purchase it ‼️😂🤣
Would love a similar guide for renters because that’s a big market that feels so underserved
I love tinkering. Can I use my Google nest devices connected to my home assistant?
How cool
Bonjour, I wonder if you could show and explain, how did you connect your withings bed sensor to HA ? I’m not interested in the medical stuff but just the presence. Tks.
Step 0 is probably the hardest one of them all. The step I’m talking about is actually getting a house whether it be in the US in Europe or in Asia.
What are the best invisible window door sensors
Ohhhh thank you for this video. You have saved me a lot of headache
Home Automation looks great, however this is like the icing on the cake. Seems like few address the foundational back bone network. I’ve tried 3 devices now on HA and the 3 devices have failed. Standard network would be an ISP, router and I think a HA bridge?
I use a 1. bridged ISP router to the 2. Desktop computer (mini-pc tech is ready now, like RaPi5 for desktop use if you’re not a gamer) with a 3. hypervisor (Qemu/KVM) running virtual machine (VM) 4.1. Home Assistant and VM 4.2. router pfSense.
Where’s the light from in the back?
Google Home Assistant has its limitation and flaws. But my smart wiring systtem supports it and with just the cheap Nest hub, I control the entire system by voice, i.e. shutters, lights, recuperation etc. I recently discovered that thanks to Matter GHA can finally work with sensors as automation triggers. So my motion sensors activate whatever I want. And that is a game changer, IMO.
Of all the things I got this year when it comes to everyday tech, it was undoubtedly my vionentus wallet, the airtag slot and the details often make me feel like I’m in Blade Runner.
Some solutions are not allowed in my rented apartment 😒
Excellent video
Great video, though I feel this all can be a bit overwhelming. Maybe a simpler, beginner’s guide?
is it just me or does it feel like home automation is dying
I have 5 split minis in bedrooms, and two main AC units in living spaces. I want to have all on a schedule to run when my solar has the batteries full and I still have sun left in the day! Some of these rooms are empty, but I want to rotate the AC on to keep the air moving and the room dry and not musty in the tropical environment. I’m so confused with all the Verbiage of smart home things! Do I just need a "sensibo" for each split mini? and do you recommend I hook them into a HA? or do I really need a HA? I would love a diagram of a simple system.
Please what and what should I buy so I can use my Alexa to control my home, thank you
What is the app/device your using to control everything in the video?
Hi there I’m interested in Smart home features I just bought a house and I got it back to the studs so I wanna run all the cat 6 wires I don’t know what else to do
What’s that led light bar you use in corner wall? I need one chat help
I’m surprised you didn’t say anything about how slow Alexa’s app is to use. Takes 20 seconds for a checkbox to show up when assigning devices to rooms. That’s "simple" but not easy :p
Would you still go with the water leak sensors from aeotec?
Im wanting to start my smart home with this aspect but having hard time figuring out what works or still in business, ideally compatible water valve shutoff
so should we take Matter or Zigbee ready devices?
what about tp-link and tapo
How would you compare Homeseer to Home Assistant? Currently running HS4, new project coming up so i am reevaluating for better options if any….
2:19 Motion sensors are triggered by pets, and then you have the joy of your light or whatever you think is smart to connect to them, turning on and off constantly. What’s so smart about it?
Hey Reed, Love your videos. I have a question. I’m having trouble viewing my live feed from a Eufy camera on the Google Home app on iOS. I can pair it together but can’t see the feed from it. Thanks
Too early in the tech cycle. I’ll come back in 10 years when it’s as easy as installing a light bulb
"It’s hard and clumsy to remember what to say." Okay, it’s really hard and clumsy to remember to say "hey Google, turn on the light". 😱😂😂
UPDATE: My Home Assistant Beginner’s Guide is live! Watch it here: https://youtu.be/Z4gvkmJ8q48?si=HgPgktsW0ihW5rlv
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I dont like kasa at all, if their app goes down, i cant turn off my lights, have to do it manually, WOULD NOT recommend kasa
Which LED light strips do you use?
Nem semmi!! Környezetvédelem címszónál a kínai értemlező kézi szótárban: “Lefordíthatatlan külföldi kifejezés” (irónia)
nice
Which app do you use for automation
Have done or can you please do a video on setting up a ‘new build’ house as apposed to setting up an existing home.
I would like to consider wiring & networking in the construction process
Will a home assistant camera stream in the google home/assistant app?
What’s the light bar along the corner of the wall?
how many times was the word "Automation" used in this video. Answer = Yes
Which App are you using to combine all your smart home devices together ?
Reed what part of AZ do you live in?
@ 7:48 : Anyone knows which lamp is he using? Looks great
I’m savings these videos to a Home Automation playlist as I gear up to get started!
What are the best invisible window door sensors