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
I totally agree that voice commands are just not great as the only way to control things. I think it takes some time and then some trial and error to figure out what you actually want and need your smart home to do. To that end, I like lighting and security as my first priorities. Thanks for the video.
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Hello, do you offer off site consulting for a fee for a DIY project? I am building a new home and have watched many of your videos. Thank you.
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.
You mentioned you use the Sonoff S31 Zigbee smart plugs, have you ever had issues with them seemingly congesting your zigbee network? I had a terribly looking network graph, only after I removed most of these routers did my network seem to stabilize.
What would you say is the best smart surge outlet so I can get multiple smart ports instead of having to buy multiple ones
How can you transfer this if you sell your house?
Where’s the light from in the back?
Which App are you using to combine all your smart home devices together ?
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.
is it just me or does it feel like home automation is dying
Can’t do those mundane tasks. Opening a door knob is SOO inconvenient.
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
Some solutions are not allowed in my rented apartment 😒
What’s that led light bar you use in corner wall? I need one chat help
Any experience w Govee lights?
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
What’s the light bar along the corner of the wall?
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
Hi there, I see in your AMZ list lots of NFC tags. What kind of use can we use it in a smart home if not for access?
How do you get Kasa to work with home assistant?
Excellent video! Answered virtually all of my questions as I look to smart-ify the new house a bit.
Too early in the tech cycle. I’ll come back in 10 years when it’s as easy as installing a light bulb
Now that the Echo Hub is out, would you change your ranking of the Alexa system? Seems like it adds a lot of capability for different types of devices.
What is the app/device your using to control everything in the video?
how many times was the word "Automation" used in this video. Answer = Yes
Reed what part of AZ do you live in?
I love your videos and the idea of smart home . I have one issue that i really think you have an answer that i don’t know .
I bought about 20 smart items (bulbs, switches, etc) my problem is that if i want to change different wifi company or even change the wifi i will have to reset 20 items one by one which is Very annoying. Am i doing something wrong ? Or is it because i buy from different companies (some i bought from ali expess )?
I want a selution where i change one and hopa all changed automatically. Thanks
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
Great video, though I feel this all can be a bit overwhelming. Maybe a simpler, beginner’s guide?
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?
I’m savings these videos to a Home Automation playlist as I gear up to get started!
Excellent video! Answered virtually all of my questions as I look to smart-ify the new house a bit.
Yeah I’m good
Just moved into our new home that we bought and step by step I am building our smart home. I also work with sensors and conditions.
Nem semmi!! Környezetvédelem címszónál a kínai értemlező kézi szótárban: “Lefordíthatatlan külföldi kifejezés” (irónia)
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 ‼️😂🤣
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.
Will a home assistant camera stream in the google home/assistant app?
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.
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
Would love a similar guide for renters because that’s a big market that feels so underserved
I love how easy Homey Pro 2023 had been, but just some things here and there I’m not a fan with overall. One of them, is the dashboard, not much customization at all. I’m almost wanting a mix of Home Assistant dashboard, with Homey Pro flows. I really like how easy the Homey Pro flows are for setting up. I’m thinking might just have all my devices using Homey Pro for flows, but Home Assistant for the dash. I don’t know yet though. Do you know if there is a way to setup Home Assistant automations to be like the drag and drop of Home Pro Flows?
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
Great video!
I’m having trouble creating a routine that plays a specific song on repeat on a specific Google home mini device in my home. The eventual goal is to trigger this automation with a smart button. But to start, I’d like to be able to do this via a simple voice command. But the "repeat" part doesn’t happen. And sometimes there’s no action after my command. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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Ask that bro in the background to wear fullhand shirt not sleebeless stupido
very useful
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