5 Different Smart Home Automation Ideas

Smart Home Automations are an important part of taking your smart home to the next level, but what else other than the basics can we actually do? Today I'll show you 5 different smart home automation ideas that I use every single day, that you may not have thought of yet!

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0:00 - Intro
0:51 - Person Detection
1:55 - Movie Watching Scenes
2:56 - Wall Panel Doorbell
3:49 - Alarms
4:55 - Bed Sensor

[EverythingSmartHome]

What are your favourite Home Automation ideas that you have in your smart home? 🔥

[iainhay]

Certainly my wife’s favourite automation it the one that detects if she has left work and if she has driven through a point in her journey which is the same time that is required to make a mug of tea for her. It lets me know and I make it for when the door opens!

[AndrewJonesMcGuire]

I know you didn't want "obvious" automations, but this is one is a little bit different. I got a Zigbee Lux sensor from eBay. It has to be fed through a sensor filter using the Simple Moving Average time window to smooth it out a bit. I have an input_number from 0 to 100, which is the master brightness for the whole house. The slider is then moved with an automation that reacts to changes in the outside Lux level. This way - if it suddenly gets really cloudy outside, the lights in the house can behave like it is night time, and if it brightens up again, they will switch off again. This is the Jinja code I am using to calculate the Master %. {% set val = trigger.to_state.state|int %} {% set min_in = 1 %} {% set
max_in = 3000 %} {% set max_out = 100 %} {% set min_out = 1 %} {% set
out = (101 - (max_out + (min_out - max_out) * (1 - ((val - min_in) /
(max_in - %} {% if out < min_out %}{% set out = min_out %}{%
endif %} {% if out > max_out %} {% set out = max_out %}{% endif %} {{
out|int }} I then have input_number sliders for each room with dimmable lights, that calculates it's own brightness level based on the master slider. Here is the living room as an example: {% set min = 15 %} {% set max = 82 %} {% set b = (trigger.to_state.state|int) -(100 - max) %} {% if b <= min %} {% set v = min %} {% elif b >= max %} {% set v = max %} {% else %} {% set v = b %} {% endif %} {{ v }}

[praveenmadhavan]

I would love a Part 2. Also, I would like to see how you implemented your Bedtime routine. It's so coool!

[JamesMyatt]

Great video. Please can you do a deep dive into the alarm system. Including automations and dashboards?

[verwaeststijn]

i'd love a part 2 :), i really like the automation when i go to bed as wel although i just use my phones charging state to detect it since i don't have a bad occupancy sensor yet 😢

[Daren_King]

How do you get the alarm to work, and which is the alarm keypad you are using..

[TheMrProbie]

What smoke alarms, and sirens are you using and how does they connect? Zigbee, z-wave, or Wi-Fi? And what keypad are you using?

[KiatHuang]

Which software components did you use with Home Assistant with these ideas? e.g. the doorbell popup

[Trevor_Green]

Nice picks!

My favorite things to add:
- Exterior lights on dusk and time clock
- Xmas lights on time of day and calendar schedule
- Garage door open and close button (rather than a single button like you have on the wall or car). Needs a feedback closure sensor
- Garage door contacts (man doors and overhead doors) and motion combo to manage the lights in the garage.

One I want to figure out someday when I have time is to have a PIP to all TVs on doorbell cam action, but i think this might be a pain based on HDMI and licensing, but I have not spent time deep diving on this yet.

[michelefalzone]

You are the best Lewis! loved your bed automation idea! I have a similar one but it gets triggered with a wall push button (attached to a shelly i3) next to the bed.
I would love a part 2, 3, and more! greetings from a big fan from Italy!

[streetwiztech]

I just knew the bed sensor was going to be number 1.. :-) that's because it's my fave too..

[martijndegeus]

I have a sunlight/weather dependent "coming home" automation which turns on lights if needed and some music, if you're the first coming home.

[frederickwood]

Hey. Thanks for the material. I’m really enjoying it as I set up home assistant.
I’m looking for a sensor that will tell me the volume and temperature of water in our old school hot water tank in the airing cupboard. We turned down the water heating and can’t yet find the right balance so we run out of water. I’m hoping to find a stick on strip type thermometer but the solution could be 3 separate small thermometers that are inserted into the tank insulation. Combined with some maths and practical tests it should be very doable. I just haven’t yet found an example of it being done before

[praveenmadhavan]

Great video! If you could elaborate more on how you set up your alarm system in a future videos, that would be helpful 🙂

[erikherbig]

I would love to see how you did the automation for movie and tv watching.

[mrxmry]

about that last one with the bed: did you take into account that someone might get sick and stay in bed during the day? would be a good idea to create a mode for that.

[carldawson]

Hi I am new to Home Assistant, I have a wall-mounted tablet, and trying to work out how to auto-recharge the unit say when the battery level drops to 40% and switch off at 95%, any help would be much appreciated

[SenZubEanS]

Keep 'em coming. Like to hear and see what other people are doing around their houses.

[microfx]

wow... you are the endboss of home automation :D I even failed at those Aqara motion detectors and HASS to make it work properly and left my SmartHome dumb as it was.