10 Next Level Automations in my Smart Apartment

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See the list of everything I use in my smart home and other favorites:

0:00 Intro
0:23 Calendar Alarm
1:03 Wake Up Automation
1:36 Barking Automation
2:21 Music Room to Room
2:51 Automated Lights
3:25 Dinner Automation
4:05 TV Automations
4:34 Office Lights
5:33 Automated Doorbell
6:04 Bedtime Automations
6:50 We’ve had enough...

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Dorian by Andrew Langdon

Absolute Terror by Nihilore

The End by EVA

Disclaimer: Smart Home Solver was sent some of the products in this video for previous unbiased reviews. As always, our opinions are 100% our own and not influenced.

[shawnco]

I always love seeing the mini skit at the end of the videos 😍😍

[Jmcinally]

You could use room assistant for your music controls and set up some little bluetooth nodes for each room, this can track individual phones movements between room.

I've been using a combination of PIR motion sensors to turn on lights and room assistant to keep them on if someone's present. It all ties into Home Assistant via MQTT.

[TheSuitedEngineer]

I'm always impressed by how your kids are always such good actors in your videos.

[randomtech]

That little ending always makes me laugh 🤣

[abcd]

Paul Hibbert AND Smart Home Solver posting a video today? That's how you know it's a good day...

[YourFriendCole]

I'm moving into an apartment soon and these will definitely come in handy! I hope you do some more renter friendly videos in the future so I can get even more ideas! :)

[racewiththefalcons]

I am so thankful you put links in the description to the products you mention. Saves me a bunch of hassle trying to search for them myself. Thank you!

[jephindavis]

I want these devices in my life. Love automation. Thanks for the video.👍

[geetmadan]

You should put a vibration sensor under your chair and add it to motion sensor light control automation in your office. The vibration sensor will make sure the light stays on

[loganfisher]

I love the calendar integration. I can't believe I never thought to do that for my wake up automation

I highly recommend an automation that sets your phone to DND and turns on your office's do not disturb light when you have something on your schedule that is tagged as "busy". I do this using Google Calendar, Tasker, and SmartThings.

[Ailasor]

"touch me and i will scream" made me laugh way to loud....

[chanda-aime]

This is fabulous for people with memory problems!

[SXJAYSX]

The smart calendar is crazy! Can't believe you got that figured out. Reminds me of that episode of black mirror in which a lil digital slave copy of yourself in entrapped in a computer turning on and managing your house according to your needs... Since it's you doing it for yourself 😅

[gianniskotsakiachidis]

Hi Reed! I may have a solution for you for the motion sensor automation when inside the office. You could install pressure sensor pads under your office chair similar to the ones used for matress, so if the pressure sensor detects that somebody is sitting in the office chair, even if the motion sensor will not detect any motion, the lights won't switch off. And of course, if the lights are on and the pressure and motion sensors are not activated for more than 30mins for example, you can have your lights switched off.

Let me know if that works for you :P

[TechnologyLife]

Using a power/energy monitor to tell if the TV is on is genius. Love that!

[SmartLifeEnthusiast]

A small thing that I like a lot:
When I open the attic, the light turns on but with a 2 second delay. This makes it feel more natural.
But more importantly, this also confirms that the light was actually off while the attic was closed. Otherwise you end up with a light-in-the-fridge situation.

[Humphrey]

For those persisting with SmartThings you can use IFTTT and a Google Calendar to trigger your wake up events. I created a new calendar called Home Automation and trigger events using hashtags in the subject line of the event. #wakeup, #timeforschool, #walkthedog, etc. this is for no reason other than bogging down the main calendar. Love your work!!

[adventurehapa]

I have the same internal debate every time: NodeRed or built in automation. 😀

[ren.s]

For the music following you, you could maybe use a bluetooth sensor in each room that can see that your phone is in the room

[rhysdavies]

Reed, you need some donation links set up bud. You’re one of the few channels that put a lot of work in and you don’t actively run Patreon or some other active donation channel and think that needs to change. Do it bud!