25 Home Automation Ideas: Ultimate Smart Home Tour!

Make your house smarter with these home automation ideas! Follow me on my smart home tour through a typical day filled with automation. I use Alexa and SmartThings for most of these ideas, so you can easily copy them for your own house.

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Disclaimer: Smart Home Solver was sent Wyze Cam, Nest, and several other products featured in this video for previous unbiased reviews. Other products were purchased with our own money. As always, our opinions are 100% our own and not influenced.

[audrey]

When the robots turn on us this guy is gonna be the first to go

[bryntownshend]

This is how the 1960s imagined us living in the 21st century

[SuperGirlFranka]

Why does this feel like he’s living in a minecraft redstone house?

[gmeztubenation]

His parents must hate him. Poor old folks just trying to turn on the TV and the garage door closes.

[jmoosic]

He's gotta be constantly changing something, charging something, or re-syncing something

[darrenernest]

Our mailbox is at the end of the driveway. Instead of wondering when to check tie mail I put a sensor in it and I get a notification when it is opened.

[mariosall]

Kept thinking " Oh that would be cool! " throughout the video. At the end "man... I don't need ANY of this!"

[redealexander]

That bathroom idea where the light changes colors depending on if someone is in the bathroom is genius, it would be really useful for a college dorm, considering they only have locks on the outside of the bathroom

[Marbellous]

Just to clarify some basic thermodynamics: air is not getting colder because of a ceiling fan being on. Fans just accelerate air convection and the air just *feels* colder. The sensor doesn't feel it.

And to be exact, that ceiling fan is actually heating the air (a bit) because it is a machine that is on (it uses power and power heats). Another point: hotter air is in the ceiling and colder on the floor so actually ceiling fans are circulating the upper hotter air down to the floor making temperature censors go up a bit.

[itsJoshW]

You one morning: Ah I just want to sleep in
Alexa: You can't sleep in. You have to work to obtain currency to purchase more products through Amazon and allow us to collect more data on you.
You: What
Alexa: ...
You: Alexa, what did you say?
Alexa: Good morning
You: Oh, okay

[What_was_wrong_w_jst_our_names]

Isn’t the door the indicator that the bathroom is occupied

[HughD]

You have some good tips here. I had never heard of that dryer thing and might give it a try. To make your house a bit smarter take the moisture sensor idea and instead of just notify you, get a Zwave valve operator, to close the water valve to your house when it detects moisture and then notify you. If you don't have a cutoff in the garage or someplace convenient, talk to a plumber to see if it's feasible. You can use a lot of other ways to shut off the water valve such as a WiFi plug to power and close a normally open solenoid valve. Also, I've not found determining presence by mobile phone to be always reliable. I use it for non-critical functions but quit for my garage after having more than one issue with it opening it when it shouldn't. Keep the ideas coming. I really enjoy your channel.

[hotelbreakfast]

Imagine trying to sneak out of this house

[razzyragusi]

I liked your video because you bleeped out Alexa. Thanks!

[Kendokaji]

One day the internet shut down and your bathroom door doesn't open.

[respinoza]

How do I automatically like this video?

[Alluvian]

For every time I can think of these kinds of automation as being useful, I can think of a time when they would annoy the heck out of me. I just don't do the same things enough to ever want them to always work in any particular way. As an example, for every time I want all the lights off in the house there is a time when my wife is in the other room and would want those lights on. So much easier for me to just deal with them separately. I like making them hands free, just not tying them all to triggers.

[JoeC]

The motion sensor turning on the ceiling fan is a great idea! I'm going to have to implement that. Thanks!

[neville]

After a few months, his house becomes self aware and decides it doesn't need him any more.

[sillyslicker]

This was a great compilation of ideas. Thanks for the reddit link, too!