How to Start a Smart Home (without annoying your family)

What you need to build and to control your smart home, with important things to consider along the way, and how you and your family may benefit.

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📘 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
00:47 - What is a smart home?
03:15 - Smart home hubs
09:24 - Smart home devices
11:55 - Smart home control
13:58 - Smart home with family
19:06 - Final thoughts
19:39 - Outtake

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[Nifty-Stuff]

Michael! Great video as I'm about to dive head-first into setting up a smart home with Home Assistant. BRILLIANT (and humble) of you to bring Ashley in and get her perspective. Most people would be lucky to have a relationship like this! I'm personally struggling with the perfect balance for me (and my spouse) between "too much complicated automation" and "we could use more!". I'm terrified of a situation where I install a ton of stuff and now I have a full-time job babysitting all the devices, protocols, hub, software, settings, etc. etc. etc. Keep the videos coming. Please do more like this!

[youplaymenot]

Enjoyed the video! And loved the second perspective at the end. I just got a house with my partner, and have setup Home Assistant Green. Replaced every light fixture with smart LED ones and did smart switches for the bathrooms. I got some motion sensors set up for automatic lights and got the smart garage setup as well. I think for now i want to setup smart blinds, and a smart vacuum then start really working on fine tuning the automations.

[Moonchilling]

I am so overwhelmed with the vast information about smart home devices.

[Zeki-Gokce]

Thank for the great video. Do you plan to make a tutorial on icloud3 integration for location monitoring?

[grahamshaw]

I've been messing with a smart home for the last 2 years. Started with Alexa. Now HS on yellow & a PC. Too many hubs i think. Philips Hue. Aqara. Tp-Link Kasa, Switchbot and a Google nest for Matter.

[ChrisHaupt]

what was that button on the bedside table? I've been looking for something like that for ages that doesn't have to be hardwired into a light switch panel