Alex's Full Smart Home Tour: Automations Galore!

Quite possibly the last smart home tour to take place at 2 MarzManor! Welcome to our latest smart home tour 2022!

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[thanasisbethanis]

You should really look into Home Assistant! You can consolidate all those devices into a single hardware (and essentially throw away all the hubs) rather than using 4 separate hubs. Not to mention you are now using Philips Bridge and Aqara Hub who are both Zigbee meaning two seperate zigbee networks on top of each other rather putting all into one network which would make a better mesh.

[livinginweymouth]

I bet everybody else's houses in your street dim a little bit when that lot switch on, lol. Great video Alex.

[saibadam]

Not sure if the definition of a smart home is a home that can turn on a boat load of lights.

[eugenegallagher]

go with home assistant you wouldn't notice internet outages unless you get notified. pairs beautifully with unifi network and protect

[nbessell]

You could get rid of most of those hubs using Home Assistant and a Raspberry Pi or similar. It would give you much better scope for really fancy automations, and it would tie in all your current and future platforms, all locally and no cloud if you choose to do so.

[smarthousetech]

You give me inspiration to design my place man love your style

[Mr.Coffee]

Bro i love your house i been watching your videos for at least 4-5 years now and love all the content you upload. Keep up the great work.

[matthewwilliams]

Fantastic to hear how your smart home is getting on!

[roddyross]

Just a general criticism of tech you-tubers. It's not difficult to mute the audio for a second when calling Siri or Alexa or Google. Save viewers having to stop their assistant from doing something.

[CarlDavison]

Not a lot automated tbh other than lights and a few blinds. Home Assistant blows this to bits.

[DP-eywp]

It seems the concept of smart home is understood as a whole shit of light here

[kylerittweger]

Alex, love the vids!! Would love to see how you manage all of the smart stuff on the network! Thanks for the content!

[martynwinn]

The state of your network rack gives me nightmares!… I live just down the road from you and am a professional AV & Smarthome installer…. I’d literally tidy that thing up for you free of charge and expect nothing in return just so I can sleep better at night!

[TheGeekZone]

I'm honestly shocked you have this much smart home gear and are not using Home Assistant! Also a couple of the issues you are facing like not being able to control the exact position of the blinds without the remote can be solved using HA. More over you can also condense all your Zigbee hubs down to a single stick plugged into a HA server. And it also means you wouldn't need to use routines to check if other lights are on or off to activate. Much more reliable that way.

[trexgamer]

Great video! I was kind of hoping for links to all your smart home gear as well.

[NL-Chaos]

I hope you don't take offense to all the haters to much, keep it up be happy with what you like ;)

[izzda]

sick setup i wonder how long it took you to figure everything out

[TheHookUp]

Anyone else notice the UniFi G3 Instant security camera pointing directly at the sofa in the lounge at 5:22? 😬

[taylorlightfoot]

Check out Home Assistant, but don't run it on a Pi, run it on a real computer. I think you'd quite enjoy the ability to integrate everything into one hub capable of powerful complex automations as well as the ability to expose any of the devices out into an Apple Home for Siri control.

[antg]

Alex you can configure your Hue remotes in HomeKit to do different scenes. So you can have all 4 buttons doing different scenes without it needing a routine/automation to decide what to do. Like your living room play bars turning the other stuff on. You can set what each button on the Hue dimmer does in the HomeKit app. For example, I’ve got mine so when I press lights off button on dimmer my blinds close, my heating turns off, the lights turn off, all Apple TV’s turn off and my house alarm activates for night mode. I think it gives more customisation options so you can change lights without it making others go on or off. 👍🏼