Top 10 Smart Home Devices for 2023!

Here are my top 10 smart home devices for 2022 and going into 2023. If you are looking for cameras, sensors, switches, bulbs and locks, this video is for you. Some of my favorites include the Schlage Encode Plus Smart Lock, The New Apple TV 4K 2022, Lutron Caseta Smart Switches and some great products from Aqara. What is your favorite smart home device? Let us know in the comments.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:57 #1 Encode Plus Smart Lock
01:57 Matter is Here
02:29 #2 Ecobee Smart Thermostat
04:26 #3 SwitchBot Bot
05:11 #4 SwitchBot Curtain
06:25 #5 Lutron Smart Switches
07:31 #6 Aqara Buttons & Sensors
08:52 #7 Nanoleaf Essentials Bulbs & Strips
09:46 #8 Apple TV 4K 2022
11:10 #9 Ring Video Doorbell Pro
12:38 #10 Aqara Cameras

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[nmraidernation.]

Great stuff!!
Have some in my home, but for 2022, my favorite smart home device was the SwitchBot blind tilt...
Love these things, been waiting for a reliable, economical bot to open all 14 blinds in my house and they work perfectly!!

[AdamsTechLife]

Awesome video, Craig! Definitely some of my favorites. I really like how you put a label above the Aqara wireless mini switch with what action each press does, this way people don't have to remember what type of press the mini switch controls. Genius!!

[slowslug]

This was so much info and I have no idea how any of these things work. I’m more confused now than before I watched. I don’t have any smart devices and want to learn

[robins]

Excellent source of Top Notch info..thank you!!

[BMarandonly]

Question : Aqara buttons why single press on double press off? Why not convert to shortcut and make a “what if” and make a single press turn it on and off?

[DanielAlvarez-djdc]

Great video, straight to the point. I made my house smart with cync by ge, and love the dimmers, switches, fan switches, smart plugs, strip lights and recessed lights. No hub required and it works with Google home or Alexa

[michaelkesti]

My favorite this year is the Amazon Smart Thermostat. The features to price ratio is very high and it just plain works.

[nickpanzeca]

Great video Craig! I always look forward to your videos. I use many of these products and look forward to trying others.

[mattrussell]

Craig, will you be doing a video on the new HomePod?

[BrandonDoyleMN]

I love Schlage, Lutron & Ecobee. They play well with any ecosystem

[broinchrist]

Question: How do get my homepod mini to show the temperature and humidity to show up in the home app? **Updated to latest software on both iPhone/iPad and HomePodOS**

[usa-earth]

Great video Craig, thanks for the content!

[Beansrdone]

I'm really digging the NanoLeaf bulbs and light strips

[SztormiakStudio]

I'm wondering how did you connect all your cameras to power outlets/circuits? How to power this thing up when you want a camera to hang from ceiling and the power outlet is in the ground level...?

[asquithmainlines]

I bought the Lutron smart switches but couldn’t use them. They require a neutral wire in the switch box. Most switch boxes have a two wire, power down, power up and a copper ground wire. You CANNOT use the power ground wire as your neutral. Building codes are changing to now run a three wire into the switch box to provide the neutral. If you are building keep that in mind.

[farside]

Does Aqara make an outdoor wireless camera? I couldn’t find on on Amazon.

[ypark]

Good advice on secondary hubs. Yolink only work with a hub. They are only devices I found for a couple of outdoor and freezer monitoring situations is Yolink. Totally diff. than most but with hubs they work well with alexa and google. And their smart button fobs, gives me inexpensive reliable buttons for alexa routines. Was afraid of another hub, but they work so well where others did not and my lutron devices with a hub the same.

[tommacdougall]

I have the G2H pro and the G3 from Aqara and have had no problems with either until recently. Aprox. 11 months after first installing them the G3 has had a problem with staying online. After jumping all the loops for tech support I'm left with a camera that will not stay online and they dragged the emails out over a period of weeks to the end of warranty. Fortunately I have all the "child devices" on the G2H Pro for now. The problem with having 18 child devices dependent on a hub was a mistake in my opinion.

[timothymason]

What is the best option for full colour bulbs for HomeKit?

[Lorentari]

Just putting it out there - Having 3 wifi repeaters from Netgear will not tripple the area that is covered by Wifi, because that is not how overlapping circles work, also, signal decay is still a thing and you can alway buy a more powerful router to increase the range - but power comsumption will increase exponentially by a power of 2 or more (again, because physics and geometry)