STOP Your Home Automation Right Now with Conditions!

Get your home automation under control! I’ll show you how to dial in your home automations perfectly using conditions.

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0:00 Intro
0:32 What’s a condition?
1:30 Time
2:51 Kill switch
4:23 Location
5:39 Thresholds
6:54 Bringing it together
7:56 6 months later…

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Rinse Repeat by DivKid

The End by EVA

[SmartHomeSolver]

If you had a kill switch to turn off all your automations, would your family press it? 😬

[armando]

The New Years countdown bit was hilarious!

[nodraw_]

I absolutely *love* how your family participates in the videos! Those mini-sketches really bring personality to your channel
Great video, Reed! :)

[reggie]

My head hurts trying to wrap my head around all of your automations. 😂. I am definitely going to get started with mine.

[smartifi_egypt]

Please keep doing automation ideas videos, these are great videos with a lot of ideas, of course no automation is perfect and everyone has his own needs but it lights up some ideas and everyone can tweak it a little.

[jefferygrantham]

I love how your channel has quickly become associated with home assistant. Another great video! Thanks, Reed!

[MaglevM]

Love the family jokes/ cameo that you always have in your videos.

I'd be happy if I even got to having half the smart automations in my dream home.

Amazing video, as always!

[antoinereese]

Took me a while to complete but I went all in with Trigger IDs and Choose actions with multiple conditions. Massively complex but very efficient automations that don't misfire as often. Condensed my home from about 120 different automations to 31

[themizellfamily]

I absolutely love your You should do a master class video on this topic to teach us how to program conditions! As well as simple and advanced home automations.

[eneakote]

Hello, your animations are really advanced. What program do you use to control all this?

[wisdomcb]

3:02 your campy examples struck gold on this one 🤣🤣

[harisjaved]

Man your automations are on next level!

[giovannivanhaaren]

Kill switch is an option i use for wall switches. When a wallswitch is used, every automated light in that room stays frozen. For the rest i use partymode, visitmode etc. Turning on partymode will set every light on de main floor and oudside to a specific scene and leave the electric gate open etc. Visit mode is about the same but with some tweaks. If you use Homey, better is to put these conditions in every flow from the start.. Saves you a lot of work 👍 Great vid!

[MichaelRinghusGertz]

Thanks. Im just getting into home automation, and this video, gave me some good ideas how to deal with the automations.

[VegascomJeff]

That dim automated to 95/manual to 100, that's a really good one!

[deseverolimus]

Sorry newbie question - anyone know what is the automation interface that Reed is showing? Reed....great to see your automation initiatives & love the participation of your family in the videos....Thanks for the inspiration! I want to get on the journey, any suggestions on where to start? :)

[uweschuttoff]

You have such a family! And I find your videos very helpful. Your doing a great job!👍

[braxtonanderson]

Love your videos! Once Matter comes out I'm turning my house smart like yours. I especially want to mess around with that raspberry pi too so it can detect where I am.

[wyx]

Niche idea for your auto lights: what is a giant sensor-like device on your roof that can detect amount of sun light?
The solar panels!

I have a condition for my hallway lights to only turn on if solar generation is below a certain value.

[louisviciedo]

Well done Reed! You've inspired me to 'step' up my automation's game.