10 NEW Home Automation Ideas: I outdid myself! 😬

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These are my 10 favorite NEW home automation ideas I've set up recently. But warning, some are next level!

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0:00 Intro
0:15 Morning Motivation
1:14 The Everything Button
2:04 Car Controls
2:52 Genius Garage
3:47 Unlocking New Possibilities
4:30 Counter Strike
6:41 Couch Potato Mode
7:45 Complete Focus
8:31 No False Alarms
9:20 Nighttime Cleaning Crew
10:02 Busted! 😬

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MUSIC
All of the music throughout is by Nihilore.

Ending song is The End by EVA.

[SmartHomeSolver]

Who's excited for my smart home tours in Georgia? 🙌 I saw some awesome automations you won't want to miss, so subscribe if you haven't already!

[rickrickvandermeulen]

I'd be stoked to see a deep dive into Siri Shortcuts and ways you use them... or how you used them. Love the videos!

[ryanmattie]

Your automation for your garage door should use your location and a radius around your house instead of a timer. If you end up in traffic or delayed from an accident and forget (since you said your memory is bad) then your garage will be free for the picking. You could still use an automation to enable the garage door to open on entering the radius.

[devinhedge]

So awesome to see a mental health as a sponsor! Way to go, Reed!

[FounderOf]

And here I am, incredibly excited about motion activated lights in my garage!

[scottmartin]

I use the "Tesla Custom Integration" through HACS to automatically turn on my home's AC when the car's destination is set to Home. It also exposes a ton of other information about the car, so it would be possible to do things like check your calendar and send you a notification to plug in the car if it doesn't have enough range to make it to your destination and back or send you a notification if any of your tires are low.

[GunnyPhillips]

As my wife would say, "you're out of control." I have 10% of the automations you have and still get "the look" from her when I add new ones.

[mkrtichmargaryan]

I'm the process of building my own smart home and love your videos! One thing that really intrigued me in this video, was your ability to automate the Apple TV to search and play a specific show. I'm looking to do something like this for my grandparents, but with FuboTV, as they have a tough time navigating through the UI's and such. Can you please give me some more insight on how you automated this? Thanks!

[jonas]

I have a question about the "genius garage".
What if you press go home and there is a lot more traffic than anticipated or something happened on the way and you forget that the garage door is open. What then?
Did you find a solution for that?
My uncle has an app on his tesla model X that communicates with the garage door and it sends a signal when he is in the street to open the garage door.

[carlhussain]

Ive setup switchbot lock to unlock my front door when we come home, it tracks all members of the house, so it will unlock the door for each person, even if someone is home.. for easy access. however switchbot dont allow auto unlock.. but Home assistant does! it uses location, wifi connection and camera so if one is not working it has a backup. so its working 100% of the time ! its great

[jessegaylord]

I really like the Couch Potato Mode. Is the any videos that explain how it is done

[cafairchild]

Lmaooo the look at the camera and music drop at 10:11 killed me. So good!

[CitadinSF]

For you Bluetooth headset to Spotify automation, what action do you use to play the playlist? I don’t see play Spotify option in automations. Love this idea!

[brentkleinman]

Lol love the curb your enthusiasm breaking up with the therapist reference. Sweet video Reed!

[justinw]

How did you set up the nighttime vacuum for different modes

[Gkm]

2:30: On the front door lock, perhaps this idea will help. A contact sensor tells you whether the door is open or closed. If door was open and is now closed, lock the lock. If door is open, lock remains unlocked If door unlocked but closed for 3 minutes, lock the lock. That way it’s locked whenever it’s closed, and unlocked whenever it’s open.

[craigevans]

For your alarm system. How did you manage to set it up. Through HA based on location?

[TheMoonSeesMe]

I have found the best way to automate the garage door to open is using a esp32 device that has wifi. When it connects to Home Assistant through wifi (and for me, the alarm is armed) then it opens the garage door and turns off the alarm. Wifi is great because it has a bit of an extended range and always opens before I get there. With the added advantage of guaranteeing that the car is almost home.

[gerryf]

Tailwind is a better hands free garage door opener. Location based, auto open, auto close and can autoclose if you leave it open at home. Works with Android and Apple. And has a Home Assistant integration (HACS currently).

[epicgamescorp]

Is your broadlink integration reliable in HA? I had unsolvable issues with the RM4 mini and pro where they would periodically become unavailable and would need to be power cycled in order to fix it. I happen to have the identical whynter unit as you and ended up throwing the broadlink in the trash and got an esp module that does IR commands. Has been rock solid so far.