My Smart Home Disaster

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It's time to give my home a smart home makeover! Unfortunately, the process wasn't as smooth as asking Siri to "set it up," but after trying out tons of products, I finally found some that actually work together. Let me walk you through my setup and what it took to get here!

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0:00 My Smart Home Disaster
1:26 Doorbell
2:24 Door locks
6:30 Indoor cameras
6:24 Thermostat
7:24 Waterbottle
12:20 Lights
13:17 Outdoor camera
14:05 Home alarm
17:09 Wifi update
17:40 The future & final conclusion

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[jonlakers]

I saw all the comments, excited to try Home Assistant. I'll film an update video.

[poe]

Home assistant is the answer! It can be as detailed or simple as you want to make it.

[msbgone]

If the battery dies why wouldn't you want a backup key?

[PortlandAuthority]

Don’t slide the alarm setting button in HomeKit. When you want to change it to away or off just touch those buttons.

I’ve got the same set up and it works every time without having to fight it to change the state of the ring alarm.

[eswhite]

I really enjoyed this video. I started my smart home as a google home with all nest everything, but as an apple centric person I slowly switched everything over to HomeKit and it has been so much better.
I feel like the thing most people don’t understand about smart homes is hubs make all the difference. WiFi is too flaky and inconsistent but a good hub based system (Lutron, Phillips Hue) will change your mind on the whole concept.
My setup includes multiple hubs including 16 HomeKit devices (4 Apple TVs and multiple HomePods) and I also use Aquara and Meross devices and everything works great (for me).
Good luck with your setup.

[WarlordMoA]

The smart things app of your sensors through Home Kit on the Home app is generally glitchy due to iOS that is compressed some of these programs won’t exactly adjust very fast because of the iOS glitching.
You have a beautiful home John, it’s great to see you.

[tokiomitohsaka]

If you want a good smart home assistant. Home Assistant which is self hosted, and make everything wired. The fewer things connected wirelessly, the more reliable it will be. You won’t need to worry about being a cable mess if you use PoE devices so the network cable will also carry power.

[Polkster]

Garage Door opener - use either Tailwind or RATGDO

HOOBS is an acronym for HomeBridge Out Of the Box.

[TechWithBrett]

Its good to see that no matter what ecosystem your choose, there are always going to be problems. Here's to another year of devices that disconnect when you actually need them.

[ganeshbalakrishnan_abq]

At 16:40 for the issue with setting the alarm to home where it jumps to away. That interface doesn't work like a slider. Instead press the home like a button. that should solve that problem

[jakerogers]

Honestly as an "Apple just works" guy, HomeKit is the most un-Apple experience imaginable, you'll have a FAR better time with Home Assistant at the expense of some prettiness

[MichaelMillerJ]

I came from a Google Home/Hue setup, and tried moving everything to HomeKit when we bought our new house a few years back. I have been experiencing so many of the same annoyances you detailed. The entire family misses our old setup. I'm slowly swapping everything out and moving away from Logitec and HomeKit.

[TechWithTony]

Yes Logi camera goes offline regularly 1-2 times every 2-3 months.

I now put a smart plug on it and turn the smart plug on and off to reset the camera. Beuty is both devices can be controlled in the camera view in home it by exposing the accessories in that room.

[keeganbriskey]

The ring systems are rock solid, as a HomeKit user I wish companies making other alarms would take notes

[roderick.t]

In my ~3 years running HomeKit using an Apple TV as the primary hub, no problems. We do have items from Aqara, and those play well.

[davidconcannon]

Great video Jon. Thanks for sharing your experience.

[Applftech]

With the aqara locks you can setup and automaton when you unlock one of the locks the other Auto Unlock’s

[MavArchT]

Some tricks I have found which helps the most with flaky 2.4g cameras has been plugging them into smart switches. For whatever reason the switches almost never have an issue so when a camera goes offline I just toggle the switch off and on and within a few seconds I’m back up. Most of my issues has certainly been a connection or power issue but there are still issues. You might try out some of the eve products as I have had the best ‘luck’ with them.

[gilley]

Hoobs use to work great, now mine is basically a brick and none of the things I had working work anymore. Just reading on their subreddit sounds like I’m not alone either

[JohnyTechReview]

Jon, I suggest for the IP camera set it to a daily or every two day restart at sometime. Keep it fresh and not having issue with connection. Pretty sure you can have an aqara automation but jot sure if it allows camera restart