A look at 10 home automation ideas that are easy to set up, save us time, and make our home more comfortable and secure.
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Warm Indoor Temperature (Ceiling Fans)
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Laundry Alerts (Notifications)
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Animal Deterrent (Irrigation)
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📘 CHAPTERS
00:00 – Introduction
00:47 – Windowless Rooms (Lights)
01:37 – Natural Light and Privacy Control (Window Shades)
02:16 – ThirdReality (Sponsor)
03:25 – Warm Indoor Temperature (Ceiling Fans)
04:28 – Arrive Home (Locks)
05:00 – Step Out at Night Briefly (Locks)
05:36 – Low Battery Alerts (Notifications)
06:10 – Laundry Alerts (Notifications)
06:52 – Grocery Shopping (Zones)
07:22 – Animal Deterrent (Irrigation)
08:07 – Pause HVAC (Climate)
08:40 – Final thoughts
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Thanks for the great video man, really loving your content!
Do you have a more in depth video/description for the shopping list automation? How do you actually get that to pop up when you’re at the store? Thanks man!
These are fantastic🏠 Using animal detection to trigger the irrigation system is such a clever way to keep the yard clean. Definitely setting up the HVAC auto-pause for when the kids leave the doors open
I need a bleuprint to keep reminding me when an oven or door are ON or open to send notification to ecosystem and to my cell a reminder that the oven have been runing fora certain time like 30mins and keep reminding me every certain of time until that oven goes off or that door sensor is closed. i couldnt find it in HA bleuprint. can you lead me to such bleuprint? thanks for all your videos❤
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I am having an issue with my Zigbee devices. I created an automation for a Zigbee plug to turn off the charger once the power consumption drops. However, the scene does not trigger—when the charging finishes and the wattage drops to 0, the plug stays on.
Interestingly, even scheduled tasks don’t always work reliably through the app’s scenes, so I have to set schedules directly within the device settings instead.
Everything works perfectly with my Wi-Fi plugs, but the automations simply fail to trigger with my Zigbee devices, even though the app shows the power consumption has reached 0W