The Smart Home Thread

Thought I'd start thread for any Smart Home stuff people have going on.

I do a few things currently with Alexa for timings with lights and that but have just had my Home Assistant Green and Zigbee dongle delivered.

Got it form Pimorini, cna't recommend it enough at the moment. Ordered 9am yesterday arrived today.

Plans are to sort out the kids leaving all the lights on when they get up at night. Get some motion sensors, after midnight all lights switch off and go to motion sensors in hallway, landing, bathrooms, kitchen.
Swap all light switches to smart ones so that them turning the light switches off won't cut the smartness.
Make sure my Govee setup in the living room works with the TV so that it automatically switches on/off with the control of the TV (via a smart plug and power draw from the TV)
Then automate everything in the office, blinds, heating, lights.
Full thermostatic smart control on the radiators.
Smart Robovac


Be good to see what everyone else is doing.

Put a sensor in the loft for the squirrels?

Good shout actually. Would be a good first indicator to get back into Kid Soldier mode.

Just plugged the home assistant in, just adding integrations and devices. going to be a fair bit of work but definitely going to be a fun project.

You could even contact @Andy_con and get smart laser setup in the loft. Burn it to death.

We've got the following, all controlled by Alexa and/or iPhone apps, with various routines/automations setup.

Philips Hue bulbs throughout the house
Ring Alarm + 8 cameras
Tado Thermostats on all radiators
2 x Eufy L60 Robovacs
LG Washing Machine
Samsung Frame TV

Interested about the Thermostats? Do you just have your boiler always on and let the Thermostats do the work or does the heating on the boiler switch on and off depending on what is needed?

1x Zara with the none drip nut tray.

mace¬ said:

Interested about the Thermostats? Do you just have your boiler always on and let the Thermostats do the work or does the heating on the boiler switch on and off depending on what is needed?

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The main heating/hot water controller is set to on all the time for heat (& once a day for hot water-we have a tank), then the indivdual radiator thermostats request heat/turn the boiler on/off when needed via the 2 x zone controllers (upstairs/downstairs) that control the boiler.

Interested in seeing what others have done.

Ive just started getting into this stuff, with a bunch of Hive Bulbs and a Hive Thermostat.

So nice not having to get out of bed to turn the lights off

We have the Hive system with 6 smart radiator valves.

Just picked up a Ring doorbell alternative as been meaning to for a while. Was originally going to go with the Ring brand itself but thought that extra £30 just for the chime was a bit cheeky, not to mention adding an external camera too. Had a look around the the 'top rated' alternative was £50 with the chime included off Amazon.

So bizarre you posted this as I was going to start one about this today after my recent routines I've created. I'll list them in detail as the little things may help or inspire others!

So far I have:

- Eufy doorbell which is connected to all the alexa speakers in the house to alert us when someones pressed the doorbell.

- Living room lamp on a routine that's triggered 10 mins before sunset

- Smart electric venetian blinds that go down when the temperature of the house goes above a certain temperature so that the living room doesn't get scorching hot in summer (that window is south facing)

- Drayton wiser with smart thermostats on every radiator apart from 1 (for pressure release). Really handy lately with the baby as it's now set to keep our room the right temp overnight. This temp is confirmed with our night light/ temperature gauge.

- Just ordered a smart humidity and standalone temperature sensor for the living room that will alert us if the living room gets too hot when we have the log burner on. That's arriving Monday.

The moving on to the garage

- Smart proximity sensor on the garage door that activates the lights which are WiFi quinetic switches which again can be controlled from alexa. This means when the garage door goes up it turns the switch on and the lights go on. I've also now got a proximity sensor for identifying when no one is in the garage and this switches the lights off after 2 minutes and I've set it to turn all audio off in the garage after 20 mins. I didn't want to use the proximity sensor for light activation as I wanted the lights to be on as I approach the garage door.

- a silly one but f**king useful. Every day at 8am I've got a routine that tells alexa to stop suggesting "by the way" recommendations as it died our f**king heads in. Alexa what is 2 + 2? The answer is 4 BY THE WAY did you know if you added 1 it would be 5. f**k off and die you silly b**ch.

Got to work yesterday, not as simple as I'd hoped and spent a lot of time trying to get my camera in the back garden hooked up to a live feed on my dashboard and it looks like Eufy don't tend to have RTSP which is required to stream to home assistant from what I can tell from Google.

Did get the Blink doorbell, Igenix office heater and Govee added which is a start.

It doesn't look like I can do much with my Panasonic TV so my plan is to get a smart plug, when the power draw is up to where the TV will be on this will trigger an automation that switch the Govee TV sync lights on, question is will all smart plugs monitor power draw or will some be o/off only?

mace¬ said:

Got to work yesterday, not as simple as I'd hoped and spent a lot of time trying to get my camera in the back garden hooked up to a live feed on my dashboard and it looks like Eufy don't tend to have RTSP which is required to stream to home assistant from what I can tell from Google.

Did get the Blink doorbell, Igenix office heater and Govee added which is a start.

It doesn't look like I can do much with my Panasonic TV so my plan is to get a smart plug, when the power draw is up to where the TV will be on this will trigger an automation that switch the Govee TV sync lights on, question is will all smart plugs monitor power draw or will some be o/off only?

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The meross ones I have do not. I believe the ones that work with smart life do.