3 Ways To Save Energy In Your Smart Home!
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Let's look at a few ways that you can save money and energy with your Smart Home, from lighting, heating and smart sensors! I also invite you to take part in the Energy Challenge, to see how much energy you could save with your smart home!
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when you are at work and get a notification that two people are in bed......
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Partner: most likely a bug in your code
I’m changing florescent lights tubes to LED potentially saving 50%. Voice control lighting in most rooms kettle connected to smart plug. I’ve stopped using storage heaters and bought smart heaters that I can turn on & off at will. Halved daily consumption year on year!
HA and Node-RED are very powerfull tools to perform energy savings. For example at my home: when i have sufficient solar production, Node-red will detect this and will start my washing machine. When we are leaving the house, it shut down all the lamps, powerplugs,... (and turns then back up when we are comming home). powerplugs are getting shutted down when we go to sleep,... and this all with HA and Node-Red
Great, informative video. Thanks so much for participating. Looking forward to see how much as a community that we can save!
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Great video! Amazing to see so many participating in the #energy challenge! Love the use of motion sensors to save money!
Cheers Brad, love your video also and agree it's been amazing!
Thank you.
Thanks Ron!
I use Home Assistant to check the forecast for the day at 5am. If it's going to be above 15 degrees, then the heating is disabled until 4pm. At this point it checks the internal temp of the house and re-enables if below 20 degrees. Works wonders in Spring when we have cold nights and occasional warmer days
That's a great idea!
@@EverythingSmartHome OpenWeatherMap integration - using their Onecall_daily service (which is free) as the condition. Forecast temp above 15 then turn off the Nest Heating
Great video as always. Very interested in your heating control - do you have a detailed explainer video on how it works? if not, I'd love to see one :)
I loved how quick those motion sensors were turning on and off lighting in your home sir. Great stuff, and thanks so much!
That was because of the ESPresence integration. I really want to implement that at home
Thanks Brian for coordinating this all!
@@KrastyoKrastev I suppose that's not on a per-room basis?
quick alright, but you probably know that would be extremely annoying if it was actually done with motion sensors. you'd need sensors that have short "reset". then you'd need to make sure you're actually moving a little bit because if i'm just scrolling twitter, light's are gonna turn off on me.
Couple questions:
- how to you power down the computer (smart socket? sounds a bit brutal... Some remote shutdown method?);
- What's the website you use to compute the cost of a device?
I have a power socket with energy monitoring, which controls my "media center" (tv, apple tv, couple of home pods, dvd player). When the system is idle for more that 15mn, it just cuts the power completely. It'll come back on in late afternoon ready for evening viewing, or explicitly with an smart button (easier to access than the smart plug's button)
One thing I'd like to have is a calculation of how much power these smart devices are using. Every smart socket or smart bulb will drain a little even if not on. That must add up also. I suppose it's not that hard to compute since they are on 24/7 and power usage is usually documented. But I guess I could compute things like: this bulb was on for x minutes today, and on idle the rest of the time, so this is how much it will have consumed today...
Yeah smart plug is no good here for longevity! Have a look at one of the few projects that can hook into your computer directly - system bridge is one
I just typed "energy price calculator" into Google, the one featured is on a website called "Omni calculator"
Computers can be shut down by a remote command and powered on using WOL... Wake on Lan tech.
I love the idea of doing home automations based on if you are in bed or not. I will have to check into this and see how I can make that happen.
Thanks for your videos. I got plenty of knowledge from it :)
Is there a way to have good presence detection without carrying a BT device? Are there any motion sensors that are sensitive enough and with low cooldown time to make it usable for rooms ?
Another good video 👍🏻
One thing I've been looking for but haven't found yet is a smart wall socket or smart plug that knows to shut itself off when anything connected to it isn't using power.
I've tried to implement something in HA where if the charging percentage on my phone reaches 100% that I turn off the socket.
The problem here is that I can never know if anything else is also currently plugged into that socket that is still needing to use power or in fact know which socket my phone is actually plugged into.
I'd love a device that would know itself that if it's on idle to simply shut itself off when everything is fully charged...
On separately heating rooms: This sounds like an excellent idea at first blush, but, if one has rooms that are interconnected (rather than closed off by doors) then a room that is heated will, to some extent also heat those rooms nearby that are not being heated. So, there's a point where separate heating will have diminishing returns. That point comes more quickly if your home is poorly insulated, if you leave a window open, etc.
Otherwise, I completely agree with the ideas.
In fact, I also have outside lights in my back yard that are only on when the outside light drops below a particular level and then only if motion is sensed in the yard. (I do have a way to switch them on for when we have company over on the deck, but that's also on a timer so it shuts off if I forget to do so myself.)
For security purposes, I have a simulated presence add-on (to Home Assistant) that mimics the use of our lights as if we were home when we're away for long periods of time. That's a lot better than simply leaving a light on or just plugging it into a manual timer.
Our flat isn't particularly well insulated, but room based heating and closing doors helped save us quite a bit. Even leaving a door to an unheated room open was fine as long as the target temperature was based on the termperature sensor in the room where presence was detected.
@@teunvl95 My point still applies. What I was saying is that, if you're not insulated or blocked off, you're heating the unheated room (or the wall or the outside).
@@ALaModePi of course you lose energy that way. But the size of the surface that is exposed to outdoors or rooms that do not need to be heated determines how much energy is wasted.
If your house is not insulated and you only heat your living room, you are still saving a great deal of money, especially when the internal doors are closed. Warm air diffuses to the other rooms slowly, but the heating source and the thermostat are in the living room. If the room next to the living room ends up being 3 degrees colder than the living room, you are saving 3 degrees in heating that room.
@@teunvl95 Exactly. My point wasn't that this disqualifies anything like this, only that you should be aware of it and take it into account.
If you are on HA, check out the "Automatic Room Occupancy" blueprint. I use it and just took over maintaining it, and it has saved me buttloads in electric costs.
Good tip thanks!
Great video! It was hilarious seeing such a calm person telling the competition to GTFO lol
Does anybody have any recommendations for a cheap motion & light sensor combo? (either Zigbee or WiFi)
Hy, one question. On timstamp 5:20 the temperature is controlled. Which card is used for this? I like the design. Thanks
Found that while motion sensors are great for turning on lights in a room when you enter keeping them on when your still in a room like when reading or using the computer can often leave you in the dark. That's why I use room presence devices like esp32s with espresense firmware on them to till when I leave the room and turn off monitors, lights, fans, ect. Once calibrated they work very well for this. Also use room presence to tell who starred the washer and dryer so can target just that person when it finishes
Yes always good to combine multiple methods!
this is awesome, i wish i understood more about ESP32 and their programming etc....
@@Vlican google espresense and you'll find the link on how to do this, also if you look at everything smart home's past videos he has a great video on how to do it as well. If youtube would allow the average person to leave links i'd link it for you but a search should allow you to find it as well.
Which model of motion sensor are you using at 0.30 of the video? Thanks
Motion sensors are at the centre of my most used automation’s, the frictionless nature of a motion sensor triggered automation is my kind of smart home nerdery
Totally agree, plus they provide so much value for such a simple sensor!
@@EverythingSmartHome do you guys use room-style sensors or “light gate” types? I.e. senses movement in a room vs movement through a doorway etc. I ask because while my parents really drilled in the “turn off unused lights” habit into me as a kid I’m thinking this is an excellent idea but I also have nothing but frustrating memories of room sensors and having to wave my arms around every couple of minutes.
I need to do some research on light gates that use 2 sensors to detect direction of motion as well.
Do you have a recommendation for motion/light sensors?
Do you have any sort of guide on setting up heating/cooling automations using external temperature sensors using Home Assistant?
I have an Ecobee thermostat (forced air heat and cooling), with Aqara temperature sensors in many rooms of the house. Trying to figure out a way to make the heating in my split-level house a little more even..
Definitely will have a think about that for a video!
@@EverythingSmartHome Would be awesome! Keep them coming, always enjoy your videos :)
Love the idea of shutting down the computer based on automation. I'n off to work on that!
No problem for you Jeff!
I recently learn how common it is for people to leave their desktop computers on all the time. Ive always turned mine off when I'm done using it. Especially since contemporary computers turn on in seconds, so it's not a bother.
It's going to be great when the new atx standard becomes common in business computers since it increases efficiency at idle loads.
this. i always turn off my PC when i'm not using it. it only takes a minute to turn on from "full off". otherwise, folks should be using "suspend"
But wait how much power do all the smart devices use all the time? It's just been switched from when the lights are on to all the time, no?
With LED lights becoming so efficient, the automation of lights wont translate into a huge saving. I'm not saying just leave them on but it pales in comparison to a lot of other energy saving techniques.
Anything that needs electricity to generate heat is always going to be the most expensive part of your bill. Optimizing that should be your top priority.
which light lux level to you recommend, I have the Aqara Motion Sensor with Light Lux and am just beginning to get the hang of all this and the Light Lux feature would be awesome.
As in what lux value to use or specific sensor?
@@EverythingSmartHome yes what lux value would be best to have have to lights to come on thanks
you'll have to experiment with the values yourself... fyi: even a slight rotation/orientation in the sensor changes the readings
I turn off all smart plugs when i leave the house (done with zoning from the HA app). Standby power from pcs and monitors is actually a lot for nothing.
When i get home and enter the zone again, my plugs turn on so i can fire up the computer without opening the app.
If you're in a different country like me, you might understand the difficulty of even having electricity to try and save some; many occasions we have 4 to 6 hour blackouts, sometimes even as high as 8 to 10 hours a day! This is a real frustrating situation to be in, and it pushed me to the point where I could no longer live like that and decided %*^& it ... I'm going all-in and completely went off-grid (electricity and water). The irony is that when I used to be connected to the grid, I averaged around 35kW usage per day ... now that I'm completely off the grid I average around 50kW per day.
Damn, that would suck! Good you've taken matters into your own hands and getting better results!
50 kW(h?) a day?
Thats insane, what do you need all that power for? I average about 3-5 kWh a day while being at home.
@@rabidbunny3025 Interesting. Do you use a battery for night?
I have just finished the purchase of a house this month to find out there's no thermostat installed in the boiler so I'm finding myself in the same position.
Considering the easy route of using a Hive thermostat with hive trvs. Do you have experience is these are any good?
Sorry Hive isn't a system I've used before so I'm not sure - just make sure it's local would be my advise!
@@EverythingSmartHome thankfully we've had nice weather lately (also in the UK) so I can shop around a little
Do you calculate what alla your sensors are puling? I guess you got alot, and all lightbulbs draw minimal all the time.. so the smart home also draw power
Not all as many are battery powered and super low power. But I do want to monitor more stuff in the future!
I switch off the electric boiler at night and when the house is in away mode
thats a lightbulb in the thumbnail? when i first saw it, i thought it was a hot air balloon. amazing how similar some shapes are...
It can be whatever you want it to be 😅
Motion sensors are a problem for my wife. She can stop moving for an hour while WFH and will not trigger the sensor so the light in the room will turn off. You know what happened to the motion sensor...It went into trash. Hahaha.
Watch the ESPresence video. Amazing project
Haha need to increase the sensitivity 😂
@@EverythingSmartHome Did that.
What light sensors do you use ?
Various ones around the house but I have some motion sensors from develco that also have light levels built in
4:00 What is the name of this site/tool?
Type in "energy price calculator" and it's one called Omni calculator! Hope that helps
Hmm I wonder how energy is actually saved by using motion sensors to control the lights? Do those motion sensors use a lot less energy than the lightbulbs?
They run on tiny coin batteries for more than a year so I'd say so 😅
you just end up paying for batteries instead of your electric company lol
The problem I’ve always had with using motion sensors to control lighting is if you sit still at a desk, the lights go off! How do you solve that?
Have a look at something ESPresense - there is a video on the channel about that
aquara sensors have 2 entites 1 is pir and the other is a basic occupancy sensor.. which i use for rooms we will sit still in for longer periods.. Imagine a pir that triggers then starts a 10 min timer that restarts witha fresh trigger.. and you've got the rough idea
@@EverythingSmartHome Would love to see the follow up to that video with how to configure the automation in HA PLEASE 🙏
@@streetwiztech5505 But what if you don't move? I.e sitting down to watch tv?
@@fixxlee I find even a slight movement keeps it triggered..
My way is better...i gave up on configuring my server, unplugged it and I turn off the lights when I don't need ..
Jk
But I need to figure out how to get my server running properly.
😂 well no server will help save money for sure!
Honest question: Doesn't the bed sensor react on uhm, making love in bed? You don't want it to become a disco lol
😂😂 not with the right automations!
😂👌🏼 “disco time”
Why spend money on all this kit? Just turn the blinkin’ lights off as you leave the room. You would be spending just as much on all this ‘stuff’ than your energy! Get a simple power down plug that turns everything off when you turn your TV off. Sometimes these are free from Energy companies. Turn your condensing boiler thermostat down to between 50 - 60 deg C. Your boiler works best at this temp. Also simple cheap timers connected to devices that turn them off at a particular time can be used too. You don’t need all these complicated ‘smart’ gadgets!
Why are you watching this video then? 😂
I think your comment shows you missed the entire point - the people watching this video will already have smart devices in their house. This is about how you can use the existing smart devices you have (either because it's a hobby or interest in smart home or various other reasons) to save energy and therefor money, again, using things you already have.
@@EverythingSmartHome
I agree that this is what the video is all about, but while you save save energy you will not be saving money after buying all this stuff! I came to the site naturally because of the cost of living crisis. The ‘smart’ bit of my system is in my own head.
Yes but if you're buying it regardless, then you can recoup some of the money.
@@EverythingSmartHome
Possibly, but not necessarily. It depends how much energy you use. I have installed a small solar system in my lounge to provide a low level of light while watching TV etc. It is more than adequate and the system only cost me £100 and should last a good few years. I do have to remember to turn my lights off and on, but that is something my brain can cope with! 😀
Shutdown every part of smart home equipment you have and you'll save big time 🤷♂