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! _Also I'm going to be doing something different._ I'll be uploading *every day* next week on the second channel to go over how I set up the automations in this video. First video over there: ruclips.net/video/81rCDI_lcaE/видео.html
Recently, I saw Paul Hibbert's video review of the LinknLink eMotion, which appears to be very accurate in detecting human presence and supports the Modbus TCP protocol. Could you review how the eMotion product can be integrated with Home Assistant using ModBus?
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.
personally id use a nfc as your down the street tap the nfc and bam door goes up.... a little backwards cause youd have to use energy but safest way to do it if there are delays getting home
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.
Oh that's good! I have the Tesla Custom Integration through HACS installed but I don't see the destination. Would you mind sharing what entity that is? Also I just realized that integration has time of arrival so I might change my automation to use that since it will update based on traffic. I'll just open the garage when it's one minute before arrival time.
@@SmartHomeSolver The entity is device_tracker._destination_location_tracker. The states aren't super descriptive. I've seen "Unknown", "Home", and "Away". I think it goes off of the home destination configured in the car itself, so it's possible that there's a "Work" state as well, but my wife works from home and doesn't have that configured.
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!
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
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.
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.
That's a great question and the way I have it set up it's really easy to fix the traffic problem. The automation starts up a timer in Home Assistant www.home-assistant.io/integrations/timer/ and it counts down to when the door should open. I could add a an actionable notification to cancel the timer or even add more time to the timer. Setting the timer is a little tricky though because HA doesn't allow me to just start a timer with a certain amount of time. So I found a really cool work around I'll go over in the second channel video soon! Your uncle probably has HomeLink or maybe the MyQ integration. Those are both good options but cost money so I was trying to find an inexpensive way to do it.
To prevent False Alarms, could you also have a Chime Noise, or Announcement play when a motion detector trips if someone moves toward a door? That might help if the dog needs to go out early?
I love seeing all your smart home videos! I'm taking so much inspiration from them. Don't have much opportunity for many things at the moment but always taking notes!
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.
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!
Calls a Home Assistant automation to play the Spotify playlist from the Apple Shortcut. It's a hack but it's the only thing that I was able to come up with.
I wondered what a BraLink IR blaster was and indeed, googled it to find out it was a BroadLink, which I already knew about.....Was a bit disappointed to find out it was nothing to do with Bras but there's a accents for ya!
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).
Use the icloud3 integration from hacs. It has the travel time built into it so you can just open your doors if the time goes from greater than 1 minute to less than 1 minute. That way it doesn’t open your garage if you go somewhere that’s not home.
Ohhh that looks like a really useful integration I didn't know existed. Thanks for sharing and I'll be updating my automation to use more of this real time tracking. I also realized the Tesla Custom Integration using HACS has an arrival time based on the car navigation that updates so I have some more testing to do.
I'm going to be making videos this next week, my goal is to publish every day on the second channel and go over all these automations. I normally make an article on my website or just one video on the second channel but I'm going to try a different format for this.
Been trying to use Siri Shortcuts and automations. Unfortunately many of them don’t run unless phone is unlocked which completely negates the point of having an automation (even when don’t ask before running is selected). Please help!
Lots of great ideas there. But one difference, taking your wallet with you when you go out. I rarely take mine with me now, everything is on the phone and I can go weeks without using cash at all. Can’t even remember last time I used the cash dispenser!
Use a smarthing vibration sensor and not the aqara vibration. The aqara vibrations sensors you practically have to jump on them. They won't even work with dryer to sense vobration.
I love your content, the truth is I'm from Mexico 🇲🇽 And I love it if I would love for you to make a channel for the Latin community and to be able to learn much more. Greetings
I had the lock notification + button action. But Home Assistant broke the automation when I upgraded the iPhone and I I have forgotten how i got this automation to work the first time.
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.
So great that you automated everything except tesla removed a few sensors and now you have to hang up a tennis ball to know you cant go further in the garage 😂
Haha I know right. Unfortunately there isn't a wall in front of where I park the Tesla. I am going to add something else that's more elegant than the tennis ball soon though.
I just wonder when automation is going to make us so lazy and thoughtless that our mind shrinks because we don’t use it anymore! I have an automated home and thanks for the great ideas.
It looks like it's a plug and play version of yellow, instead of buying yellow and then needing additional stuff (Computer Module, SSD, etc) with green you can just plug it in and it will start working. The only other big difference appears to be that Yellow comes with native Zigbee/Matter support while Green requires a separate dongle (which they do sell). So green is more aimed at people who want a device they can just plug in and it'll start working while yellow is aimed at the same sort of people who would run the system on a raspberry pi and want hardware with better support for Home Assistant's features.
I have a iphone and want to use it to put my lights on when i get home via my apple watch or phone. I run all my tech with alexa. Could a make a shortcut with home assistant that could trigger my tech on alexa app.
It does support it but you have to be willing to get a few numbers from the logs. Scroll down on the integration and you will see it www.home-assistant.io/integrations/roborock/#how-can-i-clean-a-specific-room It took me a few minutes to set it up but it wasn't bad. The other option I've used before the Roborock integration was to call an Alexa Routine from HA and have that Alexa Routine clean one room with the Robot vac.
During the 'Counterstrike' portion of the the video you are using an Aeotec sensor but you list an Aqara sensor in your description. I purchased the Aqara sensor from the link, set it up with HA, but it results with a 1.5 second delay to turn on the lights after I hit the counter to trigger the sensor. Tried may settings but cannot get faster response times. Which sensor did you use in your video to get the counter light to brighten immediately after you tapped the counter? How did you get fast response times?
Sorry I linked to the Aqara vibration sensor. I've updated the description. I'm using the Aeotec one since I had an extra laying around. I would say it's response time is faster than the Aqara but the Aqara is less expensive and probably has better battery life. Those Aeotec multipurpose sensors can eat through batteries so fast.
i actually use a bluetooth connection as a trigger as well. i installed a little bluetooth receiver in my '04 bmw 325ci, and whenever i start the car it connects to my phone. my phone detects the connection and starts playing my music. i may try and make it so it will also turn off all my bedroom lights and stuff in the event i somehow forget to.
I tried to post this earlier but don't see my comment. Maybe because it had an Amazon link? Anywho, I see you have a ball hanging from the ceiling for parking assist. I recently installed a ceiling mounted motion activated laser for parking assistance. Works great! I've been thinking about installing a smart outlet for it to keep it from coming on when there's motion in the garage but no car parking.
Yeah RUclips might remove/hide comments if there are Amazon links. Sorry about that. I've been wanting to add one of those to my garage! I didn't think about how someone standing under it could trigger it. What did you end up using for laser motion sensor?
@@SmartHomeSolver RUclips really must not like Amazon. I tried to just post the name of the item and it blocked me again! I must have made someone mad. Tallew.Laser.Parking.Assistant There's several brands on Amazon, all selling the same cheap unit. Works great so far though!
Oh that's really cool! I can see what you are talking about with the built in motion sensor and the laser if there isn't a car. I think I will add the same thing and make the smart outlet only turn on if the garage door is opening. Thanks for the help!
@@SmartHomeSolver that would work as long as you're opening your garage before you park. A lot of times when our car is parking, the garage door was already open. So in that case the laser wouldn't activate. I have a YoLink outdoor motion sensor installed at the end of my driveway to detect vehicles arriving at our house. I plan to use that as the trigger for activating the smart outlet.
All these "conveniently unlock/open" automations don't sit right with me. I won't even turn off my security system based on my location because if for some reason someone has my phone then they could have an easier time getting into my house even if they can't get into my phone. The only way I could imagine having an automatic unlock/open automation is if I could somehow 100% of the time guarantee it was me. Are the chances that someone will have my phone and know where I live slim? Yeah they are. But still not willing to risk it.
I am curious reed. You are using so many apps in your videos. I mean just name them: home assistant, apple home, and so on. Are they just for exploration and content creation or do you really have to use so many apps? I mean maybe you need some features only available on one app but not another. So you have to use them in combo?
Yes I try and use a variety for exploration and content creation. I am starting to remove systems to just make my life less hectic though. More on that soon!
Is your garage AC dual hose and mounted through the wall or a window. I could not get a dual hose Midea PAC to work through a wall vent. Had to go with a single hose LG unit. I'm also in AZ.
It's a dual hose and I have a small window in the garage that will fit the dual hose window cover thing. I've been pulling air from the inside because it's been so hot outside. Your in AZ so you know! But now that it's cooling down I might pull from the outside.
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!
_Also I'm going to be doing something different._ I'll be uploading *every day* next week on the second channel to go over how I set up the automations in this video. First video over there: ruclips.net/video/81rCDI_lcaE/видео.html
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Recently, I saw Paul Hibbert's video review of the LinknLink eMotion, which appears to be very accurate in detecting human presence and supports the Modbus TCP protocol. Could you review how the eMotion product can be integrated with Home Assistant using ModBus?
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!
Agreed, he should post the automation/shortcuts so we can copy them and work from there
I’ve tried them haven’t completed one.
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.
The timer is one minute. This likely means he's in his neighborhood.
It does use his location it looks like. Then when based on his drive home and his location he's a minute from home his garage door will open.
personally id use a nfc as your down the street tap the nfc and bam door goes up.... a little backwards cause youd have to use energy but safest way to do it if there are delays getting home
Or just press the garage door button in your car... Personally I will never automate a lock or a door. Too much potential for false opens.
@@brainz-brainz Definitely agree with this, unless I can have 100% guarantee it wouldn't open unless I'm there it isn't worth i
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.
And here I am, incredibly excited about motion activated lights in my garage!
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.
Oh that's good! I have the Tesla Custom Integration through HACS installed but I don't see the destination. Would you mind sharing what entity that is?
Also I just realized that integration has time of arrival so I might change my automation to use that since it will update based on traffic. I'll just open the garage when it's one minute before arrival time.
@@SmartHomeSolver The entity is device_tracker._destination_location_tracker. The states aren't super descriptive. I've seen "Unknown", "Home", and "Away". I think it goes off of the home destination configured in the car itself, so it's possible that there's a "Work" state as well, but my wife works from home and doesn't have that configured.
Oh I see it! Thanks for helping me find that! Well that opens the door to making it way better.
You can probably also use the sensor._distance_to_arrival to open the garage door when you're close to home.
So awesome to see a mental health as a sponsor! Way to go, Reed!
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!
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
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.
The garage door is pretty awesome! I need this haha
Love seeing Rush on your playlist!
amazing as always
Everytime I see a video with chapters I like the video. Thank you.
Lmaooo the look at the camera and music drop at 10:11 killed me. So good!
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.
That's a great question and the way I have it set up it's really easy to fix the traffic problem. The automation starts up a timer in Home Assistant www.home-assistant.io/integrations/timer/ and it counts down to when the door should open. I could add a an actionable notification to cancel the timer or even add more time to the timer. Setting the timer is a little tricky though because HA doesn't allow me to just start a timer with a certain amount of time. So I found a really cool work around I'll go over in the second channel video soon!
Your uncle probably has HomeLink or maybe the MyQ integration. Those are both good options but cost money so I was trying to find an inexpensive way to do it.
@@SmartHomeSolver thanks for the answer! I’m looking forward seeing the second video☺️
Have a great day.
Another great thought provoking video. I love how you push the boundaries as it inspires me to try new and different things in my home. Thank you Reed
To prevent False Alarms, could you also have a Chime Noise, or Announcement play when a motion detector trips if someone moves toward a door? That might help if the dog needs to go out early?
I didn't read all the comments but I would very much appreciate if you could do a very in-depth and detailed video on the garage door automation.
Great playlist!!
Lol love the curb your enthusiasm breaking up with the therapist reference. Sweet video Reed!
Thanks Brent! Great show!
I love seeing all your smart home videos! I'm taking so much inspiration from them. Don't have much opportunity for many things at the moment but always taking notes!
Some great ideas here thanks
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.
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!
Calls a Home Assistant automation to play the Spotify playlist from the Apple Shortcut. It's a hack but it's the only thing that I was able to come up with.
I wondered what a BraLink IR blaster was and indeed, googled it to find out it was a BroadLink, which I already knew about.....Was a bit disappointed to find out it was nothing to do with Bras but there's a accents for ya!
Oh yes, please, share this automations.
I love the creativity here. Def going to steal some of these ideas for my own setup…
I’m blown away that you actually know what show you want to watch. My first 1/2 hour is spent figuring that out haha
Make sure you get that Valve sponsorship deal
I really like the Couch Potato Mode. Is the any videos that explain how it is done
did you find any?
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).
Use the icloud3 integration from hacs. It has the travel time built into it so you can just open your doors if the time goes from greater than 1 minute to less than 1 minute. That way it doesn’t open your garage if you go somewhere that’s not home.
Ohhh that looks like a really useful integration I didn't know existed. Thanks for sharing and I'll be updating my automation to use more of this real time tracking. I also realized the Tesla Custom Integration using HACS has an arrival time based on the car navigation that updates so I have some more testing to do.
You’re gonna make me lazy, I’m looking forward to it!!!
Hi Reed, I use the MYQ integration in my tesla to open the garage door
You're THE BEST! Love your videos, keep it going!!!
Thank you so much!
The Apple TV automation is amazing! Can you please do a video on how to set it up?
I would love to see how you set up some of these
Do do a video about using a smart toothbrush to run automations?
Ali sees right through all of your shenanigans Reid! Great video.
No sleep till Brooklyn
Add that to your workout playlist
That's a good one! I love the Beastie Boys.
I’d love to see how you’ve setup AppleTV automations, as I just got one! :D
Thanks Reed.
There is nothing like heavy metal in the morning 🎸🤘
Really like that Spotify playlist #metallica
How did you set up the nighttime vacuum for different modes
your wife's favourite show is" Braking Bad" 😁 Better be careful while cooking Yo cause Skyler was absolutely nuts.
Dude! You forgot the "loud alarm noise coming" warning. Scared the hell out of my dog! 😂
Oh no! Sorry!
I really wish you would share the yaml for your HA alarm stuff. It is so smart.
Counter strike is a cool idea too!
How do you do the thing where it goes through the TV like Tim Cook has your remote? It's so cool!
I love your automations!
Havent even started the video, But I know its gonna be a W⚡️⭐️
Very nice
🎉thanks for always giving us all new ideas.
Getting a new phone must be a nightmare setting this all up again or even worse a WiFi router
That counter strike was legit a great idea
Awesome automations!
For your alarm system. How did you manage to set it up. Through HA based on location?
Awesome video - you've given me some great ideas!
Hi Reed, I didn't find on your other channel that automation you did to watch a movie, that it turns on your favorite TV show
Love this! At 9:57 you mention the links to help us set them up, but I don’t see the links. Maybe I overlooked them?
I'm going to be making videos this next week, my goal is to publish every day on the second channel and go over all these automations. I normally make an article on my website or just one video on the second channel but I'm going to try a different format for this.
How did you program your robotvacum to only clean a certaim room when you push like a ikea button?
Been trying to use Siri Shortcuts and automations. Unfortunately many of them don’t run unless phone is unlocked which completely negates the point of having an automation (even when don’t ask before running is selected). Please help!
Lots of great ideas there. But one difference, taking your wallet with you when you go out. I rarely take mine with me now, everything is on the phone and I can go weeks without using cash at all. Can’t even remember last time I used the cash dispenser!
really smart using the vibration sensor, i'm going to put it om my next things todo list with home assistant.. or.. homey pro :)
Use a smarthing vibration sensor and not the aqara vibration. The aqara vibrations sensors you practically have to jump on them. They won't even work with dryer to sense vobration.
Great suggestion, have a link?
You can set the sensitivity in the device
@@edwynstapel3033 I can attest that even at the most sensitive setting, the Aqara vibration sensor is useless for most use cases.
I love your content, the truth is I'm from Mexico 🇲🇽 And I love it if I would love for you to make a channel for the Latin community and to be able to learn much more. Greetings
I had the lock notification + button action. But Home Assistant broke the automation when I upgraded the iPhone and I I have forgotten how i got this automation to work the first time.
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.
Have you found a way to lock the geeksmart/geektale door handle manually from the inside without the app?
the couch potato automation is soo cool , anyone know how to set it up? and it it possible with googlehome/alexa?
Is your garage opener have MyQ?? Thank you an thank you for your timely response
Yes, and the MyQ api issues with HA have been annoying lately so I ordered a ratgdo. I'm fed up with all of MyQ's shenanigans.
This is AN automation. 😅
Buy it!
I think Reed has run out of first world problems to solve with his automations! 😂😂😂
Lol! Running out of first world problems to solve is the worst first world problem I've ever heard. 🤣
That was a great informative and educational and pretty funny video!!!
How do you connect the aqara button with Amazon Echo?
What vibration sensor are you using? I'm trying to get my aqara to work with Smartthings but it doesn't seem to be working.
Amazing!
Hi
So great that you automated everything except tesla removed a few sensors and now you have to hang up a tennis ball to know you cant go further in the garage 😂
Haha I know right. Unfortunately there isn't a wall in front of where I park the Tesla. I am going to add something else that's more elegant than the tennis ball soon though.
If you switch to Android you can use GPS as trigger to open the garage door.
Can you show how to automate samsung smart appliances like washer dryer range chimney fridge with alexa or some other hub?
I just wonder when automation is going to make us so lazy and thoughtless that our mind shrinks because we don’t use it anymore! I have an automated home and thanks for the great ideas.
Please please, form now on use that song for segment cards. It's so bad It's amazing!
Would love your take on the Home Assistant Green! Is it worth it? How does it compare with the yellow, which would you recommend, and for who? :)
It looks like it's a plug and play version of yellow, instead of buying yellow and then needing additional stuff (Computer Module, SSD, etc) with green you can just plug it in and it will start working. The only other big difference appears to be that Yellow comes with native Zigbee/Matter support while Green requires a separate dongle (which they do sell).
So green is more aimed at people who want a device they can just plug in and it'll start working while yellow is aimed at the same sort of people who would run the system on a raspberry pi and want hardware with better support for Home Assistant's features.
@@fjrichman I see! Thank you for the explanation :)
I have a iphone and want to use it to put my lights on when i get home via my apple watch or phone. I run all my tech with alexa. Could a make a shortcut with home assistant that could trigger my tech on alexa app.
How do you get your roborock to clean a specific room? The integration currently doesnt support room mode.
It does support it but you have to be willing to get a few numbers from the logs. Scroll down on the integration and you will see it www.home-assistant.io/integrations/roborock/#how-can-i-clean-a-specific-room
It took me a few minutes to set it up but it wasn't bad.
The other option I've used before the Roborock integration was to call an Alexa Routine from HA and have that Alexa Routine clean one room with the Robot vac.
@@SmartHomeSolver awesome thanks! My fault for not scrolling all the way through the docs
During the 'Counterstrike' portion of the the video you are using an Aeotec sensor but you list an Aqara sensor in your description. I purchased the Aqara sensor from the link, set it up with HA, but it results with a 1.5 second delay to turn on the lights after I hit the counter to trigger the sensor. Tried may settings but cannot get faster response times. Which sensor did you use in your video to get the counter light to brighten immediately after you tapped the counter? How did you get fast response times?
Sorry I linked to the Aqara vibration sensor. I've updated the description. I'm using the Aeotec one since I had an extra laying around. I would say it's response time is faster than the Aqara but the Aqara is less expensive and probably has better battery life. Those Aeotec multipurpose sensors can eat through batteries so fast.
@@SmartHomeSolver Got it. makes sense and thanks for the update and informative videos!
I gotta know how you got the Spotify to work with shortcuts
i actually use a bluetooth connection as a trigger as well. i installed a little bluetooth receiver in my '04 bmw 325ci, and whenever i start the car it connects to my phone. my phone detects the connection and starts playing my music. i may try and make it so it will also turn off all my bedroom lights and stuff in the event i somehow forget to.
That's awesome! The bluetooth connection for a trigger is so useful.
What are you using to connect to your Tesla to be able to use home automations?
The Tesla Custom Integration in HACS github.com/alandtse/tesla
I tried to post this earlier but don't see my comment. Maybe because it had an Amazon link?
Anywho, I see you have a ball hanging from the ceiling for parking assist. I recently installed a ceiling mounted motion activated laser for parking assistance. Works great!
I've been thinking about installing a smart outlet for it to keep it from coming on when there's motion in the garage but no car parking.
Yeah RUclips might remove/hide comments if there are Amazon links. Sorry about that.
I've been wanting to add one of those to my garage! I didn't think about how someone standing under it could trigger it.
What did you end up using for laser motion sensor?
@@SmartHomeSolver RUclips really must not like Amazon. I tried to just post the name of the item and it blocked me again! I must have made someone mad.
Tallew.Laser.Parking.Assistant
There's several brands on Amazon, all selling the same cheap unit. Works great so far though!
Also, I bought the single laser version but most it the units available are double for 2car garages.
Oh that's really cool! I can see what you are talking about with the built in motion sensor and the laser if there isn't a car. I think I will add the same thing and make the smart outlet only turn on if the garage door is opening. Thanks for the help!
@@SmartHomeSolver that would work as long as you're opening your garage before you park. A lot of times when our car is parking, the garage door was already open. So in that case the laser wouldn't activate.
I have a YoLink outdoor motion sensor installed at the end of my driveway to detect vehicles arriving at our house. I plan to use that as the trigger for activating the smart outlet.
@Smarthomesolver, is that an app To control your tesla ? Where do yoo download it from, thank you
All these "conveniently unlock/open" automations don't sit right with me. I won't even turn off my security system based on my location because if for some reason someone has my phone then they could have an easier time getting into my house even if they can't get into my phone. The only way I could imagine having an automatic unlock/open automation is if I could somehow 100% of the time guarantee it was me.
Are the chances that someone will have my phone and know where I live slim? Yeah they are. But still not willing to risk it.
I am curious reed. You are using so many apps in your videos. I mean just name them: home assistant, apple home, and so on. Are they just for exploration and content creation or do you really have to use so many apps? I mean maybe you need some features only available on one app but not another. So you have to use them in combo?
Yes I try and use a variety for exploration and content creation. I am starting to remove systems to just make my life less hectic though. More on that soon!
@@SmartHomeSolver thats what I thought. It must be so confusing to keep track which system controls which devices.
Seinfeld!!!!!!!
That's some next level stuff 😀
Is your garage AC dual hose and mounted through the wall or a window. I could not get a dual hose Midea PAC to work through a wall vent. Had to go with a single hose LG unit. I'm also in AZ.
It's a dual hose and I have a small window in the garage that will fit the dual hose window cover thing. I've been pulling air from the inside because it's been so hot outside. Your in AZ so you know! But now that it's cooling down I might pull from the outside.
How did you setup the one where when your wife gets a text it runs an automation/shortcut? I have been trying to do this for ages 😂
Your thumbnail needs a grammar correction to “this is an automation” lol
It was there because the "an" didn't look as good but it's changed now.