I regret not making this automation sooner
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2023
- This is one of a parent's nightmare but this could have been avoid if we simply had this one automation in place. This video will take about the Aqara motion sensor and the automations surrounding it.
A quick shoutout to @ShaneCreates. A lot of the ideas I contemplated were derivatives of ideas I’ve seen on his channel.
Download this automation with Chaperone
montaque22.github.io/#/childG...
Music
- Celestial Being by Lunareh VLPY4SBQCQMDMEQ9
- Inside Voice by Midnight Daydream UMSAM2LZRCCD57NE
This video is not sponsored by any of the brands discussed within the video!
Smart Devices discussed in video
TP Link Smart Plug: www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-HS103P...
Aqara Button (Mini Switch): www.amazon.com/Aqara-WXKG11LM...
Aqara Motion Sensor: www.amazon.com/Aqara-Configur...
Aqara Presence Sensor FP2: www.amazon.com/Aqara-Position...
TP-Link Kasa Smart Bulb: www.amazon.com/smart-light-bu...
Google Nest Mini: store.google.com/product/goog...
DISCLAIMER: Some links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you! Thank you for supporting me so I can continue to provide you with dope free content!
Gear I used for this video
- Sony A7S iii: www.amazon.com/Sony-Mirrorles...
- Aputure Light Dome: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...
- Aputure Amaran 200X S: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B...
- Neewer Heavy Duty Light Stand: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...
DISCLAIMER: Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you! Thank you for supporting me so I can continue to provide you with dope free content! 
Наука
Duuuude! Way to build the suspense! Glad she's ok and that you've found a possible solution. Other things you could have used, a weight sensor on the crib. And if you're able to detect "where" most of the weight is, you could tell she's trying to get out. (Maybe.) One last thing. Maybe she's too old to be in a crib and she needs a big girl bed and to just be told she needs to stay in her room until one of you goes get her. Maybe had a button (or one of those 4 button scene controller - the other 3 buttons could be for music, etc she likes) that she uses to call you and whoever is home gets notified (maybe with a message to the person that isn't home if the one at home didn't "acknowledge" the first notification.)
Yeah weight sensors were something I felt could work well. It could detect when there is no more pressure for a specific amount of time to know if she’s attempting to escape.
@@technithusiast That and if she happens to throw something out of the crib then the motion sensor would sense that. A pressure sensor would be great to avoid that
That was a terrifying story. I’m so glad the baby is okay!
Very glad she’s ok too. We try to raise her to exercise some independence but it comes at a cost 😪
I’ve been troubleshooting a similar situation with my son. One thing that I have found helpful is vary response the urgency required.
In your circumstance maybe adding a door sensor to her door instead of a smart lock. Then if the helper is still active and the motion sensor has been triggered when the door opens then maybe trigger your smart locks on the front and back doors to lock. Play a whole home message that anyone in the house to hear (guests or parents that aren’t by the phone to receive notification). Maybe just flash the lights red in your office in case your in a meeting.
If the smart locks change states to unlocked after the motion sensor and the door sensor have been triggered. Then you can go into whole home panic mode. Sending notifications to every phone, sound a siren, send up flares, have chatGPT make a VOIP call to 911. Whatever you see fit.
Probably a bit late, but maybe it'll help someone else/give you some ideas for future automations. Using Alarmo, you can setup a partition for the baby's room, and have a way to disarm it (could be as simple as opening the door). And you can have it trigger based on motion/pressure sensor, etc. So basically, if you walk into the room before she "escapes" then it won't trigger. I'd probably put an aquara button outside the door as a simple press to disarm/arm with a catch all of the crib detects pressure and the door closes after, set the alarm. Or auto set the alarm if no motion is detected for X seconds.
I've done this basically with my garage shop. All my power tools are on smart switches and it kills power to my tools if I'm not using the shop (if the shop alarm is not disarmed) so kids can't turn on power tools. I created a dummy binary sensor that trips if someone tries to turn a tool on when the alarm is armed, and it turns it back off/trips the alarm so I know someone tried to activate a tool when they weren't supposed to.
Thanks for sharing! I like your garage automation and how it’s very safety focused! I created ideas around the baby monitoring automation using the FP2 which was pretty fun which u can see here:
ruclips.net/video/TCan49iY6EU/видео.html
As a new parent with an 8th month old I love seeing these automations! Keep them coming. Also, I'm glad your daughter is safe ❤️
Thank you and I’m glad you enjoyed the video!
Scary story! where I live they tell parents to transition out of a crib before they can climb over the top to prevent accidents and deaths. But it was a nightmare keeping my daughter contained once she was in a standard bed.
Yup if we put her in a real bed we know she’ll never stay in it
Here's what I would do in that situation. Side note, that was slightly terrifying. So many things could have gone wrong. Alien abductions, trampled by rogue wildebeest, anything. I would totally program something inside of my smart home that would release a Siberian husky that would then run two the door of the baby escapee, close the door, then alert me of what was going on. The question is, who has a husky that you could use? 🤔
Yeah our major concern was the wilderness roaming around here the Pacific Northwest Serengeti. It’s a real problem here. As for the husky… hard pass.
I haven't read every other comment, but having to 'activate' the sensor seems something that can be engineered out.
Assuming you close the room door everytime you leave, then the flow could be
- if motion is detected AFTER the door is open, then dont alarm
- if motion is detected, and the door has NOT opened first then alarm.
- a quick press of the button could check: if in alarm state, silence the alarm -- else turn the light on/off as normal.
My concern with having to activate/deactivate would be you, a baby sitter, someone else walking into the room "just to check on her", forgetting to disable the alarm (or not know one was set - thinking ur parents maybe) and setting off the alarm ergo waking her up while sleeping.
Great videos though! Just need to run compression, gate, and normalise the audio to a consistent volume 😉
Deactivating/activating has definitely been something I forgot. I like your solution to this problem!
I'm glad your kid was okay! This helps me solve something I've been trying to do - my friend has a Rivian and I can sense when they arrive because there are a lot of bluetooth sensors on the truck that show up in home assistant - I've been trying to turn a bulb red when they arrive and then restore it when they leave. You just taught me how to create a scene on the fly with Node-Red. Thanks!
Glad I could help! I have some other techniques to save states that I could share in the future.
The joys of parenthood. Glad nothing happened.
Ditto!
My oldest daughter was “very helpful” as a baby, and helped her brother and sister climb out of their crib, since she had already figured it out
Naturally 😂. Sounds like you could use a couple of the motion sensors too
Ahh… I remember these heart attacks. We put in our first smart lock so the front door would automatically re-lock for this reason. If she’s climbing out of the crib, it may be time for a big girl bed so she doesn’t get hurt climbing (make sure the furniture is fastened to the wall too!).
Oh yeah. She’ll be upgrading soon. They grow so fast 😪
Such a new world we live in! My kids are teenagers now so HA was not an option when they were toddlers. For me, I have an inherent fear of locking anyone in a room - while kids are professional escape artists, I would rather be alerted that they are on the move and catch them in the act than lock them in a room. I think of fire or some other reason the child wants (needs to get) out of the room. Exterior doors - yes but not a child's room. I am far from any expert on tracking children but I would say find a different way to alert you in your office of the child's location/mom is not home/etc.
My wife had similar concerns. Since the kid is a toddler, I’m any emergency we wouldn’t want them to move. We were ok with a conditional lock but still felt that would be too excessive so we’re sticking with the alert system we setup.
@@technithusiast Thanks for the reply - love the channel and can't wait to see your ideas and solutions!
Interesting automation. I thought the same about something like the bed sensors. EverythingSmartHome had some early video about pressure sensors under the feet of the bed so it doesn't matter where in the crib she is. Also could be useful just to have a sensor know she is in the crib for other bedtime routines.
I agree. I think bed sensors would be the most effective tool in this situation. After leaning more about mmWave sensors I think that would be a close second since you could setup zones which could function similar to pressure sensors.
What about the Aqara FP2. Super precise tracking that can differentiate between being in the crib or somewhere else in the room. Plus you can setup zones.
I would love to give it a try. It’s on the more pricey side and didn’t have it in our budget since this was a bit unexpected. Maybe aqara can sponsor me 🤔
Automation is a great backup but this could have been so much worse, even fatal. Better communication/parenting policies would be a better/safer place to start as you now know.
Definitely agree. This incident could have been fixed with a little more communication. There are so many habits we pick up that eases the mental load of everyday tasks but you never know what exploit the shortcut creates until moments like this pop up. In this situation of genuine human error it’s comforting to have a mechanical “safety net”
I would use a pressure sensor under the mattress
That's a good solution if you have a bed sensor available 😬
Sounds like a good solution. A few thoughts I had on this was the millimeter wave sensor (you mentioned) since theoretically you can pinpoint the motions to a certain area and notify you when she leaves that area. That said, I bought a cheap one of them ($30) and had difficulty getting it to work properly as the drivers for Hubitat (which is the home automation i use) wasn't quite there, so I put it on hold to revisit later. The other thought which might be helpful to your household is I set up a Presence sensor driver where I have everyones phone dynamically assigned an IP address and whenever the phone 'goes on/off the wifi network' (presumably because they left the house), it updates a 'house' chat group i have in telegram to notify me when people come and go. Might have helped you notice that your wife wasn't home, if she didn't let you know. I also use that telegram chat for other notifications like leak sensors, fire sensors, door lock sensors, etc. as well. Quick way to scroll though to keep updated on what's happening throughout the day in the house. :)
That’s really helpful! I like the idea of getting transient alerts as people enter and leave the house. I’ll have to incorporate that automation into my home.
I'm thinking a simple communication system. When wife leaves during work hours you get a notification and a light that lights up to notify you she's leaving.
definitely agree with the simplicity however over time the automation has evolved to cover unique needs and gaps
@@technithusiast after watching the whole video I saw you added way more. Even with the current setup I think you’d benefit from knowing your wife had left so you know to watch for tell tale signs.
On another note I appreciate your videos. They have made me think about my automations in different capacities. I think I’m gonna implement a Laundry room automation because of your concept.
For sure and I appreciate the feedback! It’s great to hear how people take some of my ideas and push the boundaries even more 😬
We transitioned to a toddler bed because my wife was having issues putting my daughter in the crib since she's pregnant with our 2nd. This caused our daughter to just run out of her room in the middle of the night. Since we don't mind if she plays around in her room, we made it so that the door sensor alerts our google speakers "X is out of her bed"
It was quite useful for that first night as she got out at like 2 am and I was quickly able to get her. I transitioned to an outside lock on her door though. We figure that the crib is already a cage of sorts, a lock on her door isn't far off from that and I don't want to risk her playing around in the kitchen without us. We will of course move away from this as she get's potty trained, but she's not even 2 yet.
From the looks of it, it might be time to transition to the toddler bed though!
We are arriving to a similar conclusion. The house is typically safe but we simply need to know when she leaves the bed. For some reason kids can find a way to make a rubber room dangerous 😪
I had a Aqara P1 and sent it back detection range was horrible. Went back to the older one's much better.
Perhaps that one was defective? The one I have seem super sensitive
I also had lots of issues with the Aqara motion sensors (I'm not sure if it was a P1 I used though). I have a few that work great and always work, a couple I could never get to work, and then some that just stop working after a while and need to be re-paired. For me, I found the sonoff Motion Sensors to be much more reliable. The big issues with motion sensors are false notifications. I had them set up on my front door to notify me when a package gets delivered (because as we all know, no-one rings the doorbell anymore), and had to use a couple of them at different locations and group them into a motion group in order to lessen false positives, and even then it still happens on occasion.
Very nice. One question, say it's the middle of the night. Your daughter gets out of her crib, and the automation works as expected. You or your wife puts your daughter back to bed, can you cancel the hour timeout and reset the 'alarm'?
Nice catch! With this current implementation that’s not possible but the impact is loss ice the worse that would happen is that the delay would fire late that night but will only turn off the lights since that was the date it copied. There is a simple update that could be done to this automation to fix this edge-case. I’ll update it and place it on chaperone
@@technithusiast Kool. However, based on my experience, this is NOT an edge case, at least not for my kids / grandkids. Good Luck. ;-)
😂
I think your kid is too old for a crib! Upgrade her bed and use the upgrade to implement new behavior. Enforcement is one thing but "locking" her in her room might not be the best solution. She might even resent technology later if it is used to limit her. 🙂That advice was, of course, given for free and as such is worth exactly that: nothing! You do what you feel should be done at the end.
If the door is closed, why not just use a door sensor to know when the door is getting opened. That's the ultimate trigger and one where something needs to be done ASAP. Is the rest of the house so dangerous that she cannot be there unattended?
My wife and I want her to stay in her room for her safety. We don’t mind that she escapes the crib, we just need that awareness .
@@technithusiast your kid, your house, your choice and I respect that. My only recommendation then is to augment the number of cases where there is intervention from the system so that it dries not create a negative system. Is there green light use cases? Or adjusting some level of light if your kid gets up in the middle of the night?
I also of the opinion that your toddler is too big for a crib. I definitely understand the desire to keep her in the room for safety, but now I'd be worried about the fact that the crib is no longer keeping her within her bed, but instead giving her a greater chance of hurting herself while trying to get out. It's kinda the lesser of two evils scenario I think a. Toddler bed configuration is the safer solution since the crib literally isn't preventing her from leaving the bed. My cousin had to get stitches in his head performing this same feat when he was a toddler. Just giving a different perspective of a potential danger. Great solution for the challenge at hand though!
Lame!
Did you watch it all the way to the end?
@@technithusiast yes, german here i think children need to be educated in a way that you can trust them they should not be surveilled we dont want that for us and the same concept applies to children. Way more interesting would be voice commands that feed into chat gpt with ur phone and a mic in the living room. Helicopter parenting is not the answer.
Using tech to remind our little one to stay in her room doesn’t negate our trust nor does it remove her ability to make a choice. I think we both agree that we would love for kids to be safe. Where we diverge may be on the degree of safety a method of enforcement and that’s ok.