Living in the Future: My DIY Smart Home Tour 2023

Lost me at Apple 😂

Nicely done this smart disco, lights everywhere. Question, Where and how do you or would you use other smart appliances, (dish-)washers smartfridges etc. Reason I ask is that we just don't use the smartfunction on the washing machine and the dishwasher broke down. Would I buy a smart dishwasher and how does this come to it's right? What is the benefit from such machines in a smarthome? I feel that the "smart" in a lot of appliances breaks down to having the buttons on the machine replaced by another user interface; phone or tablet. Do I need to wash my wool jacket whilst in a bus? I still need to be with the machine to put stuff in or take it out. What are your thoughts?

Hello guys, I am in process of research smart home technology in UK, and I'm in massive shock. House is very nice, however it is nowhere near the smart house. Please don't get me wrong, I do not want to hate, but technology is miles away from current market in Europe. Check simple GRENTON system for instant, the DB are wardrobe size, electrical installation are in star type etc. It is not smart to end up with bunch of remotes and apps

no vacuum? no curtains?

Love the look of the house, makes me want to move to the UK lol

Absolutely crazy man, i love it

Which rope lights you use in the ceiling kindly tell

Does your phone have to be on the same network as those devices to play music to all of them? I have my Sonos on my IoT network and can’t get AirPlay to work unless my phone is also on the IoT network… I have UniFi as well

how about home assistant?

Hi Alex!! You've made your home so smart.. I like the video and I am also interested in the smart lighting part!!So fancy

Do you do private jobs mate?

Issue if his one plug short circuits it fries his entire gaming setup and turns them into a knife in a toaster

You lost me at HomeShit

wow this is such a bad setup

you sure do repeat yourself a lot

it s beautiful

Home assistant

Hooooooome Assistant!!! *humps the air viciously

Hi Alex, AMAZING smart home tour, we are looking to smart our home up even more, alas you always only talk o r demonstrate Apple, Home kit, I have Samsung phones, TV etc could you please do video on Smarthings, especially now that they use and have integrated Matter with their products. Thanks a bunch, log ing the fluffy slippers and trackies 😘👍

Sad to see you didn’t use homeassistant. Cool video though!

NOT a smart home. Just a remote control home

Hi Alex, would love to see how you integrate UniFi Protect into HomeKit?

Very Cool!

Hi, how many iot devices & thier frequency ?

Stuff on batterys is a no go imo

Try home assistant, everything is possible with it

Hi Alex, Loved to see the vid! Now i've done something similar with timecontrol and putting devices "off/on"... I've done that with Home Assistant (HA) (the base for my house, since i wanted all smart-home to be "offline" working. I've used the Unifi controller and connected it with HA... HA can now "see" when devices are connected to the wifi (or switches), in my case my mobile phones. So i 've created an action... turn at a rondom time lights on around dawn, and turn them off again IF phones are not at home (since i will turn them off myself when at home). Same goes with leaving the house turning things off. Now with that creativity there was an issue... because the phones randomly disconnect from the wifi to save batterypower, it created some inconvenient situations... :)...

What i did next was... i've added one "D1 Mini" in my car, wich connects to my home wifi... When the cars is "home"... it will not turn "off" the lights at a certain time. Now it also brings another advantage... since my car isn't the youngest and don't have a pre-heating unit in it (yet) i have made it so that when my alarm goes at 7am, IF the car "notices" (temperature sensor) that it is freezing, it changes the alarm to 10 minutes earlier. Very usefull and saved me by getting on time in the office. Extra effect from adding this to the car is to be warned IF the battery of my car is unhealthy and will notify me. Eventually will be adding more automations in the car more (like pre-heating). The D1 uses barely anything to say power so it's no problem to have it in the car running permanently.

The same concept is used in the office... when i arrive there, before I am IN the office the lights are already turned on, since the Unifi controller there "notices" the car too. And there u go... Basicly so many more features can be added, it all depends on the creativeness or strangeness of the brain... :)...

Anyway thank for for showing us around!

What display did you have on the side to show the cameras?

This is amazing! Living there would be so chill it seems

the only part of my home thats smart is my cctv system so the camera overlooking my massive drive if someone presses my door bell the camera will pan round and zoom into the door area so i can see who it is at the front door and i can reposition the camera back via my cctv controller

What are the airplay streamers you have? Sounds like you’re saying vessel??

Never completely turn off an OLED TV. They need to be on standby so they can perform a pixel clean overnight.

cant wait for the grid to go down one day and this bro will freak out and not know how to do anything with something labelled “smart”

Somebody needs home assistant, there are hardly any clever automations here to call it a smart home. This is more i throw a lot of money at the standard products so it is controllable but no intelligence.

does all of this for some 13 year old in his mums basement to hop on and hack his house xD

Lol the future? I’ve had this stuff for like 6 years 😂

Great upload and perfect advice. Don’t fall into the trap of saying your U s how you do.

tacky uk vibes

Your parents house...........

I am looking for a plug and play HomeKit IR blaster. Any suggestions?

Looks and sounds like Rami Malek

okay but who needs this ?

Please do not use your network switch as a shelf 😭😭😭

Don't know why you are promoting bad products when there are better things out there too what you have said .