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So if they steal the cameras I lose everything. Also where I'm from you need motion detection to catch in the act so motion sensitivity with an alert is important
Building my house right now. Doing a unify network benefit of new house I can pre wire everything and thinking about using Homey as my smart hub. My question is can I use a tablet to display everything like an echo hub does but with homey.
You can, but it's different. You'll have to build your own interface. That's OK, it's fun! community.homey.app/t/whats-the-best-dashboard-for-homey/102577 Try that thread for some dashboard solutions.
I have a love-hate relationship with Google. On the one hand they offer the biggest and most used services out there like RU-vid which have tons of potential but I feel like instead of innovating they just get worse and get more bugs. There is obviously so much potential but they're ruining that by killing services and not improving/not innovating on them. It really feels like they're using their monopoly by not caring about the user experience since they make money anyway. I remember using my Alexa years ago and it was so much more capable compared to the latest and greatest Google Home speaker I'm currently using. I remember I could install skills for Alexa and do all kinds of things like doing quizzes etc. and I could even whisper to it and it whispered back. Google on the other hand after saying the long "Okay Google" understands almost everything wrong and does the wrong action or either is incapable of doing that. It feels like I'm talking to a robot from the nineteen hundreds whereas Alexa felt so much more intuitive, natural and advanced. I really hope Google is gonna greatly improve things with the Gemini era.
Just used your link, the second one, and got the Dreo for $250 on sale. Now trying to decide if we should put it upstairs in the master bedroom or downstairs in the TV living room kitchen area. What placement would you recommend?
Ooooh I don't know that this exists Roger. Sonos can Airplay and they have an outdoor speaker, but it's likely not what you're hoping for. Apple doesn't allow Bluetooth pairing with their speakers.
Factories are pretty open and ventilated so head height sensors probably make sense, but not in residential. Chemicals that float collect in the ceiling, probably escape before getting to the point you'd breath them in even if your walking around. Chemicals that sink are the killers, they collect on the ground and because we tend to lie down when we sleep, it doesn't take as long to get to our breathing level. So ya, you want to detect the bad stuff near the ground long before it has a chance to build up.
That's a fair comment when we're talking about sleeping. But the detectors we used were intended for enclosed spaces. Those are never well ventilated. So I agree, you sleep laying down and we want to clean the air there! But you want detectors near where you breathe always. 😃 Definitely a good consideration for use case
Does aqara have plans to allow other non acara perhaps non-matter devices into their ecosystem? I've got a bunch of goveei lights and I'd like to unify all my smart home devices into a single automation platform
@@AutomateYourLife that pretty much kills it as a cross mfg solution. Maybe homey might be a good option. Do they support z wave? I've got a lot of ring sensors for home security
Hi 🇨🇦. Re: Amazon Canada , is it really $219 for one of these govee triple flood lights? I checked the govee sight for these to see if the price is accurate. Doesn’t exist on govees sight.
Me too, I most enjoy you bringing new products to us. Your reviews are honest telling us the good and the bad or "not quite there yet". That's most valuable to us on a budget. We know you are a Sonoff fan. So take a look at their new ZB Bridge Ultra. I just replaced my P with the U version and I see an improvement in those subdevices there were distance-wise dropping offline. I have no scientific method to measure, but I believe it has greater range. And the Ultra is Matter. Its pricier at $54 U.S. but a lot cheaper than a M3 with Matter.
@@AutomateYourLife Great. Looking forward to your opinion, because you dive deep into a product that most of us know nothing about. The Ultra also has Ethernet, and 256 subdevices vice Pro which is WiFi only and 128 subdevices. So far though, I've not been able to link a Tuya compliant $5 "smart button" from AliExpress to the Sonoff. Only connects to a $17 Tuya bridge. The Tuya compliant smart button is half the Sonoff price, less than half everyone else's smart button, and 1/5th the price of a Flic. Tuya smart button is as big as a silver dollar (anyone know what a silver dollar is?) but half as thick as a Sonoff smart button.
Any idea if the Aqara M3 hub works with automations when 100% offline? I saw a few early reviews where it didn’t appear to work when the internet was down.
Hey, Brian, I really enjoy a look forward to your new product video each month and this was another good one. I have the new Aqara hub and the LTE subscription, but haven't used that yet. Having services that will still do certain things in the event of a power or Internet outage adds functionality to most smart homes. While I know you folks in Alberta could be accused of blowing smoke...toward your neighbors to the south, you never seem add to it!!! Thank you.
All you need to make a garage door sensor is a freely articulating metal hinge and a contact sensor. Attach one side of the hinge directly to the garage door so the other side will hang down when the gate is open overhead but lays flat against the door when it's closed. Put the passive part of the contact sensor on the freely moving side of the hinge. Place the active side of the contact sensor so it will register the door as closed when it is. Takes 2 minutes.
Have you ever checked out Moes automation products? They look interesting but I haven’t seen many people review them (I have no connection to them). Thanks
Hey, so Moes is Tuya branded gear. If you've seen anything Tuya, then Moes is pretty much just a label. Some of their stuff I've found is a step up over white label but overall, it's just the same gear. If that helps any! :)
Hi Brian, I'm looking to do some automation in my house and I was going to start with lighting. My first step was to add some lighting to my home office and I was wondering what you would recommend. What would you recommend for LED Light Bulbs. Govee or Philips LED bulbs. Or some other brand altogether ? Would you recommend light bulbs with matter ? I'm all in with Google it that makes a difference.
Hue is gonna work with everything and I think that's very important in case you decide Google isn't for you. Govee is for gorgeous looks in fixtures and on LEDs, etc. But for basic automation and control, you'll want Hue.
Thanks for the tons of info here. Like most people, I’m wanting to add a thing or two to the smart home but I am torn by all the choices. I’m wondering if the in-wall smart displays and controls will take off and be well-received or if it will fizzle as an option.
It's going to depend how they're designed and how they're built into the rest of the smart home systems. Brilliant, one of the options for the last few years, just went bankrupt and it's not going to be fun to own those anymore.
Yours has been the very best out of the many RU-vid videos I have seen as you emphasize practical use info rather than the guy who sights engineering aspects. Oh darn you have now enticed me to view the pedistal version now. But Thanks for your presentation that is now exciting me.
Still one challenge is they are using the strange cylinder that was in the previous locks - Note: The lock cylinder used for the U50 is a less common specification and is not the same as the Schlage. Please ask a locksmith has a check if they support a replacement.
chill!😂cell phone companies (and or social media) already have our personal data & privacy ....so this locator app is very accurate nowadays I like to keep my love ones, my children my husband safe.....or at least know where they are incase (god forbides!) accidents emergencies😊
Great video! Could you do one explaining how to wire up this relay in a 2-way switch system? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Aqara says it’s possible but won’t provide a diagram!
It is? Sorry! I watched it again and couldn’t figure it out. 😅 Really noob with wiring here. I thought the diagram you did was for two lights and two switches. How would that work for a single light connected to a set of two-way switches? One switch upstairs and one downstairs. Looking to install the relay next to the downstairs switch.
First of all thanks for this video . I am not sure if you mention this at any point or i missed it , but as I am aiming to install these modules behind many of my traditional switches which are traditionally dimmable , does this offer dimming ? If not , can a workaround happen somehow to dim the lights from my phone? Neither am I an electrician nor do I know much about circuits I'm just gonna tell this to my electrician if you could help !
Without knowing your system, I'd have a hard time helping much. I think ask your electrician but it SOUNDS like you're going to be fine. The relay will power on the circuit and then the dimmer will deal with the rest.
Have you seen the robot mop/vacs that use a belt instead of spinning pads? Reviews show very obvious superiority in how well they clean compared to the pads that don’t pickup as much since the belts can clean themselves off as they go instead of pads that potentially spread what they’ve picked up along the way everywhere they go
