Can you please tell me the concealed strip you showed for hiding the lan wires? I have been looking for something to conceal the speaker wires running from my receiver to my speakers along with the HDMI wire
I've been building my smart home for the past year; now the only missing piece seems to be the Switchbot to automate my old school devices with buttons that need to be pressed. Thanks for the video! So cool!
Two words: Home Assistant. Since you have a lot different hubs and apps. In my opinion, Home Assistant would be an amazing option to hook everything together into one system and app. Plus it is focused on keeping everything local. So that’s a major advantage as regards your privacy
Such an underrated youtuber. Only been subscribed for a short while but find myself looking forward to new video all the time. Also have to support our own :) Brabantttt
I love this, thankyou for only bringing up the ones that are useful in day to day life and not just some one time gimmick, next video should be securing these connections avoiding being hacked or interfered.
Haha, if you win the giveaway you don't need to pay anything at all! You were actually the first person that showed me how you could turn your lights off using your voice. This was already years ago!
One day.. my home will be like this. I also want to use these smart home products in my hairdress salon. It would be such an upgrade. Adore your videos...❤
Felix, do you know about home assistant. You can run it on a simple raspberry pi and it can integrate all the different systems and apps in 1 app. Also using siri? Integrate both siri and google assistant into it and you have even more possibilities for integrating
Hey Friso! I do know about it actually, although I haven't taken full advantage of it yet. Sounds like a great idea when using multiple eco-systems. So far, Google Home has done a great job! Thanks for the comment.
Awesome video. If your computer is connected via an ethernet cable, you can also turn it on using Wake on LAN. Just enable it on the motherboard settings and then find some wake-on-lan integration for whatever smart home system you use :)
Felix, I enjoyed your video! Smooth, effective shots, & edited to communicate susinctly the value of SmartBot products. I was unaware of the device to automate the function of "old school" devices. The Xiaomi was another surprise. Looking forward to your review of that router also.
Nice but i'd rather lights dont need an adicional hub i ve Google nest mini and Alexa echo Flex and i dont neeed a hub ti control lights or switch . Excelent ideas i Will consider a lot of them
Thanks Daniel! You mean on my smart watch? Not revealing any secrets (but I'm probably making a video about my watch very, very soon). Anyways, it's the 'Roto Rally'!
This video is so helpful most videos I saw were for a house not apartments and this video is giving me a easier way to plan what I need to get for when I move in the summer thanks.
Oh wow, I was just making a video about an external power button for the PC ($4) and now I'm thinking I should either add this to the review or make a separate one. Loved your channel, glad I noticed the post on Reddit, it's 4 am now, but totally going to binge your older videos tomorrow. Just wanted to say thank you for the videos you make! :)
Love the video! We're currently living in an apartment and I'm getting into smart products, seen the switchbot stuff but didn't know it was so powerful!
'I heard about this product that does what I want to do, so I decided to make a video about it so I could reach out to the company to get my stuff for free." That's what is going on here. Period. He made a video, so he could get the shit he wanted for free. Period.
Damn just saw this. Been looking for a while to automate my curtains and this seems really solid. Dropped 400 euro on their website during their current sale. Time to get fully automated! Thanks Felix!
Nicely done, but in stead of using the switches on your wall, you now have to use multiple remotes and multiple apps, because you choose different providers (Hue, Ikea, Switchbot, Google) which doesn't really make this appartment that "smart" to me. You made your appartment like people had they TV corner in the old days, a remote for the TV, a remote for the DVD player and a remote for the surround sound set. Not that it's something you can help or anything. There's just not 1 (cheap) provider which does it all yet. so there is no choice, but to me personally, until there is 1 provider which provides me all of these options, I don't mind pushing the power button on my PC or opening my curtains remotely. I use Hue for my lamps and that's about it for now.
ahah best part.. making google self-destruc by turning itself off. i bet at some point it will refuse to do it. but best video on the the google system. it shows clearly that with google you can control all the other smart home systems and eventually dont have to worry about compatibility or which is the best. just get anything that u like and it will work with google home. thats perfect since I was interested in the ikea symfonisk lamps. and the switchbot devices are really getting the last stubborn non smart old tech subdued . perfect video. thanks Felix
Nice video helps me alot. With the routine when everything turns off, are you using the WiFi extension wire or do you have a smart plug or switch bot connect to the main wall plug
Great video! Gonna steal the idea on switchbot pushers to turn on my pc.. Currently have a bot for my lights and never actually thought about automating my pc. First world problems huh.. oops 😂😂
Great Felix, I'm surprised how much you can do with switches, also attaching it to older hardware. Thank you for this update, I might watch it soon again.
Wait a minute I‘ve just found your RU-vid Channel and you‘ve also named Felix and I‘m also wearing a Scotch and soda hoodie in this moment. So my question is, where can I buy this blue hoodie? 😅 Btw: great Video👍🏼
@@felixkruip It really depends on how much time you want to invest and how much controll you would like to have. Smartthings: Is cloudbased - access from anywhere but slow/ not as secure; works with a lot of different devices; big company so probably around for a while; easy to use -> tl;dr sleek, easy, think apple Home automation: Is local, but cloud integration exists (Pay or a lot of work)- local stuff works even when the Wifi is down fast/secure; works with a lot, for some a community solution is needed; you can automat almost everything the way you want to; very difficult to use some coding required, updates can break stuff easily. ->tl;dr customizable, secure, think building and coding your phone Hubitat: Is local with cloud options; some powerful automations exist; not super easy to use some tinkering required for more advanced stuff; ugly-ish user interface ->tl;dr between the other two, think android Thats just a rough breakedown but i hope it helps!
