Alex's Full Smart Home Tour: Automations Galore! 

I bet everybody else's houses in your street dim a little bit when that lot switch on, lol. Great video Alex.

You should really look into Home Assistant! You can consolidate all those devices into a single hardware (and essentially throw away all the hubs) rather than using 4 separate hubs. Not to mention you are now using Philips Bridge and Aqara Hub who are both Zigbee meaning two seperate zigbee networks on top of each other rather putting all into one network which would make a better mesh.

Spoiler alert. It's all lights.

Not sure if the definition of a smart home is a home that can turn on a boat load of lights.

go with home assistant you wouldn't notice internet outages unless you get notified. pairs beautifully with unifi network and protect

Bro i love your house i been watching your videos for at least 4-5 years now and love all the content you upload. Keep up the great work.

You give me inspiration to design my place man love your style

Not a lot automated tbh other than lights and a few blinds. Home Assistant blows this to bits.

Good to see another video from you

You could get rid of most of those hubs using Home Assistant and a Raspberry Pi or similar. It would give you much better scope for really fancy automations, and it would tie in all your current and future platforms, all locally and no cloud if you choose to do so.

The state of your network rack gives me nightmares!… I live just down the road from you and am a professional AV & Smarthome installer…. I’d literally tidy that thing up for you free of charge and expect nothing in return just so I can sleep better at night!

Anyone else notice the UniFi G3 Instant security camera pointing directly at the sofa in the lounge at 5:22? 😬

Great tour!

Alex, love the vids!! Would love to see how you manage all of the smart stuff on the network! Thanks for the content!

Fantastic to hear how your smart home is getting on!

It seems the concept of smart home is understood as a whole shit of light here

@4:28 your downlight wants pushing back in to the ceiling

Just a general criticism of tech you-tubers. It's not difficult to mute the audio for a second when calling Siri or Alexa or Google. Save viewers having to stop their assistant from doing something.

Great video! I was kind of hoping for links to all your smart home gear as well.

Check out Home Assistant, but don't run it on a Pi, run it on a real computer. I think you'd quite enjoy the ability to integrate everything into one hub capable of powerful complex automations as well as the ability to expose any of the devices out into an Apple Home for Siri control.

I'm honestly shocked you have this much smart home gear and are not using Home Assistant! Also a couple of the issues you are facing like not being able to control the exact position of the blinds without the remote can be solved using HA. More over you can also condense all your Zigbee hubs down to a single stick plugged into a HA server. And it also means you wouldn't need to use routines to check if other lights are on or off to activate. Much more reliable that way.

Hey I would love a video showcasing how you hid the wires on all your light strips and your wall art. Thanks

Alex you can configure your Hue remotes in HomeKit to do different scenes. So you can have all 4 buttons doing different scenes without it needing a routine/automation to decide what to do. Like your living room play bars turning the other stuff on. You can set what each button on the Hue dimmer does in the HomeKit app. For example, I’ve got mine so when I press lights off button on dimmer my blinds close, my heating turns off, the lights turn off, all Apple TV’s turn off and my house alarm activates for night mode. I think it gives more customisation options so you can change lights without it making others go on or off. 👍🏼

I have just stumbled onto this channel today and it is already one of my favorite tech channels! I love all the WISP videos. I would love to do this. Keep it up Alex!

I hope you don't take offense to all the haters to much, keep it up be happy with what you like ;)

sick setup i wonder how long it took you to figure everything out

Great video - you mentioned that on your Somfy blinds that you can only do the “my” custom mode from the remote but what I do is set a scene for the “my” button. As I have night and day blinds so I need open, closed and custom. Works well.

The OCD in me would configure your hue switches in HomeKit instead of having your hue config + HomeKit automation. The reason being there is currently a delay between your hue device turning on and your other devices turning on. Having all the lights just set to turn on when the switch is pressed through HomeKit would get rid of that delay as everything would activate at the same time. The downsides to this would be you would need to rely on HomeKit to do the processing which is less stable and has more downtime than the hue hub imo, but you could also configure the switch in both hue and HomeKit so your hue devices turn on with the hue app config and the other devices turn on with the HomeKit config. This would still reduce the delay between all the lights turning on and also provide at least your hue devices the extra reliance of having your hue hub do the processing so you at least have some sort of light available if HomeKit decides to fall over.

safety glasses on, always prepared

This house inspires me. Got my bathroom listening experience after getting inspiration from this channel. Now onto the lighting

random person: oh nice lights, where'd you get them? me:

Crazy to see how far you’ve come. Watched you since your minecraft days

For Somfy you can program the My position to have a third position other than up and down (for like halfway). You can activate the My position from Google Assistant. I did it at my old place that had Somfy.

nice tour fellow Alex! for somfy you can consider getting the bond hub to give you more control

Alex, you were triggering my siri devices when u would give yours a command. HAHAHAHA

It’s so crazy that there’s pretty much a smart device for anything you can think of in a standard home. You buy a house for a lot of money, then you spend a whole lot more money to make all your stuff automatic

Hi Alex, love how you have full control of your home. Has given me all the info I need to finish doing my home. Now how about getting my power unit that I won last month in your office giveaway.Colin

Thinking about forgetting how all the lights are setup and debugging it gives me so much anxiety

did u record with a potato?

Alex for the somfy blinds to rise up by 15% or something like that you need to change the moter and the remote. Your current setup of the blinds is using a wireless moter called sonness RTS. it can only go up, down , and a favorite position that you can set up. for correct moter that will give you the ability to rise it up by % its the sonness IO. if you change them to IO then you need to change the remotes as well because there using different technologies.

I use RGB LEDs from Energizer in my server rack. They were $15 USD each and work very well.

It connects to wifi. via wifi ;)

Does Alex have a doorbell camera? Currently have a ring but it’s so annoying doesn’t work with HomeKit.

Amazing to see well done i like all the inside work & outside excellent.

Love the video, I added it to my smart home tour playlist

just use home assistant and you dont need any hubs

I would love a somfy review on how it works.

I'm guessing things are connected to his wifi...via wifi then? 😁

If only I had the money and ability to do all this

Thanks for talking to my Siri too 👀

love the curtains hanging on clamps

How did you connect SwitchBot to HomeKit? I didn't think they supported it.

You should have a bunch of links (affiliate of course) for all this stuff. Especially interested in the festival lights you've got outside. Been trying to get something like them for a while, but can't seem to find the right set.

No way this only has 12 comments lol. Can’t wait to watch when I get to my Dad’s

Love the new intro and dope smart home

hey bro we just want to say we missed u😜

Awesome!

Very nice setup. I made an home automation system built on top of OpenHAB 3 on raspberry and some sonoff (flashed with tasmota firmware) and esp8266 device. It's simpler than your but it works :) I never made a video tour just like your...maybe it's an idea for the next video on my channel. Thanks for showing

Unpopular Opinion: When I see RGB lights setup in every light socket of a house I can't help but feel like the owners of the house went out with some friends for the night and their 12-13-year-old kids invited friends over while they were gone and made blanket forts and changed the lights to RGB to look "cool" and match the blanket fort vibe. I've never understood how a grown adult can change their living room lights to purple, pink, and blue and think that's what the living room has been missing all along. RGB is only impressive to people young enough to still be in school and any anytime I see someone with RGB everywhere, I instantly think they must still be in high school or at the latest still an undergrad, and it all happens subconsciously without me realizing.

HOME ASSISTANT!!!

In terms of brightness, are the LIFX LED strips the brightest? I've got some 3rd party strips in my home, but they're not too bright when set to their max.

Do you have a link to the smart button on your nightstand?

What do you find breaks the most? I always seem to have a least a couple smart devices down at any one time

Where did you get the blinds from, I can’t find those style blinds powered by Somfy? Thanks

Cool, you turned lights on and off. My home assistant makes this look like cave man shit.

I have a smart home. I use 5 hubs that I have to daisy chain together to make them work and will refuse to operate when the internet is out. Also my blinds can only have 2 states and i can push the button of my garage door from anywere in the world, although i don't know if i am opening or closing it.

the guy dint blink.

Your have beautiful plants!

i will have to say it's been awhile since I have watched your vids.. kinda glad i tuned in this time I like how you have changed things around for your media room and kitchen.. look so much better than what you have done before.. although i do all these animations my self along with a few others you haven't mentioned but I am sure you are aware of them. for daily tasks that require nothing more than your existence in your home. But have you thought about doing a scheduled shower/ timer turn on and off at a certain time? or at certain times of day that is turns on then timer off? it is one thing i would do if i was in my own home. and I am curious why you do not use Alexa since it's app can do IFTTT type of format now. far exceeds what Google can do

If it wasn't for blinds it would be curtains for all of us.

Questions. Are your garden string lights smart or running off a smart plug? If so which ones, and do you not find that the bathrooms the lights turn off all the time because they don’t sense movement when your in the bath ect?

more of networking videos please!

It's all lights. Lol

electric bill over 5 million

If I am using motion sensor linked with light, and the wall switch was off, is there any way to make the light turn on based on the motion?

Alex, the Aqara Sensor or the Hue Smart Sensor, which one is more responsive for your smart home?

That’s a very nice looking turntable, who makes it?

Home assistant bro. Let me say that again. Home assistant.

I love the Philips hue! but Alex, You are not using them properly… I don’t know how big of a kino fan are you BUT with the Philips hue sync box and Philips hue app for pc/Mac, You can synchronize audio or video and get an insane immersive ambient experience, I would recommend trying that.

Alex's electricity bill:📈📈📈📈📈📈

You program your lights to come on during the day so you can see...have you heard of daylight?

Hi Alex, i have a Philips hue motion sensor, and it seems to register motion sometimes eventho no motion is

I wanna be like You, Like Actually A Wisp. i've been wanting to already, and i'm 11 years old and like networking videos.

How many remote control do you have?

I like your smart blind. It is not roller blind. Where to buy this type of blind as I am building my smart house as well.

Pretty cool setup!

Shame there isn't an automation to change the toilet roll ;) :D (@11:10)

Hi Alex, what other GU10 bulbs work with the Aqara motion sensor?

I would love to live next or near this dude. just to mess with all that shit

So you living in a cell with 24/7 constant monitoring and recording?

Put your toilet paper on the roll mate.

Hey Alex have you tried out Control 4???

Hi mate..where did you get your bed from please ..thanks

Deirdre Barlow wants her glasses back

Great video!

Fancy stuff, how secure is it from being hacked into?

Sick!

Of course you can have all this if paying your bill is not an issue

What are the small buttons by the bed?

where did u get that beehive cabinet?