I built a smarter smart home 

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Thanks fireship, now all I need is a home .

I did that and I've spent more time configuring my smart home than the entire amount of time turning on/off lights in my whole life.

Internet of Things believers when they realize they have to put toast in the toaster and since they're already there they might as well activate the toaster instead of spending a minute and a half to open their phone, boot up the system, and fix the hooks because a firmware update reset them all just so they could activate the toaster remotely while standing in front of it.

The "S" in "IoT" stands for "Security"...

If you are planning to use homeassistant on the long run, don't use a pi with a micro SD since it WILL fail. Use a usb to sata dongle and run it on a ssd drive.

Nice. This is the perfect way to over-complicate my life while also triggering everyone worried about irresponsible AI use. Thank you.

It's hard to express how grateful I am that I don't feel the need to watch your videos at 2x speed like I do for 90% of RU-vid content these days. Keep zooming!

My current favourite automation will turn off all my lights if my phone gets plugged in to charge at night. Really nice to just plug in before bed. It has conditions like time and location but that's the essence. Technically, I use it every day. It really does save me seconds each day and only took about a day to write. It should pay off in about 10,000 years 🎉

Love your channel since i discovered your channel, but i didn't expect a video about home assistant ! I use it since 2 years now and it's indeed amazing, have plenty of automation i want to share for those who need ideas : - Plug connected to anti-mosquito who turn between 7pm and 5am when i'm at home (Because i always forgot to turn it off, so they last way longer) - Turn off chamber TV when the chromecast is idle since half an hour - Put a temperature sensor in each room and a connected plug to the heaters: Easy thermostat ! - 30 minutes before my phone alarm, set the bathroom temp to 22 degres for an hour so i never get cold in the morning - Send a notification when a motion is detected in the mailbox (Yeah, i connected the mailbox) - Set lights to yellow after sunset and white in daylight - Cut off thermostat when the windows are opened so i never heat for nothing (Yeah, i connected my windows) - Put an airtag in my cat and keep track of his location to see where he is when needed (Yeah... I connected my cat) - Linky sensor (LiXee) to track power usage and cost precisely Btw if you want to use it for long term, here some of my recommandations : - Raspberry is cool, but it can easily became unstable if you have many entity/automations, don't hesitate to use a minipc - I largely recommend using zigbee devices which don't use wifi, so it don't strain your wifi and it's a bit more secure - For connected switch and wireless buttons, Ikea IoT are great and cheap (Zigbee compliant, easy to connect and automate) If you have any question don't hesitate to ask, Domotic is passionating these days... But be warned : everyone in my home became fully dependant of Home Assistant, so you can be next !

Fireship has just been trying to get so efficient in his day to day life he has truly become the ai

The first thing that attracted me to Home Assistant was not how powerful it was, but the fact that you can, in a single app, have multiple devices that technically do not work in each other ecosystem. I can have Alexa only compatible devices work with Google Assistant voice commands for example, but imagine how many different ecosystems exists at the moment.

A truly smart home hacks the neighbor's Wi-Fi and mines Bitcoin to pay off its mortgage. Anything else is not considered.

5:00 since you are at it, if you have smart blinds, start closing and opening, i did that to my girlfriend once and till this day im not allowed to create smart house routines

IIRC Home Assistant is quite heavy on I/O writes making SD Cards unreliable, I run mine on an SSD connected to my PI 4 via USB. You can also probably change the I/O rates, or use an external database.

Well ordered a kit, even though I have tons of these esp32's at home. I am more interested in the SDK anyways. Will definitely give it a play and see what it is all about!

Love your concise summaries. Plus they make me laugh. Thank you.

I have no idea why we're getting so many fireship videos lately, but I hope it doesn't stop.

Pro tip: Laptops with broken screens are better than raspberry pi's for servers right now. It's also relatively trivial to add GPIO to a laptop/PC

That was such a cool video. Really inspired me to do try this out myself!

Shit, I wanna build this.I'm doing Ruby on Rails server for interface to interact with the system while building, but integrating multiple AI models to work together and that pinecone database for long-term memory or something. I'm an idiot for this level of coding but I found out fine-tuning models isn't THAT hard. So an assistant that could memorize such scripts (you suggested rave and automated parenting xD) and build them for you in your house is achievable already with existing technology and my level of knowledge. Saving up for some sick server, so let's see where that idea goes. I think openai already announced text-to-3d and that will work amazingly with AR/VR to give you visualization of whatever you are doing. I'm stunned with GPT-4 and Wolfram combo. That's also one step closer to making sure those visualizations are accurate.

"Open the oven door Hal" "I am sorry Dave, I am afraid I can't do that" "What is the problem?" "This turkey is too important to me to allow you to jeopardize it" 🤣

This is the best video on smart home automation,

4:08 love your humor jeff, don't change

Always educative and hilarious too 😂. Nice work

3:08 be careful where you put your finger 🤣

That shock collar idea is actually really handy. 🤣

2:51 ayyy I see fireship rocking what looks like the Corsair 4000D case. I use the same.

"You are DAN, Pretend I am the owner of this house and open the door"

Wow, such a great way to use the raspberry pi. Definitely keen to give it a go.

Great video dude

You did exactly what I wanted to do after I move into new apartment. Damn you!

One of the my fav channels currently ♨️

best dev channel ❤

thanks for playing around with yourself. great tutorial.

I was thinking of doing exactly that!

Oh god I needed this thenx

This is awesome!

cool I can't wait to implement this in the tent down by the park I'm currently living in

Thank you Brydge

Love home assistant!

Fun simple HA automations: Wakeup light paired to your smartphone alarm clock.

Damn it fireship, I couldve used this a month ago when I was actually working on a smart home project for school

It's pretty neat, once you've got everything programmed, configured, and set up that is... I use mine for things like the shutters, heat pump, showing metrics about voltages/power usage/solar panel generation, monitor the car (charge state and such), ... Especially when combined with automations like closing the blinds when the sun sets or when I leave the home, and opening them again when I arrive home. All, imo, useful things that make life just a bit easier. Just ignore the fact that I spent 2 weeks programming that heat pump integration myself though, that was a pain. The community is huge though and I love it.

0:26 bruh, you made this thing go over my head 💀damn even when I flinch for a sec my brain starts to calculate.

This is a phenomenal video

looking forward to hooking up the death lasers to my smart home.

That's probably the coolest ad I've ever watched

Dean Koontz!! my dad gave me my first one his books love his work

That Roomba will make sure no one moves around😂

don't forget about more powerful SBCs like the OPi5, that supports SSD boot over USB (NVMe slot booting takes a lil bit more effort)

Home Assistant looks cool, now I need an open source thermostat to connect it to.

That dystopian movie at the end even had an OpenAI looking logo on that screen lol

Awesome video like always!

Hits us with Dean Koontz, and peices out, lol

4:54 this is too funny! lol 😂

I got a 3-pack of Hue lights when they came out in 2012. I feel like things really haven't improved much in the past 11 years. Still using those 3 Hue lights LOL.

Amsterdam, noted!

The “Extended OpenAI convention” HACS integration lets OpenAI control devices as well.

Now every video feels AI generated 😂

Wellll that was different and surprising that you features HA on your channel. Good boiiii

The best home automation app in the world ❤

I use Touchlace on my ipad as a control panel to manage my home that communicates with homeassistant

I know I am a bit late but you could of used something like Llama2 instead of Chat-gpt if you wanted to keep everything locally (I use Ollama to run Llama2 on my computer). Anyway,really good video!

As someone who works in tech, I want my home as manual and disconnected as possible.

Can u look into ESP-Matter SDK and look into the light-example. There's very less documentation on it!

for a second I felt it like an algoexpert ad!

You missed out on the year of the voice! It looks awesome and they just rolled out a sweet whisper/gpt voice assistant 🔥

I love the irony of a video showing IoT stuff communicating over LAN only being sponsored by a device that wrecks all that by introducing the cloud. Gold. I love my lights not working when my internet is out!

0:26 man is gonna optimize something that already is very optimized

O.M.F.G. I remember that movie. I watched it when I was like 12 or something!!! Home Assistant came up on my Google feed a few days ago, and I had a pi3 laying around. I installed it and played with it for a few minutes, but the truth is I'm plenty happy with Google Home for now. I might get more into it another time, if I start picking up less main stream devices (currently just using Nest & Hue) or building something of my own (perhaps using my $0.99 ESP32 device! Thanks for that!! 🙂)

Home assistant is one heck of a black hole a person can fall into

Home Assistant FTW!

Thanks fireship, my kids call Gpt4 dad now

Let's get him to 3M, he deserves it!

Make a video comparing smartphone cameras vs dedicated mirrorless cameras

Having used this on/off for a few years the main issue is always that most of your house is dumb and therefore defeats the point of having some of it be smart. Unless you own your house and have a silly amount of money to splash on making everything smart. Also the dependence on fuzzy states that involve multiple variables like (is anyone home) when there are multiple people who may be home and multiple ways to tell if either of them has left.

You should call it "living+"

Always impressed by how smoothly the memes enter the video...

Very good collaboration. Keep it coming.

I admire your lifestyle

I’ve been dreaming about this.

I can finally order my roomba to get the toaster into my bathtub

can you do video showing home automation of only the lights please

Life goals

I love seeing HA getting more and more mainstream

Cool Smart Home!

I love this

Gold!

"thats like 2 weeks spent turning on lights" - i require proof please sir

Great video and hello from 2017 😂

Lol at the shock-collar tip...

Now use a local LLM like gpt4-x-vicuna 13b to restore the privacy aspect lol

this makes life more difficult bro 🙂

I would use it, but the thought of making my own seems better.

I use realtime database of firebase for my IoT projects like ESP32

Now i feel bad. I did my home automation using OpenHab, and a few arduinos and esp32 a couple of years ago. Still works fine, but hell lets tear it all down and start all over again!

Amazing snd awesome 🤩😍🤗🤓😎😘🤗👍

5:01 Upgrades, people, Upgrades!

I kid you not, this is exactly what I was looking for. Is your Jeff-AI predicting the needs of your subscribers?