10 Underrated Smart Home Gadgets That Changed My Life!
Welcome to the ultimate Home Assistant setup for my Smart Home, chez Matheson! In this tour of my smart home, I share 10 ways I’ve optimised my house to save our family time and money.
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Chapters:
00:00 My Smart Home Journey
00:27 Smart Vacuum Cleaner
01:19 Smart Lawn Mower
02:27 Keyless Life
03:37 Smart Plugs
04:13 Smart Heating
05:15 Apple TV & Ring Security
06:09 Motion Sensors & Lights
07:19 Home Assistant Software
08:29 Get Cheaper Electricity!
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My name is Pete and from 2011, I started and grew an IT Support and Services Company from £0 to over £1m in turnover before selling the business in 2020. New video’s every Wednesday and Saturday! I upload vlogs, tech reviews, how-to / behind the scenes technology videos.
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–SMPOST–Is this the ultimate smart home? Welcome to Chez Matheson!
Dannng, this video actually convinced me to stay with my iPhone 😬
Seems like theres so many quirks still with the Android experience.
Home assistant? Is that skynett 🤷
is there a subscription fee with home assistant?
Great Review Pete!! I too have Conexis L1 but I haven’t been able to connect to HA. I always get errors. Did you have any sort of issue when integrating?
What smart gadgets do YOU use in your home?
Down vote for saying the Axela word outloud😢😅 jk
I use chromecasts even on smart tv’s, let me turn on/off remotely.
Tesla Battery & Solar!!! ooooo i dream of that life
Great video like always
I would be extremeply interested in a video showing your entire dashboard of Home Assistant and all the custom cards and colors and icons. How did you create it? IS there such video have or CAN you make, *please* !!
Wait, in the UK the government tells you what door locks you can use? What’s the logic behind that? Shouldn’t that be up to the individual to decide how they want to secure their home???
Back on the G9 I see? What happened to the OLED G8? I’ve moved to C2 42, it’s great. 👍🏼
Hey there. How have you set your ring doorbell to work with home kit please.
Thanks for the video! May I ask about your watch? It doesn’t look like a Fitbit or an Apple watch.
Great video. How do you get a live feed of your ring doorbell when someone presses it?
3:51 What app is that?? I’ve been looking for something like that for a looooong time now.
What happens to smart home in the event of a power cut? Is there a manual override on most of these?
I love Google nest hub max a matter 1.0 device
What made you choose Roomba over Roborock, or any other brand/model?
Is HA better on the Pi or NAS? Does the Tado work with the Nest?
Hey there. How have you got your ring doorbell to work with HomeKit please.
Home Assistant and their hardware require geek skills. Compared to "Brand Name" products, the overall cost is a few times cheaper than the very flexible Home Assistant.
It might be easier & better to upgrade the Brand Name, every few years. Not yet decided for myself. Perhaps my no-name brand name might end up as open-source Zigbee, with its many hardware choices of low cost, continually being improved.
Run the robot vacuum then do with regular one. I bet robot one only does on top of carpet
Never understood smart plugs to turn off item as technically you need to leave them turned on so there’s still power going to the plug your using to turn off items. I just turn everything off on a plug job done
Great vid as always mate. You mentioned about the UK regs for smart locks. do you have a link to that
When you talk about smart plugs, you should also mention how much energy the plug itself use so they people can compare of it’s efficient than other plugs
You mentioned your garage door opener, what do you use ?
Smart plugs ftw. Kids leaving stuff on all the time. We used one for the xmas lights this past xmas and was a game changer.
i use a yale nfc sticker on the back of my phone in case my battery dies, for my conexis l1
Hi there I have a quick question,(I do use the same garage door opener and samsung phone)how did you create a button on your phone(next to the wifi button on the top slider) to open the garage 3:12 can you please help? I never saw such a thing seems awsome! (also can someone tell me what those top slider buttons called?) Thanks in advance