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Home Automation looks great, however this is like the icing on the cake. Seems like few address the foundational back bone network. I've tried 3 devices now on HA and the 3 devices have failed. Standard network would be an ISP, router and I think a HA bridge? I use a 1. bridged ISP router to the 2. Desktop computer (mini-pc tech is ready now, like RaPi5 for desktop use if you're not a gamer) with a 3. hypervisor (Qemu/KVM) running virtual machine (VM) 4.1. Home Assistant and VM 4.2. router pfSense.

10:00 is hilarious lmao

How does it connect to the plumbing though

Thank you for the part that mentioned travel mode. My buddy bought this to catch whom ever is vandalizing his vehichle and does not have wifi. Very informative, and in depth

Great video Reed. It’s always great to see the blitz of a variety of products.

This is for lazy people 😂

Great video subbed 👍

Question will probably not get answered however what's your preference for a Zigbee Dongle and what software are your running on the Zigbee Dongle?

How often does it brake??

I thought you'd close the video with Aly rating her fav Smart Home Guy at the end... On Aly's 5/10 review of the Kasa Dimmers, it was smart of you to dub in your "..sounds like user error, ignore her."...that was a post-production add right?!

Hey, would you like to do a WAAY Door product review?

Amazing work Dan & Reed!!! Is there a model (customizable) available on home assistant shop?

Can you use Kasa Smart light switch with regular bulbs without it being “smart” or connected to the wifi. Only asking bc I accidentally bought the wrong switch but can’t return it, but I only have regular bulbs and the installer is already scheduled

Here I am loving the crap out of my 5th gen then find this vid.. dang. May move my 5th gen to the living room and get a 4th gen bigger speaker for my home office setup 😅

Will it call 911 in an emergency?

Everything is phillips hue EXCEPT the washing machine. A project for the future maybe?

Awesome video- what tablet are you using for Home Assistant? Looked like an Ipad

I want to do this....but in my SKOOLIE RV! There must be a way to have a 24/7 network and 12v 😢!

Is there any dongle, I can connect via Aux, that I can play Music via AirPlay on the echo dot?

Ecobee Couldn't get my air conditioning or heater to work I returned it and grabbed the Google thermostat and today it is working great

The host seems very fake. I would have enjoyed this alot more if he was just himself

Hey reed!! Have you heard about Google home deleting integrations and refusing to reconnect? I’m trying to troubleshoot this now, I have about 30 devices on my local smarthome instance that have been kicked out of Google home for no reason. My roborock vacuum was also kicked and I can’t even add it back!

Great video. I really enjoy the cuts to your wife's reason for rating something differently. My 10/10 is definitely my robot vacuum. It just works so well and helps me keep a cleaner home with less work.

Use a switch to disable automation = use a switch to turn on/off the lights. 21st century technology turning into 19th century technology lol. Just joking...but not lying...too much automation, trying to live by an algorithm makes us remember we are not meant to be programmed, nor our actions.

Alexa gets 2 out of 10 for me. It keeps losing features and the ads make it even worse. I dont appreciate a loud commercial while trying to put my toddler to sleep when i ask it to play white noise. Sometimes i tell it to stop playing music and it responds with "that command doesn nit work qith this stream". It also a MASSIVE PAIN when i have toddlers asking for specific songs and it doesnt play that specific song.

lutron caseta is my 10/10. we have these on many of our lights as well as the bedroom fan and they're pretty handy to control from wall switches or voice with google assistant. i've even added some of the pico remotes to easily put a wall switch next to the vanity for example so i can turn that light on from in front of the sink without the noise of talking to google about it when i'm up for work before my wife. the one i use next most is probably the garage door which is a genie with the smartness built in. i get notifications on my phone when the garage door opens or closes, so i dismiss the closed ones and check on it if the open stays active too long without being replaced with a closed notification. sometimes it misses the closed notification, so i either go look or if i'm not home i check the driveway camera to verify it's actually closed. it won't let me open or close with voice for security reasons and insists on beeping and flashing the light for 5 seconds before opening or closing from the app so i mostly just use the open/close notifications from it . . . which honestly i could get from a window/door sensor. my most disappointing smart device has been the kitchen faucet from kohler. while we use the motion sensor to turn it on and off and love that, we had hoped the kids would be able to voice control it when they were too short to reach the sensor but the voice control has been spotty at best, leading me to create a phrase that would turn it on for X seconds because it often wouldn't respond to a second command to turn it off. it only worked at all for a few months until neither voice control or the app will do anything at all besides tell me the faucet is offline. haven't really tried it in possibly a year or so though, so maybe it's better now. also maybe they put all their effort into ios and don't care if their android app works properly. the other frustrating smart devices have been shades with somfy motors that communicate through an ezlo 100 dongle. we didn't put these in bedrooms but the living room, kitchen, and stairs are on a schedule to more or less open in the morning and close at night so we don't touch them. when it works. it frequently loses its wifi connection (can still follow the schedule without) and doesn't integrate with home assistant. plus the app has been buggy like forgetting part of the routine if i make an edit and originally having inaccurate sunrise / sunset timing. pretty sure they're z-wave and i could swap something in for the dongle that's better supported (maybe something that can plug in with ethernet) and use a different app with a better experience but i'm having trouble finding the information i need to know what's going to work before buying something and trying it out. would love to put them with the lutron smart dimmers but failed to pair there and then found a post saying the lutron bridge doesn't do z-wave

but how do you do the coding and developing this nfc?

Love your work Reed! If not in the works, would you be able to do an updated video comparison on current LED light strips? I’m interested in the Kasa KL430 but looks like they are now discontinued. I’m interested in one with a dedicated white diode to get the best out of both warm/daylight temperatures.

how often does he have to replace batteries or recharge things?

Hmm, I have constant issues with Ring disconnecting from Home Assistant. Also, spending 2 hours debugging things in Home Assistant *probably* isn't home assistant's fault (although I did have my HA botch an OS update and that took several hours to repair).

What power outlet strip is that? I could use one. Thanks!

I have the 2019 model. Controls central heating, IR heating, air filter, ventilation (windows) lights, home theater, energy, etc. Pretty complex flows made, all works perfectly. Even if a sensor doesn't work, you can just program a plan b.

Now I have a reason to buy only rgb smartlights😅

So you cant afford Caseta ( their consumer lower end product compared to premium RA3) but you can afford to spend 120K+ on solar + plus a tesla?

Hunter Hydrawise irrigation control 10/10 Lutron RadioRa2 9/10 Lutron Caseta 9/10. (For different reasons 😊) Lutron shades 10/10 Ecobee 10/10 Yale Smart Locks 7/10 (new models will not allow me to use my Zigbee modules, had to add Zwave to my system just for the locks) Hubitat C8 9/10 Elk M1 Gold 10/10 Broadlink IR/RF hub 10/10 Amazon Echo 4 to 8/10 depending on what I want to do with them. Newer models start to get lower ratings for things like white power cords with black devices, poor Zigbee hubs, loss of the 3.5mm output, ads on Show devices...I use them mostly for radio listening and announcements - dedicated whole home audio system pending for music. Wiim Pro Plus 10/10 Husqvarna Robot mower...pending

Wow!

For those people with overblown privacy fears, no one really cares about most of you.

A few issues I have. Gloss black surface on the top? Going to look bad with fingerprints from curious kids, dust, and scratches. The circle shape of the robot is so inconvenient. A square shape would be far better for packaging and bigger mop vibrating surfaces and reaching corners without complicated extending brushes. The camera facing out while parked is a bit of a privacy issue since the S7 MVU parked camera in on the dock. Lastly, the detergent needs to allow use of most third party floor cleaners. The roborock solution is not a very good cleaner. Make the hardware able to survive properly diluted floor cleaning solutions.

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It must be a thing where the spouse of UA-camrs have old or inferior phones. Paul Hibbert's wife has old Android while Paul gets a brand new iPhone to connect to all those compatible smart home devices.

too bad the frame tv sucks that much. As your wife said aesthetically is super cool ! thank you for your super helpful review

toast #3 for me

“Move your movie to the side so your not distracted while driving..” Yea we’re f*cking doomed.

Step up your banana split game!!!! Otherwise, love the video!

Use. Google and siri. Alexa

With Samsung, you can use any of their Smart TV's released in or after 2022 as a Hub, and that's what I do now, and it works identically to having a hub, except without needing to buy one (I had the TV before deciding to go smart)

Do you have a video on the Ubiquity wifi and know when your device is connected or not

I fully agree, since I installed, Smart switches I no longer have to worry about lights being left on. Certain lights are programmed to go off automatically after so many minutes and I absolutely love it. Especially my Tailwind garage door. I absolutely love that and I highly recommend it.

Not following why you have both ratgdo and Meross?