Most of the time, automations in our Smart Home require hugely complex or expensive set ups just to achieve said automations. So, in today’s video, I give you 8 simple automations that anyone can do – even if you’re just getting started with your Smart Home!
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0:00 – Intro
0:23 – Washing Machine Notifications
2:03 – Shopping Lists
2:58 – Morning wake up lights
4:11 – Daily morning announcements
5:27 – Sandman Alexa Clocks Sponsor
7:01 – Door/Window open notifications
7:56 – Flashing Lights when someone comes home
8:56 – Sleeping computers
10:02 – Bin day notifications
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What are your favourite simple automations? Let me know, I don't want to miss out! 😆👇
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What light strips are those flashing behind your monitor? Or any similar with loads of configuration options in HA. Thanks!
Wait till you get married you wont be needing that daily! lol
how do you set up the persistent notifications for the washer being done?
8:26 "Horror game" 😉
How do you access HA outside your house?
This is all well and good but why do i need a home assistant automation to put my computer to sleep when I'm not using it? That's built into Windows already.
Really helpful videos, cheers from Portugal! 🙂
I made some automations for my use. The first automation is when my computer starts (can use home assistant to start the computer via wake on lan) my monitors turns on. My monitors a connected to a smartplug. I use a smartplug from ikea. Then i have some automations with nfc tags.
9:45 Linux exists too.
Kircadian? I have never heard the first c in circadian pronounced with a hard k sound.
Hello, I am trying to set up my dishwasher according to the instructions you did on your washing machine. I am having some difficulties. When the automation runs, the status goes as off, running, off. It looks like it is not triggering the waiting period. In my case, the dishwasher is always at 1.2 W in the off state. When it starts, there is no waiting, it is pulling straight up to 40ish W. After approximately 2 hours, there is 10 minute drop to 2.8 ish W. Then it starts back up. At the end, the drying period is approximately 1 hour 20 minutes with 8.5 watts, then it drops back down to 1.2 again in off state. I am struggling with how to set the thresholds for each state and for how long especially because of that drop in the middle. It would be really helpful to get your guidance on this.
A power monitor for my laundry was my very first automation. Sadly the gas dryer still managed to trip the load protection on the plug when I turned it on, even though the normal load was 7A, so it was annoying to have to press start multiple times. Unfortunately load protection was the one protection I couldn't disable.
Where do you even find smart plugs that monitor energy? I haven't been able to figure out what you're using.
Awesome vid!
Do you have a github or similar with these automations noted down?
Thanks!
Bin collection: I did one of these in WebCore. It voice-alerted me the evening before, and then again the morning of, each collection. We have a weekly recycling day that’s different from rubbish day that’s different from yard waste day, so it knew those. In addition it knew the local holidays that are observed by the collection company, so those auto-broadcast alerts would not occur if the collection day is instead a holiday! I’m rebuilding it, slowly.
2:03: my washer and dryer alert the household when their cycles are complete, with both alerts requesting the dryer lint screen be cleared. My dishwasher does not alert when the cycle is complete, but it DOES announce “the dishes in the dishwasher are clean” the first time the machine is opened after a wash cycle. This (hopefully) prevents someone from putting dirty dishes in with a clean load. That is accomplished via a strategically positioned contact sensor plus a small but strong neodymium magnet.
The computer sleep automation is brilliant. If only Microsoft could build some sort of power management features into the operating system that would turn your display off, or put your PC to sleep without the need to use sensors an external server and Home Assistant….
Why does your “create automation” screen look so different than mine? I have a very basic view not all these awesome options.
What’s application do you use on phone? You show it when talk about computer sleep automation
Dairy Liquid? Surely its called milk? 🙂
What smart plugs with power consumption measuring can you recommend?
What voice is that on your smart speaker in the first automation?
Did you ever mange to get your morning routine to tell your upcomming calendar events for the day?
so i setup my shopping automation like yours and when i get to the store, i get the notification on my ohone but when i click it, i get 404 not found black screen. i have external access and can access HA when i am away from home
I've just got into home automation in the past 2 weeks to automate my grow tent in time to start of my peppers and tomatoes later this month. It's now crept outside the grow tent a little.
Suggestion 1 – just done it, with a power plug and door monitor so that it nags until you open the door. Due to do the tumble dryer later on.
Suggestion 2 – making a shopping list using NFC tags which will be in the relevant cupboards so that when I go in and notice that I'm almost out of teabags I can just tap my phone on it and it will add it to my shopping list. Nice idea about the Geo-location, I might have to borrow that idea. It's a pity that you can only have one shopping list though, as I would prefer to split things to different lists for different shops.
Suggestion 3 – just got a smart bulb that uses the Smart Life app and this has the circadian rhythm built into it so I'm trying that hoping that it will help me get to sleep as well as wake up.
Suggestion 7 – I'm thinking about how to get my computer to shut down and want to get a way that will work with linux as well as windows. Not sure how to do this as if I've left it to render then I don't want it to shut down half way through.
Any advice on using a raspberry pie and Amazon Alexas?
hi could you maybe do a tutorial on how you set up your "wake up light alarm" ? or just a short explanation on how you set it up ? i would really appreciate it.
i have tried to use a blueprint created by Sbyx, but i cant get it to work right
Only to let you know when you’re “editing” is that what you call it now!
How many cookies have you collected? 🤔
How is that notifcation thing working. Im trying to implement the exact same thing with my vaccum. If i dont respont to the push it will start
how do you add a shoppinglist notification based on location
great video!
This has been incredibly helpful, especially the shopping list and the Washing Machine notifications!
Just to say that for the washing machine notifications although the notification "persistent: true" means it can't be swiped off, clicking on it will take you to the Home Assitant page and clear the notification from your phone. I couldn't find a way to stop this happening except I found was if you also set "sticky: true" it means it doesn't disappear even if clicked until you hit the "It's done" option, so mine reads as –
persistent: true
sticky: true
tag: washing
actions:
– action: MACHINE_EMPTIED
title: It's done
Hope that helps