My Most Futuristic, Advanced Automations EVER!

over the last four months i've been setting up the most advanced futuristic automations i've ever created and up until recently these have only existed in billionaire homes like bill gates or tony stark but with a few hundred dollars worth of hardware and some programming i was able to do it in my own house and what's awesome is that everything in this video should be a lot easier for anyone to use in the near future not just us programming nerds think of this as like a sneak peek into what's possible and let me tell you it's amazing [Music] before we get into all the automations there are two main things you need to know about how these automations work first is something that i've always wanted an echo starting a conversation with me it is nice outside do you want me to open the office window shades yes okay that's right i can be asked if i want something done around my house if i say yes then an automation will run and make it happen if i say no it will skip it that's all great but what if i'm not in the room when the echo is asking a question that's where the second part comes in i'm able to track which room i'm in so the echo closest to me will always be the one that speaks i'm doing this by placing raspberry pi's in different rooms around my house running an application called room assistant this makes it possible to only run automations if i'm in the room since it tracks my phone's bluetooth these two editions open the doors to so many possibilities and the craziest thing is they're the most family-friendly automations i've ever set up because they only run automations for me hey how do you like the new automations oh uh they're actually really nice probably some of your best automations you've set up oh that's great yeah i mean you did set the bar pretty low oh okay at the end of the video i'll explain some of the technical hurdles i faced while setting these up because it was challenging and if you like this video make sure to hit that subscribe button alright let's get into the automations i love blasting music during the day but it's not ideal if my wife is home and she's trying to talk to me apparently communication is good for marriage or something i don't know so when my wife has left the house and her phone is disconnected from the wi-fi the automation starts the echo device in the room that i'm in will ask me if i want to blossom music since i'm the only one home everyone is gone do you want me to blast some music if i say yes it will start playing music in the same room not only that but if i get up and walk to another room the music will automatically switch over and start playing on all the speakers since it knows my phone left the room i love it so much it's like magic and it gets even better when my wife's phone reconnects to the wi-fi because she's arrived home all the music in the entire house stops she's literally never seen this automation run and because of that it's never bothered her i would consider that a spouse approval factor gold medal so i don't know about you but in the morning i don't like to look at the weather high and lows to figure out what to wear it's way too much thinking so i came up with a solution when i walk into the kitchen in the morning good morning automation starts i want to hear what you should wear today yes it tells me what type of clothes i should wear for the day based on the high and low temperature today it will be sunny you should wear some shorts and flip-flops because it will be hot outside tonight wear a light jacket and pants because it will be chilly out this makes it so much easier now my smart home does all my thinking for me now i can use my mind for more important decisions so i share a home office with my wife ally and running automations just for me used to be a challenge but now i can really dial it in when anyone walks into the office the motion sensor turns on the lights if it's really dark in the room that's convenient for everyone but if i sit at my desk my phone connects to a nearby raspberry pi and starts an automation setup just for me the lights change exactly how i like them the fan under my desk turns on if it's a hot day and a dashboard appears for more controls in the room then instead of automatically reading the news it asks me if i want to hear it first because i might be talking to someone and hearing all the news can take a while and this has been a lifesaver because i like this automation and now it never annoys me what's cool is that some of these automations work really well even if i'm not in a room with a raspberry pi for example i have one automation that reminds me to watch a movie at night if all the kids have gone to bed and i haven't turned on the projector yet i might be sitting here wasting time on social media so the echo will ask me if i want to watch a show in the theater room do you want to watch a movie in the theater room right now if i say yes it will turn everything on to get ready to watch something it's been great to help us watch a show before it gets too late at night but what if i'm not in a room with a raspberry pi like out in the garage well my phone will get a notification with a button i can press to start the automation i can even press it on my smart watch so it's very convenient and it won't bother me with any of this if i'm away from the house so this automation is bulletproof in the past i've tried running automations right when i come home and the timing is always tricky if i'm unloading groceries then the automation might start too early but if i put a delay it might start too late so the way i have it set up solves all of that once i've arrived home and i'm standing in the kitchen the automation starts welcome home read it tells me if any of the garage doors are still open the main garage door closed one minute ago the current temperatures of all the thermostats in the house the thermostat bedrooms is currently 72 degrees the thermostat living room is currently 74 degrees and then starts playing some music the automation only starts when it's supposed to and it's really helpful we don't accidentally leave the garage doors open and we're usually listening to music when we're putting away groceries [Applause] these advanced automations can come in handy if i've been sitting in a room for a while let's say i've been in the office for a long time the weather is nice and the shades are closed the echo will ask me if i want the shades open for some nice natural light in the room it's been a lot better than using just motion sensors because those don't always get triggered when they're supposed to oh here's another fun one if i've been sitting in the office for a while the echo will ask me if i want to hear some jokes hey reed do you want to hear a joke as long as i keep saying yes the echo will keep telling me jokes and you might call this ridiculous but it does help break up the day my oldest daughter loves it and it's usually fun for me to see how many cheesy jokes i can handle before i break do you want to hear another joke no no okay at night i sometimes like to wind down with a little tv if i'm in the bedroom but not laying on the bed the echo will ask me if i want to watch tv if i say yes it will turn on the tv and automatically start playing seinfeld it's too easy i love it then once i'm done watching tv and i lay on the bed a dashboard designed for that room appears on a google display the echo will tell me my calendar for the next day and ask me if i want to set a morning wake up alarm if i turn it on then my shades will open up and all that to wake me up the next morning this feels like i actually have a personal assistant helping me throughout the day and being able to respond with just yes or no feels so much more natural to interact with i don't have to remember any voice commands and it feels like i'm using something like jarvis and iron man it might seem like all this including room detection is in the distant future but it's actually a lot closer than you might realize the homepod minis have an ultra wideband chip for device proximity already in them they can detect the distance to the new iphones and apple watches so apple might have the ability to implement something like that right now the problem is is being able to fine-tune everything to work well and i got a little glimpse of that with room assistant it's been really interesting to set up i turned on a bluetooth low energy sensor on my phone and i can change how strong of a signal it gives off if i turn it up too high a raspberry pi across the house might detect it when it shouldn't and if i turn it too low it might not detect the phone in my pocket even if i'm standing in the same room using the data i was able to fine tune it to work exactly the way i want it to i also had to reposition some of the raspberry pi's to be closer to where i'm normally sitting or standing in the room so you can see there's a lot that goes into it and that's probably why we haven't seen a big company implement it just yet but it's possible and i think they will if you're crazy enough i mean brave enough to try this out yourself i have an article explaining how to do everything in this video in the article there's links to other videos explaining how to set up certain parts mainly from the channel mark watt tech if you like this kind of stuff and you're not following mark's channel you should be and if this was a little intense for you don't worry i'll still be making lots of videos with easier to set up automations but it's just fun to see what's possible with futuristic advanced stuff thanks for watching so this automation is bulletproof bulletproof bulletproof [Music] do you want to watch a movie in the theater room right now yes i do [Music] [Applause] you

Channel: Smart Home Solver

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Keywords: Home automation, home automation ideas, home assistant, room assistant, smart home automation, smart home tech, smart home ideas, smart home, smart home of the future, smart home 2022, smart home solver

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Length: 9min 56sec (596 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 05 2022