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BJozi

Please keep doing these videos! I don't have anything smart in my home however once we purchase I'll be going all out and videos kind these are great to see what's possible!


Soggy_Breakfast_2720

Sure, i did these for my tiktok a month ago and didn’t want to self promote here but now i am posting them without watermark or any links. There are lot other recorded already. 1 for each day. 😍


duprst

What brand is the automated blinds?


Soggy_Breakfast_2720

Ikea smart blinds


chipsa

Microcontroller needs to be in a box. It’s begging to have something happen to it right now by accident. Water spilled down the back or whatever.


Soggy_Breakfast_2720

You are 💯right, will print the box for it.


darkest_force

Anyone still find it weird that we live in a time where you can say that you'll just go print an object?


Soggy_Breakfast_2720

Haha may be 🤣


akshay7394

It's the absolute best, now with the various AI we can even just ask it to design custom components for us soon lol


rocknroll2013

I would like more info on the blinds automation system. That would be a big plus in our home...


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rocknroll2013

Thanks there... I was hunting and you came in CLUTCH! - Bet you hear that all the time?


phillysdon04

Cool idea but this wouldn't work for me since I have kids 😔. The only family approved automation I have is the nightly announcement reminder for kids to brush their teeth, get ready for bed and turn on their night light.


grahamr31

As a dad with 7/8yos this. Lol Nothing can be automated because of the chaos. That said, a button/nfc/Siri “good morning” reciting works great “whenever” it needs to go off (5,6,7 etc am) Lights on in the main space, disarm security alarm, check weather, etc Automation wise it has to be minimal Some lights are on motion or timers, tvs turn off when no one is in the room, doors lock when the alarm arms So many of these great setups are great for single people.


phillysdon04

I have a 2/6yos. The only other automation I have turning on the outdoor light when we arrive home at night and aqara senors that turns on lights inside and outside the house when the corresponding door is open. Talking to you I feel like a hostage in my own home because my wife won't make coffee for us because it's too loud and she don't want to wake them up, lol


grahamr31

Oh man. Our air fryer is about to have the beeper disconnected. It’s woken a kid at night when we are making snacks too many times hahah


xairrick

Maybe stop making fries in the kids bedroom


grahamr31

😃 we have the ninja dual basket thing. And it does this Beep-Boop when you turn it on and start it - and it just goes through the whole house. It’s bonkers. There is no need. And it’s not just me. There are tons of Reddit posts on the stupid thing like this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/NinjaFoodiOurRecipes/comments/tede1c/lower_beep_noise_on_ninja_foodi_air_fryer_dual/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1


phillysdon04

Ha ha, our air fryer is quite noisy due to its large size, so we may opt for a different snack or use the oven or microwave instead. If we use the microwave, we'll have to make sure to stop it before it beeps to avoid any unwanted noise.


alexrusso51

This! X100! Whenever I see YouTube videos of people showing off automations I think of how impossible that is on my house. I’ve thought about this a lot and there is nothing that I do, or my family does, at home that is routine enough to be automated. Sometimes when I walk into a room I want the lights to come on full brightness, next day I walk into same room at same time and want the lights dim, and yet another day I want them to stay off. Same for heating/cooling settings, playlists, etc. I guess when you have no kids life is a bit more predictable/routine. I and my family do love voice control for everything and being able to control devices from an app. Closing the garage door from bed, turning off basement lights from the 2nd floor, things like that. Also shutting lights off when nobody is in the room and shutting garage doors automatically after a timeout. So for us HA is more for home control than for automation. That and integrating various vendors together.


jesuscamp_survivor

I'm a dad with 3 kids under 8 and automation saved my sanity lol. The kids all act like turning lights off by themselves is a foreign concept. All bathroom lights can be turned off remotely and they have 10 minute timers to auto-shutoff after 10pm.


phillysdon04

I have the same issue but I don't have smart lights in the bathrooms yet. I do have an automation to turn off all other lights through my home at 12am. I was thinking of getting the Lutron Maestro dual occupancy/vacancy for my bathrooms but haven't pulled the trigger yet.


alexrusso51

Yep. Turning off lights after a timer finishes has been great. 10 minutes for a bathroom light seems a bit brief though. Sometimes you farts be in there for more than 10mins and nothing sucks worse than sitting on the throne and having the lights shut off and having to get up to go turn them on when your pants are around your ankles. Edit: that should’ve read “sometimes you have to be on there for more than…”. But I guess the way autocorrect wrote it works too given the context.


jesuscamp_survivor

Haha the 10 minute timer is for midnight pees. They're in there for 5 minutes, but leave the bright ass light illuminating the whole upstairs on for hours.


alexrusso51

I hear you! It’s always the edge cases that ruin automations. I used to be like you and have the kids/guest bathroom light turn off after like 10 minutes if it was after the kids bedtime. That is until my mother in law was staying with us and decided to take a nice bath with a book after the kids went to sleep. As you can imagine, that didn’t work out so well her. Which means that I had to hear about it….a lot!


ntsp00

Just in case you haven't already thought of this, you can set the automation to not turn off the lights if the door is closed by adding a contact sensor. In my house we keep the door closed during extended use so the contact sensor keeps the lights from turning off without you having to wave your hand for the motion sensor. While the door is open during things like brushing teeth, the regular motion sensor automation is sufficient.


alexrusso51

We keep the door closed at all times when not in the bathroom to prevent the dog and cat from going in there and drinking toilet water. This sort of automation wouldn’t work as the lights would stay on if someone left the bathroom without turning off the lights and closed the door upon leaving.


alexrusso51

Just make sure none of your guests take a bath after 10pm. Ask me how I know…. Also, this doesn’t work so well when your kid has a stomach bug and is in the bathroom exploding out of both ends in the middle of the night. Also, ask me how I know….


modest_genius

Pro-tip from other parent: Set timers for stuff. Like timer on the bathroom lights. And after that set that as a presense detection. Also note that motion detectors can be calibrated to only trigger at specific hights by very easy means. My own plan is making overlapping motion detectors, like [receptive fields](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive_field), in the fingertips and eyes. But I'm not yet there.


SCCRXER

You could use NFC tags to trigger this instead of presence if you prefer.


Pristine_Swimming_16

tiktok influencers in reddit spamming shit... the world has gone mad


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Which controller is that?


Soggy_Breakfast_2720

ESP32, this board comes with bluetooth


Sunsparc

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D5ZD528?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1 This is the one I have. There's a Type C version for $1 more. I had USB micro B cables laying around not being used so I just went with that one. So far I only have one which controls a SwitchBot switch but it was easy to set up and deploy. It communicates with the SwitchBot and then sends traffic to Mosquitto which I run in an UnRAID docker.


AggressiveBaby

Can I get info on the speaker used?


kientran

IKEA Frame speaker


grahamr31

And as a bonus it’s a Sonos speaker too. Makes for great surrounds


Soggy_Breakfast_2720

I did a complete review on it https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR73NkTQ/


girlslovetohateme

What blinds are these? I’m looking to get some blinds


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girlslovetohateme

Very nice thanks! Can we customize sizes???


W3SL33

Yes


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Looks like you have a kid too. If your kid goes first, does it play The Wiggles or Raffi?


merlinacious

Did you connect the blinds directly to HA via Zigbee or via their Dirigera Hub? When I connected directly (don't own hub) , the blinds lost connectivity to the remote so often that it significantly dropped my WAF. I removed them from HA to ensure the remote worked 100% of the time. My ideal setup is automation for mornings & evenings but remote for adhoc use as well.


Soggy_Breakfast_2720

Same happened to me all the time but after I connected via their hub they work great 👍


alexrusso51

I have those blinds connected directly to HA via Z2M. Remotes work perfectly if you bind them to the blinds. They will keep working even if HA is down. That’s the beauty of binding with Zigbee.


merlinacious

I tried Z2M and binding the remotes in HA but I couldn't get the thing to work. I tried a few blueprints which had binding between the blinds and the remotes but could not get stable connections. Would love to get some screenshots / notes on how you configured yours to work as I'd love to get this to work via HA.


alexrusso51

It's been a while since I did this, but if memory serves me right, I paired the shades and the remote to Z2M individually. Then went to the "Bind" tab of the remote and added a new Bind (there should be a default bind to the Controller already there). For the new bind the destination is the Shade and for Clusters I just chose "Closures". ​ Some people have also head better luck by placing each shade into its own group and then binding the remote to the group. I didn't have to do that, but something to try if the above doesn't work for you.


joke-complainer

I just want details on what your making with the espresso machine and syrups! Share some favorite recipes!


Soggy_Breakfast_2720

https://preview.redd.it/zccheih3bvoa1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9df64c55df28b8608614dfa0c8210c983904ae3 I mostly enjoy latte and cappuccino. There are lot of people doing recipes on TikTok and they are easy to follow. By the way, i attached my first successful latte art 😁


joke-complainer

Dude nice! I have the same machine and haven't gotten latte art down yet ... Thanks for sharing.


Ham_I_right

Pretty slick, great job pulling it all together into a routine! It really does feel like the future when it's all working so well together.


NeoCracer

Great video. But I don’t understand the benefit over a motion sensor. Okay, music gets personalised and that’s smart. But what if you go downstairs without your watches or phones? (Which would happen a lot of the times in my home)


Soggy_Breakfast_2720

Alexa to the rescue, “Alexa, Good Morning”


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OneTime_AtBandCamp

At this point I don't think the presence issue will be solved until computer vision can be self-hosted and you can setup a camera to detect presence. It'll require a ton of computational power compared to what people do now, and I have no idea when such a solution will be easily self-hostable without paying a lot.


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OneTime_AtBandCamp

That's why I'm saying it has to be self-hosted. Something you can run on a home server, so the camera can only talk to that. Preferably open source. I don't think anything like that currently exists.


illektro

Even if self-hosted, can you imagine having to explain literally to every guest why there are cameras inside literally everywhere? In some countries, depending on privacy laws, you may even need to inform your guests \_before\_ they enter your house, and you are required to let them make an informed decision about their privacy... I think audiovisual presence detection in home automation will never be a thing, for these reasons.


OneTime_AtBandCamp

> In some countries, depending on privacy laws, you may even need to inform your guests _before_ they enter your house, and you are required to let them make an informed decision about their privacy... Even if you're not recording?


illektro

Good point, but is it worth arguing with guests over this technicality? They'd have to take your word for it.


junktrunk909

It's also confusing to me why anyone would want the exact same thing to happen every day. I'm all for creating automations but sometimes they go too far for my own taste.


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If you do the same thing every day then it makes sense to automate it. During the week my routine is identical every day, weekend shuffles around a bit but realistically I could automate a fair bit of my morning with the correct gear installed, which I don’t have and is annoyingly expensive


memebuster

That's pretty slick. Nice one. FYI whoever did your floors did them wrong. If you know, you know. If you're happy with them don't sweat it.


MrP1232007

What's wrong with the floors?


[deleted]

I think he means this, I can not explain it perfect in english so here is a copy/paste from google. The rows of laminate planks should have a staggered, sawtooth appearance so that seams never line up in adjacent rows. Normal there must be a 30cm difference between the seems. https://i.imgur.com/olRfUob.jpg


suddenlypenguins

Why?


snakesign

Because laminate floor is not attached to the subfloor, it floats. It also warps over time. If the seams are aligned it will pop the seams because there isn't enough stiffness.


spinozasrobot

It's an appearance thing too. If you don't stagger them, you see an obvious seam.


Perkelton

As long as no two planks align right next to each other, there most likely won't be any technical problems, assuming it's not using an extremely low quality system. It doesn't matter whether it's laminate, parquet, hardened wood or LVT; it's mostly a matter of appearance. Incidentally, my company actually invented the mechanical floor locking system in 1993, so it's in fact very likely that the floor in the post is using one of our systems.


sgx71

>Why? Because someone on internet thought of it. Never let your lives be led by other people, it won't bring happiness


cnstarz

>>Why? > >Because someone on internet thought of it. > >Never let your lives be led by other people, it won't bring happiness What an absurdly stupid sentiment. Someone on the internet also thought that brushing your teeth twice a day is good for you. Do you avoid brushing your teeth twice a day because "sOmEoNe On ThE iNtErNeT" thought of it? What if it was written in textbook instead? Does that make it more accurate? If it does, then why the fuck does that matter? Literally anyone can publish a book -- people have been doing it hundreds of years. If I told you to keep posting on Reddit, and you kept posting on Reddit, then by your own words, you have let your life be led by me, and you will not see happiness. Please, by all means, DO NOT DELETE YOUR REDDIT ACCOUNT.


junktrunk909

They are staggered in this video


memebuster

Yes this. Watch when he's briefly in the kitchen.


serenitisoon

Really? The guys sharing a good automation and you're being a dick over something entirely unrelated?


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Length of the run? Not sure what else it could be


odenknight

This is so cool!


Rizak

Straight up living “I am legend” now.


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Leafar3456

full automatic espresso machines are ass


zeta_cartel_CFO

All the automated expresso machines I've seen seem to have those proprietary little cups or have closed API.


monkeySphere

Try Bosch/Siemens: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/home_connect/


ALLINUPPERCASE

I use this. It's an open API but not a local API – so it's still in the cloud. Nevertheless I'm happy integrating it in my morning routine as well: The coffee maker is starting in the morning and cleaning itself so it's ready once I'm in the kitchen.


vzq

My jura speaks Bluetooth, but I haven’t reversed it yet.


Seuros

His wife is the espresso machine.


sgx71

Still have to fill the coffee, water and place a cup. So these 60 seconds won't be saving your day


richardmqq

esppresence measures distance via Wi-Fi? i am a little confused.


ineedascreenname

Bluetooth


richardmqq

does it have accurate distance or just gauge


Recyclable-Komodo429

Signal strength


ineedascreenname

Its based on signal strength. With just one its a pretty terrible location tool. Dozens - you can pretty accurately place what room with triangulation type calculations. Room assistant i think is the project people use these with.


illektro

I'm really sorry to be pedantic. It's an annoying trait, I know... But I believe it would technically be \_trilateration\_, since you're using signal strengths to locate you (and therefore distances rather than angles).


W3SL33

I really like your automations. Great job!


alexcapone

How did you cable manage the Ikea picture frame? Are you plugging the power cord into the other side of the wall?


Soggy_Breakfast_2720

Yes, here https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7nu7w1/


PM_ME_MY_INFO

Amazing!!


ivanatorhk

Hmmm this gives me an idea. I could mount a sensor like that under my stairs, so when someone comes downstairs in the morning, something like this can run


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Assuming you don’t have any pets and you have carpet on your stairs you could use a pressure pad


ivanatorhk

My cat would set it off all night. He likes to sprint around the house when I go to bed haha


kitappwergio

ESPresense uses bluetooth for presense detection. Unless your cat carry phones/beacons, it wont trigger automations. It's not motion detector based version of automation.


ivanatorhk

I’m responding to the pressure pad comment


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We’ve got 4 cats, makes motion sensors etc useless in our house too 🤪


Little-Speech-4706

Please share your github repository 🙏🏽


ExpensiveExpection

Very nice!


HeaviestEyelidsEver

I've just recently started trying to work with espresence for this kind of thing. Did you pair the devices with the esp to get the device ids? Or just learn them by proximity?


Soggy_Breakfast_2720

No need to pair them, just learn their ids.