Tag: Automation

Whether you want to get into a smart home or want to improve the smart home system at home, today’s article covers everything from how to start building a smart home to how to improve your existing smart home, all shared with you without any secret! Let’s get started! 2 Important Principles for Building a Smart Home When many people think about smart homes, they quickly start to worry about which system to choose, how to handle network connections, which devices to buy, and what scenarios and automation to implement. Based on my use of smart homes, The family has 2 years of experience. Before making all preparations, clearly understand the 2 principles, which will help the whole...

The most sophisticated and dreamy thing about a smart home is "automation". Only situation settings and voice control cannot be called a real "smart home" 🤣. Please read this article for details: Today I will go back to the basics to help you understand. How to "automatically turn lights on and off" in Home Assistant, I also recommend several Matter, Zigbee human body sensors and human presence sensors that I use myself. If you are familiar with "the three major elements of automation: Trigger, Condition, and Action"...

The previous article taught you how to perform automation settings in Home Assistant through a simple example. Today, I will use the automation setting "notify when the washing machine is finished" to introduce how to use the Blueprint function to quickly complete the automation settings. , so you no longer have to worry about how to set the trigger, condition, and action! (If you’re lazy, you’ll be even more lazy! 🤣) At the same time, it can be paired with Google Assistant to achieve the effect of voice reminder...

After reading this article, you may be considering joining Home Assistant or have just joined Home Assistant. At the same time, you are worried about the automation settings of Home Assistant because you are not familiar with them. Today, I will introduce to you how to set up automation in Home Assistant to help you. Let your home move by itself (free your hands! 🙌). Today, we will use "automatically turning on the air conditioner when someone comes home" as an example to teach you how to operate the automatic setting function of Home Assistant. I hope it will be helpful to you! if you: ...

In Smart Home EP 1, there are three major milestones of smart home mentioned. The last milestone is "Automation". So what is the difference between "automation" and "situational" control? Why is "automation" the ultimate goal of smart homes? Let’s first understand what “Scene” is. Scene is a method of linking multiple devices. It is called “scene” in some places. Different settings can be set to meet different family needs...