This Smart Home makes me jealous! FULL Tour + automation ideas!

I'm here at Jimmy Hawkins' house, and he has an amazing smart home. He runs a smart home TikTok channel, Instagram, and he has some of the coolest automations and devices in his house. He is really good at talking to the camera, so I'm gonna let him show you around his house. Let's go. All right, in our living room, all the lights are controlled by this Leviton scene controller here. So we have one to turn all the lights on, one that turns all the lights off. A TV scene, which dims everything down for watching TV or movies or something. Also, we don't want to manually control the lights. We have the EverythingPresents1 set up in the living room. It's perfect for a living room so that when you're sitting on the couch, watching TV and being real still, it still knows that somebody's in the living room, unlike a traditional motion sensor, which might cut off the lights and you're sitting there waving around, trying to get the lights to come back on you because you're still in the room. So my wife wanted some shelves in the living room, and of course, I had to put some lighting on them, and it couldn't be any kind of normal lighting. So we have some tracks inserted into the floating shelves, and inside those tracks was GoVee M1 strips. So there's one on each side of our fireplace. And these are super cool because not only are they normal white, but you can set different scenes and colors and everything. So whenever you're watching football, you can set your favorite team's colors. We even have one that if the alarm is tripped in our house, there's a siren one that is over the top and blinding that would hopefully, if it ever happens, scare off any kind of bad guy. For these GoVee strips inside the floating shelves, the connector is back over here in the corner along with the controller, and it plugs in down below our shelves here, but you don't see any wires running between the different shelves. Now, technically, GoVee says you can't cut and connect these and expand them, but I figured out you could cut and find the soldering points and solder them. So what I've done is I've run wire between each level of the shelves so that they're all connected, and these are one strip run by one controller, so everything works together on each side of the fireplace. Also in our living room, we have the Eve Flare. This is a super unique smart home product. So this one is actually battery-powered. So it normally sits on this dock, which charges it, but this is a thread-based device that works with Apple HomeKit. In the future, we'll have a matter update, but it's battery-powered and it's color. So you can set it to whatever color you want. This is great for those fall nights when we wanna go out on the deck and have a fire pit. We can just take it off the dock, carry it out there with us, and enjoy our evening. All right, this is our bedroom, or as I used to say on Cribs, this is where the magic happens. This is where the magic happens. So in here, we once again have another Hunter Wi-Fi fan that works with HomeKit. We have it connected to Home Assistant via their HomeKit connector. We automate it for nighttime scenes, turns off when nobody's in the room. We detect that by a car motion sensor over here. Our curtains in our bedroom, we have first-generation SwitchBot curtain motors. So they also have solar panels hooked up to them to keep them topped off since they're battery-powered. So we have automation set up to close them at night, open them in the morning, things like that. My side of the bed, we have the SmartThings station set up. So this is an interesting device that Samsung came out with, I believe earlier this year. But this is a Qi charger that you'd use to charge your phone. You can also run automations in the SmartThings app based on whether your phone is charging at night. So this is actually how we start our nighttime automation, that whenever I put my phone on there to charge, I'm finally ready to go to bed. Turns the lights off, make sure the fan is on, turns the TV off, closes the curtains and everything without me having to do anything. Let's set my phone on the charger. So in our bathroom, we have some Mulax Zigbee shades, which of course automatically open and close every day. We have to be a little careful in here because you don't want them to open while you're in the shower. So we have a four-in-one sensor up there that measures humidity. So we make sure they don't open when the humidity's high and somebody's in the shower. But those shades can also be controlled by, which is probably one of the coolest products we have, which is this Zooz button controller. So it has five buttons, the big one, which can control the light. So it controls the accent lights and the top of our walls here. But each of these buttons has like three or four different presses that you can program things with. So in our case, we have these buttons programmed to control the shades. That way, red means, hey, we need the shades closed. Green means, all right, it's okay, we can open them up and you're free to walk around while you're dressed. On my wife's side of the vanity, I don't know about you guys, but my wife is super paranoid about leaving her straightener or curling iron plugged in. So I set her up with a smart outlet over here. That way she can plug her hair appliances in. And whenever she leaves the house, this smart outlet automatically turns off. That way she doesn't have to be worried about burning down the house because she left a hair straightener plugged in. That's one that'll get excellent wife acceptance for you guys. We also have in our bathroom, the Echo Flex, which is probably one of the coolest Echo devices that Amazon had. Then of course they canceled it, which sucks, but it was perfect for bathroom applications since it just plugs into the wall and it's super tiny. Now, what you might not expect is this toothbrush. It's an electric Oral-B toothbrush. It is also connected to our smart home. Oral-B makes a line of Bluetooth toothbrushes that were designed to work with their mobile app on phones, but some smart developer for home assistant said, hey, I could use that for my smart home. And so this connects to our home assistant. And every night when I run it at a certain time at night, it automatically shuts down our old house based on me just brushing my teeth. That's so awesome. The toothbrush controls Jimmy's house. Pure genius. Our kitchen also has plenty of smart home devices. So starting with the kitchen sink, our faucet is a U by Moen smart faucet. Pretty cool. I actually didn't know how useful this would be, but we found the presets that you can do and you can ask a voice assistant to fill really helpful. So we have one for our coffee maker where we're trying to rush out the door in the morning. We'll set the coffee pot here, ask lady A to fill the coffee pot, and it'll automatically fill, cut itself off while we're scrambling around trying to get the kids stuff ready. So that's a bit more useful than we thought it would be. Over here on the island, we have a sharp microwave drawer. Now this one, when we were renovating, we wanted to put something in a wifi, thinking it would be useful. Not as useful as we thought it would. After we set it up, we found out you could open it, you could set timers all by voice through your voice assistant. I think we used it the first day. That was about it. Maybe not something that should be smart, but hey, it's here. This is our Echo Show 15. So this has been very useful ever since it got the update to have the Fire TV built in. Evening, when we're cooking and hanging out or eating dinner, when there's a show we want to watch or maybe a baseball game or football game, we can put it up right here, just like a normal Fire TV. That was a really helpful update. Of course, most of the lights in the kitchen are smart. They're on Z-Wave smart dimmers from Zooz. And something that was really interesting about this is our lights in the ceiling are actually on two separate circuits, but we wanted them to work together. So we're using Z-Wave associations, which automatically communicate between the two Z-Wave dimmers without any kind of automation set up. So we can turn things on and off and dim and both switches automatically follow each other. Really useful if you are looking for switches to be coordinated together. My latest accidental automation, I like to call it, the Saqqara temperature and air quality sensor. I used to have it sitting down here on the counter. And then one day I decided, hey, I'm going to clean the counter and I put it up here. Well, unbeknownst to me, I was looking at the data in Home Assistant and I saw a spike every morning in the temperature. Well, without even thinking about it, I had put it here and the coffee maker was putting off steam and raising the temperature every morning when we made coffee. So I was like, oh, maybe we can make an automation out of that. So I made a nice voice announcement on all the speakers in the house that whenever the coffee is ready in the morning, it sends a notification and everybody knows, hey, come get your cup of joe, start the day. We even have some pretty cool stuff set up in our laundry room. So the washer has a smart plug on it that can handle the load from it that measures energy. So we can detect whenever the laundry is done running and that energy drops, we can send notifications to our phones and through all of our smart speakers, even though the washer itself isn't smart. The washing machine is done. Similarly on the dryer side, we have a vibration sensor here that can detect when the dryer has stopped tumbling and it can send us an alert to our phones and through all our smart speakers that the dryer is done. We also have a water sensor in the laundry room. That way, if anything were ever happened with the water hookups, we know immediately that there's a leak and we can automatically shut off the water main to the house to prevent further flood damage. This is our son's room. And of course the kids always get all the cool stuff, all the RGB lights and everything that don't have to get spouse approval. We have the Govee Glide Hexa lights. As you can see, you can fully customize these with all their scenes in Govee. We have a nighttime one that we use at bedtime. We have a gaming one that our son loves. They're in the first letter of his name on the wall. For the shade, we have the Ikea shade Zigbee. So you can hook it up to any Zigbee based system that you want to automatically open it in the morning, automatically close it at night. He has a third reality button so he can control his nightstand lamp whenever he needs to. I'm a big fan of remotes in rooms for manual control when you need to. This is such a cool room with all the lights and Minecraft everywhere. My kids are gonna be so jealous. All right, so this is our daughter's room. Once again, she's spoiled. Our kids have the best rooms. So we'll start with the curtains. She has the latest generation of the SwitchBot curtain motors. Super strong and quiet. They automatically open in the morning. Automatically close at night whenever she's ready for bed. Speaking of those SwitchBot curtains, they're hooked up to the SwitchBot Hub 2. So this is a Matter Hub. That means curtains work in pretty much every smart home system that's Matter compatible. And we also have the Gobi table lamp. She loves this thing and loves to switch up the different night lights that she can have at night. Her and her mom insisted on having a fandelier in her room, which if you've never heard of a fandelier, let me show you. Turn on Caroline's fan. This is so crazy because it looks like a normal light and then fan blades pop out. No way. This might be the best thing in the entire house. Fandelier uses just a normal RF remote, but you know, we had to make it smart in our house. So we have it hooked up to a bond, a broad link bridge over here. So we can control it with all the voice assistance. Hook it up to some routines and automations. Once again, kind of like those good night automations. So in our home, we usually try to have one Z-Wave device and one Zigbee device in every room to really build a strong mesh for both those protocols. And here's a perfect example of one way we do that. These smart dimmers are actually three different brands from two different manufacturers. One of these is JSCO's Enbrighten Zigbee dimmer. Another is JSCO's Z-Wave Pro Series. And another is Zuse's Z-Wave dimmer. But all three look very similar. You can really not tell a difference. And when you turn them off, most importantly, all three have blue LED indicators that perfectly match. So we've recently got a puppy in our house. And of course I had to find a way to make some automations around it. So a perfect example is when the dog needs to use the bathroom. So we bell trained him so he knows to ring the bell whenever he needs to go out. And I was like, well, what if I'm in another room? I need a way to know when that's happening. Enter a vibration sensor. This is a vibration sensor stuck on his bell so that whenever he rings it, it notifies our phones, our watches, and makes it a voice announcement through the whole house. So somebody knows you need to get up and take the dog out before there's an accident. Okay, can we all acknowledge how cute this dog is? It's like a big teddy bear. All right, so in our garage, we have a MyQ smart garage opener. Not my favorite brand, but it came with the house and it works. It's also cool because it allows Amazon key to work so they can deliver our packages inside the garage. Probably the most metal smart home device I have is literally a smart mouse trap. So this is the Dome Z-Wave Mouser. When the mouse crawls into here, there's two pads that it bridges the positive and negative on it actually zaps the mouse and kills it. And it sends a notification over to your Z-Wave hub that it zapped a mouse. The craziest smart home device, but here it is. Jimmy has the best stuff at his house and I need one of these. Welcome to my office. This is where I work my real job. I also test all the smart home devices that I post to my various channels. Let me show you around. So we're gonna start at the smart dimmers over here. There's two of them, but you might notice that this one looks a little different. So this is Leviton's voice dimmer and it has Amazon's voice assistant built into it, which is pretty cool. Next to it is a Zigbee dimmer, also good to dim the lights and shut them off when we leave. This is my to-do list. So some collaborations, some personal to-do lists, but it's always a mess of things that are going on in the house for smart home projects. But it's actually reasonably cleaned up right now, surprisingly. The Sensi here, Go Jackets, is also connected to a smart plug, connected to the home assistant and automated so that whenever we leave the house, it automatically turns off. And that way we're not gonna burn down the house or something crazy if we accidentally leave it on. Over here is the dog crate that we usually put our puppy in when we leave. It's monitored by a Wyze camera. That way we can see if he's barking or anything. That Wyze camera actually has barking alerts. So whenever we're away from the house and he's in his crate and he's going crazy, we'll get alerts and know, hey, maybe he needs to go out and we need to come back, let him out, or maybe a neighbor needs to come over and check on him. Now here's my desk. Where all my work happens. You might notice we already talked about Lady A. You can see here, I also have Google's Nest Hub set up and some Apple HomePod Minis. That way I have all three voice assistants ready to test things on whenever I need to. Lastly, we have some smart blinds. So in here, these automatically close at night, open in the morning. These are third reality Zigbee smart blinds. Actually, one cool automation that I have in here is that this window gets blasted with sun in the morning. So I have a motion sensor over here that has a light reading in it. Whenever it gets super bright, it actually drops this shade down halfway so I'm not getting blasted with sun while I'm trying to work during the day. Also in my office is where another robot vacuum and mop lives. This is Dream's newest model. It's the L20 Ultra. It's a combo robot vacuum and mop. This has some really cool features to it. The mop pad can actually swing out away from the robot to get closer to walls and baseboards around your house to clean the edges. And not only that, it can actually leave the mop pads behind in the base station whenever it's vacuuming carpet. That way it's no risk of dragging dirty mop pads around on your carpet. The third thing I think is kind of cool about it, it actually has a headlight on the front of it so that its object detection system works at night, which is really important for me because we always run this vacuum every night when we go to bed since it's downstairs and we sleep upstairs. So you might have heard me mention Home Assistant and think, Jimmy, don't you also run a Twitter or X site called SmartThings Beat? That is correct. I used to exclusively use SmartThings for everything, but there comes a time where maybe I need a little more horsepower in your smart home automations. So I have Home Assistant Yellow here set up. We have most of our devices moved over to it at this point so I can test things and run our home on it. Or there's a little more flexibility, but man, is it a time suck getting everything set up and looking how you want it. But once it's there, it's super powerful. But I still dabble in SmartThings, but for now our home is being run by Home Assistant. All right, that about does it for the tour. I'm gonna put links to Jimmy's Instagram and TikTok down in the description. Again, he's one of my favorite people to follow on social media because he has some hilarious videos and some really good automation ideas. So definitely go give him a follow. Thanks for watching. Thanks for coming. I love this and it's way better than my implementation where I'm just using a timer to change the lights for my hot water. This is so much more advanced.