The best and worst decisions I made for my smart home - YouTube

2 years ago by sabreW4K3 to c/homeassistant

Lessons I learned whilst building my smart home❤️ Found this video useful and want to support the channel? I'd love a donation at https://paypal.me/homeautom...

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Nouveau_Burnswick 30 points 2 years ago

Best:

Network rack, unifi wifi, and cabling

Home assistant

Zigbee devices.

Smart heating/cooling

Automated lights

Hacked T6Es

Worst:

Batteried smart blinds (with not battery level reporting)

Bed mat sensors (some issues)

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andrew 5 points 2 years ago

Haven't watched the video yet, but I'm a huge fan of our plug-in z-wave smart blinds. Makes getting all that extra light way easier and automatable.

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mathesonian 1 point 2 years ago

what brand? I've been wanting to get some zwave blinds soon.

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spongebue 2 points 2 years ago

I also got Z-wave shades from Bali when Home Depot had a 50% off custom window treatments sale. They've been wonderful, and integrate with Home Assistant very nicely overall. Battery lasts a long time (about 6 months of use, with a daily "round trip" and they're still at about 60%) and status gets reported back. One piece on one shade got machined weirdly so I couldn't use the Z-wave, and they were happy to send a replacement.

Bali is manufactured by a company called Springs Window Fashions. Might be worth looking into them and their other brands too!

Oh, and Home Depot has sample material books you can take home for a night to see what would work best for you.

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andrew 2 points 2 years ago

I ordered them through Lowes and they had all sorts of options for connectivity and power, including just old school chains. Looks like they're Bali brand.

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