I've got the power! You know the first question is who are you I know you're
Brad but who are you and where are you from well I'm originally from Florida
born in Miami and I grew up in Jacksonville Florida
and I'm adopted I was adopted when I
was six months old my biological parents from are from New York and that's about
all I know about Washington Lee University for two years
transfer to University Florida got a bachelor degree in physics and then I
got a master's in computer science when I finished got my master's degree I
hired on with IBM then I changed careers I was a math teacher for three
years teaching the high school teaching and folks continuing GED stuff I ended
up teaching GED at a jail I didn't worry about whether they were
you know that they were inmates and that kind of stuff
I had seven students in the class all seven got their GED but once I moved in
on here I thought that freed me to be able to go ahead and do that
so I got a Google Home and starter kit for light stuff for the Philips Hue
so then that was the first product the Google Home yes yeah I still have it
yeah I got the Google Home you know and every room my laundry room even my my
little storage shed off the balcony here motion sensors I've gotten those I
mentioned say I had for Google Minis Google Nest hub so you've got
like you've got Philips Hue almost throughout your entire place then yes at
this point okay and what kind of the different are they just the standard
bulbs or what have you been buying like what are the different types yeah I've
only got I've got two table lamps and have
the multicolored stuff but the rest of them are just the plain white stuff one of the
problems I've I had with this deal I wanted to get those that Phillips Hue LED
string I tried twice in doing that and I had troubles with the it's the tape and
everything and trying to get to stick properly
that's one of the biggest problems right now that a lot of people have they can't
figure out how to mount these things and and you know you're in that situation
where you have you you might move out someday
I do have Christmas lights that are on the railing and stuff and and I have set
up when they come on when the sun goes down and so and then I also there's
a light that's you know this a regular fixture light so I have that set up the
same way come to I'm about the same time
that's a Philips Hue bulb and yes just use a routine that's in the field to
control so you're using those you're using regularly good night and kind of
the morning routines and and you have those it sounds like you trigger your
good night routine and then you you schedule your morning routine play Chris
Botti radio on Pandora on all and all of the group it has all the speakers that I
wanted Google mini and all the other stuff to do music so that I can walk
around the whole place stuff is for tomorrow in the weather and and play
music I go to sleep tip and I also use it to when I leave my apartment I'll say
blank Google I'll be back yeah that phrase comes from Arnold Schwarzenegger
yes it does! yes terminator you have have a simple
smart home setup which is great and you have a simple life that you're
building that around and it doesn't need to be complicated no