hello Automators thanks for tuning in again now one of the best ways to
improve your smart home significantly is with sensors I mean if you can't sense a
trigger then you can't automate off of it and so what I'm going to do today is
take you through number one the different sensors that are on this
device then I'm going to show you how those different sensors allowed me to
set up some very very complex automations and utilize a lot of the
sensors onboard so this an Aeotec multisensor 6 it has a number of different
sensors on it now when you compare it to a Samsung SmartThings sensor well this
has a motion sensor and a temperature sensor so it is capable of both of those
things but so is the Aeotec it has a motion sensor on it and it
also has a temperature sensor now the temperature sensor has a slight upgrade
when you're working with it in a system like Samsung SmartThings it has a tenth
of a degree capability here in Celsius so it's able to measure and therefore
tighten up your automations on temperature a lot more versus this now
this is where the similarities really start and end there's really nothing
more to talk about with this device (SmartThings) that's what it is you can deploy it and
it's it's a fairly nice motion sensor it does a really good job in my home in a
lot of ways but what this has is a humidity sensor on it and that's a big
benefit obviously in a lot of different spaces so you can get what's called the
relative humidity and then create automations out of that you can also use
the lux or a luminance sensor that's on this and that's pretty rare thing to
find in in terms of sensors these days and what that allows you to do is really
and and this is the way I used it immediately on getting this is really
adjust how your lighting is performing now there's also a UV light sensor which
is obviously you know in a number of different ways a bit of a safety thing
that you can utilize and automations trigger off of there's also
a tamper sensor so as I move this around the temper the tamper sensor rather is
going off and that means I can use it a lot like a security device or a lot like
a multi-purpose sensor no coupled with all of this is the way you power the
device and this is something my father's always asking me for so I'm probably
gonna have to buy him a couple of these thanks dad
but anyways the Aeotec here it has a dual powering capability so number one
you're gonna get a couple of years of battery life out of this device when you
put in two of the batteries here now after that if you want to power it
forever it comes with its own supplied USB cable and it's a ribbon cable that
comes out of the bottom and allows you to plug that USB cable into any USB port
and therefore your device will remain powered so you have this dual power
option with this device that you just don't have with a lot of other sensors
now honestly if you're not already sold on this upgrade well it's okay let me
tell you a few more things the sensitivity of the motion sensor here
can be adjusted in the Samsung SmartThings classic application I'm sure
that'll come across to the new application as well but right now you
can adjust the sensitivity and you can also adjust delay so if you don't want
something to necessarily trigger immediately you can actually stick a
delay on this device and that will allow you to sense time make sure you're
sensing time over a number of seconds or even minute not only that but you can
have these sensors report more often than the hour interval that's there so
you can adjust this all the way down to eight minutes natively in the Samsung
SmartThings classic app again and there are even scripts out there and things
that you can go and implement that will allow it to report even faster if you'd
like no just to keep in mind there I want to clarify one thing that doesn't
mean the motion sensor is only going to report every eight minutes
that's an interrupt policy item so you know tamper and motion those things are
reported immediately and it's these other sensors
the humidity the lux the UV light that are reporting every so often and only if
there's a significant change so it's all well and good to have all of these
sensors but if you don't use them well then what was the point in spending the
money now here's what I instantly did with this device my lighting in the
bathroom I mean I have a lot of lights in that bathroom and actually in total
it's nine now that means I can really overwhelm someone with the lighting and
with this all I could do was basically set a time of day and then have the
lights turn on to a certain percentage well you know that's great it allows you
to keep them relatively dark in the evenings and and that's you know that's
pretty powerful but then during the day well I have a window in my bathroom so I
don't necessarily need all of the light all the time and you won't necessarily
need all the light all the time in your space now what this allows me to do is
based off of the Lux or the illuminance sensor I've actually set different
thresholds to brighten the lights to ten thirty and fifty percent and of course I
can turn them on to a hundred percent that makes the illuminance really
positive in terms of setting up a more consistent lighting situation in my home
I also instantly use all the new sensors on my action tiles display which I have
a video out about here that I will leave down in the comments below or in the
description below now on top of that the UV sensor like I said it's a bit of a
safety thing and so what you can do with that is instantly change the color of a
bulb in your home to let you know that you have an issue so if you're ever
experiencing that kind of light you don't want that kind of light in your
home well that makes sense go ahead and use a bulb trigger a color
change along with a Philips hue attach the smart things like I did and there's
more you can do here because of the humidity sensor here I don't have these
kinds of fans we have a ballon seeing a humidity balancing system in
the home so they just automatically sense the humidity in the room and start
balancing it throughout the house but if you had a fan in your home you could put
a smart switch in there that's able to drive the fan motor and then you're able
to use that humidity to turn on and off a fan light and what I will do going
forward is I'll be buying another one of these for my garage I'll talk to you
about what I can continue to do in terms of refining the lighting level and I
know I'm going to do this I just haven't done it yet webcore is a significant
system for developing further automation and what I want to do is actually set up
a formulaic response here for that Lux to the lighting and I'm thinking like
something like whatever the lux or the illumination level is a hundred minus
that and then some kind of dividing factor to bring up the lights and to
have that consistently running and changing as this illumination sensor
updates in any case I think there's a ton of reason to go out and upgrade from
one of these to one of these especially if you're using Samsung smartthings or a
number of the other sea wave hubs because it's a little z-wave device now
what I'm going to do here is I'm going to post my log of utilizing this device
in our community forums and so if you ever want to see this there'll be a link
down below and I will continue to update that log as I continue to update the
automation on this device so you're going to be able to see the evolution of
how I use it in my smart home so that link is down below and otherwise guys
you can go ahead and watch our Samsung smartthings automation series here
there's a number of different videos in this playlist that's on screen right now
that will help you utilize Samsung Smartthings in your smart home so until
next time guys don't hate, automate