Hello Automaters. Thanks for tuning in again. I'm a little under the weather so
I'm gonna keep myself off-screen a lot here and do a lot of narration but what
I want to do today is show you part one how I do smart home lighting in
smaller spaces. So I'm going to show you a closet in a laundry room as well as
another type of closet basically with a door on it and what I'm going to do with
those different spaces is tell you how much it cost for me to go ahead and set
up this smart lighting system and then on top of that tomorrow what I will do
is give you part two which is the how to set that for the first part of the tour
let's head over to my laundry room where I have a pair of Sengled Element Classic light
bulbs connected to a Samsung Smartthings Hub so you can see the two light bulbs
in that space so you can do this with multiple bulbs if you need to and that's
a multi-purpose sensor that as I close the door it's creating the automation to
just shut off the light so this ensures that the laundry room door stays closed
because the sound bugs me but it allows you to also as the door opens ensure
that there's lighting immediately now you can see how close here as I just
open up the door a little bit how close the sensor has to be in order to trigger
and you could add time delays to this if you wanted to delay how long it takes
for it to shut in the laundry room here's all of the equipment that you
would be required to have a Samsung Smartthings hub you will need one of
those but then you can replicate this system throughout your home a hundred
times so you only need one of these hubs and then you can go out and get many
many devices now the hub is $70 to start then you can add single element bulbs
these are $10 for a one pack and it actually goes down from there they can
make a direct connection to Samsung smartthings hub without their own hubs
so this is literally a $10 add-on now the multi-purpose sensor you saw was an
older version or of version two of Samsung Smartthings but
you can also use the version three it is a $20 multi-purpose sensor and both
pieces stick to your doorframe with 3M tape that comes in the box so that's the
entire cost if you want to do this the first time it is $70 plus another 10
plus another 20 it is $100 to start but thereafter every room is essentially $30
to replicate the laundry room setup that you saw. If you need multiple bulbs
obviously you're adding another $10 every time now let's head up to my
bedroom and we're going to go into my closet where I have a Philips Hue bulb
attached again to Samsung Smartthings and what I've also put is a motion
sensor so you can see as I enter the room the light fades on and that's one
nice thing about Philips Hue bulbs and then you can see the motion sensor now I
had to play with the direction of that motion sensor a little bit but there's
the Philips Hue bulb at the top there so yeah that direction of this motion
sensor I had to move it kind of to the side because it actually saw really far
into my bedroom so you have to do some playing there now the thing with both of
these setups is that you will need to leave your light switch on so that's
going to be a requirement for both of these two setups that I've done in the
laundry room and in my walk-in closet the closet solution gets a little more
complicated when you're talking about starting out and the costs now what I'll
tell you is you will need a Philips Hue hub which comes in at around $60 but you
have to buy starter kits from Philips and the base starter kit with four bulbs
in it is $100 so that puts the relative worth of the hub at about $60 you would
also with my setup need a Samsung Smartthings hub and we've already talked
about that being $70 on top of that you would then need to buy the motion sensor
which is a $25 add-on so all told for your initial setup $100 for the 4-pack
Philips bulbs and the hub a $70 touch for the Samsung SmartThings hub and $25
for the motion sensor puts you at a hundred and ninety five dollars us but
there after once you're just adding rooms and let's assume you only need one
bulb that is a on average twelve dollar bulb from Philips hue and a $25 motion
sensor from Samsung SmartThings so on average every room you add will be
thirty seven dollars or if you need two bulbs up to about fifty dollars now
there is a third option and Philips you has their own motion sensor that you can
go and purchase and they sell for around $40 us right now you can see from the
webpage I'm on it's a $30 u.s. product right now and when you buy in multiples
they do go down in overall so what you could do is eliminate the need for a
Samsung SmartThings hub entirely if you didn't want to use that and some of the
other solutions you've seen in this video you could go ahead and add that
and what that means for your cost is if we assume this is a $40 motion sensor
plus a $12 bulb it is fifty two dollars to do every room and you would only
initially need the Philips hue hub and after that you could just continue to
add rooms for that fifty two dollars so now let's move on just to a closed door
closet a very simple smart home solution the easiest solution for a closed door
closet basically you don't need necessarily lighting in there and all
this is is a small sensor right here this is a motion sensor and what it will
do is as it senses motion it will turn on this strip light right here it's just
an LED strip light and it's very very low-power know initially what you do is
you put in four triple-a batteries in here and then the device is live and
I'll leave links down below for all of the products that I go through here
today but this is a $15.00 for a closet for a smaller closet solution what I
would tell you is because of the 3m tape you just stick it on the wall wherever
you'd like it we'll need to see the door open and
closed in order to kind of sense that motion and turn on correctly but this is
a very very simple solution for what I would call smart home lighting now one
last thing to tell you about these I have these outdoors because really I'm
not worried about a $15.00 device I have these in sheds and so basically as you
enter my sheds they're turning on as you go to different parts of the shed so
there you go guys that's the cost and the different methods that I use to do
smart home lighting in small spaces at my home come back tomorrow for part two
of this where I show you how to actually set these up