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okay so
you want to build a smart home but you
have no idea where to start there's so
much there are so many factors
on building the perfect smart home i
don't have a perfect smart home but i've
been having
so many smart home accessories and
automatization and so much
knowledge that i can share with you and
we're going to do that exactly
today so the way that this video is
going to work is first of all
i'm going to be telling you which
ecosystem you should have your smart
home in
second of all some really really
important things that you just
need to know about having a smart home
then we're going to be talking about
essential products that your smart home
needs to happen and then last but
definitely not least
is automatization automation
automatization the first thing that
you'll need to do
is choose an ecosystem there's basically
three
main ecosystems out there google amazon
alexa
and siri with homekit from apple and
which one is the best i don't really
think that there is a best one
i have a personal favorite one but you
said adopted whether
the style and the products that you
actually have in my case
all of my products are apple so 99 of
all the products that i have
are from apple so the obvious one for me
is apple with
home kit i have siri on all of my
devices and that's why i chose apple
i've got the apple watch i've got the
ipad
got home pods i've got my mac and all of
that all these products i can access
my smart home devices around my house so
if you're
deep in the apple ecosystem i definitely
highly encourage you to do
home kits because homekit is first of
all very secure
and second of all very very reliable
okay so now that you've chosen your
preferred ecosystem now it's time for
you to know some very
very important things about having a
smartphone there's basically
two things that you need to know and two
things that a lot of people
ask me about first of all you need to
have a good wi-fi for
everything to work the way that you want
it to work let me explain so
for example you can have a smart light
but if you don't have a good
wi-fi you probably cannot have a smart
home if you ask siri
siri turn on the lights and you have a
bad wi-fi
the lights will turn on in like six to
10 seconds
and that's not really a good experience
for example i've got my fish tank that
is smart
if i didn't have a smart wi-fi this
would honestly take a long time so
i've had an apartment that has really
really slow wi-fi
and the smart home experience just was
trapped the second thing that you need
to know
is an answer to a question that a lot of
people
ask me about and that is do you need a
smart speaker for you to have a
smartphone
and the answer to that is no and yes
what
bro what are you talking about man
meaning if you have a smart home speaker
everything just becomes a way better
experience because for example
if you don't have an apple watch for
example let's say you're cooking and you
need to turn on a light
or whatever it is you're gonna have to
take out your phone
and you know open up the home app and
turn on the lights
or ask you directly from your phone but
that's not really a good experience
but if you have a home pod or a homepod
mini the experiment changes because
let's say you're cooking
you don't need to leave your hands you
can simply tell your home
turn on the light or do whatever the
heck you want to do around your house
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i wanna get to your clothes gonna get it
guess what
it's a better experience and the more
the better i currently have
two home pots with you know stereo sound
on my tv
i've got one in my kitchen i've got one
in my bathroom i've got a homepod
meeting in my living room i've got a
homepod mini
in my room i've got a homepod mini in
the studio now i know apple
is expensive so once again choose your
ecosystem wisely as i said in the
beginning that was step one
if your budget isn't really that high
maybe you don't want to invest
that much in your smartphone just simply
get google or
amazon's ecosystem okay so you're doing
good right you've now chosen your
ecosystem and if you're still unsure you
can let me know the comments down below
and i'll be sure to help you out
and second of all you now know the
things that you need to know about
having a smartphone now it's time
to turn around and tell you the most
essential products that
every single smart home should have not
the fancy stuff
the basic stuff the fancy stuff is
awesome and we're gonna be checking that
later
but the basic smart plugs smart plugs
are essential to any smart home because
it turns
anything that isn't smart smart for
example
i use it with my fish tank my fist tank
for example is not smart
i've just got lights i've got the
bubbles the oxygen and all of that
but i simply plug in smart plugs to the
lights
to the bubbles so i can simply tell siri
turn on the fist tank turn on the fish
bubbles and siri will actually do that
with a smart plug which is awesome now
which one do i recommend
luckily in 2021 there are so many
different options
out there but the one that i always
always recommend is from eve
now eve recently announced their eve
energy built
on threat now what the heck is thread
when a home kit accessory is built on
thread it means this
whenever you don't have good wifi in
your house and maybe
your smart plug isn't really receiving a
lot of connection
the actual plug will communicate with
other accessories
around your house and it will share them
connection like this
there's always a stable connection the
second product that is essential to any
smart home
are lights now there's a bunch of smart
lights in the market there are smart
bulbs
smart strips different like shaped
lengths
there's a bunch of stuff what i
recommend is personally get a bunch of
cheap
affordable decent good light bulbs i
personally recommend lifx it's the one
that i have and i can recommend them to
you
they're great you don't need an extra
bridge or anything it just simply works
and they are
home kits enabled and then light strips
i recommend light strips put one under
your tv for example
maybe under your couch under your bed
maybe or whatever heck you want
a thermostat is also pretty good
essential to any smart home because
let's say you're not at home maybe you
want to go to your summer house or maybe
you're working
and it's very cold outside and you want
you know whenever you go inside of your
home
for it to be warm very cool thing to do
is whenever the temperature
in your house is above you know 20
degrees
maybe the heat can't go on and that's
the power on having a smart home you
just
everything just simply works together
with one another so yeah smart
thermostat it's
a smart thing to do now let's start
talking about some other products
that enhance your daily life around your
smart home and
they are honestly the most fun starting
off with a door
and window sensor what this will do is
you'll place a sensor here
and you'll place a sensor here whenever
you open and close the door you'll get a
notification on your watch that your
door or window has been open smart
curtains are also a great investment
as well because you can tell siri good
morning and
the curtains can open and the lights
can't go on
smart curtains are awesome and they are
so futuristic i mean you simply press
the buttons and you feel like a king
just imagine this
siri good morning curtains go on lights
go on
somebody massages you it's a great
experience
the last product that i wanted to tell
you is a security camera
any home needs to have a security camera
our family personally
caught a thief stealing on our home and
we actually discovered who it was
thanks to our security camera i know
crazy stuff it was actually somebody
that we knew
mind-blowing stuff crazy those are all
the
essential fun products that i personally
use around my house
now let's talk about automatization
because automatization brings home kits
to another level you can set an
automatization to do
specific things in four different
factors first of all location whenever
somebody
walks in or when you're walking in your
house
the lights can go on fish tank can go on
and vice versa whenever you leave the
house
all the lights can go on second of all
time certain things can go off
and on depending on which time it is
i've got my fist tank to go
on at 5 00 pm and it actually turns off
at 9 00 pm so they get four hours of
direct
sunlight up is action you can set
certain sensors to do certain things
whenever you cross them
as i was saying before whenever i open
the door whenever i pass
certain things certain things can go on
and off and then last but definitely not
least
is occupancy depending on who's coming
home for example
maybe you're a mom you're walking inside
of your house
and as soon as you walk in the garage
door can open so those are the four
things
that you can do with home game location
time
action and occupancy okay so hopefully
you learned a bunch of new stuff today
hopefully you now know
how to start your smart home thank you
so much for watching subscribe if you're
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and i'll see you on the next one
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