in today's video we're going to be having a look at some toothbrush
automations in home assistant check it out [Music]
a massive thank you to you green for sponsoring today's video what's going on guys I hope you're
all doing well you did indeed hear correctly and today we are going to be having a look at
some toothbrush automations and never did I ever think I would be saying those words but that's
what we're doing so thanks to all of the recent Bluetooth updates for home assistant Oral B is
now detectable as a Bluetooth integration and it can be fed straight into home assistant so you can
access your Oral B toothbrushes I've been after a new toothbrush for a little while now and seen the
Oral B integration may or may not have persuaded me to actually go out and buy one of these and I
think it's kind of like when you're looking for a device and you first check if it's compatible
with home assistant that's kind of what I did with my toothbrush which is very weird to say
the particular brush that I went for was the io7 and you can pick these up for around 145
pounds and if you head over to the home assistant integration page for Oral B
there's a list there of different toothbrushes that are known as supported and working using
the Oral B integration the io7's got great build quality and it's also quite weighty and
as toothbrushes go this particular one looks good and also feels really nice in your hands
one of the only things I don't like about this toothbrush are the small magnetic charging dock
that it comes with the toothbrush just rests on top of this and as I found it's easy to knock it
off or to put it off balance meaning it won't charge properly my previous toothbrush had a
USBC Port which was super convenient especially with traveling as it means I didn't have to take
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getting the toothbrush into home assistant couldn't be any easier in fact all you actually
need to do is take it out of the box and turn it on then home assistant will instantly see
it and you can add it as an integration and then start utilizing your toothbrush within
your various scripts and automations it's worth noting here that in order for home assistant to
automatically detect the toothbrush you will already need to have the Bluetooth integration
set up and active and you'll need some form of Bluetooth with your home assistant instance
whether that's inbuilt Bluetooth or some form of Bluetooth dongle I've actually seen online a few
different people sharing posts about how they're able to see their neighbor's toothbrushes within
their own home assistance and that's cool if you want to be that friendly guy that just checks and
monitors your neighbors oral Healthcare add in the brush into home assistant gives you access
to a few different sensors you can check out what mode the toothbrush is currently in you can view
the different information about the various bits of sectors you can check out the total running
time of the toothbrush and you can also view the toothbrush estate so whether the toothbrush is
currently running or whether it's idle the sector stuff is more of an Oral B thing and you can
actually view more information about that within the app but it basically tells you which part of
your mouth you're actually currently brushing if that's something that you're interested in
from Those sensors the two that I'm particularly interested in are the toothbrush's current state
and the total runtime of the brush and by making use of those I can come up with lots of weird and
wonderful automations I would love to get a few more of these toothbrushes and have some morning
and evening automations for the kids but they are quite expensive to pick up so for now I'm just
going to stick with mine so until I do get get some more here's a couple of automation ideas that
I thought of that would be useful for both the kids and for me my first automation idea is a nice
and simple one and this one works as part of your morning routine so when you start brushing your
teeth in the morning your smart speaker will make an announcement and it'll tell you things about
your day so it'll tell you any calendar events that you've got coming up it'll tell you what the
weather's going to be like throughout the day and it'll also tell you things like you need to leave
now or how long it's going to take you to get to work just little bits of information about your
day that are going to be useful good morning Mark don't forget to brush those back left teeth today
it looks like you have a meeting at 10 am the roads are clear so leaving at 8 30 will get you
to work on time remember to subscribe to Mark what tag my next automation is basically the
opposite to this one so it's a nighttime routine and with this one it would kick in when you start
brushing your teeth at night so for me one of the last things I do before going to bed is brushing
my teeth so what if I was to do this it would then check if any windows and doors are open it
would tell you if you've left any lights on and it could just automatically turn them off so it
kind of works as like a nighttime routine to start slowly shutting your house down and if you've got
any alarm panels or you make use of anything like alarmo you could have that automatically set based
on your toothbrush event my third automation idea would be quite a big time saver for me
so in the morning getting the kids ready for school I usually only let them watch TV before
school if they're fully ready for school and done things like brush their teeth so with this one it
would basically put a parental lock on your TV or any other device that you didn't want them
to use until they were ready and that way after they've brush their teeth or brush them for a
set period of time it would automatically unlock that and then they could watch the TV coinciding
with that parental automation I'd have another one that acts as a reward type system so my kids love
getting rewards and doing sticker charts and all of those little things so with this one it would
track things like how many sectors of their teeth they've brushed what level they've brushed them
to and how long they've rushed them to and using some clever mathematics I'd figure out some kind
of score and return and that way there'd be a little competition for who's brushed their teeth
the best and maybe you're going to get some kind of reward or treat for being the best toothbrusher
as you've got access to the toothbrush stay and how long it's been running for you can also do
things like play music or play a song Until a set period of time has passed that way the kids
know when they brush their teeth long enough and if they need to brush them for a little bit more
if it's something
Jackie it's my there's lots of really cool kid-friendly automations that you could set up and
use using these toothbrushes but at this moment in time these toothbrushes are just too expensive to
buy them in bulk and it probably most definitely is a little bit gimmicky to have your toothbrush
in your smart home but I'll leave that up to you with the Oral B integration this is currently its
first release and I do hope over time that a few more features get added to it as if you make use
of the ESP and connect your toothbrush to the ESP and then pass that into home assistant you
actually have access to a few more sensors and States so you can view things like the battery
level and a couple of other bits of information for me personally the battery level would be a
really cool one to have just because you could do things like set reminders or alerts when your
toothbrush needs charging which you can do with the mobile app but it's obviously better to do
it all with home assistant if you're currently making use of another brand of toothbrush and
you've got that working or you've got your own cool toothbrush automation ideas then do let me
know in the comments below and while you're down there if you did enjoy this video don't forget to
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