1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,600 I spent the better part of two years renovating my house into the ULTIMATE tech house. 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:12,800 And while the super-fast 10 gig networking, fall-in-Wi-Fi, and custom theater room are freaking awesome, 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:18,000 there's a couple of things that didn't exactly go according to plan. 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,000 You see, it wouldn't be much of an ultimate tech house if it wasn't smart. 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,600 And as a father of three, the first thing that came to mind was automatic lights. 6 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:35,040 So, like any sane person would, I installed over 100 GE JASCO smart motion switches, 7 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:40,880 only to discover that they were so buggy that they've rendered my entire Z-Wave smart home network 8 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:47,680 pretty much inoperable. Not very smart. Which maybe wouldn't be so bad if even the DUM functionality, 9 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,920 like the integrated motion sensors, worked freaking half-decent. Come on! 10 00:00:52,160 --> 00:01:00,240 Hello! Luckily for me, Innavelli, another smart switch company, 11 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:06,080 heard my cries and decided to design a smart switch that would solve all of my problems 12 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:11,440 using millimeter wave technology which can detect people even when they aren't moving. 13 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,160 After raising nearly half a million dollars on Indiegogo and spending many painful months on R&D, 14 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:24,240 I finally have one in my hands. And today, sponsored by Homie and their Homie Pro Smart Hub, 15 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:28,880 we're going to start fresh and we're going to try these out and hopefully see the beginning of the 16 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:34,000 end of my smart home troubles. I really hope these work because I don't think my marriage 17 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,600 is going to survive another pool party with the lights turning off every five minutes. 18 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,440 It won't. Before we get too deep into the cool tech in these, 19 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,360 let's talk about the problems that Innavelli was trying to solve. You guys already saw that 20 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:51,280 the motion sensors are anything but sensitive, but there's a lot more. For starters, if you 21 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:56,400 have a three-way switch, so that's two switches controlling the same fixture, you can only have 22 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:01,200 a motion sensor on one of them and then a dummy on the other side, which for stairs can be a 23 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,280 downright safety issue because it'll automatically turn the lights on when you're going one way, 24 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,840 but not the other. This one drives me crazy. I like to have the lights off when I go to bed, 25 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,240 but I want the motion sensors active in case I need to get up. But by the time I can get away from 26 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:21,440 them, they activate again and you can't reconfigure that. This one's been a real B in my bonnet. My 27 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:28,400 old switches will only fade on and fade off, which can be quite hard on smart bulbs and other 28 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:35,840 non-dimmable fixtures. Not that they behave much better with dimmable bulbs and you can see what 29 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:41,520 I mean here in the gaming room. This is one of the ones that still works. The worst part though 30 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:47,840 is that they've gummed up my Z-Wave network so much that I can't even adopt the last 20% or so 31 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:54,560 of the switches, and I'm even having issues with non-JASCO devices like my Bali Z-Wave blinds. 32 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:59,520 The blinds have been a particularly sore spot for me because the switches are way up here and I'm, 33 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:04,880 well, vertically challenged. It's not like I want to replace my switches. We managed to get 34 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:09,680 JASCO to release the firmware for this product, which wasn't previously available. Unfortunately, 35 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:15,200 they never updated it to fix any of this stuff. And when I reached out to a Z-Wave wizard who offered 36 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:21,840 to help me, they basically said, wow, I've never seen anything this bad before. 37 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:33,040 In fairness to JASCO, part of the problem is I have so many devices, but like, it's a smart home. 38 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:38,480 That's the idea. And besides, no amount of firmware updates is going to fix that infrared 39 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:44,480 motion sensing. It's kind of last millennium's technology. Let's talk about homey and first, 40 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:49,840 these new Inovelli switches. Inovelli was actually one of the front runners when we were sampling 41 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:55,280 options for the house, and they would have been my first choice. They've got a sick LED bar that 42 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:00,080 can help finding switches in the dark, show the dimming level, and even be programmed to display 43 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:05,680 alerts and stuff like that. They worked flawlessly in our testing. The only problem is they didn't 44 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:13,120 have a motion dimmer or any kind of presence detector at the time, but now they do. Despite 45 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:18,720 many delays, this is a complicated product and they wanted to make this work, it's finally here. 46 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:24,480 Let's try it. Oh shoot. I need a stubby. lttstore.com. 47 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:33,360 Well, the switch works. So that's good. So much more responsive. Well, it works like a normal 48 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,280 switch, which I will never take for granted again, but I couldn't help noticing that the 49 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:40,640 motion sensing is not working. Well, it's not adopted yet. I don't know what the default 50 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:46,000 behavior is, and this firmware is like very alpha. Okay, let's adopt it. Just testing. 51 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,560 To do that, I could use my existing home assistant instance and Z-Wave stick, 52 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:55,200 but the problem with that idea is that I don't have these new Inovelli switches yet. 53 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:59,760 I need to rely on these JASCO ones for a while longer, and if I unpair them and start fresh, 54 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,080 it is going to be a nightmare. So instead, I'm turning to our sponsor, 55 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:08,720 Homie, and we're going to be using the Homie Pro to start over. For the uninitiated, 56 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:12,880 Z-Wave is a wireless low-energy smart home communication standard that operates in the 57 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:19,280 900-dish megahertz band, which is great for me because I need to not interfere with my already 58 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:24,160 also kind of mangled 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi. That's why I didn't want to go with ZigBee, 59 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,640 but the Homie Pro Hub can do both without issue, so we could try ZigBee later. 60 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:34,080 For now, that was the physical aspect of the setup, so let's get it configured. 61 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,040 Let's add a new Homie. Homie Pro. 62 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,520 Down to Homie Pro. Okay, look at that. It changes color. 63 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,640 Oh, it supports 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi. Don't take that for granted with smart home stuff. 64 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:53,520 Okay, set up my home. How many floors does your home have? A couple. 65 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,880 I'm setting up all the zones right now, or at least I'm trying. 66 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:00,320 This is seriously like a pretty clean interface. 67 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,800 Well, we're set up. The whole process took about four minutes. Now what? 68 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,880 Well, we could add that switch as a generic Z-Wave device. There is an InnoValley app, 69 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:13,120 just not officially, it's still kind of in development, so I gotta just manually add it. 70 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:18,720 Typically, when you add one that has an app, it'll pop up and be like, you should use the app when you try to add it. Oh, cool. That doesn't work it. 71 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:24,640 Everything's very alpha. By the way, shout out to Homie for being absolute homies and working 72 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:29,280 with InnoValley to get this going. Dude, they were literally fixing things for me this morning. 73 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,600 Actual chads. And what's the benefit of an app? 74 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,800 That just gives you specific customization stuff. And then we go back to Homie, 75 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:42,720 and in theory, apps, boom, already there. Sweet. Okay, now we can add a device. 76 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:49,120 Now we can add a device. We're gonna have to go to the switch though. Let's do it. Did you add Office yet? Yeah. I mean, that's the only reason it took me like four or five minutes 77 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:53,040 to do this, because I was out of, adding all my rooms. Yeah, we got Office. And then connect device, 78 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:58,560 InnoValley. This is a smart, present sensing dimmer. I'm sure they'll have a catch your name 79 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,400 for it at some point. Do I need to... Press the pair button three times quickly. 80 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,920 And then do it again. Again? Yeah, twice more. I mean, let's do it again. Just do it again, trust me. 81 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:16,160 Your house is pretty mangled in the 900 megahertz range for whatever reason. I think it's pretty 82 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:20,960 mangled in every range right now. And I imagine that switch right next to it's probably not helping. 83 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:25,200 No, probably not. We might need to move the hub over here just to get it to 84 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,400 comprende, you know? That makes sense. Once you've got a whole bunch of devices paired to it, 85 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:34,640 they'll mesh up. And that's not going to be a problem, but just to make life simpler for ourselves. 86 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:40,160 He told me not to get these GE switches. And he takes every possible opportunity to rub it. 87 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:44,320 I haven't said it today. Yeah, not today. I tried to get you to get the InnoValley ones and have 88 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,040 different motion sensors. And I understand why you didn't want to do that. But also... I wanted 89 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,640 it all clean and integrated. If you could go back, would you? I think what I would have done 90 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:56,800 is just left regular switches until InnoValley developed these. But then InnoValley might have 91 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,240 never developed these if I didn't make my video complaining that they didn't exist. 92 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:08,320 So I would change nothing. You know what's inside there? It's actually a Raspberry Compute module. 93 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:15,040 Really? Yeah, it's a CM4. Oh, cool. That means it's good and should actually be really well supported. 94 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:21,760 Yeah, that's a good sign. Hey, there we go. Hey, look at that. Device completed. Perfect. 95 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,440 Continue setup. We are in the office. I'd already picked that up. And then I guess we should just 96 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:31,760 change this to like office switch. Like this whole thing is so beta still that they only made like 97 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:37,120 50 of this version. And we got two of them to test out. I mean, it works as a light switch right 98 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:42,240 now. Let's see if the motion is picking up. Oh, look at that motion alarm. Yes. Oh, and cool. 99 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:49,120 Actually, let's see. So with the lights all the way on, it's 50 watts of power. And we should see 100 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:55,040 the light value, the luminance go up in a little bit here, probably. Let's see. Oh, yeah, there's 101 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:03,120 even like charts. No data, obviously, because we just adopted it today. No data. Okay, repaired now, 102 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:09,120 which means in theory, I should be able to turn it off. Probably it's a lot smarter than my old 103 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:14,320 ones. And it has a bit of a delay on this. But I should be able to move. Oh, it definitely detects 104 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,400 you. Oh, well, for crying out loud. Okay, well, how do we make it turn on with motion? Well, 105 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:24,880 I think we'd have to leave for a bit and then come back. Okay. Oh, I can do that. I actually, 106 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:29,200 I don't know what the timeout is. Like they didn't send me a list of parameters. It seems that they 107 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:33,280 match up with their old style switches or the other stuff. But obviously the old style switches 108 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,520 don't have a motion sensor. Cool. Okay, I'm going to try it. It's still detecting motion. 109 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,920 What? It's still the Texas. Like most smart home things, it doesn't update all the time because 110 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,360 otherwise it'd be way too much traffic. So it probably updates like once a minute or something 111 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,760 like that. All right, we'll give it a sec. I don't know, maybe we're in the reflection of something 112 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:58,480 right now. Oh, glass door, you know. Okay. Stuff like this is part of the reason they're not actually 113 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:03,040 going to be using that sensor that's in that switch in the production version. There's a new 114 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:09,360 sensor which uses I think 79 gigahertz instead of 24 gigahertz in that one. And it has a bunch 115 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:15,840 more configuration. Like you can tell it to only track in a small section of the sensor and stuff 116 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,880 like that. Actually, now's a good time for us to explain this new sensor technology that they're 117 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:26,560 using. The big game changer here is millimeter wave. The old ones use passive infrared sensors, 118 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:32,400 which measure radiation or heat from things like humans, cats, etc. The new switch uses 119 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:36,880 millimeter wave, which is named after the wavelength of radio signals in the 32,300 120 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:42,560 dish gigahertz range. It uses those to detect presence and these sensors are so accurate 121 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:47,440 they can easily detect someone even if they're trying to stay still because just breathing 122 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:52,080 is enough to trigger them. That makes them useful not for just motion and being aware of 123 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:57,760 something that's broadly in the vicinity, but exactly how many things are in the vicinity where 124 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:03,040 they are and potentially what they're doing. It's like radar. So cool. A little big brothery, but 125 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:12,080 cool. Any luck? Well, I don't think it's working Jake. Oh no. No. Oh, it did work on the other one. 126 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:18,240 It showed on my side that when you walked in that it was on, but it wasn't on. I love alpha testing. 127 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:22,000 Should we try the other one? They sent two of them. Who knows? Maybe this one's bunk. The most 128 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,960 important part for me is honestly not the turning on when I go near them. We already got that. 129 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:33,040 I want them to not turn off when I'm just sitting still in the room. While we're waiting, why don't 130 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,880 we pair some blinds? Because I was having a heck of a time getting any of those to pair with Home 131 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:41,440 Assistant. Okay. I mean, realistically, are you going to control this area differently than those 132 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:48,320 ones? Actually, maybe yes. Yeah. Okay. So we'll call this like the nook. Yeah, sure. Okay. I could 133 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:57,280 put it under kitchen, maybe. Yeah. Use kitchen nook. And we'll put it part of lovely. Connect device. 134 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:01,680 Let's try it. All right. Oh, wait, we got to add the app. Perfect. We can add the app. 135 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:05,760 I'm a new app. I don't know why it opens on a web browser, but it seems to work like beautifully, 136 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:13,680 so whatever. Bali. There's a new version of my blinds that has Bluetooth that makes them a 137 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:17,520 little easier to configure and stuff. That would have been like you probably missed the cutoff 138 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:23,520 by like a couple months. Nice. I had an absolute demon of the time trying to get these things to 139 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:30,720 pair with my setup like they just wouldn't. Nook middle blinds, I guess. Okay. I mean, 140 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:36,240 you're not going to need to address them individually, but it would be good to have it 141 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,320 set if you did. Yeah. Do that. Okay. And then I guess this one. Okay. 142 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:46,240 Um, I don't need it. I can read. I'm fine. 143 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:54,400 I can't believe these are just pairing. Yeah. Did you try them before? I did, but like did it work? 144 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:58,640 What do you mean? Like, did you try them with my setup before? Oh, yeah. No, they don't work. Yeah. 145 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:05,200 I guess that's the issue with a mesh network. If it's made up of devices that are just a mesh, 146 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:07,360 get it? A mesh, a mess. 147 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:18,080 Anyway, the point is Windows are one of the main things you'd want to build automations for because, you know, energy efficiency and stuff like that. 148 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:27,040 And I just haven't been able to do it because I haven't been able to pair these bloody things to my broken Z wave network. This is great. And the homey hub is not even that close anymore. 149 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,160 Now that we've got a couple of light switches paired to it, the mesh is happening. 150 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:35,040 Fortunately, homey is compatible with a ton of other products. So if you don't already have 151 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:39,600 Z wave blinds in your house, you can use something like the rise smart shade system, 152 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:44,560 which can turn normal blinds into smart ones. In order to control all these as a group, 153 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:48,960 I'm going to use something called the flow, which is what homey calls its automation system. 154 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,560 I went ahead and created one that says when this flow started, that's something you would 155 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:57,520 just like manually trigger or trigger with another flow and then set all the positions to 100%, 156 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:02,160 which is to open all of them. The opposite one close sets them all to 0%. 157 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,200 And then when we hit go, hey, there we go. 158 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,680 For those that want even more control, they also have advanced flows in the web version 159 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:17,280 of the homey app. It's still easy to use. Everything is drag and drop, 160 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:21,520 but it gives you a lot more flexibility. For example, I made an advanced flow that pulls 161 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:26,160 our subscriber count from the YouTube API. That way I can make it so Linus's home automations 162 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:30,800 only work if the subscriber count goes up that day. Now we get to try the light switch. 163 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,360 What do you think, Jake? Motion going to work? Doesn't seem like it. 164 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:40,560 Well, they clearly weren't working. Are you kidding me? What do you mean they clearly were working? 165 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,920 They weren't working. Yeah, but we could have checked the thing to see if I could show the 166 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:47,840 action. They already did. And it detected it? Yeah, it still says yes as of 20 minutes ago. 167 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:52,560 I think there's something in this room that moves enough that it's triggering still. 168 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:59,280 We might have to try it in a different room. Oh, you know what, Linus? Look what's right in front 169 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:06,400 of the light switch. Smart thermostat? No, turn around. What? The vines? No, those are fake. 170 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:10,240 Yeah, but they'll move. They're not going to move. Like with the HVAC, they might. 171 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,920 I reckon we try it in a bathroom or something where like nothing's going on. 172 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:18,160 There's a reason they're changing the sensor and there is no tuning parameters right now. 173 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:23,520 It will be better. Credit to homey though. Their stuff has worked flawlessly so far. 174 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:31,760 I know it's actually been great. It just worked. It worked? It worked. It picked you up from under 175 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:37,360 the door crack? Well, like I said, it's really sensitive and this light switch is pointed at 176 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,680 the door. So even like walking over here could be enough of like an air pressure differential to 177 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:48,320 move the door enough to trigger that. Like it's not a great position to have a millimeter wave 178 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:53,680 sensor. You know what I mean? But but with the other one, we could set no zones for it, right? 179 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:58,880 Yeah. Over to here would be like detection and then here. Yeah. Yeah. Should we try one more 180 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:04,000 different spot with the other light switch? You just want me to zap myself. I mean, kind of. 181 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,440 We want to do another demo in the bathroom downstairs. So I'm just throwing in one of 182 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:11,920 Inovelli's Red Series switches. I at least have a working switch in this room. It's been driving us 183 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:17,600 crazy while we've been trying to scrapbook. Yes, I scrapbook. There's nothing wrong with that. 184 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:24,560 In this bathroom, there should not be anything that can move. So hopefully we can get a good 185 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:30,560 clean demo here. I'm actually super excited though that these are so sensitive because that bathroom 186 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:36,400 upstairs, man, if you sit and you know, play mobile games or read something on the toilet, 187 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:41,200 you're stuck in the dark. And I already showed you guys how hard it is to reactivate the motion 188 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:46,720 sensors I have now. You're figuring out your business in the dark until you're all the way up 189 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:53,120 when that happens. So this is going to be awesome with proper presence detection. 190 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,840 Those lights in there draw 25 watts, if you're wondering. Whoa, no way. They have power monitoring? 191 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:02,320 That's pretty cool. They also have light sensors. So if it's like really bright in a certain room 192 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,600 and you don't want the lights to turn on automatically when it's bright, you can set it up to do that. 193 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:11,040 How would that work with Homie? You could say like, if it turns on and this is too high, then 194 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,680 don't. Sick. Yeah. Okay. 195 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:24,160 Okay, it works. You haven't even walked in yet. Now the question is, how sensitive is it? 196 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:31,440 Well, there's probably a timeout. Right. I don't, I don't think it will trigger again until the 197 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:36,080 motion is like cleared for a little bit and then triggered again. Knowing in a valley, I'm sure 198 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,840 there'll be configuration options for that too. There just isn't right now, or at least I don't 199 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:43,920 know what they are. It still knows I'm in here though, right? Well, yeah. Cool. 200 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:53,600 Why don't you walk out for a second and then try it again? Okay, I'll walk out. Let's see. I'm kind of stoked on how simple Homie is. It's really simple. Why did I do the whole 201 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:58,800 Home Assistant thing again? Well, I don't know. Hey, look, no. It's clear. Okay. So it's about a 202 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:03,040 minute. Run in there again. It might be exactly a minute. I want to see just how sensitive it is. 203 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,640 You're going to sneak up on it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just, just hold on. Dude, 204 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:14,960 the door is going to trigger this along. Hold on. I don't think it can see me down there. 205 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:17,680 Oh, my finger is stuck. 206 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:31,280 Okay. Well, yeah. Oh, that's why I couldn't see because of the molding. Dude, the second I was 207 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:37,360 clear of this occlusion here, it was on. I don't think we're going to fool it. 208 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:44,240 It still says motion, buddy. You're just wasting your time. Oh, I give up. There's no way I'm going 209 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:48,400 to be able to hide from this thing, which is a good thing. You want a presence detection system 210 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:54,000 to work like this. So that's good. Now you can doomspring on this piece. I think the best thing 211 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:59,120 about today is just how painless everything was. I'm used to having range issues that I need to sort 212 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:05,120 out with like USB extensions on my Z-Wave stick, but instead the Homie Pro just 213 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,760 immediately worked because I can put it anywhere I want instead of it being stuck in my concrete 214 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:15,440 basement. They've got a ton of different solutions. So while the Homie Pro is a little on the pricier 215 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:20,160 side for some, they also have the Homie Bridge, which is a much cheaper hub that can be used as 216 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:25,120 an extension for the Homie Pro or can be used standalone with their cloud software and a subscription. 217 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:28,880 For myself, I just like having everything running locally. And fortunately, 218 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:33,680 Homie does have that option and doesn't require a subscription for that. We'll have links to Homie 219 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,440 and the rest of the stuff that we showed off in the video description. Do I keep Home Assistant 220 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:42,560 or do I just go with something simpler? I know Homie seems to work pretty good. And they're Homies. 221 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,280 If you guys enjoyed this video, why not check out the one where we originally installed my 222 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:52,560 Jasko switches? It was kind of a nightmare, but hey, what do you mean it's kind of a nightmare? 223 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,280 We're still living in it. Sometimes that's fun for you guys.