WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.759 no I then I reversed the polarity which doesn't matter because it's a momentary 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:11.340 switch I know do not want to do this four times one muffin okay I'm gonna die 00:00:09.540 --> 00:00:15.120 it's no secret that our previous attempts at DIY Smart Home Solutions 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:20.640 have not always gone according to plan the smart garage door opener at my old 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:25.080 house ended up de-smartifying itself when the wires we soldered started 00:00:22.619 --> 00:00:29.880 picking up some kind of radio waves that caused my garage door to inexplicably 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:32.640 open and close and our attempts to use 00:00:29.880 --> 00:00:36.960 gem Brighton smart dimmers with motion sensors on them for presence detection 00:00:34.620 --> 00:00:40.860 blew up in our faces when we discovered that jazzco the company that actually 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:46.680 develops the switches and the firmware for them won't send out firmware updates 00:00:44.040 --> 00:00:51.300 to individual users and the freaking things were broken because they were on 00:00:48.780 --> 00:00:57.600 four-year-old firmware but not today today we are taking our second crack at 00:00:54.899 --> 00:01:03.539 smartifying a dumb garage door opener and it's gonna go flawlessly thanks to 00:00:59.879 --> 00:01:07.439 the this enforcer open and close sensor 00:01:03.539 --> 00:01:08.820 and this Fortress multi input it's a 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:13.320 memo it's called the memo multi-input multi-output it takes the sensor it 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:17.460 writes to the garage door like a relay what could go wrong nothing I tried it 00:01:16.020 --> 00:01:23.640 before just like you tried those switches well I told you to buy different ones and just like I tried to 00:01:20.520 --> 00:01:25.560 segue to our sponsor Ridge time to ditch 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:29.880 that bulky wallet a ridge wallet can hold up to 12 cards comes with your 00:01:27.360 --> 00:01:35.880 choice of cash strap or money clip and makes a great gift for Dad if you get 50 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:39.320 off until June 8th at ridge.com Linus 00:01:35.880 --> 00:01:39.320 someone get me one I'm a dad 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:52.740 the main functionalities you want out of any smart garage door opener are twofold 00:01:50.579 --> 00:01:56.399 one you want to be able to open and close the door from an Internet 00:01:53.820 --> 00:02:01.200 connected device like a Google home or an echo or your smartphone and number 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:05.280 two you want to be able to check the status of the door so that you know if 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:09.840 it's open or closed that way you can configure automations like say for 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:13.500 example if my garage door is still open at two in the morning that's probably 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:18.480 not intentional please go ahead and close that as you can see the garage 00:02:15.660 --> 00:02:23.819 door openers that I have have neither of those things now what I could do is I 00:02:20.819 --> 00:02:27.000 could buy myself a pre-fab kitted out 00:02:23.819 --> 00:02:28.500 smart garage door opener the issue as I 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:33.000 discovered at my old house is that Chamberlain who has a near Monopoly on 00:02:31.020 --> 00:02:37.800 garage door openers at this point forces you to go through their my Q platform in 00:02:35.819 --> 00:02:43.739 order to access any of those controls it's super close down and just has 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:49.440 bone-headed limitations like when you go to close it it goes 00:02:46.140 --> 00:02:51.360 light flashes for like 10 seconds before 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:55.860 it will actually start to close I don't need that I just want the door 00:02:53.580 --> 00:02:59.819 to close Chamberlain openers also don't play nicely with simple momentary switch 00:02:57.959 --> 00:03:04.500 buttons like these ones so you're forced to use theirs which prevents you from 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:08.640 using any other ecosystem so the obvious answer is to save myself hundreds of 00:03:06.540 --> 00:03:13.560 dollars by converting my old dumb openers into Smart Ones using just a 00:03:11.580 --> 00:03:17.280 couple of really cool devices and some of them are pretty simple like this yeah 00:03:15.720 --> 00:03:22.620 that's super cool I can't believe we didn't think of this last time we had that little Roost thing that you can't 00:03:20.760 --> 00:03:26.099 even buy as a consumer they sent it to us but it's battery powered which means 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:30.000 the battery died and then I never replaced it this is about as simple as 00:03:28.019 --> 00:03:33.420 it gets it's literally just a magnetic contact you see these on Commercial 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:37.080 garage doors all the time all the time we even have them at the office and I 00:03:35.700 --> 00:03:43.200 didn't think to use literally only on this guy which is the sensors got the 00:03:40.500 --> 00:03:46.799 wire attached to the frame and then this guy which is our kind of contact to the 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:52.440 door oh my God wait that's how it touches 00:03:49.620 --> 00:03:59.280 something like that uh that looks kind of janky um ah I think this is tightened 00:03:56.519 --> 00:04:03.840 down and like bending this and I think that's why it's not wide 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:07.860 enough to just come on here oh hey there's other parts oh well that makes 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.819 sense this L bracket might be useful yeah here's some self-tappers are 00:04:09.900 --> 00:04:15.120 contractors on hand and he's just like watching the stupid way that I'm gonna 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:19.680 do things he's like no no really There's A Better Way Linus it's like dude I know 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:23.340 but I'm gonna do it this way anyway see watch 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:27.240 there we go see it worked no I'm not taking it out I just want to 00:04:25.139 --> 00:04:31.380 whoops so how does it go on do we actually need to loosen this Bolter now 00:04:28.860 --> 00:04:36.180 well I see an example but now I'm just kind of more confused yeah look see it 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:37.680 bends now it bends so I bet I can look 00:04:36.180 --> 00:04:41.280 at let's get it on there now sort of not really while he's figuring 00:04:39.840 --> 00:04:45.060 out how to test it I'm just going to YOLO install it put it like very close 00:04:43.320 --> 00:04:49.740 to the bottom so it'll detect even if the garage is open for sure a little bit 00:04:47.280 --> 00:04:52.620 can I have some self-tappers no I need more 00:04:50.699 --> 00:04:57.960 oh that's definitely okay that's too much okay we'll just have them it's fine 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:01.320 everyone just goes full snark mode as soon as they start doing anything for me 00:04:59.699 --> 00:05:05.880 it's like oh that's not quite enough here's three times as many this is 00:05:04.080 --> 00:05:11.460 interesting uh you got they look like horse hoof 00:05:08.280 --> 00:05:14.460 trimmers but they're for tools no they 00:05:11.460 --> 00:05:17.280 look like this hold on 00:05:14.460 --> 00:05:22.380 I'm at a loss straight hoofing Bud everyone's talking to me like I'm crazy 00:05:19.320 --> 00:05:26.460 horse with true when you even I want one 00:05:22.380 --> 00:05:31.440 of those oh oh oh man that's not easy to 00:05:26.460 --> 00:05:33.539 get at any bit and uh please yeah please 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:37.139 remove the screw tripping the end off and then oh that's a good idea that's 00:05:35.460 --> 00:05:41.820 way smarter thanks Dan you're very welcome these are both excellent ideas I 00:05:39.300 --> 00:05:46.380 like Reese's way better oh wait no no Reese's idea doesn't work yep nope sorry 00:05:44.460 --> 00:05:51.900 we're back to Dan's solution good job Dan Dan you win yay I don't know what 00:05:48.780 --> 00:05:54.600 you win oh my God these are not gonna 00:05:51.900 --> 00:05:58.020 cut this this is wow what is this screw made of 00:05:58.020 --> 00:06:00.979 Jesus Christ 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:10.139 totally fine all right rock on then we're good enough 00:06:08.100 --> 00:06:15.539 is that Ethernet or is it two conductor I told them to run two this is cat six 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:18.240 okay we'll pick some Pairs and all right 00:06:15.539 --> 00:06:22.380 wonderful thanks so much Dan I knew we had you here for a reason Dan's here by 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:28.680 the way so far he has handed me this Cat6 stripper 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:32.280 he's a stripper what pairs are you feeling Jake 00:06:30.180 --> 00:06:36.600 should we be green boys today yeah I'm done with green feeling green for 00:06:34.020 --> 00:06:40.020 Success why did you have them run cat 6A if we only need two I didn't I told them 00:06:38.039 --> 00:06:43.199 to run two conductor and they ran Cat 6A anyways and they also ran Ethernet from 00:06:41.940 --> 00:06:47.160 up there to the mechanical room I'm pretty sure for some reason don't know 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:51.120 why they would have done that so like that might have been my fault yeah I 00:06:49.620 --> 00:06:56.340 didn't know that it was going to be all Wireless okay Jake I'm hooked up we ready to test 00:06:54.660 --> 00:07:01.199 it okay time for you to get up on the ladder on the ladder I mean yeah that 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:05.400 cable goes up there oh yeah it's an A-frame ladder but it's I 00:07:03.960 --> 00:07:09.840 don't think it goes that high stand twice that height you know that's 00:07:07.139 --> 00:07:13.080 extremely sketchy okay let's use this ladder on that garage door and we'll 00:07:11.400 --> 00:07:18.660 just do one first hold on a second let's just think for a second here 00:07:15.960 --> 00:07:22.800 hey you know what Dan's tall oh God don't worry you always want to put it on 00:07:20.400 --> 00:07:25.500 the last rung that's the safest one I'm gonna die 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:30.060 why are we doing this on top of the ladder instead of bringing the ladder down well because we thought that we 00:07:28.620 --> 00:07:37.520 could do it from on top of the ladder obviously everybody Dan Dan Dan 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:42.060 everybody's being mean now totally dead hinge must be locked fully before using 00:07:40.740 --> 00:07:45.599 really not partially this is what I'm trying to say what are you working the 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:49.680 logistics Department stop being so logistical about it just let it happen 00:07:47.039 --> 00:07:53.639 man who pays our bills sometimes is that the only reason you 00:07:51.840 --> 00:07:57.479 don't want me to die yeah you also get blood all over the floor this is awesome 00:07:55.259 --> 00:08:03.120 okay we're great you can make it up to me by buying a desk pad on lttstore.com 00:08:00.419 --> 00:08:07.380 making your workspace look so pretty I'll buy two this Cat6 front is the same 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:11.340 one that's hooked up to the door sensor so I stripped the same pair the green 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:15.539 pair and now what I need to do is I need to wire it into my memo module here this 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:20.220 is Z-Wave plus compatible which means that our smartphone or whatever other 00:08:17.819 --> 00:08:24.960 smart device communicates over Wi-Fi to our Z-Wave controller in our case it's 00:08:22.500 --> 00:08:28.740 an AO Tech stick and that is going to communicate over Z-Wave to this buddy 00:08:27.060 --> 00:08:32.700 right here now because of another issue we ran into with those GE switches that 00:08:30.900 --> 00:08:36.959 they don't seem to support any kind of Z-Wave security or encryption it seems 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:42.060 like we might be having some signal strength issues because they also don't 00:08:39.180 --> 00:08:46.140 seem to pass through a signal for devices that do require security for a 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:51.000 light I don't care but for garage door opener I care a lot so in the meantime 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:54.899 Jake has plugged in a couple of aeotech smart receptacles to act as a relay for 00:08:53.640 --> 00:08:59.399 us just to get the signal from the mechanical room to here 00:08:56.940 --> 00:09:05.459 okay so is that ladder locked at all or no I'll move around it's locked a little 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:09.959 yeah safety patrol okay I should be powered now jakku 00:09:06.959 --> 00:09:12.180 jakku I see lights 00:09:09.959 --> 00:09:16.320 ah yes it's working 00:09:14.459 --> 00:09:20.160 when I just had it set up over there it was barely working like maybe one in 00:09:18.420 --> 00:09:24.540 every 10 tries now that I've added the repeater plugs and told that Z-Wave 00:09:21.839 --> 00:09:27.920 device to heal its connection every time I click the button it turns on anyone 00:09:25.980 --> 00:09:33.300 see again nice signal two in ground yeah and well 00:09:31.860 --> 00:09:37.500 the appropriate ground I'm sure you can figure that much I'll find a ground well 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:42.420 there's actually three grounds what one for power one for Sigma 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:46.680 why did I even listen to what you said oh I have to ah that makes sense I was 00:09:45.300 --> 00:09:52.620 tinkering with it over there and I was playing with the sensor and it wasn't updating you have to switch it from 00:09:49.620 --> 00:09:54.600 periodically update to on change which 00:09:52.620 --> 00:09:57.959 is what we want right do you have it hooked up now it should be yeah it's 00:09:56.760 --> 00:10:03.360 definitely reporting a different value okay where is it right now it's on it's 00:10:00.839 --> 00:10:09.360 like next to it pull it away oh yeah oh nice so I can screw this onto 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:11.100 the door then sure nice okay oh this is 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:15.240 great this is actually going shockingly smoothly I guess that's what happens 00:10:12.540 --> 00:10:17.600 when we pre-test I tested this out of these 00:10:17.640 --> 00:10:22.220 oh that one pulled something ow 00:10:22.380 --> 00:10:27.660 I'm weak I'm weak guys 00:10:25.380 --> 00:10:31.560 it's closed right now then right I believe so yeah it's at four should I 00:10:29.640 --> 00:10:36.360 open the garage no I'm gonna open the garage no I'm opening the garage one 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:40.380 mistake are you ready can I do it now yeah you're good which one is it the 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:45.959 bottom one uh no the bottom one is the close one wow that's stupid open okay 00:10:43.800 --> 00:10:53.959 stop and open and ah oh I'm in the sensor 00:10:50.640 --> 00:10:53.959 all right okay yeah go ahead 00:10:54.200 --> 00:11:02.279 and close immediate nice yes 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:07.140 yes that works so well and we don't even have to have any janky wiring over by 00:11:04.860 --> 00:11:11.040 the buttons they'll just work completely as normal they have no idea that any of 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:14.399 this is even here yeah you just have to stick a little wire onto the button now 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:21.000 I have to stick a wire onto the button sorry what all right okay the button I'm working on 00:11:18.899 --> 00:11:25.380 it Jake you don't happen to know which contacts I'm I mean there's nothing here 00:11:23.820 --> 00:11:32.760 is there really that many well there's three three so I'm just going to cut myself a 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:34.680 nice big old chunk of this I'm not sure 00:11:32.760 --> 00:11:38.820 what voltage a garage door button runs at but it's probably like 12 volt DC so 00:11:36.899 --> 00:11:43.500 a garage door opener or something sending signals is going to be way too 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:47.399 low voltage to trigger that because this is door two right where does it even go 00:11:45.180 --> 00:11:51.779 into it's signal two right yeah well they're called no two com2 and nc2 which 00:11:50.160 --> 00:11:55.380 I'm assuming is no connection to no no that would be normally open and normally 00:11:53.160 --> 00:11:59.279 closed so you'll want normally open two and come too okay sorry one more time 00:11:58.019 --> 00:12:03.180 door two uh I'm sorry I can't look at that right 00:12:01.140 --> 00:12:06.899 now can you look at it for a sec no yes you can fine 00:12:04.560 --> 00:12:10.500 yes that store too Brandon can you even see from there there's little lights 00:12:08.040 --> 00:12:15.300 turning on and it's going click click so can we just wait what there's like 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:19.560 caulking here why you ready hold on no no don't do anything you're not ready 00:12:16.680 --> 00:12:22.980 nothing what do you mean nothing I mean it doesn't work I don't believe you okay 00:12:21.660 --> 00:12:27.540 go nope nothing what the okay hold on hold 00:12:25.800 --> 00:12:30.420 on Jake let's try the red and white one just to humor me I thought you were 00:12:28.860 --> 00:12:33.779 trying it both way that's what you said you tried it the other way no and then I 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:39.240 reverse the polarity which doesn't matter because it's a momentary switch I 00:12:35.700 --> 00:12:43.500 know it's been a rough oh my God 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:45.180 my bad my bad stick it on there this is 00:12:43.500 --> 00:12:50.760 so uncomfortable I do not want to do this four times I'm a muffin okay my 00:12:48.779 --> 00:12:57.540 back hurts well move the ladder so it's more ergonomic you tool just get in 00:12:54.420 --> 00:13:00.200 there Jake hit it 00:12:57.540 --> 00:13:02.940 yeah yeah and the scents are updated 00:13:01.560 --> 00:13:09.660 immediately okay now it's time to melt this boy 00:13:07.620 --> 00:13:15.480 so like I mean I guess here is fine right just go for it brother wherever 00:13:12.839 --> 00:13:20.279 you oh don't don't do that what don't do what you can't get the cover on if you 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:24.839 mount it to the ceiling first oh my God the cover screws on from the back yeah 00:13:23.160 --> 00:13:28.800 why now we need to hook up jumper then so 00:13:27.300 --> 00:13:35.040 that I can control the other one as well yeah Jake I'm doing it what I'm I'm 00:13:31.980 --> 00:13:37.500 doing it what right now I use the green 00:13:35.040 --> 00:13:42.540 pairs for both the sense and the signal from the button but now that I know that 00:13:39.899 --> 00:13:47.100 we have to have two of the pairs coming from over there one for Signal one four 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:51.320 cents for the whether it's open or closed I would like to color code it I 00:13:49.620 --> 00:13:55.740 don't care it's your house okay the one downside to an approach 00:13:54.180 --> 00:13:59.639 like this is we don't really have a way to tell the garage door to open or close 00:13:57.779 --> 00:14:03.839 we just have a way to tell it to activate which depending on where it is 00:14:02.100 --> 00:14:08.519 will open or close so I added a little bit of like logic to the sensor so that 00:14:06.420 --> 00:14:12.420 if the garage door is closed and you say Hey Google Assistant close the garage 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:17.100 door it's not going to then open the door because that would suck it'll only 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:23.880 close it if it's open but here look at that you got to tell me when you're 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:26.040 gonna do that what oh wow yesterday at 7 00:14:23.880 --> 00:14:31.260 pm you drew almost 8 000 Watts concurrently that's a little did you 00:14:27.779 --> 00:14:34.079 have the oven on maybe all right ah I 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:37.740 think I did it ow my back in order to get voice assistance like Google 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:42.060 assistant and that other one from Amazon to work the best way to do it is to use 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:46.199 home assistant Cloud which is a paid service it's only like five bucks a 00:14:43.920 --> 00:14:49.920 month but it is run by the people that make home assistance so I thought the 00:14:48.420 --> 00:14:53.339 whole idea was I didn't want this to be Cloud bound okay well how is it going to 00:14:51.899 --> 00:14:57.420 be not Cloud bound if you want to use Google Assistant 00:14:55.139 --> 00:15:00.480 so once you have that set up all you need to do is add you don't need the 00:14:58.800 --> 00:15:04.019 homes to snap for this I don't well you can get it later oh okay you need to 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:08.459 activate the home assistant Cloud skill for Google Assistant you can set it up 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:13.320 without the cloud thing but you have to use like a test app and you got to like 00:15:10.680 --> 00:15:16.680 re-off it every like two weeks it's awful you might as well just pay the 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:20.760 five dollars okay set up a device okay so we're done setting up a device which 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:26.600 means we should be good to go then oh oh whoa no way open the lower big 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.600 garage 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:36.420 yeah yeah it's the lower big garage closed 00:15:34.019 --> 00:15:41.060 it's open lower big garage D2 is open and it is 00:15:37.680 --> 00:15:41.060 shut all the garage doors 00:15:43.880 --> 00:15:51.779 sweet that's amazing I tried to do that 00:15:47.880 --> 00:15:54.360 one and I tried I heard it to segue to 00:15:51.779 --> 00:15:57.959 our sponsor Squarespace do you think make a website's hard well it is but it 00:15:56.579 --> 00:16:03.240 doesn't have to be with Squarespace you'll have your website up and running in a matter of hours Squarespace has 00:16:01.560 --> 00:16:07.380 award-winning templates that will help make your website stand out so say 00:16:05.040 --> 00:16:11.760 goodbye to the drab geocity's inspired hellscape and say hello to Squarespace 00:16:10.019 --> 00:16:15.600 plus if you're interested in how your website's doing they have built-in tools 00:16:13.740 --> 00:16:20.100 to help you find 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