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i absolutely love the extra space in my new house not to mention the

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exquisite decor but the problem is that it was built back in the 90s when smart

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meant a mechanical sprinkler timer and a

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hard-wired intercom marco

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polo that ain't gonna cut it for me

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but when i looked into expanding beyond this with smart lighting and smart

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sensors honestly speaking there are so many

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different technologies and ecosystems and brands that contribute to some or

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more of them that frankly it was pretty overwhelming even for a

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tech savvy person to the point where i pretty much had to dedicate one of my

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staff members to figuring this stuff out

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before you begin your smart home journey you've got to figure out what exactly

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you want to automate or smartify from there you'll need to do

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research into the available products that can achieve your goals for instance

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if you want to install smart light switches so that you can have your

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lights turn off when you leave your house there are going to be a lot of

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options with a key differentiating factor being their communication

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standard or what they use to talk to each other and to the internet now

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currently the entire smart home market is in a bit of a confusing state due to

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a standard called mater it's a project that's backed by some of the biggest

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companies in the world with the intention of standardizing the

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communication between smart devices the problem is that

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matter isn't out yet and we still don't know what it's going to look like or

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what it's going to mean for existing communication standards so for now we're

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going to say it doesn't matter

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that leaves us with the big players wi-fi zigbee and z-wave now wi-fi is the

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one you're probably most familiar with it's super fast but it requires

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connected devices to maintain an active connection with a wi-fi access point

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that uses a ton of power so it's not suitable for battery-powered devices

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like this one not that we'll be using anything like

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this because screw replacing batteries if you know

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what i mean wi-fi is also what's known as a star

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network which means that all of the devices have to be within range of a

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central access point rather than being able to mesh off of one another it's

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also worth noting that depending on how baller your wi-fi access point is adding

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20 or 30 smart devices can start to seriously hurt your wi-fi performance

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which brings us to zigbee and z-wave these are both mesh style networks

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meaning that devices within the network can mesh between each other through

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low-energy radio waves rather than requiring all of the devices to connect

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to that central hub this means they have better range excellent battery life and

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they're more resilient than wi-fi based networks the downside is that they are

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way slower not that that really matters in a

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residential application even if we were taking multiple hops all the way from

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the basement to the upper floor of this house we're still talking milliseconds

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of latency which isn't to say that they're both the same though there are a

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few main differences between zigbee and z-wave products for starters the z-wave

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alliance requires that any z-wave product goes through a very stringent

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certification process that requires the manufacturer to stick to standardized

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commands and security protocols this basically means that z-wave devices

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from various manufacturers are way more

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likely to just work with one another and do so securely

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it also means though that z-wave compatible products tend to be more

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expensive zigbee on the other hand is fully open

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and doesn't require any certification that means that most zigbee stuff is a

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fair bit cheaper it just might not all work together they also

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operate on different frequencies z-wave is around 900 megahertz while zigbee

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operates in the 2.4 gigahertz range theoretically this gives zigbee the

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upper hand in terms of bandwidth but since most devices are barely sending

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any data just on or off it usually doesn't make a ton

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of difference now there's anecdotal evidence that says

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that zigbee will not mess with your 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi but since it's already

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such a congested band i didn't want to take that risk and since all the devices

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that i wanted to use are z-wave ready it was the better choice for me

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there's still one issue though the hub

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or hubs the thing is a device like your

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smartphone can't natively communicate with z-wave or zigbee devices so you

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need something to bridge the gap and this right here is the aotek z-stick 7

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which is the latest generation z-wave technology which means better power

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efficiency as well as better range not to mention convenient backwards

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compatibility now nothing would prevent you from using a z-wave and a zigbee hub

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and marrying those devices on the same smart home overall network using

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something like this raspberry pi running home assistant and in fact there are

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hubs like the smartthings hub that natively support both but it can add an

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extra communication step so we haven't felt the need to dabble with any of that

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we're sticking with z-wave this concludes the scripted portion of this

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video goodbye teleprompter all right Jake

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let's yolo this thing shall we okay hey that was the breaker

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so i've heard you're supposed to lick both your fingers uh-huh

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and then put them up my butthole well okay

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after that you lick them again oh so we're on different subreddits yeah

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there is a neutral it's in there boys very nice

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okay was this on or off when it doesn't matter oh boy it doesn't matter oh

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shoot balls um i don't have the little

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pokey jabby you don't need a pokey jervy i do need a pokey jabby oh you need a

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pokey jeffy could you get the thing out hold on hold on no push it in a bit

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before you pull yeah there we go mint bud what's up andy

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hi how you doing now because this is a smart switch we can't just wire our two

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black wires up to the two black screws and call it a day it actually requires

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the neutral wire which is gonna be this silver puppy right here so we're gonna

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wire that up to these white wires now we've also got a

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fourth connection for travelers that's for a three-way ah that's for a

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three-way switch perfect oh good so this is three-way compatible yeah i think you

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need their like specific add-on switches but yeah you could do three-way again

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ladies and gentlemen this is not what we would recommend

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uh but we're just doing this to kind of test it out today

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so we're just gonna jam both of the wires under the screw so they'll make contact that way hold on i think i can

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loosen it a bit more how much do you trust your handiwork

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uh enough to test it right now and then

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immediately put the other switch back on properly and then have a qualified

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professional do this again later

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hey huzzah okay so we've got our line and our load and

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then we've got normally we would use our mouret and a

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wire chunk to go to our neutral here but we didn't we just put them both there uh

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just ignore that we're not even going to screw that back in so

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nice actually we should screw it back in so no one gets burned

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and boom yeah all right cool it's so cute yeah

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stop it stop it

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another cool way we could have checked if power was running shout out to fluke

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is with the volt alert setting on their multimeter so check this out right

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right cool huh what do you want a tutorial or

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something no i just i want to see how does it pop up in home assistant if

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you're not familiar with it home assistant is a piece of software that

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allows you to connect basically any smart home ecosystem to another smart

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home ecosystem and then set up automations based on the data that you

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receive from each one it's super cool

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and theoretically our switch is going to show up

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pretty much like that actually before we do that we kind of need to set up the

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hub now technically i kind of did this on the background but if you need to do

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this yourself all you got to do is install the z-wave js add-on into home

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assistant if you have home assistant running in a docker container you're not

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going to have add-on support so you're going to have to do this in a separate container but if you have it on a rasp

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like we do it's really easy to install you basically go to the add-on store type in z-wave js and install there's

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two versions technically one that's built right into home assistant and has

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less configuration and then there's the fully featured fully fledged

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web gui one which is what we're gonna use because it is way nicer look at this

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you can see everything that is super cool so

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i don't see our switch yet though because we haven't hooked it up yet so

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by default nothing's going to be configured you're going to have to pick your usb device we have it there you're

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going to want to set a network key and then you should be able to see your

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controller ours is the 700 series space controller it's the z6 gen 7 whatever

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it's in there we can see it's live we can see it's happy then you want to add

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your devices so you want to add the switch yeah to add a z-wave device it's

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called an inclusion so we're gonna go in the controller and tell it i wanna do an

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inclusion now go click both the buttons on there at the same time i'm running i

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think that's the way you do it uh

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oh it worked it worked turn it back on how's that okay device found sweet

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so now that it's found the device okay it shows up like unknown af so oh wow

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that was quick never mind okay so it interviewed the device it figured out

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what the device can do what it's called and we can see in here

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basic switch binary switch

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target status oh oh nice and snappy target status on

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it's a little slow because these are fluorescent lights like that was

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basically instantaneous oh were you trying to are you trying to host right now yeah i'm trying to host a video oh

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sorry here you go geez should we play with some other device

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absolutely i already got this one out of the bag oh this one i already set up too

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but i mean the process is the same basically z-wave devices usually have a

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action button it's called so in this case if you got this brand new you plug

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it in start your inclusion and you get you some action you click the action

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button and it just does it yep you're a smart home enthusiast so that's the only

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action you're getting jesus don't include that in the video okay jesus

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okay go plug it in so i could action myself here with the button but i'm

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gonna action you for you Jake's gonna action me so look mom no hands do you

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always ride your bicycle and show these wow okay that did work really well

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now this is a yee light it's a smart light we could be cheating right now but we're not we're not shooting here's the

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three home assistant proof

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next i'll show you guys something that would have been super handy to have when

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the contractors accidentally plugged the drain for the air conditioning unit

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that's up in the attic this right here is a moisture sensor and what we can do

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is we can say hey if you detect any moisture

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turn off some device like say for example the air

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conditioning unit cool right

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at 50 bucks it's a lot cheaper than these drywall repairs

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another really cool thing that i want to use extensively is motion sensing now

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you can get switches that have motion sensors in them that'll just turn on for

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a certain amount of time and then turn off but with home assistant we can make

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it so much smarter these ge switches

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that we're using have both the light switch on and off and the motion sensing

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component independently addressable through home assistant so we can create

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all kinds of fun little integrations for example here in the theater room we

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could tell this switch hey if you don't see anyone move for

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let's say two hours turn off all the lights and while you're at it make sure

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the air conditioning is off and turn off the tv to save power dads love that kind

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of of course not everyone wants to buy all new smart switches so for those folks

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check this out we actually turned off the motion sensor

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that was built into the switch and instead we're using one of these simple

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little jobbies this is an aeotech i believe it's a six in one sensor it's

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powered by usb or battery so it absolutely sips power and it'll tell you

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i can't remember but there's six of them oh it's uv vibration which will be

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useful for tampering and then also light so it can tell not just if there's any

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light but it can tell how much light there is so you could tell it for

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example hey look if it's a bright sunny day outside there's already a lot of light

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in the room don't turn on the lights and conveniently this ge one that i'm

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planning to deploy also has that functionality so i probably won't need

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many if any of these oh and one thing that's nice is they have a wider field

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of view than some of the ones that are built into the switches here's something cool a lot of these

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aeotech devices and for that matter a lot of smart devices have extra sensors

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that you can pull to get extra data so for example you can see the multi-sensor

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six that we're about to show you a demo with in the mechanical room is measuring

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23.3 degrees celsius while that water sensor that we had in the upstairs

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hallway is at 31.7 i feel bad for the contractors here

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i was like i would i told them i was like i'll pay for you know internet in

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the house you got internet i'll run the you know the hvac for you guys while

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you're working but then they broke it like what am i

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i tried for our last trick aotech also makes a

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whole house energy monitoring solution and we're just going to open this up

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real quick and see sort of how scary it looks

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and if it's too scary then we're going to have brian the electrician hook it up

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oh it's actually not that scary everything is everything is cheap here

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why don't you take the whole thing off properly i'm trying it's hitting the breaker yeah this is really clean they

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did a great job i mean i don't it's not that i like hanging out in here

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this is not my this is not my like

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happy place how are you supposed to do this aotech yeah way to go aotech you know we were

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you were doing real well up until this point in the video okay that looks

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probably like it'll work i guess i mean what the heck could this thing even do

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so this will monitor your power and then what if your power goes over a certain

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amount you could get like oh it's working oh is it working yeah oh cool so guess

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how much power your whole house is using let's go look i mean right now

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hold on okay let me think let me think let me think because the hvac's not

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running range isn't running okay i'm going to say

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the whole house there's not any lights on either it's going to be like

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4 amps yeah actually almost spot on 600 640

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watts oh that's freaking awesome

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you know what here we could turn on this microwave okay ready

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is it bad to run an empty microwave i have no idea refresh what do we got 750

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hold on what do we got oh 2 000 watts holy crap now i can't

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leave this here because as part of the home renovation we're pulling out this

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125 amp service and we're going to replace it with a 200 amp service or

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the garage but that's a project for another day make

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check out our hvac video where we got a proof of concept running for how we're

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going to use home assistant to control multi-zone air conditioning with just a

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dumb ac unit mind you i think we're whoops

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thanks Floatplane appreciate it you guys are the best yeah i have time now