What else would you like to see added to my smart home this year? What will you be adding to yours?

I imagine watching this again in another 20 years feeling “ omg that’s old!”

Finally a youtuber that cares about their viewers smart device . Thank you for muting the magic word that will trigger our device (:

I use my Alexa for a lot of different tasks^^ When I say "it's warm", she activates the cooling fan; when I say "it's cold", she activates the heating fan; when I do my laundry, I use Drop In to hear the machine's beeping notification, when it's done; Good morning reads the news and turns on LED strips; Good night turns the LED strips on 1% red

Congratulations on getting fiber optic I got mine in March last year except for 3 days when someone cut the main wires coming into town it has worked perfect. Your smart home looks wonderful! I hope you enjoy it every day. And one last big congratulations congratulations on your next child. Take care and thank you for the home tour

A less expensive option for a closet or bathroom where you want the lights to turn off when vacant, but doesn't really warrant a full smart switch is to get a motion-sensor switch. Lutron makes a nice one. It will turn on when you enter the room and has a configurable time to turn off after no motion is seen. I put one in our laundry room since my wife often forgot to turn off the light. It works great. Now adding them to closets, pantry, and back hallway. Saves money over a smart switch or smart switch + motion sensor for those areas that don't really need any additional automation.

Omg this looks so nice! I usually stay away from smart home stuff but I think now I’m gonna start setting things up. It all looks so nice together and is really clever how some of them work together like that.

Brett Amazing Video as always, Glad you also mentioned the time because it does take time to get it just the way you want.Much respect for mentioning the names as well.Congrats Deb. 💯👌✌

For dark bathrooms and dark hallways, we have installed electrical plug covers that have a small LED strip in the bottom of the cover. It has clips on the cover that touch the sides of the electrical plug when you put the cover on. It also have a light sensor built in and it only comes on when it is dark. It provides plenty of light to see where you are stepping when walking around at night or going to the restroom and uses just a small amount of electricity at night. No automations and it is always on and available for use when it is dark. We also installed some underbid LED light strips that have a motion sensor that comes on when you get out of bed. You can control the time they stay on, the intensity, and the colors of the light strip. It even has a remote to go along with it. It comes with two devices so you can put a light strip on both sides of the bed when two different motion detectors, so whoever gets up, the other side doesn't come on too unless they get up as well. 2 Pack - SnapPower GuideLight 2 for Outlets [New Version - LED Light Bar] - Night Light - Electrical Outlet Wall Plate with LED Night Lights - Automatic On/Off Sensor - (Duplex, White) Under Bed Lights, LEHOU 6.56ftx2 Motion Activated Illuminated RGB Include Warm Color LED Strip Light Kit Motion Sensor Night Light with Automatic Shut Off Timer for Bed, Cabinet, Stair, Toilet (Double) I tried to post links to the Amazon page for each but it wouldn't post. So I just posted the title of the product instead.

Beautiful smart home, and congratulations on your new baby.

I love how it switches from "I am a child of God" in the bathroom to "You keep me safe, I'll keep you wild" in the bedroom lol

The tip with having smart light switches is so useful! I always end up having hue lights offline that I then can't control via my echo or phone because the switch is turned off. Really enjoyed watching the tour! :D

Congrats on the new addition to the family!

All the best to you and your wife and have a blessed weekend

Beautiful And Outstanding Home! You've Done Well With All The Cool Toys! Stay Safe All Of You! Thanks Brett For Everything! God Speed To You And Your Family! 🙏💖💕

Nice home Brett. Thanks for the tour of your very smart home. 👍

Automation is amazing. The only reservation I have is the reliability and durability of the system, as well as the maintenance cost when required.

I am first and I know that tech with brett is amazing all 344k subs deserved

Finally a new house tour!

Well Done Brett! One video you may consider is to include your wife and children and how they find the smart home integration. I have a much smaller integration and my wife at first complains about how the system works, but then seems to adopt the new technology, and would now complain when it’s taken away. Thanks for your helpful videos and your calm cool style to share your knowledge of smart technology, keep up the great work!

Another Great video, thank you for sharing Brett.

I’m loving all the automations, what a great video! I’ve been debating on smart blinds, but the automatic closing was amazing, might have to go to Ikea and pick some up for a future video we do.

I absolutely love your videos. I've been growing my smarthome for the last year, but there is only so much you can do in an apartment 😭 When we get a house next year, I will enjoy having a nest thermostat, a ring doorbell, a Google hub, and some smart blinds. You just showed me a lot of things that I didn't know existed!

Such a professionally well put together UKposts video thank you so much

Lovely house!, thanks for sharing this, it will help me decide what I need for my new home!

Finally a home tour Thank you Brett👍👍👍

Amazing!! Greetings from Peru!!

I love the tour and use of technology! Also, the wall art in the master bedroom Loll'll - Classic!!!!

Some great stuff :) I only just started with a few things in a small home but yours is nicely done. Nice tip on the grouping thing so a hub just controls things for the one area/room

I always think that I should be close to having everything I need but then I watch one of your videos and I get into the "I want that" mode. We have a couple of Ikea smart blinds that work well but I need some Switchbot smart curtains. Maybe more motion activated automations. Thanks Brett!

Very cool, can see a lot of this being very convenient (especially the shades) - though some of the lights are a bit overkill imo, and I think using a single assistant for everything is more ideal

Great video thank you for this! Gave me some ideas. The only thing I need is smart shades

Thanks for all your videos, you help me a lot with tech advice, thanks for this video : D

dude, CONGRALUTATIONS!

I was wondering how you used ‘Turn on the lights’ in each room and then you explained how it was room specific. Thanks!

Great tour! It’s interesting how there are so many devices I’ve never even heard of! That sink is crazy!

Awesome. Working towards my smart home this year. Started with a TP link switch that you have.

Love your smart home tour Brett thanks for sharing! & love your time stamp in your video. So need a home like yourself awesome 👍Congratulations to your beautiful family with the pending arrival 👶

Nice smart home & reviews. Lets hope FINALLY this year google adds a zigbee hub to there 2021 home hub refresh (fca says yes)& FINALLY let's 3rd party access to routines like amazon does. Need a smartthings sensor to trigger home automation within google home. Please.

This is so amazing! I didn't realize you can do all this in the home and its so awesome. I look forward to see how all this tech evolves over the years. Just seems like too many gadgets a the moment

Super cool Smarttek with smoothie and smarties. Dazzling on approach and landing.

Amazon now sells LED Garage lights that work very well to brighten your garage. My wife is a teacher who is currently using our bedroom as her virtual classroom. The lighting in the room is horrible for the video classrooms that she does. As a quick, cheap solution, I bought her one of these lights to use in the bedroom while she is teaching and it has worked great. I made a quick video of me installing it and the difference it made. I won't spam the link here, but let me know if you'd like to view. Love your videos, just starting to build a smart home with Alexa and some Wiz bulbs and also using a couple of Wyze Cameras for security. Great info on this channel that I will use when my wife lets me spend some more... : )

All this computational power so that I won’t have to look anymore at when the bottle is full and turn off the faucet. What a time to be alive.

Don’t know if this help you but our ceiling fan had a “dim” light too and after a few weeks we realize that you hold the remote light button to adjust intensity. It might be make it a little more practical.

Great job and true smart home! Very good for smart lighting control. I'd like to see you can recommend home protection and safety devices. Like protect water damage solution, power outage alert and protection,.. Thanks!

Love the setup. You should try the Bond hub bridge for your fans. I use it for both my ceiling fans on two different floors and it runs both by voice or with your phone app.

I love all things smart tech. There is a cost though and I would like to know how much energy your house uses with all items off. Meaning the parasitic energy loss from having all these devices on standby waiting for commands.

Phillips hue seems like a cool addition, thanks for the wall switch tip.

Hello, you've done a great job! Have you tried Red Series Fan+Light switch (Z-wave) from Inovelli? It's just great to control your light and fan both from 1 switch. And in bonus, you can create shortcuts and much more 😊 It works very well with a bunch of hubs. I think it's juste the best to control any fan with light. Inovelli dimmer/switch are also good with smart bulbs because there is the possibility of deactivating the relay so that there is always electricity which feeds the smart bulb.

Thank you for not saying "Hey Google" I can't tell you how many people other than me have turned off something in my house 🤦

I decided to watch to get some ideas of what’s possible. I have to say, many of these use cases are advanced ways to flip a light switch. I think home automation is still a solution waiting to find a problem in many cases. I cringe at the thought of all those controllers laying around the house, waiting to be lost and/or run out of battery power.

I needed this to do my research - thx for the vid

Awesome tour... Never even considered the faucet, I'm gonna have to add that and the blinds to my plan. Something I'd add for the laundry room, en suite toilet and walk in closet lighting is a non-smart lutron motion sensor light switch... That way if you're walking in or out with an armful of laundry you're not fumbling for switches and it'll turn itself off when you leave.

Thank you for muting the "Hey Google" parts!

I love your Latter-day Saints stuff around the house, especially your quote on the bathroom mirror.

Thank You So Much for the "Tech" Tour of Your Home 😊. Very Well Done 👍🏻 Will be Saving to my, "Smart Home 101 Playlist, JaneLee 🕊️ - in Suburban Philadelphia

Thank you so much for sharing your Smart home knowledge 👍

Great job 👍

Can you make a full list of all the smart home products u have

Hi Brett! Fantastic that you showed you're home. I love it with all the technology. Hubs Google home Philips hue. But it's different here in Sweden to get what I want. Thanks for the video 📹 👍

This was a great video. Showed a lot of amazing possibilities. I wanted to ask a few things. The first thing is how you set your lights up to be automated and controlled by a switch? I would appreciate any help you can give me.

Great Video!

Hey Brett, how do you use multiple Google hubs/home minis in multiple rooms which are nearby. Mine triggers in one room if I ask another hub from another room.

Loving the tour Brett. By the way, you have a really lovely home. Glad to see you vacuumed before recording! 😂

I didnt know it was roo. Spacific. I've always said turn on kitchen lights or what ever to make sure it knows which lights I want on

samsung are phasing out their hardware line of smart home devices to mostly concentrate on software, in the UK it is is almost impossible to find smartthings hub or the switches

Excellent video Brett! And congratulations for the new baby! I like your house is almost completely smart!!! Nice!!! Non-tech question apart, are you LDS member?

There is one thing I found absolutely essential to do with automation. Scheduled amd/or remote window ac power sockets. I drive all week, come home with a cool home without any input of my own or wasting power

Good stuff!

I think it’s funny how all these tech reviewers awkwardly stare at their Google or Alexa when they give it a command and wait for it to respond lol overall good video

You have a lovely home. I love that you’ve set up smart devices that make life easier, without going overboard and creating a techy geek house. This is the kind of thing I want to create. I have watched some of your HomeKit videos too and am tempted to go down that path, but might end up with 2 systems. HomeKit for anything with cameras so it’s local, but I might want Alexa for switches etc as they are cheaper, but also in Australia we don’t have as many smart products available so having 2 platforms will give me more options. I already have a firestick so Alexa makes more sense than Google.

Love your videos man! Every looks great. For your laundry room you said you just have a bulb and it’s just easier to turn the switch on and off. Have you thought about a SmartThings door sensor to turn on the lights when the door opens and turn off when the door closes? I currently have my laundry room set up that way with Zwave bulbs and SmartThings door sensor

this is what people in the 80's used to dream about

You need at least 3 more smart hub products! :)

Congratulations on the new baby!!!

Nice job! We are going to take a lot of inspiration for our house :)

How many time are you saying « SMART » 😂 Nice video !

Using Home Assistant can connect all the smart devices.

Great video! Question: Have you seen a increase in your internet bandwidth usage? What is your network setup? I currently have the legacy Google Wifi with two extra repeaters. I noticed my internet usage jump when I added 5 Nest cameras.

Fantastic video! Probably favorite of yours so far! First, I want to thank you so much for this. I found it very helpful. However, I do have a a questions: 1. I see that you're using a TP Link Ethernet switch in your tech closet. My question is do you have that plugged directly into your Xfinity Modem? Or do you have it plugged into your master Google WiFi Router. I also have Google Wifi and have Google Wifi units scattered around the house and I have my Philips Hue Hub and SmartThings Hub plugged into two of those in separate rooms. I want to do something similar to what you have done and consolidate all of them into one area in the basement. 2. I see that you're using various brands of smart blinds. I'm looking at those as my next move, but my question is which ones should I consider? Right now, we have the nicer wood blinds all throughout our house, so I want something with that same look, but not something that will break the bank. I would consider a lesser quality for the bedrooms, office and such. But would love your opinion. 3. I see that you are mostly using Google Home and not much Alexa. I actually have both, but I've mostly gone down the Google route because I had already invested in Nest so much before they were purchased by Google. So I almost don't have a choice! But I have the Nest Hello, 3 Nest Smoke Detectors, 3 Nest Yale Locks, 3 Outdoor Cams and 4 indoor cams, and two Nest Learning Thermostats. I have the Gen 1 Google Homes in most rooms, but I do have a Nest Hub in my office, the Kitchen and the Master Bedroom. No Nest Hub Max yet, but definitely looking at it. I also have a couple minis here and there. I do have Alexa in most rooms as well, but I want to move to one system or the other. I was ready to pull the trigger and go all in on Google, but then they discontinued the Nest Secure alarm system so I've seriously been considering the Ring alarm system. But trying to hold out to see what Google does first. Have you heard anything about the replacement for Nest Secure and the ADT partnership? 4. For our master bedroom, we have the Nest Hub on one nightstand and the Echo Spot on the other. We want to consolidate to one system and would love to replace the Echo Spot, but were concerned about both of them trying to answer in the same room. Any suggestions? Thanks again for such a great video! I have saved it for future review and will definitely be sharing with my friends and family that come to me with questions about their smart home setup!

nice walk through. although, we get to see the bane of smart home functionality. Even Samsung's smart things features like scenes, automations, cloud based triggers, etc can be aggravating at times. It is critical to know the limitations and design factors (local control vs. internet reliance for example) to ensure fallback to primitive usage. otherwise, guests and family will not like; and the DIY'er unless you have years of patience can get tired of chasing issues too :).

Im not good at English, however I understand it's amazing.

Amazing home devices, great tour house.👍

Beautiful smart home, congratulations! New friend here!😉 Greetings from Portugal!

Wow this is actually the future, today.

Ooo first!

Incredible video. Gave me so many ideas, thanks alot!

I have only a single smart thing, my ceiling light, and even that it amazing, especially with an echo show 5 in the same room and the remote puck (Ikea system) it's really useful for automation, like waking up to either warm light or really eye cancer causing blue light. I also have some scenes set up, like "Alexa, light to normal" that sets it to daylight white at 100%, saves me a lot of time fiddling with the remote

Wait till the power gose off and back on again lol

Well done! Now you need someone to decorate your house.

My favorite tech channel. ✌🏼

Great tour,thanks Brett

12:20 Imagine if the kids find out how to use all these smart things and start messing with them.

My favorite thing with smart devices is when “ok google “ doesn’t always work

I love your intro!😊

I also set up routines to create different light conditions. I have 13 lights in my living room so I created a couple different routines, I call them dark, bright, etc, and you just say hey google then the routine name, google will only turn on certain lights defined in that routine (and turn off the ones you don't want), saying 'hey google, turn on light' will always turn on all lights in a room and that can be too bright sometimes. I also set up a routine called Two, which is used when I'm done with the living room and plan to go up stairs, it will turn off most lights on the first floor and leave just 1 or 2 small lights, and turn on my second floor lights.

Since when has turning on a light switch been such a difficult and strenuous task

4:14 Noice

Nice video! Love the writing on the bathroom mirror - nice reminder

I don't have a smart washing machine, but I do have a cheap zigbee accelerometer. When that detects motion for 1 minute, Home Assistant sets a timer for an hour, and then wait until the accelerometer hasn't detected motion for 10 minutes. By then the laundry is done, and I send a notification to phones, and make a speaker announcement if someone is home. :)