My Affordable SMART Kitchen: Fully Automated!

[@SmartHomeSolver]

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[@jeremygmail]

Sorry, I like cool light in the kitchen. I want to be able to see everything and the cool light gives a cleaner look.

[@unambiguous]

warm or natural

[@cedricgijsen]

Make an automation ,If your wife is home turn warm white if she isn't make it cool white

[@iAlexB123]

Warm white!

[@RedLeo-pf9yo]

Light

[@RyanLeach]

I completely agree, if nothing else get water leak sensors! I thought I’d never need it but my furnace starting leaking the other day and we were able to catch it almost immediately before any major damage happened

[@travislee4550]

I defeated my Alexa ads by changing my location to Australia. That keeps me in English language but I think they're privacy protections are better so no ads on the screen. 👍

[@charlesdoesmore5488]

But also your screen will be upside down.

[@CFPANDRADE]

@@charlesdoesmore5488😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@amithimani8163]

Will that not give you weather for location in Australia?

[@atlas7680]

in your settings you can turns ad's off

[@travislee4550]

@@atlas7680 where are you located? I like KZbinr turned off EVERYTHING and still get ads. That's how Amazon makes money off providing the service. Remember you either pay for the product or you are the product.

[@BenGarding]

The light temperature is best when synchronized with the position of the sun! I use the Adaptive Lighting add-on in home assistant

[@pauly7218]

Reed. So I'm a HomeKit user but the tablet control panel is amazing. How about a short series taking us un-informed step by step from buying the tablet to having it up and running in our home - just like you showed it here? I mean, total baby steps. Great stuff

[@harshiththirukonda5615]

Warm white is definitely the right answer!

[@TheMoonSeesMe]

This!

[@aj_mckinney]

Don't leave us hanging on the calendar video!! I just set up my kitchen dashboard yesterday and then saw you posted this video today. Would love to get some inspiration from your .yaml for the atomic calendar!

[@nicolasortuzar7457]

Same here! need help to customize the calendar

[@FrankStatik]

For your dishwasher door issue, you know it's just a simple spring adjusment. Just pull out the unit and on the side you will find spring with usually different holes position to adjust the tension. As for the lights, difinitely team warm here... ;)

[@daniellester7111]

It's possible that the dishwasher hinge cords need replacing.Very easy fix if you can pull the unit forward a few inches.

[@aishettina]

I have Shelfy in my fridge too! It's a game changer! Everything lasts longer and NO ODORS! 🥰

[@juffle]

My lights gradually change color throughout the day, from warm white in the morning to cool white in the middle of the day, back to warm white in the evening. I also have a script for opening and closing windows based on temperature, absolute humidity, humidex, air quality, and weather conditions, which recommends opening or closing the windows when necessary. Additionally, when all windows are closed, the air purifier, dehumidifier, and thermostat will activate as needed.

[@SmartHomeSolver]

I like all of that!

[@lindseypick]

I would LOVE to be able to do that. but I live in texas😅 it'd be constantly complaining of heat, humidity, and dust/mold😅

[@MorganeLainard]

Team cool light during the day and while doing things that require to see things better and warm at night.

[@Chipchap-xu6pk]

Fantastic video. I love the how practical these automations are for both for newbies and experienced home geeks.

[@decklane]

Definitely warm.

[@alerdal1]

I was angry about the ads on the Echo Show as well, but I found out that the ads can be disabled by changing the language in settings to English (Canada).

[@SmartHomeSolver]

That’s a great tip!

[@Renegade605]

You can mark phone notifications as emergency and/or sticky so they'll push through do not disturb and can't be dismissed.

[@SmartHomeSolver]

Thanks for the tip! I’m adding the sticky: true field to the Android notification and it doesn’t seem like it’s doing anything. The channel: alarm_stream makes a difference on my phone if it’s in do not disturb mode but if it’s not then the notification just comes across like normal 🤷‍♂️

[@Renegade605]

@@SmartHomeSolver it might also be the persistent flag that I'm thinking of. I know that between sticky and persistent one means it doesn't go away when you tap on it and one means that it can't be dismissed but I don't remember which one is which. I think it also needs to have a tag, otherwise there's no way to clear it remotely. On Android you can also use the channel to make those notifications higher priority so they don't get buried like the example you showed in this video. Overall I remember the notifications being pretty picky but it's been a while since I played with them. Best to just experiment with all the different features from the docs for a while to figure out how they work though.

[@bauercole]

Android 14 and above did away with persistent notifications 😢

[@Renegade605]

@@bauercole well that's disappointing. I'm still on 11 so that explains it.

[@MiChAeLoKGB]

@@SmartHomeSolver Shouldn't you be able to use any channel name and then go to Home assistant notification setting son your phone and configure notifications for that channel? You could have `channel: "Important"` and configure it on your phone to override DND, Pop on screen, to not minimize and even have a different soud.

[@3018744s]

Thanks to one of your videos we bought a CO2 sensor for our bedroom and figured out we often times sleep in a room with very high CO2 values (2.000-3.000). Bought one for our kids room immediately. Best solution for us (besides opening windows) was to leave the room‘s door open.

[@micahjohnson9184]

Great video! I love the dinner automation and the lighting automation with the vibration sensor. Definitely are awesome additions thank you!

[@caffeineTX]

I do the same automation you do with your dishwasher for my ebike to know when it finished charging, I also use the power metering to determine if the bike has fully charged to turn off the outlet so the battery doesn't overcharge

[@JoeDzado]

Hey Reed, had a similar clock problem with my parents' oven. Turns out, it needed to be connected to the home network to get accurate time updates. Seems like they removed the high-reliability clocks from them in favor of Wi-fi. If your microwave has no wi-fi feature then obviously disregard.

[@SmartHomeSolver]

Good tip! Ours does connect to WiFi but I’ve never wanted to connect it. Seems like I might have to now.

[@Renegade605]

@@JoeDzado that microwave would be going straight in the garbage if it were mine.

[@platniumdr]

@@SmartHomeSolver If you use something like a Unifi router you could put it on an isolated subnet and only give it a couple Kb/s of bandwidth; I prefer to do that for network items I don't trust at all. I can't imagine why a microwave would ever need wifi and tying the clock to it is super scummy.

[@virutalnewscenter]

Cool white in the AM, day, early eve. Warm light after sunset.

[@Combat_Chuck]

You can make an echo skill very easy and it will load a web page. Then you can use Home Assistant to reload the page every 30 mins to keep the screen saver from going. You’ll end up with the same thing as your google device without trashing the echo

[@tatts4life838]

I love that automation for telling if the dishes are clean or not. Our dishwasher doesn’t have anything to tell you if it’s clean or not. But it does have a timer display. We just tell people if the timer is blinking it’s clean. The problem is when people accidentally turn it off

[@rorygallagher-redslug]

Great to see you calling amazon out for the disgusting bait and switch practices. I had the same issue as you, so i got rid of my echo show device, replaced it with a pixel tablet, and have promised myself to never buy another amazon device. I still use the voice assistants for now, but in the longer term I'd like to replace them. I understand that the devices are cheap, but they are not upfront about the fact that these essentially tacky advertisement billboards for your home.

[@PositronMedium]

I have to start looking into setting up Home Assistant. I'm so impressed by dashboards like yours 😅

[@pjohnson21211]

I've got one of those automated stirs.....LOVE IT, it works great for something like risotta which demands constant stirring. The gadget can stir while I deal with other parts of the recipe. I also like 'Rubbermaid FreshWorks Produce Saver' as a non tech option to greatly extend the life of vegetables.

[@ydizo]

This video makes me happy! Smart homes and smart kitchens are a perfect match. And let's be real, the kitchen is where you can totally go overboard and over kill. 😂😊

[@veritas.sounds]

Don't know what to think about that candy dispenser at the end... good job puppy!

[@user-is7es]

Its name was "Spencer." Spencer the candy "dispencer" [sic]. lol

[@yeet2640]

You NEED to get CleanAirKits, especially in AZ, or some air purifier that can stay in its “on” power state. Use a smart plug to automate when both indoor and outdoor air quality is bad, or have it on a timer to be on in general. Make sure to use Merv 13 filters if you do this!

[@SmartHomeSolver]

I’ll check it out, thanks!

[@DannerBanks]

I'd love an automation that automatically turned on the vent fan when the stove top is turned on. My wife and mother in law forget ALL THE TIME

[@AdithaJayasuriya]

Pretty easy to diy with an IR sensor pointed at the stove. Fires are great sources of IR!

[@ParkerTyler]

This isn't really a solution but our stove and microwave are wifi enabled LG appliances and they can be linked to turn on the microwave's vent fan and light when the stovetop is on. It's the best.

[@Whens-The-Weekend]

You might have your wall oven circuit checked. Some clocks run off the frequency of the power input. A fast clock could mean issues through that circuit. Just bought a home and am smarting it out. Thank you for all you info

[@CNCPRINTBLOGSPOT]

Very nice, i would like to rebuild the Dashboard like yours for our Kitchen. Please make a Tutorial for it. Im Searching for such a long time and now i think your solution fits best. THX

[@coolbart66]

Cool white when cooking and warm white when around the kitchen for general use just for aesthetic reasons.

[@8Arachne8]

Warm white if you have to choose one, but as you showed you can do both. I really like my Adaptive Lighting.

[@clxlcov]

I love the philips hue dimmer switch. Bought it last week and it's just so good compared to the old solution (wear os app)😅

[@MiChAeLoKGB]

For lights: Warm white, but not 2200K or similar, that is way too warm. 3000K to 4000K is where it's at. 4000K if you use them during day, 3500K if it's more during evening (before sunset), and 3000K if you mostly use them after sunset. You could go lower, but if you need to use 2200K bulb during the day at all, it looks crap.

[@JoshsSmartHome]

Nice video Reed, the dishwasher automation is a little more advanced than my Dirty/Clean magnet on the dishwasher haha

[@fdelacou]

One little trick for the smart bulb vs smart switch. Buy a Lutron pico remote and the wall plate adapter (and hard wire your bulbs). You can then detect when the buttons are pushed on the remote and trigger the bulbs in Home Assistant. Benefit, you can use an automation that can not only turn the light on and off but you can also change the luminosity or color… ;-)

[@megaveejay]

Nice video, looking forward to the next video on how you've made the kitchen dashboard

[@chocomilkfps1264]

For iPhone users, the reminders app has a built in list type just for groceries, and when you add items to it it even categorizes them based on the isle they are typically found on in a store. If you move an item like “cheez-its” from the deli section to the snacks section, it will remember that for the future. Really easy to share reminder lists, and a big plus is that Siri is fast with adding items and doesn’t talk your ear off as punishment lol. Oh you can even add multiple items with one command.

[@kielhawkins9529]

I just use a fire tablet with fully kiosk browser on it. Grabbed one on prime day for cheap. Same experience, except I mounted it to the wall.

[@fdelacou]

Did the same with fire tablet and the wireless charger. Perfect to act as a portable tablet and the wireless charger is acting as a very nice stand. Only drawbacks: Size of the screen compared to the Echo and the lack of speaker compared to the pixel stand but I can live without it. :)

[@hometechUK]

Fantastic, please do a video video showing us how to set the Bug Banners up, thanks.

[@dsldsl1980]

All great stuff! Have you looked into changing the leds on the innovelli switches yet? I use them like you use your motion sensor for notifications and it is super helpful. If they are all red, the alarm is set, so we know to disarm before letting the dog out :).

[@Nera-whimwhams]

My kids broke my dishwasher door too, and I also like to open to air dry, but I have a narrow galley kitchen. One of my kids holds the world record for flipping over the dishwasher, which is why it is broken lol. The solution I found to allowing it to air dry safely, is to put a piece of paracord with a hook on each end. Most dishwashers have a latch door closure it can hook onto, or slip a large loop around the whole door and use a carabiner or hook to secure it to the latch. It allows dishes to dry with the door ajar to your desired opening and limits circus acts in the kitchen lol

[@cfletch85]

My wife and I bought a GE Smart Oven. It's been really nice and lazy, I mean convenient, to preheat the oven when we're driving home from work or simply sitting on the couch watching football. The wifi connected clock is a plus. 😜

[@ydizo]

Glad that u finally made a solo video on ur kitchen, I can't imagine a smart home without a special kitchen. If you agree with me a kitchen is the only place in a smart home that that you can over kill. I mean way not😊😂

[@kanbak]

I am definitely a warm light person specifically around 2700. My mom doesn't really care and will when changing out light bulb when it dies will just usually just pick a random one from the loose light bulb box. I can usually tell when two lights and not the same and will fix it because it bothers me. Non matching light bulb color temperature and brightness bothers me more then warm vs cool. They don't have to be matching light bulb brands or anything just as long as the lumens and color temperature matches. If I am at home and it's not a 2700k light bulb in any I will change it and go to the store to get more if needed.

[@bounce510]

Warm for the pendant lights. Cool white is great for bright as day lighting, perfect for cooking but there is nothing romantic about cool white lights.

[@louiswelrod]

Clock Reset - This may or may not work with your microwave, but I set up a very simple dumb clock reset for three clocks in our house. If the batteries are removed, the clocks reset to the same time (12 pm in this case) every time the power is cycled. So I added a smart plug and turn off the power for about 15 seconds ending at 12 pm every day. This means the clocks are always very accurate and I don't have to reset them after a power outage or for Daylight Saving Time. The down side is that I may have to endure up to a day of incorrect time if a power outage is soon after the reset. Two of the clocks annoyingly beeped every time the power came back on, so I opened them up and carefully scratched a gap in the circuit leading to the beeper on the printed circuit board. Since we did not need the alarms in these clocks, the beeping problem was solved.

[@revdbrink]

If you place a temp/humidity sensor in the extractor hood you can detect if someone is cooking. For my week meal plan if use Mealie with a Home Assistant api integration to show the whole week planning and a photo from Mealie with todays meal.

[@McTugmutton]

We have water leak sensors as well but they are also linked to our main water valve. When a water leak sensor goes off, it will turn off the water.

[@kuzurame]

I'm team adaptive lighting, apple home has their version, but I use the home assistant variant, with some tweaking you can have some really good adaptive lights in the home to help you have that perfect day/night lightning.

[@IceBotYT]

You should set up Mealie! It's a recipe database and meal planner and works locally via an HA add-on!

[@SmartHomeSolver]

Thanks for the tip, I’ll check it out!

[@BothellPlaysMusic]

I'm putting zooz switches (z-wave) for my whole house with Wiz bulbs and downlights. Smart lights will be always powered, light switches trigger scenes depending on the time. Unifi devices providing excellent IOT network Home Assistant ensuring local control

[@HebrewHammer-exe]

Team warm lights after sunset all the way! I don't want my house feeling like a hospital!

[@plebetopro5786]

Those "cheap" USB-C devices I've found the issue is usually that the 2.0 standard on type-C is not followed properly, or maybe there is multiple methods, but a REAL 3.1+ cable works 100% of the time.

[@TyDaSpace]

hahah... Dude! Your house is just too relatable. I was expecting some crazy high end stuff that regular people like us can only dream

[@chrisross3631]

Complains about Amazon ads, then litters video with ads. Nailed it!

[@alexandersteinbruck7336]

I use cool and warm white light, with the adaptive lighting integration

[@mikeguerriero222]

Love the different notifications for dishwasher and air quality in the HA dashboard! Did you use a HACS integration for that?

[@ketandeshpande8307]

I liked the concept of Showing Food Prep for Today and Tomorrow and Wanted to know more about it . Can you please share the code here to do analysis more and implement for myself

[@scaytrase]

On android (at least) you can assign different channels for notifications, so they do not fall into single pile. You can even assign important notifications different sounds

[@deemabon314]

U can order dishwasher friction pads to keep the door from falling when you open it. Same thing happened to me and I have the same dishwasher u have. Easy inexpensive fix.

[@SmartHomeSolver]

Good to know, thanks!

[@ronm6585]

Very cool Reed, thank you.

[@RLR997TT]

Dashboard video on calendar would be good.

[@At-M]

I wasn't able to watch the video yet, but I use a light that is as close to natural daylight as possible, i bought new ledstrips for the kitchen exclusively for the kitchen. Warm white lights mess with the colors of food a bit, and I'm around cold white lights enough at work.

[@MsAAAlexis]

Looking forward to the pixel dashboard setup. I want the same setup.

[@andreaponte]

Hi! What theme are you using for your dashboard? It looks very nice!

[@paulwyand6204]

Team WARM, for sure,

[@pafro99]

Any reason you went with the Inovelli Red switch to control the Hue lights, instead of using a pico remote via home assistant? You could just hard wire the lights to be on all the time, and use the Pico to trigger on/off/dim and would match your other switches.

[@Obtuse94]

Hate to say it Reed, but Aly is 100% right about that bulb temperature!

[@varunv7684]

Which protocol is more reliable like wifi, zigbee, matter or bluetooth and which you use more.

[@danm4320]

If your air gradient is correct at the time of recording, your indoor co2 levels were 1000ppm. That’s borderline on “turn on ventilation” and drowsiness levels.

[@msobadger]

Great video Reed! That Shelfy fridge device is really interesting. I can't seem to find any information on whether or not it is able to be integrated into Home Assistant or not. Have you been able to?

[@Totalballa41]

If the clock is always exactly 5 minutes fast, could you try setting the time for 5 minutes earlier than the actual time, so by the time it glitches out, it will be the correct time?

[@area51xi]

100% warm for home

[@NickBarrett]

OK I need to step up my dashboard game. But its a daunting mission. Can you point me into any guides to start building that "dishwasher button"? I think once I get that one down the rest would be variations of that with some tweaking.

[@tikasub2230]

cool automation. Love it! There is something I like to ask you for Outdoor Smart Door Sensor, what do you Use for that? Thank you in advance! I am Using Homey Pro & Apple Hub for my hub

[@jamesmullen2244]

From the looks of your microwave/oven I have the same or similar model with the same issue. It has a setting where you can have it get the time from WiFi instead of manually setting it and it fixed the fast clock.

[@jamesmullen2244]

It's been a while so I checked to see how to do this, you have to set it to auto-update based on location in the Whirlpool app.

[@KumaSan66]

Hey Reed would lit possible to accomplish the same result with the Dishwasher using a wemo switch for On/Off setting? Or does it have to have the monitoring sensor switch? Just curious,. Thanks

[@EskilKrag]

Aly also required that the Pixel tablet supported setting timers with your voice. How did you achieve this since Google doesn't support it (for some reason) on the Pixel tablet? It did on the Home Hubs.

[@5h4mr0Ck]

Do you have any automation for the egg cooker, so that it will switch off when the eggs are cooked? Mine has an alarm, but I'd like it to switch itself off when they are done so I don't have to rush back to the kitchen

[@ingmeisterk874]

Great inspiration. For voice control though, you are using Google Assistant, correct? HA Assist voice does not work. as fully kiosk browser cannot use mic or speakers.

[@JamieFitzpatrick-z3k]

What’s your thoughts on icing detection sensors for home automation. We build a sensor and would love your feedback

[@jamessorrentino9866]

Love your content! Question: Have run across a graphic (GUI) layout of the whole house that shows your devices with status within HomeAssistant similar to what SmartThings has in their latest release? As for Warm or Cool lighting; Cool for doing tasks, Warm for mood/conversation.

[@nathanvancleave8434]

Is there a reason for leaving the sidebar visible on the dashboard? I'm also a big fan of removing the top bard as well so it looks less like a browser page.

[@Sawtooth_Wave]

Warm, always warm

[@blakebowden955]

Are you using the Google assistant SDK integration in HA to make the announcements? Been tinkering with getting the announcements to work, but only half a at the moment.

[@JaiManny]

Warm light for where high pedestrians congregate.. cool lights for utility rooms

[@albastien4990]

Team white light for the kitchen. How did you get the tablet to listen for the wake word?

[@DIYtechie]

You should definitely automate the vent fan. Ours automatically turn on when we’re cooking.

[@techcodenet]

I've been procrastinating on doing that because it's not straightforward. In The Netherlands it's common to have "whole house" (in reality it's usually just kitchen, toilet and bathroom) ventilation box that always run at a slow speed - and you can crank it up when cooking/showering/etc. You can get either wired rotary control (from what I can see on wiring schematics it's just phase being sent via different pin) or typical EU plug and wireless controller. Since this box was replaced a while before I got into home automation (I think back then something like "Mr. House" written in Perl was the way to go) I took the wireless option. Works fine for manually switching it on in the kitchen. Not so great for So now instead of simply controlling 3 relays to select the higher speeds - I need to figure out how to record/replay the RF remote signals, and whatever logic it's using to pair up remote and box after power outage.

[@tankthebear]

I MAY start playing with home assistant dashboards this winter - I am a hubitat user but am running HA along side it and have my devices integrated. Currently using Actiontiles but it can't do all of what HA is capable of. Do I need all that? probably not. But I am retired and winter is coming so ....

[@daveskinner1973]

I have my Echo Shows in night mode all day long. That only displays the clock and only an ad if I on the rare occasion use a voice command

[@DannerBanks]

TEAM WARM BABY!

[@SmartHomeSolver]

Noooo!

[@petedeffner7002]

Any use for your FP2 anymore? I thought you used to have it in the living room/kitchen area?

[@savrip]

Sunrise and sunset together account for about 20-25% of the warm light we experience. Daylight duration daylight makes up about 75-80% of the day. Who needs a vote when the facts are plain! I mean if you really like the warm colors wouldn't you put on orange shades you'd wear for the day? Get her some Blublockers!

[@dowen01]

So how did you get the timers and music working? (did I miss it in the video?)

[@volcolby]

Loved it. Made me hungry, though. And, warm white lights. Sorry.

[@ErisedMediaCo]

I’m a Mac guy and would LOVE to be able to do this kind of stuff with my iPad. I’m just not sure where to start

[@spencerlefevre9548]

What are you using for the banner pop ups? And does the pixel show photos when no motion is detected from the camera?

[@sofakng163]

How does the tablet work for voice control and/or playing music?