Smart Home Tour 2024! Over 100 HomeKit and Home Assistant Devices

Welcome to my 2024 Smart Home Tour. I go through my home and show you all the smart devices I use daily in my home. I use Apple HomeKit on the front and Home Assistant on the back to run automations! :)
If you are interested in any of the tech I use in my smart home here you go:
Affiliate links:
Outside:
180º REOLINK 4K PoE Security Camera: amzn.to/3TaGD88
Logitech Circle View Apple HomeKit: amzn.to/3wN02EE
Phlips Hue white lights: amzn.to/3IuOwjC
Schlage Encode plus: amzn.to/4c9U80z
Dining room:
Lutron pico remote: amzn.to/4c3WZYO
Refoss smart bulb: amzn.to/43ao3BA
Kitchen:
Lutron dimmer switch: amzn.to/49z3KjD
Meross smart led strip: amzn.to/3PzHuhN
Linptech Human Presence Sensor: amzn.to/4a4b5Yo
Meross Smart Plug: amzn.to/49UcL6G
Smart pet feeder (couldn’t find mine so here is one I will get next): amzn.to/3Tbdd9V
Server room:
Synology 4-Bay DiskStation DS923+ (Diskless): amzn.to/48Fw8iV
UPS: amzn.to/48Kx3hN
TERRAMASTER Raid 5: amzn.to/3TpeGL6
Garage:
Phlips Hue white lights: amzn.to/3IuOwjC
Meross smart led strip: amzn.to/3PzHuhN
Aqara camera: amzn.to/49ZKprF
Yardian smart sprinkler: amzn.to/48IWOiM
UPS: amzn.to/48Kx3hN
Meross Smart Garage Opener: amzn.to/3Tbb7Xk
Living Room:
Philips Hue Smart Light Starter Kit: amzn.to/4c3uqKZ
AppleTV 4K: amzn.to/3Iz7mWN
Nanoleaf bulbs: amzn.to/3v1Ujdo
Eero Wifi 6 pro: amzn.to/3v5na0v
Psync Cam Genie S: amzn.to/3PcUnOB
75” Samsung TV: amzn.to/3T7XmJ5
Hallway:
Ecobee New Smart Thermostat: amzn.to/3VafDIy
Lutron dimmer switch: amzn.to/49z3KjD
Office:
SONOFF NSPanel: amzn.to/3T8msHZ
Refoss smart bulb: amzn.to/43ao3BA
GeekTale Fingerprint Door Lock: amzn.to/3v5nU5N
HomePod mini stand: amzn.to/4c68NcP
Led Corner Floor Lamp: amzn.to/4a0rH3a
Room sense IQ presence sensor: www.roomsenselabs.com
Smart home ideas and inspiration from:
‪@SmartHomeSolver‬
​⁠‪@ShaneCreates‬
‪@GeorgeLangabeer‬
‪@TechWithBrett‬
‪@CraigsTechTalk‬

[@makeitworktech]

Love a good smart home tour!

[@iGageit]

Thanks! :D

[@brisbanemartialarts4122]

A video showing how you make Home Assistent work with Apple front end would be great

[@iGageit]

Good idea! :)

[@BoyNamedKelly]

Cool stuff

[@iGageit]

Thanks!

[@NathanWhite1]

Love the video! I just bought a house of my own, and so I've been looking for inspiration - thanks for providing some great ideas! Just a quick note, in a few parts of the video, you show the HomeKit pairing barcodes for some of your devices - probably not a big deal, but you might want to blur those out. Keep up the great videos!

[@iGageit]

Thanks! Its not a huge deal because you would need to come to my address, connect to my wifi, unpair my devices and then pair it with the code. I think most people are too lazy to do that 😂

[@Tabiii]

Amazing! enjoyed watching it. Thank you for explaining and naming everything so clearly!

[@iGageit]

This video was fun to make, let me know if you have any questions about any of it. :)

[@Reggio60608]

Can you give me more insight on your hub located in the closet? Where the Mac mini and Mac book is set up. Why is it necessary?

[@iGageit]

Macbook and Mac Mini are mot necessary. i run them as linux servers for other stuff. :) and the hubs are my philips hue and lutron caseta hubs. :)

[@WTSPC]

Great Vid definitely real world and Love the cat. We’re going to move this year (uk) and will do similar as all Apple Inc watches. Wondering what you can see on the watch in the way of security alerts? Wonder if there is a smart cat flap? Thanks again.

[@iGageit]

My watch will tell and show me when someone is at the front door using the doorbell camera. :) super helpful

[@terry4478]

Well done Gage!

[@iGageit]

Thank you!

[@saisusheelsunkara462]

What are the details of the UPS you are using? Also can you do a video around how you are using ups+ your homeassistant laptop automations that you were saying in this video?

[@LPintarolex]

hi! Can you make a video explaining reolink configuration in scrypted? I can only stream on HomeKit, I have an iCloud account with 2TB but I still can't have recordings on HomeKit. I must be doing something wrong that I can't figure out.

[@iGageit]

Great question. I was having the same issues and it took a while for me to figure out what I was doing wrong! I will make a video about that! 😄👍

[@Techlifeandmore]

I would probably trade the Mac out for just an ESP 32, and I believe in Home Assistant you can make an automation which triggers when that goes off-line.

[@iGageit]

Good idea! I already had this so it was free for now. Later I may upgrade this setup :)

[@davedunbar8884]

Hey, interesting stuff, nicely done. And a special shout-out to the cameraman, she must be wonderful.

[@iGageit]

yes she is wonderful 😄

[@simonsayshomeassistant]

Great video mate, just subscribed. I run a home assistant channel too!

[@iGageit]

Hi Simon! I have seen your videos! Just subscribed back 😄 thanks for watching

[@simonsayshomeassistant]

Thank you :)@@iGageit

[@DennisWarner]

How do you get your Solar Edge inverter into HA?

[@iGageit]

There is a integration for solar edge, and you just need your account and api key from your account. :)

[@DennisWarner]

@@iGageit thanks.

[@DennisSchmitz]

If you still have your Tuya devices, you can make these cloud-free in Home Assistant using the Local Tuya integration. Was quite a bit of work to set it up but flawless ever since.

[@iGageit]

Ive been wanting ti dive into that, just haven’t found the time. :)

[@CityLifeinAmerica]

Instead of the Aqara sensors I just made an automation that says whenever the door is unlocked, turn on the light. Then I set it to auto lock after 1 minute. And then another automation to turn off the lights.

[@iGageit]

That works also! :)

[@Chris-td8mr]

Wires at 10:32 are screaming for a professional, sry, could not ignore it

[@iGageit]

Oh I agree! Lol! I need to clean them up someday!

[@saphirarose5866]

😃😃😃

[@AnonymousMiner2]

You lost me at “my cat food thing on a timer, not connected to home assist or anything is smart home”. That’s like 1980s timer tech

[@iGageit]

Yup! Not everything needs to be on the network to be “smart” :)

[@cpenrose64]

Well done. Need to get the wife on a modern phone! 😀

[@iGageit]

Working on it 😂😅

[@witblitsfpv1265]

Well done Steven for sticking to the script they gave you. Can we PLEASE have an election soon so we can vote out these incompetent officials? And please not Liberal, not Labor, Teals or Greens.