Smart Home Automations 101 - The Ultimate Guide to Build Better Automations

Your smart home automations drive the success of your entire home and lifestyle when you're trying to automate your life. The fact is, most people are looking for smart home ideas or home automation ideas because they don't know how to build effective, strong home automations.

Today's video is truly a smart home beginner's course on how to build better smart home automations. It will improve your knowledge on the basic elements of an automation, how to improve your triggers and conditions, teach you how automations happen, and will also give you some introductions to the more advanced elements of smart home automations.

Then we'll put it all together and make sure you understand how today's most popular smart home hubs work by completing a smart home review of their automation features and capabilities. This will help you complete a proper smart home setup and give you all the tips and tricks you need to live in the happy world of IoT!

I hope you enjoy this video and this near home automation course. If so, you should also check out these videos I referenced:

1. How to build a smart home 101 -    • How To Build a Smart Home - 101  
2. Smart Home Hubs 101 -    • Smart Home Hubs 101 - The Ultimate Guide  
3. How I Automated My Couch -    • My DIY Couch Presence Sensor  

Now go forth and build, Automaters!

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00:00 - Smart Home Automations 101
1:40 - What Is An Automation?
4:24 - The Basic Elements of Automations
11:35 - How Does an Automation Occur?
16:42 - How You Built Your Smart Home Matters
26:27 - You Must Improve Your IF Statements
34:19 - Advanced Elements of Home Automations
54:50 - Philips Hue
58:26 - Wyze
1:01:41 - SwitchBot
1:04:42 - Smart Life - Tuya
1:08:59 - Aqara
1:14:05 - Google Home
1:18:31 - Apple HomeKit
1:22:58 - Amazon Alexa
1:29:56 - SmartThings
1:36:42 - Hubitat
1:41:24 - Home Assistant

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Thanks for watching, and Don't Hate, Automate.

Brian