Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, I’m trying to find some new YouTube content and channels that’s specifically for SmartThings and compatible devices. Looks like every channel under the sun is about Home Assistant..we’ll climb the ranks some day but not there yet lol. Trying to find some SmartThings specific channels. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can only think of one guy. Brian from Automate your life. Everyone is switching to Home Assistant. Back when I first started off, it used to be a lot of people behind SmartThings. Now, it's all about Home Assistant or Homekit now. I made the switch when they sold everything over to Aeotec, and everything just got bad after that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is it a big financial overhaul to switch? We got all the devices and hubs and all but would need to basically submit a ticket to the fiancé at this point if I had to buy a bunch of new stuff 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tbh, you don't have to switch if you don't want to. There still is a strong community behind SmartThings. There are lots of groups on Facebook and a few people who do content on YouTube for SmartThings. You just have to dig deeper to find them.

If you do decide to switch over to your home assistant, you practically have everything you need already. The only thing that is missing is a hub to run home assistant on, which can be installed on basically anything.

The best part is that whatever you decide to run home assistant on, you can integrate your smartthings hub to home assistant, and at your convenience, add things over to home assistant.

So basically, you have many options to choose from if you want to make the switch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah that makes sense, thank you!