How to Build An Easy Smart Home.: A Comprehensive Detailed Explanation On How to Use Your Home Kits, Set up Automation, Shortcuts and Smart Kit Devices.

By Greg Wigglesworth

This is going to be a basic-level introductory type that talks about when to use automation, when to use shortcuts, and what the differences are.
It also includes home smart kit items that are voice-activated for easier use in building an easy smart home with quite a number of examples showing you how it all works and ideas in creating your automation and shortcuts.
To make your life easier this book is going to give you a comprehensive detailed explanation of how to use your Home kits and smart kit devices.

• What To Buy For Apple Home Kit Smart Home
• Recommendation for the Core Devices
• Accessories Needed For Automation
• Home Kits Hubs
• The Difference Between A Home Kit Hub and A Home Kit Bridge
• How To Set Up Home Kit Hubs
• How to Control Your TV Using Home kit on your iOS Device
• What to Do When Your Hub Is Not Functioning As It Should
• See All Accessories
• How To Use The Home App
• How To Create A Scene And Automation In Home kit
• Automations
• Example of a Basic Automation.
• How to Create a Dinner Time Scene and Automation
• How to Set Up Automation That Will Trigger at a Specified Time Morning from Monday to Friday.
• How to Set Automation Based On Other Devices
• How to Set When People Arrive or Leave Automation
• How to Set Up People Leave Automation
• How to Set up Your Device for Location in the Home kit?
• How To Use Shortcuts
• How to set up Airplay Playing Music Straight to Your Home Pod
• How to add Music without Having to Airplay
• How to View Live Feed of All Cameras
• How To Use To Use The Echo Dot Smart Device Kit In Your Home
• How to Use the Smart Outlets with the Echo Dot
• How to Set Up the Smart Socket
• How to Set Up the Socket through the Echo Dot
• How to Use and Install the Sengled Smart Light Kit
• How to Install and Use the Amazon Fire TV Stick
• How To Use The Amazon Fire Remote

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9781312774711

Book preview

CHAPTER ONE

WHAT TO BUY FOR APPLE HOME KIT SMART HOME

The first question you going to ask yourself and try to solve before setting up a smart home with a Home kit is what devices will you use, How to choose the right system, and what are things to buy, these are common questions that people frequently ask. 

We are going to look at which company to recommend and which product to get

What product to buy depends on the smart home echo system that you want to go with? 

VARIOUS DEVICES TO INSTALL IN A SMART HOME

Core Devices

Smart Switches

Smart Lighting

Sensor & Buttons

Smart Plugs

IR/RF Remotes

Window Curtain/Blind

I will consider these devices are under the core Home devices.

Any automation happening around the house revolves around them. So they need to be able to communicate with each other easily.

For the next stage of the devices, I will consider them optional.

Optional Devices

Smart Speakers

TVs

Smart Doorbells, Smart Door Locks, Security Cameras, and a Wifi Mesh System.

 It’s good to have certain features and to do certain automation. For Home entertainment, we have the speakers, and TVs you would want to link to your voice activation such as Siri, Google, and Alexa.

Take note Home Kit is only available for only iPhone Users.

To get started with Home Kit you would need to get a Home Hub like the Hub Pod mini speaker or the Apple TV box.

The Home Pod Mini will be a great option. It will allow you to make use of Siri to trigger voice commands.

Recommendation for the Core Devices

AQARA SWITCHES

You can buy them from china or anywhere it doesn’t matter as long they can work with Home Kit. 

You have the H1 Switch and the D1 Switch

If you are looking for switchers with dimming controls and you have extra money to spare you can go with OLUTRON which is popular in the United States. One switch can control lots of bulbs.

For smart lighting, there are a few options you can go for, PHILIPS HUE, and NANOLEAF, but their price is on the higher end.

If want to go for the cheaper brand you can go for YEELIGHT, and GOVEE each of them can have a unique feature of their own that you can’t find elsewhere.

For Census and Patterns go for AQARA SENSORS & BUTTONS. They are chip and good and will last long.

There are good ranges of products that can be used for different use cases. In terms of designs that is important too because you are going to fix it to different places in the