Question

What is one feature of our smart home you use the most and your wife also appreciates/uses it? : P

Answer 1

“Alexa, lock up” to lock all the doors. Backyard lights turning on when we open the back door (or drive up) when it’s dark. The back door auto-unlocking. We have a detached garage in the rear and my “2 factor unlock” is when we enter a geofence (with our phones) then the garage opens within 3 minutes. the back door unlocks and texts us that it unlocked. Of course it re-locks within 3 minutes.  

Answer 2

Mine is motion sensor in washroom for lights and bedroom lights that can be turned off at night by Alexa :p

Answer 3

Knowing for sure that the doors are locked

Answer 4

Telling lights around the house to turn on and off, for sure.  

Answer 5

The remotes and the automated security system

Answer 6

Arlo baby monitor, Alexa light commands, automatic bathroom fan based on humidity control. All others are basically tolerated.  

Comments

@overmantel isn't most bathroom fan switch already have that humidity sensor and turns on automatically? Whats the difference with smartthings?  

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@backbite well I don’t use SmartThings for that, but intelligence mainly. I have mine setup to run for no more than an hour, and to use a comparison between the bathroom humidity and the house humidity. If the house humidity is lower than the bathroom humidity, run the tank if not, don’t. No point in running the fan if it’s just a humid day.  

Answer 7

Node-red combined with Alexa/Google Voice control. We can create complex routines in a few minutes and have routines and scenes for everything.  

Answer 8

If I'm only allowed one, probably the tablet on the wall in our bed room so that she can see that the garage door is closed, the doors are all locked, and there are no windows open.  

Answer 9

Ok Google. My 3yo now casts pj mask and vamparina to her tv too!  

Answer 10

Highest WAF is when both of us get into bed (after 9 pm) all of the lights in the house turn off and the motion sensors deactivate. Thin film pressure sensors under each side of the mattress. My favorite is when I get up in the morning only one kitchen light and the under cabinet lighting by the coffee maker come on at a low brightness level.  

Answer 11

Lights and tv.  

Answer 12

Automatic entry, pantry closet & bathroom lights

Answer 13

A light I hung in a dark corner of the kitchen and named it Chef's Light for when she is cooking.  

Answer 14

Controlling the thermostat from her phone

Answer 15

Definitely the ability to dim and control the bedroom lights without getting out of bed!  

Answer 16

Turing the lights on with Nest Mini

Answer 17

Having most of the lights in my smart home turn on and off automatically without having to touch them. It's like magic  

Answer 18

My favourite and my wife’s is the motion sensors in the kids bathroom and also on the landing. The moment they open the bedroom door for the toilet in the night, the bathroom lights come on and illuminate the landing for them.  

Answer 19

WOL starting the PC through Alexa in the garden cabin (Yeah ok ManCave)

Answer 20

Controlling lights and heating via voice control. Also Eufy robovac, saves us a job. Robovac named "Emilio" like the personal assistant in MrDeeds because he is "very sneaky" :) Landroid arriving soon to keep garden in shape too. I'm sure thatll go down well

Answer 21

Robot lawnmower without any doubt

Comments

@averir6935 which one you got? Been thinking but haven't pulled the plug yet. Reviews been so so

Answer 22

Roomba + Home Assistant - geofencing so the Roomba goes to work when she leaves and back to its charging station when she arrives back home. That's her favorite by far.  

Answer 23

Thermostat and fan control.