My Smart Home Tour 2021

I have been building my smart home for more than 4 years. After adding almost 100 different devices to my home, it’s time to show what building a smart home is all about! In this post, I will be listing all of the devices I am currently using in each room. Hopefully, this helps you in getting ideas for your own smart home.

Let’s start with the Living Room. Here we have smart shades that automatically close with the sunset and open each morning. I also have a motion sensor that keeps the lamp turned on when we are hanging in the evening and my Nest Hub to control everything through voice.

Here in the kitchen, we have quite a large list of items. This room has everything from a smart faucet to smart blinds.

In the hallway, I am using a few dimmable Ecosmart canned lights and they are controlled by a Lutron dimmer and a Pic remote at the other end. The heating of the home is controlled by the new Nest Thermostat.

Right off the hallway, we have the laundry room. In this room I have smart bulbs, a Nest Wifi Point & a SmartThings enabled Samsung washer and dryer. They notify us of when the laundry is done and it really helps us remember to change it.

In the kids bathroom, I am running a simple automation that works with the Lutron dimmer and a SmartThings Motion sensor. When the kids enter the bathroom the lights automatically turn on, and if they forget to turn off the light it will automatically shut off after 10 minutes. I also have multiple automations set in SmartThings so that it turns the lights on much dimmer at night than during the day.

Lutron Dimmer
Ecosmart Dimmable Light Bulbs
SmartThings Motion Sensor

The kids room is the only room in the house that has all Amazon products. Here we have a Echo Dot 4th Gen Tiger edition and the Echo Glow smart bulb. We can control the lights in the room and it is easy to turn off the lights at night with my “Night Night” routine.

In Adele’s room, we keep it pretty simple with the smart devices. She is using a Lenovo Smart Clock to control her Philips Hue Smart Bulb. We also have a Hue remote that can easily control the bulb. In this room we also have a Nest Protect smoke alarm that will alert us if smoke or CO detected in the home.

Our bedroom has been a really fun place to make smart. We now have Serena Smart Blinds that help us wake up at the right time and buttons that can easily turn off the potty light. My favorite automation is being able to turn on the Philips Hue Lightstrip from the normal light switch with a SmartThings routine.

On the front porch, I have a smart doorbell, smart lock, and smart lights. These devices help me keep tabs on the front of my home anywhere I am.

Google Nest Hello (Product Video)
Lockly Vision (coming soon)
Eufy Security Smart Lock (Product Video)
Wemo Smart Switch
Leviton Z-Wave Multi Location Switch

We spend a lot of time in the family room and so this room has the most amount of devices. We have smart lights, smart shades, and enough entertainment devices to keep the whole neighborhood occupied.

It’s too cold to spend much time in the garage, but soon it will be the go to place to start the summer projects. This is the start of hubs that I have in my home.

We have finally made it to the brains of my smart home. I built my smart home in a Frankenstein manner. While I don’t recommend you do it the way I have done, it does the job and everything surprisingly works.

There you have it! That is every device that I currently am using in my smart home, plus or minus a few. I hope that this has helped you plan out the future of your smart home. If there is an item or product category that you would like to see reviewed, please let me know in the comments below! I’m looking forward to another awesome year of checking new smart home tech.

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