HomeKit Tips & Tricks
Making a Smart Home Nursery!
Today we’re transforming a nursery into a SMART nursery for a new mom! We will be starting from scratch and will show you everything you need to create a smart home nursery just like this!
Automations & Shortcuts
My TOP 3 Smart Home Automations! (Super Easy Setup!)
These are my 3 favorite smart home automations that I have used every day for years. They are super easy to setup, but so very useful!
Aqara
Building an Affordable Smart Home with AQARA
Building a smart home can get expensive. Today I’m going to show you how I’ve used the Aqara products to build my HomeKit smart home on a budget.
Automations & Shortcuts
Automations & Shortcuts Explained
What are Shortcuts? What’s the differences between Personal Automations or Home Automations? What is “convert to shortcut” and when to use it? We’ll also create a simple Shortcut, a Personal Automation, and a Home Automation (convert to shortcut).
GettingStarted
What is HomeKit?
This is the basics of HomeKit. We discuss what is HomeKit and how it works, why I chose HomeKit for my smart home, adding new devices, scenes, and automations.
GettingStarted
Smart Apartment Setup – HomeKit Edition
Today we are talking about the best ways to setup a HomeKit smart home in an apartment or rental home, from scratch. Chapter Titles0:00 Getting Started 2:07 Your Home Network 2:44 Your HomeKit Hub 3:14 Adding HomeKit Accessories 3:39 Lighting 6:23 Temperature 6:50 Smart Plugs 7:11 Locks 7:58 Sensors & Read more…
GettingStarted
Starting a New HomeKit Smart Home From Scratch
Whether you are buying a new home, building a new home, or just new to HomeKit, this video should give you a good place to start.
News & Updates
HomeKit YouTube Channels to Follow!
Here are some great YouTube channels to follow for anyone interested in HomeKit Smart Home tech, Siri Shortcuts, and home automation! Chris Young – http://youtube.com/chrisyoungsmarthome My HomeKit Home – http://youtube.com/myhomekithome Modern Day Tech – http://youtube.com/moderndaytech HomeKitAuthority – http://youtube.com/homekitauthority Tech Craft – http://youtube.com/techcrafted Matthew Cassinelli – http://youtube.com/matthewcassinelli Rey G – http://youtube.com/reyg_hksh Read more…
Automations & Shortcuts
Using the Home App: Part 2
Scenes in HomeKit are groups of actions that affect multiple accessories in your home all at once. And automations are ways that your smart home can control itself. Automations can use your location, a certain time of day, and other accessories to trigger scenes and make adjustments to your smart Read more…
Automations & Shortcuts
Using the Home App: Part 1
In this tutorial I will show you how to use rooms, zones, and favorites in Apple’s Home app to organize your HomeKit smart home.
