How to Make a Smart Home – Why You Should Play with Electricity
Start your journey today and learn how to make a smart home simply and cheaply.
Isn’t it a pain to walk around the house at night and flip all the light switches off?
Your outer doors should lock themselves at night. When you wake up, your coffee maker should already be brewing you a cup of joe and soft music should be whispering positive thoughts in your ear to start off your day with energy and positivity. This is all possible today without breaking the bank!
This completely free guide is going to start with the basics of what is a smart home and walk you through, step-by-step, how to make a smart home and go from controlling one light bulb with your phone to automating your whole home’s lighting, security devices, and appliances. We’ll even do fun things like create our own buttons around the home to control different parts of it just with a tap from your phone. You’ll learn how to build all kinds of home automation yourself at a low cost.
This blog is all about removing the knowledge, skill, and cost barriers that prevent you from creating comfort, security, and quality of life using smarthome technology. My goal is to make this is the easiest free guide to create a smart home that is more comfortable, more secure, and more time-saving than any home you’ve ever had in just a few steps:
Here are some examples of what smart home devices you’ll be able to set up:
- Lights in the kitchen turn on before sunset.
- Outside doors lock automatically at 1am at night.
- Tap a tag and lights turn off in my room.
- Coffee maker turns on in the morning with a tap of a tag.
- Music slowly turns on to wake me up.
- Curtains open by themselves.
I’ll walk you through how to choose smart lighting, what is Alexa and other smart hub technology from Google Home or Apple Home. You’ll know the major differences and be able to choose what technology is right for you without a PhD in “how to make your home a smart home” – ology.
Disclaimer: I'm going to explain things in as simple a way as possible and that means excluding some concepts or using imprecise definitions. My goal is to get you understanding and creating a smart home using cheap smart house devices quickly and easily, so I'll need to omit some technical definitions to get you there. I'll try to point to other great resources on the internet if you want a more complete or technical picture painted for you.
That’s enough talking. Let’s start this adventure!