The 5 errors of Smart Home Automation: Google / Alexa

The five most common mistakes I've seen at home automation and smart homes .

1 - Error: not thinking of all the scenarios

When people start smart home automation they think of something like this when I walk into my living room at night I want the lights to turn on and off when I leave sure this is a very easy scenario to do . implement. place, just set it up in this webcore app and the lights come on when motion is detected by your motion detectors in the living room, after sunset and before sunrise or something like that.

And when someone is watching TV it's annoying when someone is walking in the light so it's ok if it's dark but if the TV is on the lights come on and things start to darken from there and you quickly realize that there are a lot of cases where you don't want the lights to come on when someone walks into the living room.

Or leave when they go I just recommend having voice activation for most things and full automation for things

2 - Second mistake: putting devices on different systems

There were three smart apps that worked great together, ifttt smartthings and stringify stringify don't work the same anymore so webcore has taken its place, the learning curve with webcore is moderate, but once you learn to set it up is even better than stringify Whenever I buy a device it has to work with smart objects or ifttt if it does.

I can get these devices to do almost anything I want if you are successful, Alexa for example, then in a few months when you want something, alexa doesnt have on their system and doesnt work with their system so you are stuck and you can buy that device.

I have the smart stuff hub and make sure everything I have is working with smart stuff or if and since everything works with webcore, I can do almost anything I want with these devices.

3 - Third mistake: replacing all your lights with smart bulbs

the first thing people do when they start their own smart home, change all of their lights to smart bulbs generally for most people, although a better smart lighting option,

is actually smart dimmers and not light bulbs if you buy smart bulbs and someone turns off the light
bulbs will not work with any automation you have set up with them, people still have to remember to keep going when a smart bulb stops working they are also expensive to replace.

If you buy smart dimmers and have fewer visitors to your home or the internet, your light switches will work exactly the same as regular light switches.

If you don't have smart bulbs and go for smart dimmers.

If that makes sense, smart bulbs can be confusing with when the internet is down and for visitors and so uh to get them to turn on and off again.

It's hard to get them to work don't get me wrong I have smart bulbs but they are on a switch that rarely goes wrong turn off and they're just in my living room, the rest of my bulbs
are smart dimmers and regular light bulbs.

4 - Mistake four : neglecting smart points of sale

these things are amazing, you can turn a lot of silly things in your house and make them smart just by plugging them into one of these smart sockets; everyone is different, but if you have a device that can
turn on and off by cutting off its power supply and reconnecting its power supply.

Thus, you can automate its activation and deactivation function with a smart curler from my wife for example: I can turn it off or make sure it is off once I leave the house because I have it on a chip some youtubers put their entire film studio in these points of sale.

So with just the command of their voice their whole studio lights up and they are ready to record all the smart takes are not the same although some of them are using a wi-fi signal which brings me to the last one.

5 - Error five; Use devices that use Wi-Fi

Wi-fi home automation wi-fi home automation has different languages ​​z-wave and zigbee, are some of these languages ​​the smartthings center translates these languages ​​so that the devices of different languages ​​can work together.

Wifi is also a home automation language and while it's great for your computer and other things to get smart devices run on wi-fi, instead of z-wave or zigbee tend to run slower and more glitch to make matters worse.

The more devices you have that work over Wi-Fi, the more likely your Wi-Fi is to glitch around the house.

So if you use a lot of smart wi-fi devices suddenly your computer isn't browsing as well; or your netflix streaming is choppy or lower quality and so on and there is two ways slow wi-fi first, they take too long bandwidth using all those wi-fi devices and second, let's say you have a lot of  bandwidth to run many devices.

Just the number of devices on them your network can slow it down, so even if you have a lot of bandwidth the number of devices will slow it down.