What smart gadgets do you have in your home?
 

I'm always looking at ways to make my home smarter.
What gadgets or devices do you have in your homes?


I have:


- Wifi Thermostat on my 465 Litre Fish Tank.
I have some expensive fish so keeping the water heated at the right temperature is crucial. This device keeps the temperature constant and alerts me to my phone in the event the heater malfunctions or goes out of the set boundaries. It can also start a cooling device if temperture gets too hot.


- Sonos Speakers.
I've put them in the corners of the room and find the sound quality great.
I can easily stream music from laptops or phones to around the house.


- Meross Smart plugs
Got a few of these setup to turn lights on.


- Security Cameras that send notifications to my phone.

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Ring doorbell and floodlight Cam
Echo Show 5 and 8
Old Echo 2nd Gen and 2nd Gen Dot
Google Home hub Max
Numerous bulbs and plugs

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There’s an Echo device in every room except the bathrooms and hue bulbs in every bedroom plus one lamp in the lounge. I may add a video doorbell at some point.

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I've ended up creating a locked down isolated network for any smart / IOT devices just to keep them away from my private network.

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Eufy cameras, 2k dual camera doorbell & floodlight pro
Hive heating & bulbs pretty much everywhere
Eufy x8 hybrid robo vac
LG TV’s
LG washer dryer
Smart plugs pretty much everywhere
Bathroom Mirrors
Garage door control
(All above controlled or controllable by alexa)
Various alexa devices in most rooms

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Only a smartphone

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8 year old Sony smart TV and a Samsung A12 smart phone.

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4 smart TV's of varying smartness
Couple of semi smart dvd players and an hd recorder

Plethora of phones

Nest thermostat
Blink cctv
Eufy cctv
Google home mini

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Do you have two WiFi networks connecting via a smart switch into a pfsense-style router? Just wondering ...

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Currently got a Ubiquiti Edge router (Approx £50) and set it up according to this guide.
https://github.com/mjp66/Ubiquiti/bl...%20Network.pdf


This has let me create several networks on each port that are completly isolated from each other or / can only talk one way.

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Hive [WiFi] Heating.
Smart Bulbs in several rooms.
Multiple smart plugs (controlling fans, heaters, TV boxes etc).

and these days, I [finally] now have a small Smartphone (Samsung, Android).

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Very nice ..

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All my wireless smart devices are on my VM guest network. My thinking is it's an extra level of security to my internal network
3 4k TVs have Comcast's connected or built-in.
All lights in the house bar the hall have Sonoff connected to Google Home.
Reolink cams around the house & back garden
Any item that's plugged into a wall socket, have TCP smart plugs again connected to Google home.
Some things are still not connected , but wishing for upgrades, like washing machine, kettle and toaster

We have a smart TV,a couple of them.....

And we have those Alexa things also and I swear a few times when my dad said "Turn off the lights" in that room,it messed up and turned my outlet in my room OFF that my computer is on... A couple times everything on this outlet has gone off for 2 seconds and then came back on.. (Resulting in a reboot of course)

I dont like how it does that.... Its scary how it can control any power outlet in your house!!

Thankfully he only has them in 1 room but it seems like the whole house can be controlled!!

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Wait you actually have modern smart tech in your home? Yet you are scared of smart meters giving off RF radiation:erm::rolleyes:

We have ....

Ring Doorbell
Eco dots 2nd gen x2
Echo 2nd Gen x2
Google nest mini x1
3x smart bulbs
2x smart LED light strips
4x smart sockets
WiFi connected air fryer for monitoring cook time and other details
3x smart TVs, Samsung, Sony, JVC.
3x smart phones, 2 are phones other is Samsung Z Fold 4.
Samsung tab s6 tablet
SAMSUNG watch 4 classic, Apple Watch4

Probably others I've forgotten.

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TVs, security cameras. Gate. And very smart dog ( one out of four ain't bad)

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I have

3 Echo Shows
2 Echo Dots

23+ Phillips Hue Smart bulbs 14 are the £50 full colour
10 TP-Link Smart Plugs
3 CCTV Cameras
2 Nest Protect Smoke Detectors
4 motion detectors
3 Smart TVs
2 Fire TV Sticks
Blink video doorbell with Sync2 module (No sub required)
Obviously phones and tablets, can control this anywhere I can get a signal.



All my kit is hard wired where possible, and I've given them static IPs and group them, all the smart home stuff is grouped in the x.x.x.2xx range

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10 year old Sony Bravia TV (No camera or microphone) and a Samsung Galaxy A12 phone and that's it.

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Do anyone use the smart functions on a 'smart' TV?

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iPlayer is the only thing I use on my smart tv. Quicker than trying to access it through VMs boxes.

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I use the media player in conjunction with my desktop PC media server (Serviio) for 1080 content over my home network.

I also use the Youtube player though it does run out of memory rather too often and has to be restarted.

There is an internet browser (Opera I believe) but without a keyboard/mouse interface it's not easy to use. I tried plugging a keyboard/ mouse into the USB port but it came up as unrecognised device. Given the OS is a Sony hybrid of Linux and Android it was worth a try.

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I ask as my TV is a smart one, but I have never had any use for any of the apps or functions it has. Because a Fire stick seems to do everything a lot better than the TV. Netflix, Prime, iPlayer works via the V6.

As for other smart things. Lots of Hue lights, a Harmony hub (totally underrated bit of hardware), 2 Amazon Dots (clock versions). Half a dozen or so Tapi plugs. All controlled via IOS (phone/ipads). A coffee machine that's wifi'd up if that's classed as smart, same as the Yamaha AV.

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I use my TV apps everyday. Amazon Prime video, Netflix, iplayer. My Sky box isn't as good for the PQ.

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What SMART functions do you mean ?

I use the media player & Prime, others in the house use Netflix.

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Those things, like Netflix via the TV's apps and not via other means.

One strange thing is when I got the TV I did try Apple TV & Netflix. My TV is wired into an AV via HDMI but the SMART functions/apps like Apple TV etc the sound doesn't want to go through the HDMI to the AV at all. I tried via an optical cable from TV to AV which worked but it's always too out of sync.

But with a Fire Stick, Casting, and red button or anything else there's no problems what so ever. Must be my TV (LG mid-range).

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Yes , disconnected my second tv from Virgin smart features are so much a better choice :p:

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Wow thats quite a strong reply!!

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Or a really empty flat:rolleyes:

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Added a Sonos Sub Mini to my setup at Christmas.


Great little Sub that let's the other speakers handle the mid and top end and the Sub Mini adds a bit of punch and fullness to the sound. No vibration or distortion.
It has definately given both music and movies a good sound.