How I already advanced you last Sunday in an informative preview video, in this new and promised video post or video practical advice I will teach you how to domotize your home with smart Life devices for very little money.
A video-post with which I pretend clear all your doubts about this automation or intelligent control of your home. So I am going to tell you, in addition to the way on how to domotize your home for very little money by doing it yourself, useful advice to correctly choose the devices for our smart home, how to configure them and how to control them without the need for additional controllers (HUB) and without not even if you want to own one of these smart speakers that are becoming so fashionable lately thanks to Alexa and Google Home.
How to domotize your home for very little money
1st - Select smart devices compatible with Smart Life
The first of all will be select smart devices that do not need connection using additional drivers or HUB, for this we will look for devices compatible with Smart Life.
Most of the devices that currently advertise and report to us that they are compatible with Alexa or Google Home are usually all based on Smart Life.
What devices can I buy to automate my house myself?
There are more and more kinds of Smart Life-based devices that are compatible with Alexa and Google Home., devices that with just downloading their own application for Android and iOS will already be useful to us from our own mobile and thanks to the voice commands of the Google or Alexa assistant, to control our smart home in a very simple way.
Thus we have the classic light bulbs or outlets controlled via Wifi, surveillance cameras via IP, smart switches, boiler controllers, thermostats and even household appliances such as the Amazon microwave that works with Alexa, stoves and everything that is to come that I assure you that is going to be everything.
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2nd - Download the corresponding application for the device purchased
The next step will be to scan the QR code that usually comes either in the box or in the instruction booklet of the purchased device, in my case the application that I installed first to control my first smart device, which was some Woox LED bulbs, was the application Wook home.
As a general rule from the first application downloaded we will be able to control and configure the other smart devices that we are adding to our home, including those of different brands. This in addition to being able to control them from the Google Home application, and of course, with the Google assistant just by using our voice and the OK Google voice command or with Alexa the Amazon assistant.
As I have told you on several occasions, to domotize our home we will not need more than our mobile and buy some bills, bulbs and plugs or IP camerasAlthough we are going to achieve the great user experience and home automation with smart speakers from Google or Amazon, Google Home and Echo.
3rd - Configure Smart Life devices
In the video that I have left you right at the beginning of this post I show you in great detail the configuration mode of these smart devices, from the download of the application necessary to control them, the configuration in Google Home and until I show you how to control a light connected to one of these smart plugs based on Smart Life.
This in addition to giving you some interesting tips so that you know which bulbs to choose or which type of plugs to select, so I advise you not to miss details of it since for very little and only with your Android mobile you will already be able to domotize your home.
Hello I have the wook plug and there is no way, in fact, sometimes I get on the WiFi but I don't know how to do it anymore, otherwise, I ask Alexa to look for a device and it does not detect it. But I don't know if I'm going to put them after this one, as I don't give it up. Tell me please what happens. The signal is 2,4 and you can see it is not hidden. I'm with more mobile than more, thanks
I have three alexas and they work perfect, normally I am good at configuring new devices but with the plug there is no way.
Thank you
Hola!
I am trying to create scenarios with Smart Life and that google recognizes them using voice commands, but it won't let me. Any solution?
Thank you!