£80k Smart Home System Setup, Ideas and Complete Demonstration
Having recently designed and installed a fairly major Home Automation System at YouTuber @Y14nny’s new house, we use that to demonstrate the set up, planning, best practices, the process, installation and the benefits of a Smart Home.
Home automation gives you the ability to control every electronic device in your home at the touch of a button… or voice command. We look at everything from cabling to touch panel dashboards to features like simulated occupancy and some real life scenarios.
More info on Ashville Smart Homes:
https://control4.com/dealer/ashvilleinclimited1
00:00 intro
00:15 What is Home Automation / Smart Home
01:01 Introducing our preferred supplier; @Control4Automation
01:24 What are the benefits of a Smart Home?
03:35 Expanding and Support
04:09 Planning a Home Automation System
» 04:56 Control (IR, IP, Contacts & Relays)
» 06:26 Cabling & Cable Management
» 08:52 Rack Design & Build
» 09:24 Power
» 09:50 Network
» 10:38 Schematic Drawings
11:23 Installing a Home Automation System
14:04 Commissioning & Programming
14:55 Real Life Smart Home Scenarios
16:20 Smart Home Myths and FAQs
17:02 Smart Home Pricing
18:04 Conclusion
3D modelling, renders and animations done by Medz Lotfian
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Thank you so much for the video. This explained to someone who is not nerdy the basics of automation. What is interesting is I got my wires crossed (no pun intended) thinking that the lights could also be connected with the same network cable but seeing your video they are on a different line/channel lol. This has given me a few more ideas now. What I need to do is a bit more thinking what I want to do and how to program it. Haven’t decided what system to use – Control4 or something else – but I’m on my journey on learning home automation.
Yes hackers can take control over your system…for sure and can look at your cameras.
I love your content bro! I wonder how is your house be looking after you’ve been in so many places and saw all these smart homes. I bet yours must be able to even do math!
Why do i see yanni in every Uk video?😂😂
Good, informative intro to Control4 smart homes. Definitely the way to go. Thank you.
Why Control 4 over Crestron?
Great info, great topic. I always wanted to work in home automation/smart home industry but never got the chance 😂
What I want is a smart home, what I don’t want is an internet connected home. Unless everything is local and not wireless it wouldn’t be for me. I love automation though. But this system is class, aside from the remote access of course. If the remote is an encrypted dongle that I’d have to physically plug in then okay.
I know this is a display but the cable management is lovely.
Good video on how a home automation system works…
Great explanation!!
Lol.
Can’t even configure my own smart home with control4?
Completely useless and a HUGE scam if ever there was one.
Funny thing is, you can do all that and more with home assistant for a fraction of the cost. Automating one theatre room, 5000 quid? Lol. You can do it for 200 with home assistant. Guess this is for rich ppl.
11:00 Curious to know if you provide CAD/BIM models of data as an option?
is all of this possible with home assistant instead of control4 or crestron?
Nice video man I’m a big fan of yours from South Africa at the age of 16 you are a good role model….
Love it❤
So well done!
A really great video, it’s a shame you didn’t do it about 3 months ago, as I’m just finishing my build. But 5* anyway. Top video
That bed time rage was so damn funny because that’s how they ll actually react lmao
Please have a video of how the wiring is
Been a control 4 certified installation engineer and programmer as well as Lutron lighting for over 10years now. If you ever need someone to install this for you I’d be happy to help
woow thats intresting my brother i went for control 4 demostration and l would like to train to be C4 programmer though l am in home automation business
Excellent, succinct presentation, Bravo!
I’m so interested in learning this system. I’m a Saint Lucian and I’ve worked with the Knex with is no longer in existence. any idea where to start.
Great video. Our company has a similar approach, except that we use KNX nearly exclusively, as the Multimedia aspect is often not the highest priority. (Office, Shop, Hotel).
While I like Control4s usability, using a world standard like KNX with 8000 devices from 500 vendors has benefits when it comes to cost & flexibility.
But still. Great production & explanation.
Solid video, great to see that you don’t crap on the cheaper budget entries like echo and home. Some people like to tinker and DIY everything others this looks like a great solution,
Would much prefer a local system like Home Assistant, more complex to set up but better for security
That sounds good. My only question is how cyber secure the system is 🤔
I am interested in a short course , any recommendations?
Is this in the USA
My guy ain’t no one telling you you do not know your thing 🤣. PS part done me in. I was like ‘how will he do consoles’ 🤣. You killed this video dude 💯
Need advice and insight into this cos I’m actually trying to do a project like this
I have my whole house setup with ZigBee Zwave Wifi Bluetooth and RF, all on Home Assistant, together with a ProxMox server, hosting Home Assistant, ZigBee2MQTT, etc., every single door, curtain motors, switches, sensors, horns (for alarm) etc for under 3k GBP. Price is including hardware and installations, including cabling.
To make it this cheap, you must purchase all of them yourself, set it up yourself. It took me about 3 days to get all the hardware and software installed and paired, but another 2 months to get all the automations I am satisfied with, tweaking here and there.
And by the way my house is a 3 storey, total 4800 sq ft built up, so you roughly know what’s the cost per area.
The place I spent most money on is my outdoor perimeter, lots of sensors for intrusion prevention, and CCTVs.
Everything are segregated on separate VLAN for security and privacy purposes. For eg, every single camera in different VLAN, non accessible to other camera ports and not allowed to connect through the Internet (WAN), but only the NVR can access the internet and the camera.
IoT and Servers are all on separate VLAN too, cabled and wired.
By the way, my server is merely a Minisforum UN100D with 16GB RAM and 1TB NVMe SSD, only cost MYR600/GBP110. It hosts ProxMox, OpenMediaVault, PiHole, Transmission, Home Assistant, Plex, Jellyfin, TeslaMate, Pfsense, Omada SDN Controller (to control my managed switches), Docker, Cloudflared, Cloudflare DDNS Updater, NPM, etc. all with 2x 2.5gbps RJ45. Can’t complain.
my question is, does any of this stuff work with home assistant?
control4… looked at that,…. then found home assistant!!!!
Well done. I would not buy a new home without these features (or a plan to install them) nowadays.
There may have been a wee bit of over acting there🤣
😂 sorry buddy but if it’s not Savant or Crestron I’m good. C4 is a decent budget system though.
really well explained, home assistant for me though
Is this available in India?
what about using IR in every room instead of wifi APs? That wouldnt be as affected by hackers and interruptions, right?
10:18 *Laughs in home assistant*. Your solutions are literally so convoluted but works for the rich because it’s fully managed by an organisation. This is definitely not for the average
What profesionals use? Is better to use solutions with wire or wifi? What if I have to desing smart home in whole building? What about solutions like knx?
the company being able to remote hack into the system is abit matrix monitoring the masses
Pls, I need professional online training on this, how is going to be?
BESSSSST video tutorial for "How to start an automated home", very professional and with all the examples you need to understand how everything works on this kind of projects
Im a year late commenting on here, just came up on my recommended. Im a person of the none walking variety, born with spina bifida, stuff like this is good for people like me, closing curtains etc. I can still do things like that but not having to would be handy.
Great way to explain the entire network and wiring process
Absolutely well done. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
great intro.. Ashville well explained. can hear the passion for smart home. this is a company i would love to be part of…. do you hire.
🔥🔥🔥THIS IS THE BEST EXPLANATION AND BEST VIDEO ON CONTROL4 AND THE WHOLE HOME AUTOMATION PROCESS EVERRRRRR!!!!
Thank you SOOOOO much for creating this Daniel! (I designed the new UI and UX for Control4 3.x) 👊💥