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[2086.82 --> 2088.60] was at least 105 degrees. |
[2089.00 --> 2092.44] It just, you know, maybe we'd get down to 88 Fahrenheit at night. |
[2092.86 --> 2096.84] It was so brutal, Alex, that we would go 5,000 feet up. |
[2097.12 --> 2101.46] We would drive up Mount Lemmon, and we would stay at the top of Mount Lemmon, where it would |
[2101.46 --> 2103.90] be about the temperature of the Pacific Northwest. |
[2104.58 --> 2107.02] We would just sit there and wait for the data pass. |
[2107.70 --> 2108.84] It was really hot. |
[2109.04 --> 2110.10] How tall is that sucker? |
[2110.50 --> 2112.56] I think it goes all the way up to 8,000 feet. |
[2113.04 --> 2115.24] Oh, I bet that was really nice in that climate too. |
[2115.60 --> 2115.90] Yeah. |
[2116.38 --> 2117.02] Oh man. |
[2117.10 --> 2120.98] Because at the bottom, it would literally be 105, and at the top, it'd be like 66 degrees. |
[2121.18 --> 2124.86] Did you do that thing where you got in the car at the top of the mountain with the AC |
[2124.86 --> 2125.22] running? |
[2125.32 --> 2129.68] And then when you get out at the bottom of the mountain, you're like, oh my god, what is |
[2129.68 --> 2130.10] this? |
[2130.78 --> 2131.14] Boom. |
[2131.38 --> 2132.66] Hits you in the face too. |
[2132.66 --> 2135.44] And they were also experiencing record humidity as well. |
[2136.04 --> 2137.84] So it was just gross. |
[2138.18 --> 2141.70] And all of my automations around heating had to be disabled. |
[2142.02 --> 2143.08] Everything had to go. |
[2143.78 --> 2149.70] And I realized this was an opportunity to kind of redo how I automate heat with Home Assistant. |
[2149.70 --> 2155.80] So traditionally, I've had a series of automations that would have conditions like sunset and |
[2155.80 --> 2156.38] sunrise. |
[2156.76 --> 2161.48] And then depending on the state of the sun, they would either kick on or they would kick |
[2161.48 --> 2161.82] off. |
[2161.82 --> 2168.44] And this also kind of fell apart because I don't yet actively update Home Assistant's |
[2168.44 --> 2170.58] location when I'm going down the road. |
[2170.80 --> 2172.04] I need to do that. |
[2172.40 --> 2174.96] I have a couple of different ways I could solve that problem. |
[2175.46 --> 2181.98] But right now, when I'm in Denver, Home Assistant still thinks I'm in the Pacific Northwest. |
[2182.36 --> 2185.10] And when I'm in Tucson, it thinks I'm in the Pacific Northwest. |
[2185.10 --> 2189.36] So it is going by the state of the sun in the Pacific Northwest. |
[2189.36 --> 2194.00] And so all of my automations were offset around heating for that reason as well. |
[2194.18 --> 2196.08] I realized I needed more control. |
[2196.58 --> 2199.70] And over time, my wife has said sometimes she's like, you know, the automations work really |
[2199.70 --> 2199.94] well. |
[2200.02 --> 2203.08] But sometimes I'm just in a mood where I just want it really toasty in here. |
[2203.28 --> 2207.06] And I find it hard to do that because the system will turn off the heaters once it reaches. |
[2207.42 --> 2211.98] I have like a 75 degree cutoff where all the heat turns off an automation for that. |
[2212.34 --> 2216.58] So I decided to take this opportunity after I disabled everything while we were on the road and |
[2216.58 --> 2222.36] definitely did not need heat to instead of reimplement the traditional automations I created |
[2222.36 --> 2227.86] almost two years ago now, I would instead replace them with the Home Assistant generic |
[2227.86 --> 2229.28] thermostat entity. |
[2229.52 --> 2232.84] And this is something the audience has written in and told me to do for a while. |
[2232.96 --> 2234.16] I've been intending to do it. |
[2234.20 --> 2237.48] And I am so, so glad I did this. |
[2237.80 --> 2241.18] It's like I have my own homemade Nest thermostat. |
[2241.18 --> 2246.14] Now, all it requires is you need a sensor to give it an input. |
[2246.28 --> 2247.42] And I have sensors in every room. |
[2247.80 --> 2252.26] And so you tell it which sensor to monitor and which what numbers you want. |
[2252.36 --> 2255.62] You know, when the sensor returns this number, turn it on and turn off. |
[2256.26 --> 2258.96] And what smart switch you want it to flip on and flip off. |
[2259.10 --> 2261.34] So you need a sensor and a smart switch. |
[2261.54 --> 2262.08] That's it. |
[2262.16 --> 2265.84] And then anything that you plug into that smart switch will get cycled on and off. |
[2265.84 --> 2271.86] And so I have oil heaters, these really nice, small, portable, compact oil heaters that |
[2271.86 --> 2274.04] give off this wonderful radiant heat. |
[2275.26 --> 2281.28] And Home Assistant now monitors the temperature and it gives you an interface that is a thermostat |
[2281.28 --> 2281.70] interface. |
[2281.82 --> 2285.02] And you set what you want the temperature to be. |
[2285.26 --> 2289.90] And it will cycle the power to the heaters to maintain that. |
[2289.96 --> 2294.30] And you can define things like make sure the minimum cycle length is 90 seconds. |
[2294.30 --> 2296.08] So they're not just flipping on and flipping off. |
[2296.44 --> 2300.72] And then you also have a really nice interface to just turn them off completely. |
[2301.16 --> 2305.90] Sometimes in an RV specifically, when you're cooking and you've got a lot of high voltage |
[2305.90 --> 2310.92] appliances going, maybe a toaster oven and a slow, you know, an instant pot. |
[2311.00 --> 2314.12] And you got a toaster that is, you know, pulling a thousand watts. |
[2314.16 --> 2315.70] You got an instant pot that's pulling a thousand watts. |
[2316.10 --> 2319.74] You don't necessarily want your space heater kicking on that also pulls a thousand watts because |
[2319.74 --> 2320.50] you'll trip a breaker. |
[2320.50 --> 2326.46] And so now in Home Assistant, we have a tab in the dashboard that is just all of the |
[2326.46 --> 2328.12] thermostats, which are there are four of them. |
[2328.44 --> 2333.90] And you can turn them off so they do not automatically cycle, which was never really an option that |
[2333.90 --> 2337.22] my wife had before because she wasn't familiar with going into the automations and turning |
[2337.22 --> 2338.42] automations on and off manually. |
[2338.88 --> 2343.16] So now she can just hit the little button to make sure the heaters don't automatically |
[2343.16 --> 2344.86] cycle on, which is great. |
[2345.08 --> 2346.88] She also has a nice UI to turn up the heat. |
[2346.88 --> 2353.12] But then the brilliant thing about Home Assistant is if you connect it with HomeKit, you really |
[2353.12 --> 2356.30] take things up to the next level for all of the users in your home. |
[2356.84 --> 2364.50] So now Home Assistant automatically publishes these thermostats to HomeKit on all of our devices |
[2364.50 --> 2366.16] that are in an iCloud family plan. |
[2366.60 --> 2372.44] So my wife, the moment I turned these on, had those buttons on her iPhone. |
[2372.72 --> 2374.30] She just pulls down the control center. |
[2374.94 --> 2376.02] There's the thermostat buttons. |
[2376.02 --> 2378.14] I mean, it just made it crazy easy for her. |
[2378.64 --> 2383.92] Additionally, now all of those things are verbally addressable with Siri. |
[2384.38 --> 2389.94] So she can say, Siri, set the bedroom heater to 75 degrees. |
[2390.08 --> 2392.42] Or Siri, what is the bedroom heater temperature? |
[2393.28 --> 2396.68] And Siri will read back the sensor information to her. |
[2396.74 --> 2397.72] It's very simple. |
[2397.84 --> 2403.14] And it displays the temperature now in her control center on her iPhone when she pulls that down. |
[2403.14 --> 2404.10] Right there. |
[2404.24 --> 2405.14] She taps on it. |
[2405.20 --> 2408.84] It gives her this really nice UI because it's a HomeKit UI. |
[2409.04 --> 2413.74] So it's all built in to manage the thermostat temperature with colors for when it's getting |
[2413.74 --> 2415.00] hot and all that kind of stuff. |
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