**Smart Home Automation with SmartThings and Aotech**

When it comes to smart home automation, having the right tools and devices can make all the difference. In this article, we will explore how to use the SmartThings hub and Aotech multi-sensor 7 to advance your smart home experience.

**Creating Scenes for Your Devices**

One of the key features of smart home automation is the ability to create scenes that can adjust multiple devices at once. This allows you to set up a specific setting or mood for each room in your home, making it easy to control the lighting, temperature, and other settings with just one button. To start creating scenes, open the SmartThings app and navigate to the "Scenes" tab. From here, you can create new scenes by tapping on the "+" icon and selecting the devices you want to include.

For example, let's say we want to set up a recording scene for our office space. We can add lights, a work light, and a TV to our scene, and adjust them to our desired settings. We can also customize the color temperature and dim level of the lights, as well as add specific actions that will happen when the scene is triggered.

We can then save this scene and give it a name, such as "Recording Scene". This way, we can easily access and run the scene whenever we want to record something in our office.

**Creating Routines for Automation**

In addition to creating scenes, we can also create routines that will automate multiple devices at once. A routine is essentially a sequence of actions that will be triggered by a specific event or condition. For example, let's say we have a motion sensor installed that will trigger a scene when it detects motion.

To create a new routine, navigate to the "Routines" tab in the SmartThings app and tap on the "+" icon. From here, select the device status and motion sensor as our trigger, and then choose the devices we want to include in our routine. For this example, let's say we want to run the office recording scene when the motion sensor detects motion.

We can add the office recording scene to our routine by tapping on the "+" icon and selecting it from our list of available scenes. We can also adjust the settings for our routine as needed, such as setting a time trigger or adding additional devices to the routine.

**Testing and Saving Routines**

Once we've created our routine, we can test it out in real-time by simulating motion detection with our motion sensor. This will allow us to see how the routine works and make any necessary adjustments before saving it forever.

To save our routine, simply tap on the "Save" button at the bottom of the screen and give it a name, such as "Office On". This way, we can easily access and run our routine whenever we want to automate our devices.

**Using Motion Sensors for Automation**

One of the key benefits of using motion sensors in smart home automation is their ability to detect movement and trigger specific actions. In this example, we've used a motion sensor to trigger our office recording scene when it detects motion.

But what happens if we don't need to record anything during a certain amount of time? For example, let's say we leave the room for 10 minutes without moving around. We can adjust our routine to exclude the motion sensor from triggering the scene for that period of time by selecting "No Motion" as our trigger.

By using this feature, we can avoid unnecessary device adjustments and save energy in the process. It's a great example of how smart home automation can make our lives easier and more efficient.

**Conclusion**

Smart home automation with SmartThings and Aotech is an exciting world that offers endless possibilities for customization and control. By creating scenes, routines, and using motion sensors, we can automate our devices and save energy in the process. Whether you're a seasoned smart home enthusiast or just starting out, these tips and tricks will help you take your smart home experience to the next level.

**Additional Resources**

If you want to learn more about SmartThings and Aotech, be sure to check out the links in the description below for tutorials, guides, and other resources. You can also sign up for the energy challenge by visiting the IFTTT website, where you can pledge to use smart devices to save energy in your home.

By joining the energy challenge and taking advantage of smart home automation tools like SmartThings and Aotech, you'll be well on your way to reducing your energy consumption and creating a more sustainable future for yourself.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe're settled in and it's now time to get the new home set up with a more advanced smart home hub and in today's video we're going to be using the aotech smart home hub thanks so much to aotech for sponsoring today's video now I haven't talked about SmartThings for a long time so let me give you a quick update so a few years ago Samsung decided to Outsource the building of its equipment to other companies and it then decided to take all of the software and mainly focus on that so that's where we get the aotech smart home hub as you can see it looks very similar to other smart things hubs here it says it works as a SmartThings Hub but now it is made by aotech and here they've also provided with a few other sensors today so I think it's great we now have a company that's behind the hardware and we have Samsung that is still behind all the software making smart things just one of the best smart home ecosystems that you can have in your home so let's go ahead ahead and start by getting this set up so this video is going to help you get your home hub set up get devices connected to it and then I'm going to show you how to automate different things with these sensors and how it's going to save you money so first we have the smart home hub here on the back this is able to connect with all kinds of things so here we have the Hub it can then connect with speakers cameras plugs lights sensors heaters Outlets remotes fans other light switches and so on there is an app available for this which is smart things available in the App Store as well as the Google Play Store so here on the side it says works with devices from aotech thousands of other certified devices voice controllers such as Google assistant and Amazon Alexa smartphone apps and for IOS and Android cameras doorbells door locks garage doors lighting power outlet security system switches televisions thermostats windows and much more now one of the things that this Hub has is it connects with zigbee 3.0 as well as it has Z-Wave plus and it connects to other devices with Wi-Fi now one thing that isn't on the box is this is now matter certified as well as a thread border router now the importance of this is it is able to connect to so many new devices that will be coming out soon so you want to look for products that have the matter logo here so that you know that it is going to be compatible with your Hub and this is going to be the newest standard for all smart home devices so you know that it's going to work with your aotech smart home hub so if you're wondering why do I need a hub well there are certain devices that make life much easier and they get great battery life when they're connected over zigbee or Z-Wave plus so that's why we have these sensors today that we're going to be connecting to this and then we can incorporate all of our other smart home devices right into here so that then they can all interact with each other and we can create different automations and so on right within the Hub so let's go ahead get this unboxed and set up all right so here we have the aotech smart home hub and on the back here you have a DC so that's we're going to plug it in we have a USB port as well as a lan port and I believe this can be Wi-Fi as well we'll double check that but this will be plugged directly in to your router or your network switch all right then we have some instructions we have our power cord we have a Samsung charger that's pretty cool and then here we have our ethernet these look much better than uh some that I have seen so it's really nice to see that here we're going to connect the aotech smart home hub to the wall using the supplied power then we're going to download the SmartThings app and follow the on-screen instructions so let's head to the network room then we're going to plug in the power core and plug this in and I'm very impressed by the length of that cord very easy to reach all right now I'm going to head into the SmartThings app and I've already set up my account so you may need to sign into your Samsung account or create a new account but once I'm open in the app here you can see it has already found the Hub and we're going to select add now and then first it's going to ask where you want this at so you can have multiple homes in your SmartThings app so so here we're just going to choose this new home I have created called smartest home and then here you're going to choose what location you want to have this in and I'm going to choose a custom room and we're going to call it Network now it is recommended you place this in a central location in your home and do not put any devices on top of it next it's going to get my location for the best geolocation automations now we're going to choose how we're going to connect the Hub now you can use it wirelessly like I mentioned so you could have this plugged in anywhere and it will wirelessly connect but since we are here in the network room I'm going to go ahead and choose ethernet so now it's saying take the included ethernet cable and then place it in the back of the smart home hub and then place it into the back of my router or switch all right now it says we need to wait till the light is flashing now we're going to take a picture of the QR code all right and it says your null is connected to the internet Perfect all right now it is registering The Hub and first it will download an update and once the updates have complete it is now asking what we want to name the Hub since it's the Hub I'm just going to keep it the Hub and you have an option to set it as a favorite but I don't need to go in there too often so we're just going to leave as is now it's downloading add-on information and now we are complete so here we have our Hub it is connected and no current devices have been connected to it and here are the different devices it supports zigbee Z-Wave plus and also matter certified which is awesome so now let's go head back to the table and get some device is connected to it so now we're going to head back to the main page of the SmartThings app and here we can see our home and I'm currently in the network room so up here at the top I have the option to switch between my different homes and then down here I have all of my different rooms available so let's go ahead tap on all devices and here it's pulling in personal devices over Bluetooth here I currently only have my refrigerator connected and then the Hub so let's go ahead and add the multi-sensor 7. now this sensor is pretty cool it can detect motion light vibration humidity temperature as well as ultraviolet light so there are quite a few things that I'll be able to do this in my smart home so here's our instructions the sensor here is a micro USB power cable and then here it comes with some adhesive two screws two batteries and here it comes with a mount as well that will go on to the back of the device so let's start by inserting the batteries so first we're going to remove the back just by pushing this over to the side and it comes out just like that now here on the back there you do have the option to put in the micro USB cable so if you don't want to use batteries you can wire this in which is really cool then here we're going to use batteries so we just need to pop in the cr123a batteries like so and now here in the SmartThings app I'm just going to tap add select add device here there's a QR code so I'm going to go ahead and scan QR code all right and we're going to connect it to the hub and we're going to place this one in the kitchen so that sounds great and once you place in the batteries up here at the top there's a little button you need to press that will then put it in pairing mode to connect to the hub all right and we have successfully connected so now it's giving us the option to name the device so here we're going to just call it kitchen sensor and we're going to select save done so now we have the sensor there let's go ahead and add the other one and let's name this office sensor but now we have both of our sensors connected so here you can see in the office there is no motion detected wave my hand over and boom there we have the sensor that has been detected so here it's stating if you put it in a corner it has about a 120 degree radius that it can detect motion and it can go out to about five meters and two and a half meters high so here in the office you can see the office sensor so if we tap on there here it's going to give us a bunch of different things there you saw the sensor flash so it does a little green flash when it detects motion and here you can see that it recently detected that motion and then here are some of the other things that it does sense so here we have temperature and humidity right now it's currently 61.3 degrees Fahrenheit in here and a humidity level of 37 percent and then here we have an luminance measure so this is actually detecting how much light currently is in the room so right now it is at 405 Lux and that can go between zero and a hundred thousand but if we go to our other sensor which is in the kitchen here we can see that all the lights are off and it's only showing 16 Lux so that's really cool that you have that option to use routines based on how much the light is currently in the room so if the natural light is making the room lighter you could have things automatically turn off and then if it's getting darker you can have things automatically turn on next we have power source and this is currently on battery and so if you're going to set this up you do have the option to do battery or plugged in and I think you need to have it set up that way before you go through the setup process so recommend choosing what you want done beforehand and then getting it powered and plug it in next we have the tamper alert so this is kind of your vibration sensor so it detects when there is vibration on the sensor so right now there's no motion so I'm going to go ahead and move the sensor a little bit and there you can see with just a little shaking it has detected tamper alert so then you could have an automation run if there is shaking like that next here we have the UV index So currently there is no sunlight in the room so it's at zero or it could go up to 11 plus so if you have this in an area that does have sun and you want to know what that is you have that option there and then last here we have battery life at 100 so these have been running for a few weeks now and so far this is at 100 and the kitchen sensor has been in a high traffic area and it's still currently at 100 if you want to adjust these settings a little bit further you can tap the menu here and tap settings here we have a motion sensor delay time so if maybe it's too active for you you can come in here and delay the sensor for a few seconds or up to four minutes and then if you want the motion sensor sensitivity to be a little more or a little little less you have that option here as well so you can set maximum normal minimum or you can even disable the motion sensor and then last you have a report interval so how often the device should report in minutes so if it's reporting too often you can set a little bit of a delay so you have one minute to 30 minutes to an hour all the way up to 24 hours so that allows you to fine tune exactly how this sensor works now down here at the bottom we also have the option to see what routines this is included in so if I go into the routines currently I have this set to the office off and the office on I'll show you how I got those created in just a minute and then we also have the history tab so here you can see when motion was detected or not detected when the tamper alert went off and all of that so now if we do go to the routines we can quickly create a routine for this sensor right here so let's go ahead and create a new routine so let's test out a routine and here when we tap on the sensor we can choose which of the sense enter is going to start the routine I'm going to cover motion sensor in a minute but with all these other ones when we tap on it we get a option to choose the number and then whether it matches is equal above equal below or a range of numbers so that we can fine tune what we want the routine to do when one of the different sensors has hit a certain level so really a ton of automations can be created with this sensor so the next thing I'm going to do is incorporate all the different devices that I've already set up and incorporate them here this is where the home hub is really great because it can link all them together and then I can incorporate all of those into my voice assistant apps and so on so I've already connected a bunch of Lutron products as well as my Philips Hue bulbs so let's go ahead and get those connected so the first thing I want to do actually is we're going to head into the kitchen because I have Lutron devices in the kitchen so now I'm going to select the Plus add device if I scroll down here I can search for nearby devices enter a setup code or here we can search by brand so here I'm going to tap by brand and then I'm going to go through and I'm going to search for Lutron and here we have Lutron so then I'm going to link my account and sign into my Lutron account authorize all of my devices to enter into smart things and here the connection between SmartThings and Lutron is successful and so we just need to close this page now it's going to take all of the devices that I have in Lutron and show them in here so hopefully I've already named everything correct I can rename them but now I can see exactly what devices are there and now we're going to select done and now it Incorporated all of those devices here into the kitchen that's not exactly right so I'll have to do some moving around so let's go ahead and do that so first I have a bunch of Shades so I'm going to hold down on the shade and I'm going to select move to other room add that room and here we're going to choose bedroom one and now I'm going to sort the rest of the devices in the home all right now here I have my kitchen with all the devices that belong the next thing I can do is I can kind of organize my room so let's go ahead and add all of the different shades first so I have the kitchen shade there so you just hold down and you can move it up then here I have the refrigerator then there I have the kitchen sensor then we have the kitchen under cabinet lighting and we have the kitchen island lighting the kitchen main lighting and then we have over the kitchen table so I like actually how that is set up now I can also go into the settings and I can manage the kitchen and here I can change the wallpaper so here I can use wallpapers and smart things so then once this is enabled I then have the option to choose one of these colors and it kind of changes the background to give each room a little more customization so there you can see it changed my personal devices I can swipe over and there we have the devices that I have in the kitchen so if I tap one of these it's going to turn off that light turn that light back on and I can even dive into each light that I have set up or shade and here I can see a few more controls this one is dimmable and so on I have routines and history about that light and such so now I have all my Lutron devices let's go ahead and add some of the other devices that I have set up in my home so one tip is to go to the room you want to add them into and then go through the adding process if I go here and go to the no room assigned this would also be a good place where you could import your devices then you can go from here and sort them into the correct location so that something doesn't get added to the kitchen that doesn't belong in the kitchen I now have gone through the home and added all of my different compatible SmartThings devices to the aotech smart home hub and there are a lot of devices here you can see just in this room room I have all of these and then if we scroll through you can see in all these different rooms we have other compatible devices now some of the devices it took a little bit to get working but once it was working they have been working great you can add all kinds of different things to your Hub here I have a SmartThings button where I can push the button to turn on and off devices here I have a water leak sensor where I can place this maybe by the fridge or by anywhere there's water to make sure that there is no leaks present and once there is water coming in and it touches these little contacts right here it will then notify me that there is water leaking somewhere so then down here you can see all these little white dots those are indicating of the room where you are at so here we're in the office which is kind of in a ways if we swipe over it will go back to a different room so we can swipe all the way back here to the front and then here you have just devices connected to your phone and those are all the devices that I have in my home and the different rooms so you can also jump to a room by tapping up here and we can go from the kitchen all the way back to the office just like that so there's all the rooms we have available and we can jump back and forth between them now you can tap here and manage rooms so if you want to add a room delete a room you can do that and I think it is maxed out at 20 rooms I would really love to see SmartThings add the ability to have more rooms so you can hit plus you can add more rooms you can also come in here and remove rooms and that's how you can go through and remove those so we don't need to do that we're going to head back and let's see sometimes when you add a device it will be added into the no room assigned so that means you added it it connected it to your home but it didn't give it a place in your home so all of these different devices don't have a place so let me put them in the correct place so first if we want to we can hold down on one of these and we have a few options here we can edit the light and here I can adjust the room and then I can hit save it'll move to that room next you have an option down here that says move to other room so I can select move to other room and then I can go through and I say I want this one to be in the outdoor and so I can go through and choose every device in no assigned room and select where they want to be so I can hit save it then automatically assigns some of those rooms so make sure you have them right but it moved them all out so now let's go to the room we want to add them to so I want to add all of those into outdoor so if I tap the menu we can select bring devices from other rooms so if I tap there I can then go into the different rooms so here in the kitchen I can go and find all the rooms that were accidentally added there so let's see I have all the Hue Lights that I don't want in there so I can go through quickly select all of those different lights just like that and hit done and now it has pulled all of those into the correct room so that's definitely the fastest way to do it you go into the room you want so let's do it again I'm going to go into the room I want menu bring devices here and here I have a lamp that I'm going to add into this room and I'm going to double check make sure I got all those other ones out of the room yep okay so that looks good so now I have moved all of my different devices now I did find I have one more to move out of this room so here I have this bathroom one we're going to move it to another room and the room I want to move it to is not here so we're going to add a new room call it bathroom next you can choose your wallpaper select done and move and now it has moved all of those devices out of the room and so they are now all in the correct location now the next thing you can do is you can set favorite devices so maybe there are certain devices you're controlling all the time you want to be able to access them the quickest well you can add them to the favorites tab here so here I have some lights that I want to control so we're going to long press and then I'm going to set as favorite so when I set as favorite it then adds it right here to the main favorites page and I can then simply turn the device on and off right from this page so here on the main page if I want to add new devices I simply tap the plus so here we can add completely new devices or I can invite other family members to my home or I can create different things like scenes and routines and different lighting groups so that you can control lighting groups together so that is kind of a brief overview of how you can navigate the SmartThings app now down here you have a few other things there are certain devices that connect with the life tab so here one thing I did is I use my Philips Hue Hub and I can sync music to it there so in here there's just a lot more things you can do with smart locks cooking energy air care and so on so earlier I talked about how we can save energy and one of the ways is you can use the energy monitor here so with this you can check your electricity usage and get tips for reducing your electricity bill so here it says you can get more accurate rates by entering your postcode so we'll want to enter the postcode here and it's saying that my average kilowatt usage is 10.19 currently for December okay so then in here it's going to track devices that I'm using and I can see the kilowatt hour usage and then I can kind of plan to improve on that by having certain devices turn off at certain times and so on so let's go ahead and move to that section where we're going going to make some automations with these different motion sensors that we have so that we can automatically turn on lights or devices that aren't being used so it's how I'm going to do that is we're going to head back to the main page and we're going to head to the automations tab right here so we have a few different things we can create different scenes and we can create routines so let's start by just creating a simple routine so here under the create routine tab it's giving us a bunch of different suggestions on things that we can do we can have things change when we arrive or when we leave the home here we can have the TV turn on in the morning and adjust the lighting here we can have cooking happen if you have compatible cooking appliances here we can adjust temperature so if you have compatible thermostats here we have Home Care saving energy lighting weather and smart lighting so a lot of cool recommended options let's go ahead and create our custom routine so the first thing we need choose is if something happens so usually it's if you touch a light switch or here if one of these detects motion or detects vibration or anything like that then something happens so here we're going to select what triggers this item and so we have time device status my location location mode or weather so we're going to choose device status and then we're going to go in and find the kitchen and here we're going to choose the kitchen sensor and here are all the different things that this sensor can do so it can detect motion it has temperature humidity illuminance so how bright the lighting is in the room tamper alert UV index and battery so there's a ton of things that this one sensor can check so for this we're just going to do a simple motion sensor and it's asking do you want to have a motion detected or no motion so to start we're going to have when motion is detected so we're going to select that so then you can fine tune that so if motion is detected and have it instantly operate or if motion is detected and it's there for five or ten minutes or something so I'm going to have it trigger when motion is detected and then here you can also set a precondition all right so here we just have when motion is detected then we're going to have it automatically adjust the kitchen lights so here we're going to control device and we could also have it notify somebody change location mode and so on but we're going to do control device we're going to go back to the kitchen and here we have the under cabinet lighting kitchen under cabinet okay we're going to have it adjust that device and here we're going to have it turn on and we can then set the dim level so let's say we want it set to 50 percent and then we can have it automatically turn off after a certain amount of time or we can also go in and create a separate routine where it will turn off when no motion has been detected for five or ten minutes or something like that so I'm just going to go ahead and choose a simple turn off after and then we're going to do customize and we'll do a two minute timer to turn off so once motion is detected it's going to turn on the lights at 51 percent and it's automatically going to turn off at two minutes so there you have our first routine and then we're going to select save and here give it a name and we're just going to call it kitchen under cabinet sensor and now that it's actually going to run throughout the day all day long so we do need to add where we only want it to run at night so if I go back in here and I tap edit we're going to add a condition so then we're going to add time so we're going to add a period of time so let's tap on the Knight over here and let's have this start at Sunset and end at Sunrise every day and if you only want this to happen once you could choose only once per day but we want it to happen throughout the night so that looks great and we're going to hit done and then here under the motion sensor we're going to turn on that precondition where it also needs to have it be the certain time of day so that it can then run properly alright so now we have our time precondition we have our motion sensor and then here we have it turning on the lights and then turning off after two minutes and select save so now that has been programmed into the motion sensor and the routine so let's go ahead and get our motion sensor set up and test it out now here in the kitchen I wanted to make sure the sensor was able to turn on whether I went to one side of the island or the other now I tested out on one end of the kitchen where it was right up to the cabinet and that worked pretty well but I wanted it to be a little more active near the end of the island as well so I ended up moving it over there and actually liked how it wasn't right next to the cabinets nobody will really ever notice this unless they're looking for it so in this spot I decided to mount it right here I did a few tests I taped it up first so that I could then kind of walk back and forth and look at my phone and see when it was detected and once I found the perfect spot that is when I then used the 3M Adhesive to get this mounted for a permanent location I now am ready to fully test this once it gets dark so here the lights are now off I'm ready to go into the kitchen and find a late night snack and as I walk in you can see that the under cabinet lights instantly turn on and even if I'm longer than two minutes every time it redetects my motion those lights will stay on once I find my snack and leave the room those will then automatically turn off after two minutes then I don't have to worry about turning them on and off or even if the kids come down those automatically turn on and they don't have to touch a button or find the light switch and it makes it a little easier for them to navigate the kitchen they leave they automatically turn off nobody has to worry about touching the light switch now if I want to make this routine a little more advanced I can do that as well I just need to head back into the automation here we have kitchen under cabinet sensor and here I have what it's going to do but I'm going to edit that and I can add an action and let's say we want to add a few more devices in the kitchen so I can go into the kitchen I can add the island pendants and I can add the main lights and then here I can give them the details as well where they're going to turn on and to turn off after one minute so we're going to do that to both turn on turn off after one minute done and save so super easy to go in and adjust that routine and now when I walk into the kitchen it brightens up every light in the room so I can clearly see what I'm doing once I leave it will then turn off those main lights after one minute leaving the nice subtle under cabinet lights there for another minute those then turn off and all the lights are off saving the energy and letting me go about without having to worry about touching the light switch in the middle of the night really this multi-sensor 7 worked flawlessly in this situation now with this second sensor I want to make it so I can save a little bit of energy by turning off devices when I am not using them so actually right here in my office I have a bunch of different devices that I'm using I'm using a light bulb here I'm using one back there I'm using them in the back I'm using a camera overhead and I'm using a TV so a ton of devices are on and it actually takes a lot of time when I come into the office to get everything set up and turned on and I'm wasting a lot of time doing that but then I also forget to turn some of them off so I'm wasting a lot of energy by not turning them off so today I'm going to set up this motion sensor where when I sit down in the chair it's automatically going to turn on all of these devices and when I leave for a certain amount of time it's automatically going to turn them all off so that there aren't any devices on when I am not here we're going to head into the automations tab so for this let's go ahead and create a scene so a scene when it triggers a bunch of different devices so that they're set up previously in the exact way that you want them to and then you can have that scene turn off and go back to not being on so here we're going to call this office recording and here we can change the icon and look there's a little uh video recorder there so then we're going to add action so add what happens when you run this scene so here we're going to have it go to the office so we're going to have it adjust that light that light the work light and the work TV so it's going to adjust all of those devices so now we're going to hit next and we're going to choose what each of those devices are going to do so we're going to make sure this light turns off this light turns on and here we can even customize the scene where we have a certain color or a certain dim level or even the color temperature of light so we have all of those options so this is great if you change the lights you can then create a new scene where it automatically changes all of them back to a specific style so that is my recording scene so then we could also add actions and adjust more devices if we need to but I don't need to do that so we're going to save the scene and then let's create another scene and this one's going to be called stop recording and here we can just set a moon for end of the day so again we're going to go in control the devices so all those devices are then going to turn off and the nice part about this is once you set up the scene you can then quickly go in and edit it if something is not working properly and without having to redo everything or go in and adjust everything single light in the room so there we go we have our stop recording scene set and we're going to hit save now you could test and run it right there I'm using some of the cameras and things right now so I'm not going to do that but we will test it in just a minute okay so now I have those scenes where I could just come into the SmartThings app and tap on those different buttons to run that scene but we do want to use the motion sensor to adjust it so now let's create a new routine and first we're going to add the trigger so this is going to run anytime so I don't need to add a time trigger to this so we're going to do device status office sensor and we're going to do motion sensor and we're going to do motion detected so I'm not going to adjust any of these down here I might use this on the when I turn it off options so I'm going to select done and then we're going to run a scene so instead of going through and adding a bunch of different devices I can just add the office recording scene and that's pretty much it that's all we need to do for this routine and we're going to select save and we'll call this office on and then we're going to create a second routine and we're going to do the same thing device status office sensor motion sensor and no motion I'm going to choose there needs to be no motion for a certain amount of time because if for some reason it doesn't detect an emotion while I'm sitting here I don't want all of my different devices to turn off so we're going to select keep this so we're going to do 10 minutes and I'm going to select done and here we're going to run our scene and we're going to run the stop recording scene and select done and save and give it a name office off all right now I have my routine set and I have my different motion sensors ready to be placed so let's go ahead and place them now that I have my sensor installed I'm just going to walk around a little bit and make sure that it's only detecting the area that I want it to if it's not I will need to reposition it all right now we're going to walk around this way have a seat and there it detects me so that works great let's go ahead see what happens if I leave for 10 minutes all right that turn it off let's see if when I sit back down everything turns back on foreign it worked and so that is how you can use the aotech smart home hub and the multi-sensor 7 to advance your smart home I love how I was able to easily incorporate other devices that I already had into this system and then be able to advance what they could do having the sensor automatically adjust them on and off whether I wanted it in the kitchen or here in the office and now I'm definitely saving so much energy because I leave multiple times during the day they turn off without me having to spend all the time turning off all the devices I come back and in seconds I'm ready to record again which is just so amazing so if you want to participate in the energy challenge make sure you check out the IFTTT website in the description below so that you can sign up and pledge to use Smart devices to save energy in your home and if you want to check out more about the aotech devices to advance your smart home make sure you check out the links in the description below thank you so much for watching see you on the next onewe're settled in and it's now time to get the new home set up with a more advanced smart home hub and in today's video we're going to be using the aotech smart home hub thanks so much to aotech for sponsoring today's video now I haven't talked about SmartThings for a long time so let me give you a quick update so a few years ago Samsung decided to Outsource the building of its equipment to other companies and it then decided to take all of the software and mainly focus on that so that's where we get the aotech smart home hub as you can see it looks very similar to other smart things hubs here it says it works as a SmartThings Hub but now it is made by aotech and here they've also provided with a few other sensors today so I think it's great we now have a company that's behind the hardware and we have Samsung that is still behind all the software making smart things just one of the best smart home ecosystems that you can have in your home so let's go ahead ahead and start by getting this set up so this video is going to help you get your home hub set up get devices connected to it and then I'm going to show you how to automate different things with these sensors and how it's going to save you money so first we have the smart home hub here on the back this is able to connect with all kinds of things so here we have the Hub it can then connect with speakers cameras plugs lights sensors heaters Outlets remotes fans other light switches and so on there is an app available for this which is smart things available in the App Store as well as the Google Play Store so here on the side it says works with devices from aotech thousands of other certified devices voice controllers such as Google assistant and Amazon Alexa smartphone apps and for IOS and Android cameras doorbells door locks garage doors lighting power outlet security system switches televisions thermostats windows and much more now one of the things that this Hub has is it connects with zigbee 3.0 as well as it has Z-Wave plus and it connects to other devices with Wi-Fi now one thing that isn't on the box is this is now matter certified as well as a thread border router now the importance of this is it is able to connect to so many new devices that will be coming out soon so you want to look for products that have the matter logo here so that you know that it is going to be compatible with your Hub and this is going to be the newest standard for all smart home devices so you know that it's going to work with your aotech smart home hub so if you're wondering why do I need a hub well there are certain devices that make life much easier and they get great battery life when they're connected over zigbee or Z-Wave plus so that's why we have these sensors today that we're going to be connecting to this and then we can incorporate all of our other smart home devices right into here so that then they can all interact with each other and we can create different automations and so on right within the Hub so let's go ahead get this unboxed and set up all right so here we have the aotech smart home hub and on the back here you have a DC so that's we're going to plug it in we have a USB port as well as a lan port and I believe this can be Wi-Fi as well we'll double check that but this will be plugged directly in to your router or your network switch all right then we have some instructions we have our power cord we have a Samsung charger that's pretty cool and then here we have our ethernet these look much better than uh some that I have seen so it's really nice to see that here we're going to connect the aotech smart home hub to the wall using the supplied power then we're going to download the SmartThings app and follow the on-screen instructions so let's head to the network room then we're going to plug in the power core and plug this in and I'm very impressed by the length of that cord very easy to reach all right now I'm going to head into the SmartThings app and I've already set up my account so you may need to sign into your Samsung account or create a new account but once I'm open in the app here you can see it has already found the Hub and we're going to select add now and then first it's going to ask where you want this at so you can have multiple homes in your SmartThings app so so here we're just going to choose this new home I have created called smartest home and then here you're going to choose what location you want to have this in and I'm going to choose a custom room and we're going to call it Network now it is recommended you place this in a central location in your home and do not put any devices on top of it next it's going to get my location for the best geolocation automations now we're going to choose how we're going to connect the Hub now you can use it wirelessly like I mentioned so you could have this plugged in anywhere and it will wirelessly connect but since we are here in the network room I'm going to go ahead and choose ethernet so now it's saying take the included ethernet cable and then place it in the back of the smart home hub and then place it into the back of my router or switch all right now it says we need to wait till the light is flashing now we're going to take a picture of the QR code all right and it says your null is connected to the internet Perfect all right now it is registering The Hub and first it will download an update and once the updates have complete it is now asking what we want to name the Hub since it's the Hub I'm just going to keep it the Hub and you have an option to set it as a favorite but I don't need to go in there too often so we're just going to leave as is now it's downloading add-on information and now we are complete so here we have our Hub it is connected and no current devices have been connected to it and here are the different devices it supports zigbee Z-Wave plus and also matter certified which is awesome so now let's go head back to the table and get some device is connected to it so now we're going to head back to the main page of the SmartThings app and here we can see our home and I'm currently in the network room so up here at the top I have the option to switch between my different homes and then down here I have all of my different rooms available so let's go ahead tap on all devices and here it's pulling in personal devices over Bluetooth here I currently only have my refrigerator connected and then the Hub so let's go ahead and add the multi-sensor 7. now this sensor is pretty cool it can detect motion light vibration humidity temperature as well as ultraviolet light so there are quite a few things that I'll be able to do this in my smart home so here's our instructions the sensor here is a micro USB power cable and then here it comes with some adhesive two screws two batteries and here it comes with a mount as well that will go on to the back of the device so let's start by inserting the batteries so first we're going to remove the back just by pushing this over to the side and it comes out just like that now here on the back there you do have the option to put in the micro USB cable so if you don't want to use batteries you can wire this in which is really cool then here we're going to use batteries so we just need to pop in the cr123a batteries like so and now here in the SmartThings app I'm just going to tap add select add device here there's a QR code so I'm going to go ahead and scan QR code all right and we're going to connect it to the hub and we're going to place this one in the kitchen so that sounds great and once you place in the batteries up here at the top there's a little button you need to press that will then put it in pairing mode to connect to the hub all right and we have successfully connected so now it's giving us the option to name the device so here we're going to just call it kitchen sensor and we're going to select save done so now we have the sensor there let's go ahead and add the other one and let's name this office sensor but now we have both of our sensors connected so here you can see in the office there is no motion detected wave my hand over and boom there we have the sensor that has been detected so here it's stating if you put it in a corner it has about a 120 degree radius that it can detect motion and it can go out to about five meters and two and a half meters high so here in the office you can see the office sensor so if we tap on there here it's going to give us a bunch of different things there you saw the sensor flash so it does a little green flash when it detects motion and here you can see that it recently detected that motion and then here are some of the other things that it does sense so here we have temperature and humidity right now it's currently 61.3 degrees Fahrenheit in here and a humidity level of 37 percent and then here we have an luminance measure so this is actually detecting how much light currently is in the room so right now it is at 405 Lux and that can go between zero and a hundred thousand but if we go to our other sensor which is in the kitchen here we can see that all the lights are off and it's only showing 16 Lux so that's really cool that you have that option to use routines based on how much the light is currently in the room so if the natural light is making the room lighter you could have things automatically turn off and then if it's getting darker you can have things automatically turn on next we have power source and this is currently on battery and so if you're going to set this up you do have the option to do battery or plugged in and I think you need to have it set up that way before you go through the setup process so recommend choosing what you want done beforehand and then getting it powered and plug it in next we have the tamper alert so this is kind of your vibration sensor so it detects when there is vibration on the sensor so right now there's no motion so I'm going to go ahead and move the sensor a little bit and there you can see with just a little shaking it has detected tamper alert so then you could have an automation run if there is shaking like that next here we have the UV index So currently there is no sunlight in the room so it's at zero or it could go up to 11 plus so if you have this in an area that does have sun and you want to know what that is you have that option there and then last here we have battery life at 100 so these have been running for a few weeks now and so far this is at 100 and the kitchen sensor has been in a high traffic area and it's still currently at 100 if you want to adjust these settings a little bit further you can tap the menu here and tap settings here we have a motion sensor delay time so if maybe it's too active for you you can come in here and delay the sensor for a few seconds or up to four minutes and then if you want the motion sensor sensitivity to be a little more or a little little less you have that option here as well so you can set maximum normal minimum or you can even disable the motion sensor and then last you have a report interval so how often the device should report in minutes so if it's reporting too often you can set a little bit of a delay so you have one minute to 30 minutes to an hour all the way up to 24 hours so that allows you to fine tune exactly how this sensor works now down here at the bottom we also have the option to see what routines this is included in so if I go into the routines currently I have this set to the office off and the office on I'll show you how I got those created in just a minute and then we also have the history tab so here you can see when motion was detected or not detected when the tamper alert went off and all of that so now if we do go to the routines we can quickly create a routine for this sensor right here so let's go ahead and create a new routine so let's test out a routine and here when we tap on the sensor we can choose which of the sense enter is going to start the routine I'm going to cover motion sensor in a minute but with all these other ones when we tap on it we get a option to choose the number and then whether it matches is equal above equal below or a range of numbers so that we can fine tune what we want the routine to do when one of the different sensors has hit a certain level so really a ton of automations can be created with this sensor so the next thing I'm going to do is incorporate all the different devices that I've already set up and incorporate them here this is where the home hub is really great because it can link all them together and then I can incorporate all of those into my voice assistant apps and so on so I've already connected a bunch of Lutron products as well as my Philips Hue bulbs so let's go ahead and get those connected so the first thing I want to do actually is we're going to head into the kitchen because I have Lutron devices in the kitchen so now I'm going to select the Plus add device if I scroll down here I can search for nearby devices enter a setup code or here we can search by brand so here I'm going to tap by brand and then I'm going to go through and I'm going to search for Lutron and here we have Lutron so then I'm going to link my account and sign into my Lutron account authorize all of my devices to enter into smart things and here the connection between SmartThings and Lutron is successful and so we just need to close this page now it's going to take all of the devices that I have in Lutron and show them in here so hopefully I've already named everything correct I can rename them but now I can see exactly what devices are there and now we're going to select done and now it Incorporated all of those devices here into the kitchen that's not exactly right so I'll have to do some moving around so let's go ahead and do that so first I have a bunch of Shades so I'm going to hold down on the shade and I'm going to select move to other room add that room and here we're going to choose bedroom one and now I'm going to sort the rest of the devices in the home all right now here I have my kitchen with all the devices that belong the next thing I can do is I can kind of organize my room so let's go ahead and add all of the different shades first so I have the kitchen shade there so you just hold down and you can move it up then here I have the refrigerator then there I have the kitchen sensor then we have the kitchen under cabinet lighting and we have the kitchen island lighting the kitchen main lighting and then we have over the kitchen table so I like actually how that is set up now I can also go into the settings and I can manage the kitchen and here I can change the wallpaper so here I can use wallpapers and smart things so then once this is enabled I then have the option to choose one of these colors and it kind of changes the background to give each room a little more customization so there you can see it changed my personal devices I can swipe over and there we have the devices that I have in the kitchen so if I tap one of these it's going to turn off that light turn that light back on and I can even dive into each light that I have set up or shade and here I can see a few more controls this one is dimmable and so on I have routines and history about that light and such so now I have all my Lutron devices let's go ahead and add some of the other devices that I have set up in my home so one tip is to go to the room you want to add them into and then go through the adding process if I go here and go to the no room assigned this would also be a good place where you could import your devices then you can go from here and sort them into the correct location so that something doesn't get added to the kitchen that doesn't belong in the kitchen I now have gone through the home and added all of my different compatible SmartThings devices to the aotech smart home hub and there are a lot of devices here you can see just in this room room I have all of these and then if we scroll through you can see in all these different rooms we have other compatible devices now some of the devices it took a little bit to get working but once it was working they have been working great you can add all kinds of different things to your Hub here I have a SmartThings button where I can push the button to turn on and off devices here I have a water leak sensor where I can place this maybe by the fridge or by anywhere there's water to make sure that there is no leaks present and once there is water coming in and it touches these little contacts right here it will then notify me that there is water leaking somewhere so then down here you can see all these little white dots those are indicating of the room where you are at so here we're in the office which is kind of in a ways if we swipe over it will go back to a different room so we can swipe all the way back here to the front and then here you have just devices connected to your phone and those are all the devices that I have in my home and the different rooms so you can also jump to a room by tapping up here and we can go from the kitchen all the way back to the office just like that so there's all the rooms we have available and we can jump back and forth between them now you can tap here and manage rooms so if you want to add a room delete a room you can do that and I think it is maxed out at 20 rooms I would really love to see SmartThings add the ability to have more rooms so you can hit plus you can add more rooms you can also come in here and remove rooms and that's how you can go through and remove those so we don't need to do that we're going to head back and let's see sometimes when you add a device it will be added into the no room assigned so that means you added it it connected it to your home but it didn't give it a place in your home so all of these different devices don't have a place so let me put them in the correct place so first if we want to we can hold down on one of these and we have a few options here we can edit the light and here I can adjust the room and then I can hit save it'll move to that room next you have an option down here that says move to other room so I can select move to other room and then I can go through and I say I want this one to be in the outdoor and so I can go through and choose every device in no assigned room and select where they want to be so I can hit save it then automatically assigns some of those rooms so make sure you have them right but it moved them all out so now let's go to the room we want to add them to so I want to add all of those into outdoor so if I tap the menu we can select bring devices from other rooms so if I tap there I can then go into the different rooms so here in the kitchen I can go and find all the rooms that were accidentally added there so let's see I have all the Hue Lights that I don't want in there so I can go through quickly select all of those different lights just like that and hit done and now it has pulled all of those into the correct room so that's definitely the fastest way to do it you go into the room you want so let's do it again I'm going to go into the room I want menu bring devices here and here I have a lamp that I'm going to add into this room and I'm going to double check make sure I got all those other ones out of the room yep okay so that looks good so now I have moved all of my different devices now I did find I have one more to move out of this room so here I have this bathroom one we're going to move it to another room and the room I want to move it to is not here so we're going to add a new room call it bathroom next you can choose your wallpaper select done and move and now it has moved all of those devices out of the room and so they are now all in the correct location now the next thing you can do is you can set favorite devices so maybe there are certain devices you're controlling all the time you want to be able to access them the quickest well you can add them to the favorites tab here so here I have some lights that I want to control so we're going to long press and then I'm going to set as favorite so when I set as favorite it then adds it right here to the main favorites page and I can then simply turn the device on and off right from this page so here on the main page if I want to add new devices I simply tap the plus so here we can add completely new devices or I can invite other family members to my home or I can create different things like scenes and routines and different lighting groups so that you can control lighting groups together so that is kind of a brief overview of how you can navigate the SmartThings app now down here you have a few other things there are certain devices that connect with the life tab so here one thing I did is I use my Philips Hue Hub and I can sync music to it there so in here there's just a lot more things you can do with smart locks cooking energy air care and so on so earlier I talked about how we can save energy and one of the ways is you can use the energy monitor here so with this you can check your electricity usage and get tips for reducing your electricity bill so here it says you can get more accurate rates by entering your postcode so we'll want to enter the postcode here and it's saying that my average kilowatt usage is 10.19 currently for December okay so then in here it's going to track devices that I'm using and I can see the kilowatt hour usage and then I can kind of plan to improve on that by having certain devices turn off at certain times and so on so let's go ahead and move to that section where we're going going to make some automations with these different motion sensors that we have so that we can automatically turn on lights or devices that aren't being used so it's how I'm going to do that is we're going to head back to the main page and we're going to head to the automations tab right here so we have a few different things we can create different scenes and we can create routines so let's start by just creating a simple routine so here under the create routine tab it's giving us a bunch of different suggestions on things that we can do we can have things change when we arrive or when we leave the home here we can have the TV turn on in the morning and adjust the lighting here we can have cooking happen if you have compatible cooking appliances here we can adjust temperature so if you have compatible thermostats here we have Home Care saving energy lighting weather and smart lighting so a lot of cool recommended options let's go ahead and create our custom routine so the first thing we need choose is if something happens so usually it's if you touch a light switch or here if one of these detects motion or detects vibration or anything like that then something happens so here we're going to select what triggers this item and so we have time device status my location location mode or weather so we're going to choose device status and then we're going to go in and find the kitchen and here we're going to choose the kitchen sensor and here are all the different things that this sensor can do so it can detect motion it has temperature humidity illuminance so how bright the lighting is in the room tamper alert UV index and battery so there's a ton of things that this one sensor can check so for this we're just going to do a simple motion sensor and it's asking do you want to have a motion detected or no motion so to start we're going to have when motion is detected so we're going to select that so then you can fine tune that so if motion is detected and have it instantly operate or if motion is detected and it's there for five or ten minutes or something so I'm going to have it trigger when motion is detected and then here you can also set a precondition all right so here we just have when motion is detected then we're going to have it automatically adjust the kitchen lights so here we're going to control device and we could also have it notify somebody change location mode and so on but we're going to do control device we're going to go back to the kitchen and here we have the under cabinet lighting kitchen under cabinet okay we're going to have it adjust that device and here we're going to have it turn on and we can then set the dim level so let's say we want it set to 50 percent and then we can have it automatically turn off after a certain amount of time or we can also go in and create a separate routine where it will turn off when no motion has been detected for five or ten minutes or something like that so I'm just going to go ahead and choose a simple turn off after and then we're going to do customize and we'll do a two minute timer to turn off so once motion is detected it's going to turn on the lights at 51 percent and it's automatically going to turn off at two minutes so there you have our first routine and then we're going to select save and here give it a name and we're just going to call it kitchen under cabinet sensor and now that it's actually going to run throughout the day all day long so we do need to add where we only want it to run at night so if I go back in here and I tap edit we're going to add a condition so then we're going to add time so we're going to add a period of time so let's tap on the Knight over here and let's have this start at Sunset and end at Sunrise every day and if you only want this to happen once you could choose only once per day but we want it to happen throughout the night so that looks great and we're going to hit done and then here under the motion sensor we're going to turn on that precondition where it also needs to have it be the certain time of day so that it can then run properly alright so now we have our time precondition we have our motion sensor and then here we have it turning on the lights and then turning off after two minutes and select save so now that has been programmed into the motion sensor and the routine so let's go ahead and get our motion sensor set up and test it out now here in the kitchen I wanted to make sure the sensor was able to turn on whether I went to one side of the island or the other now I tested out on one end of the kitchen where it was right up to the cabinet and that worked pretty well but I wanted it to be a little more active near the end of the island as well so I ended up moving it over there and actually liked how it wasn't right next to the cabinets nobody will really ever notice this unless they're looking for it so in this spot I decided to mount it right here I did a few tests I taped it up first so that I could then kind of walk back and forth and look at my phone and see when it was detected and once I found the perfect spot that is when I then used the 3M Adhesive to get this mounted for a permanent location I now am ready to fully test this once it gets dark so here the lights are now off I'm ready to go into the kitchen and find a late night snack and as I walk in you can see that the under cabinet lights instantly turn on and even if I'm longer than two minutes every time it redetects my motion those lights will stay on once I find my snack and leave the room those will then automatically turn off after two minutes then I don't have to worry about turning them on and off or even if the kids come down those automatically turn on and they don't have to touch a button or find the light switch and it makes it a little easier for them to navigate the kitchen they leave they automatically turn off nobody has to worry about touching the light switch now if I want to make this routine a little more advanced I can do that as well I just need to head back into the automation here we have kitchen under cabinet sensor and here I have what it's going to do but I'm going to edit that and I can add an action and let's say we want to add a few more devices in the kitchen so I can go into the kitchen I can add the island pendants and I can add the main lights and then here I can give them the details as well where they're going to turn on and to turn off after one minute so we're going to do that to both turn on turn off after one minute done and save so super easy to go in and adjust that routine and now when I walk into the kitchen it brightens up every light in the room so I can clearly see what I'm doing once I leave it will then turn off those main lights after one minute leaving the nice subtle under cabinet lights there for another minute those then turn off and all the lights are off saving the energy and letting me go about without having to worry about touching the light switch in the middle of the night really this multi-sensor 7 worked flawlessly in this situation now with this second sensor I want to make it so I can save a little bit of energy by turning off devices when I am not using them so actually right here in my office I have a bunch of different devices that I'm using I'm using a light bulb here I'm using one back there I'm using them in the back I'm using a camera overhead and I'm using a TV so a ton of devices are on and it actually takes a lot of time when I come into the office to get everything set up and turned on and I'm wasting a lot of time doing that but then I also forget to turn some of them off so I'm wasting a lot of energy by not turning them off so today I'm going to set up this motion sensor where when I sit down in the chair it's automatically going to turn on all of these devices and when I leave for a certain amount of time it's automatically going to turn them all off so that there aren't any devices on when I am not here we're going to head into the automations tab so for this let's go ahead and create a scene so a scene when it triggers a bunch of different devices so that they're set up previously in the exact way that you want them to and then you can have that scene turn off and go back to not being on so here we're going to call this office recording and here we can change the icon and look there's a little uh video recorder there so then we're going to add action so add what happens when you run this scene so here we're going to have it go to the office so we're going to have it adjust that light that light the work light and the work TV so it's going to adjust all of those devices so now we're going to hit next and we're going to choose what each of those devices are going to do so we're going to make sure this light turns off this light turns on and here we can even customize the scene where we have a certain color or a certain dim level or even the color temperature of light so we have all of those options so this is great if you change the lights you can then create a new scene where it automatically changes all of them back to a specific style so that is my recording scene so then we could also add actions and adjust more devices if we need to but I don't need to do that so we're going to save the scene and then let's create another scene and this one's going to be called stop recording and here we can just set a moon for end of the day so again we're going to go in control the devices so all those devices are then going to turn off and the nice part about this is once you set up the scene you can then quickly go in and edit it if something is not working properly and without having to redo everything or go in and adjust everything single light in the room so there we go we have our stop recording scene set and we're going to hit save now you could test and run it right there I'm using some of the cameras and things right now so I'm not going to do that but we will test it in just a minute okay so now I have those scenes where I could just come into the SmartThings app and tap on those different buttons to run that scene but we do want to use the motion sensor to adjust it so now let's create a new routine and first we're going to add the trigger so this is going to run anytime so I don't need to add a time trigger to this so we're going to do device status office sensor and we're going to do motion sensor and we're going to do motion detected so I'm not going to adjust any of these down here I might use this on the when I turn it off options so I'm going to select done and then we're going to run a scene so instead of going through and adding a bunch of different devices I can just add the office recording scene and that's pretty much it that's all we need to do for this routine and we're going to select save and we'll call this office on and then we're going to create a second routine and we're going to do the same thing device status office sensor motion sensor and no motion I'm going to choose there needs to be no motion for a certain amount of time because if for some reason it doesn't detect an emotion while I'm sitting here I don't want all of my different devices to turn off so we're going to select keep this so we're going to do 10 minutes and I'm going to select done and here we're going to run our scene and we're going to run the stop recording scene and select done and save and give it a name office off all right now I have my routine set and I have my different motion sensors ready to be placed so let's go ahead and place them now that I have my sensor installed I'm just going to walk around a little bit and make sure that it's only detecting the area that I want it to if it's not I will need to reposition it all right now we're going to walk around this way have a seat and there it detects me so that works great let's go ahead see what happens if I leave for 10 minutes all right that turn it off let's see if when I sit back down everything turns back on foreign it worked and so that is how you can use the aotech smart home hub and the multi-sensor 7 to advance your smart home I love how I was able to easily incorporate other devices that I already had into this system and then be able to advance what they could do having the sensor automatically adjust them on and off whether I wanted it in the kitchen or here in the office and now I'm definitely saving so much energy because I leave multiple times during the day they turn off without me having to spend all the time turning off all the devices I come back and in seconds I'm ready to record again which is just so amazing so if you want to participate in the energy challenge make sure you check out the IFTTT website in the description below so that you can sign up and pledge to use Smart devices to save energy in your home and if you want to check out more about the aotech devices to advance your smart home make sure you check out the links in the description below thank you so much for watching see you on the next one\n"