27 Home Automation Ideas

*This is a collaborative post on home automation ideas

Home automation goes well beyond your home assistants and smart speakers. When you get creative, the possibilities are almost endless.

If you’re not sure where to start with automating your whole home, you can get professional help from experts like https://jnbtech.co.uk/.  Here are some ideas to get you started. 

Home Automation for Smart Lighting

1. Use voice commands or a single button to turn on all the lights in a room or on one floor, rather than one light at a time.
2. Use commands to turn all the electronics in a room off before you go out. 
3. When the garage door is opened at night, automate lights to come on outside and in the entrance hall. 
4. Use motion sensors to switch off lights in empty rooms. 

Smart Music

1. Stream music throughout your home. 
2. Set up zones for music or profiles for each family member to access their own music. 
3. Start music in the bathroom automatically when you turn the shower on. 
4. Fit a waterproof touchscreen in the shower to control your music. 
5. Program different settings for you and your partner for your music in different zones. 

Home Automation for Entertaining

1. Set the atmosphere for a part with an automatic routine that changes your lighting and starts your party playlist. 
2. Get notified when guests arrive during a noisy party by sounding a chime through your speakers in the party zone. 
3. Include microphones in your audio system, so you can broadcast throughout the house. 
4. Use a tablet to tell your fridge that you’re running low on ice so it can start making more, without you having to leave guests to head into the kitchen. 

Video/Home Theatre

1. Use voice commands to track down a lost remote, which will beep to help you find it. 
2. Automatically lock the front and back doors when you start watching a movie. 
3. When you press play on your movie, set the lights to gradually dim. 
4. When you press pause, set the lights to brighten again so you can safely get up and move around. 
5. Program a whole movie set up, so the TV comes on, the lights dim, speakers turn on, and shades are lowered, all at the touch of a button. 

Smart Security

1. Put a touch screen in your bedroom connected to your video doorbell so you can see who’s at the door without leaving the room. 
2. Create a routine for when the doorbell rings to turn security cameras to the door, pause the TV, and turn on or brighten lights outside at night. 
3. Have the feed from your video doorbell or security cameras show on your TV when the doorbell is rung. 
4. Set alerts to notify you if the front door or gate has been left open for more than a few minutes. 

Home Automation for the Everyday

1. Fit a contact sensor in your mailbox to alert you when you have post delivered. 
2. Get a text alert if the garage door has been left open. 
3. Get a text alert for problems like pipe leaks. 
4. Set reminders to take out the bins. 
5. Get a notification when the oven has been preheated.