La home automation It is the order of the day: it is more and more frequent that we have something intelligent at home, be it a robot vacuum cleaner, the light bulbs in the office or the video doorbell. If you are one of those who are still a little lost on the subject, we are going to propose some gadgets with which to start your beautiful relationship with the smart home. You will see that in a matter of nothing you become an expert.
What is the smart home and how is it managed?
The smart home concept is increasingly present among us, however, as we pointed out, not everyone continues to fully understand what it consists of and how it is managed. Let's say the «smart home»is one made up of «smart» type devices, that is, they can be configured and programmed from a mobile phone or controlled with our voice.
These pieces of equipment replace other conventional ones that have formed part of our homes up to now, such as light bulbs, vacuum cleaners or even purifiers, or they appear as new accessories that only enrich our experience -in this second group we could include sensors that detect if a door is open, for example.
In the vast majority of cases, these gadgets are configured and managed from a mobile phone, so to give you a better idea, we have used one of Xiaomi's most recent phones, the I 10T -which by the way is now on sale for Black Friday (in El Corte Inglés) for 399 euros in its 128 GB version-, and its intelligent equipment control interface We Home, to which equipment can be added in a very intuitive and simple way as you buy and connect them to each other to have a perfect connected home framework.
The essentials: where to start
Deciding which connected home equipment is essential for you is not an easy task, because it is something rather subjective that responds to the needs that everyone has at home. Even so, we wanted to make a conscientious selection of those that we consider to be the most popular and that are usually present in more homes.
And within this group, a smart bulb cannot be missing. With it you can control the lighting in your home just by using your voice or through the app on your mobile phone. In the case of the Mi LED Smart Bulb, it is an E27 unit with 60 watts of power that you can activate or deactivate with Google Assistant or Alexa as well as programming it to turn on or off at certain times -great if you want, for example, to simulate that there is someone at home when you are not there.
Another very "smart home" device that you can get a lot out of is the kit Mi Smart Sensor Set (Now at 39,99 euros, it has a 50% discount!). This is installed at the door of the house and detects when we enter it to activate a whole chain reaction with other equipment that we have at home. In addition to receiving a notification on the phone, opening the door may mean that the light bulb we just talked about comes on or if you also have it in the window (several sensors come in the box), it automatically adjusts the air purifier to save energy.
Speaking of purifiers, our other proposal to set up the ideal smart home goes precisely through the Mi Air Purifier 3H. Now that we are much more aware of the importance of breathing clean air, you may want to include this device in your living room or bedroom that, of course, you will be able to control and manage from your mobile phone and configure as you wish.
The Purifier 3H is not too big -be careful with this because there are other proposals on the market that are authentic moles-, It is very attractive to look at, it has HEPA filter, it can also be controlled by voice ("Ok Google, turn off the purifier") and has an OLED touchscreen. Of our favorite smart home equipment, of course, which now, in addition to Black Friday, is on a considerable discount: only 159,99 at FNAC.
Until now, all the elements that we have proposed are very much aimed at the comfort and security of the home, but there is also room for fun in between so many smart gadgets. first with him My TV Stick, the device that make any TV smart that you have at home
We have already told you about it on several occasions and it is that it is a great price unit (now it is, by the way, cheaper, at 29,99 euros in the Xiaomi store and in FNAC), very compact, which is installed in a matter of seconds and that offers an interface Android TV to manage you, as well as a command with voice support through Google Assistant -you just have to press the second button -just below power- and speak).
We cannot close our basic “Smart” home configuration without talking about one of the brand's launches. Yes, we talked about My Smart Speaker, a smart speaker that adds to the catalog to offer a team with 12-watt sound, DTS professional tuning, two integrated microphones, Bluetooth and WiFi and support for Google.
It is the perfect complement to close this configuration (with an elegant and compact design, as well as minimalist), since it can be converted into the switchboard with which to interact and control the rest of the gadgets that we have talked about. And its price is great: 49,99 euros, although if you buy a 10 GB Mi 256T Pro now at mi.com (549 euros) you get it gift.
Are you already clear about the equipment with which you are going to fine-tune your smart home?