As announced on YouTube, I very recently bought my primary residence, and of course I will fully connect it
This installation will push the limits across many areas â practically everything will be connected, not a single light bulb, not a single room will be left unconnected!
Iâll present my entire setup in a course in the form of a series of episodes available on this platform:
The idea is to show concretely how to get started in home automation, and to provide new users with very comprehensive, professionally produced tutorials to begin.
I canât wait to show you all of this!!
If there are topics youâd like me to cover, donât hesitate to tell me!
Planning your home automation setup: Iâll show you the floor plan of my apartment and explain what I plan to do: Iâll talk about budget and devices. The idea is to help you organize your connected home project.
Choosing your home automation hub: Iâll go through the different options and show you what I chose for my setup!
Choosing your home automation protocol: How to make sense of the myriad of protocols, and choose a coherent range of devices for your setup.
The connected hardware I chose: Concrete stuff: a complete Notion document, room-by-room, of all the equipment I will install, presented in a video.
Tour of my apartment (empty): Again, concrete: Iâll show you my completely empty apartment, with the different devices I want to place in each room. Thereâs already some equipment that Iâll show you
This is, of course, only the first chapter of the course â there will be plenty more coming very soon!
I worked at 400% all day to get this out today, and Iâm happy because I made it: the first part of chapter 3 « Managing connected lighting » is available
On the agenda, I present my « connected lighting » stack, and I tested in particular a millimeter-wave presence sensor that is
Awesome detector , at least it will be able to detect Drax the Destroyer!!!
And nice excerptâŠa good preview is always a promising sign of a good dish!
On the contrary, I donât find the price very high â in fact, with this course Iâm trying to take on a « technical expert » role that educates on the subject and enables a user starting from zero knowledge to take charge of their connected home project and save time
Where a home automation installer would charge at least âŹ55 excl. VAT per hour to offer a client a connected home project, here the user will get a complete course with dozens of videos, articles, purchase links, on many topics for only âŹ89 incl. VAT.
In the long run Iâd like to move to a slightly higher price, but for now Iâm starting more slowly while the videos are being released as a « series »!
I understand that if you already have an installation and know what youâre doing, it might seem expensive to you â maybe youâre not the target audience
Yes! Iâm happy with the launch; it motivates me to create all this content. Itâs a huge investment in time and money, and Iâm glad the content is finding its audience.
For now itâs mainly within the community, but Iâm in talks with other blogs to form partnerships and showcase this course beyond the Gladys sphere.
Iâve worked on an affiliate program that allows me to compensate these partners for the sales they generate via their sites; it gives them a real incentive to promote Gladys, which they didnât have until now
, at least it will be able to detect Drax the Destroyer!!! 
