Gadgetory

today's cars are getting smarter and smarter but did you know that you can control the connected devices in your home right here in the driver's seat I'm seeing that the right Chris stay tuned and I'll show you how to control your smart home using your car the first things first if you're going to create a home automation system that's controllable from your car you're going to need some home automation devices and what you want are smart devices like these that work with if it is an online automation tool that lets you craft custom recipes that tell your smart home what to do when certain things happen now the linchpin to this is this guy this is called automatic and it's a hundred-dollar device you're going to plug into your car's data port it will track your fuel efficiency and your check engine light it'll tell you where you parked it'll give you little reminders to help you increase your efficiency it's a cool device but the coolest part to me is that it works with ifft and that means you'll be able to use your car as a trigger for those recipes setting automatic up is really easy just get into your car and look for the data port on the left side of the driver's side you'll plug automatic in and it'll beep then you'll pull up the app on your phone follow the easy steps and you'll have connected your car's computer to your phone over Bluetooth in my home I use automatic in my car and I have Belkin Wemo switch is turning my entertainment center on and off I like having that entertainment center turn off when I go to work so it's not drawing power during the day here's what that recipe looks like I go to if this than that and I go to this and I select automatic and I go down to if ignition turned on in area the in area is important because you don't want this recipe to trigger whatever you turn your car on you want this recipe to trigger when you turn your car on at home that means you're leaving that's telling the smart home i'm leaving i'm in the car i'm going somewhere this is a good time to turn off things so i'm going to select that turned off an area and then i'm going to tell what area i want and i'm going to pick the area right around my home this is a little geofence circle so if i'm in that circle on the map this recipe will work so if that happens then I want to have a belkin wemo switch turn off when I go over to the belkin wemo I'm going to tell it to switch off and I'll tell it which switch I want and there it is there's my recipe if my car starts when I'm at home I want the entertainment center to shut off and now every time I leave for work or go out to see some friends at night my entertainment center will shut off and I'll save a little bit of electricity and there you go just like that you've taught your smart home how to tell when you're coming and going ought to make the things in your home accordingly just using your car for cnet I'm right Chris