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Smart Home Automation with Zigbee and Apple Shortcuts
This chapter dives deep into setting up a Zigbee network for smart home devices, discussing the integration of various Zigbee devices like switches, smart speakers, and blinds with Home Assistant. The speakers share their experiences with using Apple shortcuts for automation on iPads, the challenges and solutions for maintaining a stable Zigbee network with over a hundred devices, and the clever hack of enabling kiosk mode on an iPad using a Philips Hue Motion Sensor. They also touch on considerations for wiring smart devices during house construction and optimizing power usage for devices like Sonos speakers.