Showing posts with label backyard crashers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label backyard crashers. Show all posts
Friday, November 9, 2018
Outdoor Kitchen LED Strip Lighting Automation
I am not an electrician so do not follow my electrical work
In this video I show how to create a smartapp in samsung smartthings to automate turning on your outdoor kitchen cabinet LED lights with the open and close sensor by Sensative Z-Wave Plus Ultra Thin Door/Window contact sensor. The steps are easy to follow and helps you create an awesome outdoor living experience Outdoor #kitchen #smarthome #smartthings #homeautomation #samsung #viralvideos #youtube #outdoorliving
I AM NOT AN ELECTRICIAN DO NOT FOLLOW ANY WIRING SEEN HERE
Products Used in this video:
LEDMY Led Strip Waterproof Led Light Strip Super Bright DC12V 24W SMD3528 300LEDs IP68 Led Underwater Lights Cool White 6000K 5Meter/16.4Feet Using for Homes, Kitchen Cabinet Lights and Outdoor
https://www.amazon.com/LEDMY-Waterpro...
Sensative Z-Wave Plus Ultra Thin Door/Window Contact Sensor Strips Guard, Good for Outdoor Installation - 3-PACK
https://www.amazon.com/Sensative-Z-Wa...
Dual Outdoor Z-Wave Plug w/Built-In Repeater | Control 2 Outlets Individually w/1 Module | Zwave Switch (Appliance & Light) w/a Z-Wave Range Extender | SmartThings, Wink Compatible | Inovelli
https://www.amazon.com/Individually-A...
LEDwholesalers Waterproof LED Driver Transformer 60 Watt 12V with 3-prong Plug, 3204
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
10 Pairs Press to Seize Wire DC Jack 5.5/2.1mm Barrel Connector Power Adapter ( Female + Male ), For LED Light Strip, CCTV, Camera
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
LightingWill 10pcs Pack Strip Wire Solderless Snap Down 2Pin Conductor LED Strip Connector for 8mm Wide 3528 2835 Single Color Flex LED Strips
Sold by: LightingWill
https://www.amazon.com/LightingWill-S...
Thursday, October 6, 2016
What to consider when planning to renovate your backyard
The planning, layout and construction of a new outdoor space is what you want it to be. Consider this. Do you plan on living at that home forever? Well if that is the case, make it your paradise and oasis. A place where you can go to get away from everything and relax whether in the sun or next to the fire pit. However it isn't as easy as that. Here is a list of things to consider when planning the outdoor space and patio.
1. What is my budget? Well to tell you the truth, my budget was 1/2 of my final cost. Things I had planned on doing when visualized and saw what was out there just wasn't attractive enough for me and If i am going to live in my home till I die, you bet i am going all the way.
2. How much square footage are you going to use?
3. What material are you going to use for the patio floor? This is important as bricks, pavers, natural stone including bluestone all vary in their price.
4. Know what types of fuel and or electric/cables you want to run as you will probably be digging trenches to lay gas, electric lines. You can never have too many conduits for electricity down the road. We plan on and know we want a pool so we ran conduit ahead of time. We also know we are having a pavilion so we ran electric to the corners and cat 6 cable.
5. Are you planning on having a firepit? If so decide what type of fuel source you will use, ignition type and the shape. You can go with natural gas or propane and you can have remote controlled pilot, manual switch or match.
6. Decide on if you will have an outdoor kitchen and the different components you will have. For example if you are thinking of putting a grill built in are you going to have infrared, rotisserie? and how big is your grille going to be? What material will you build the frame out of? Typically people use cinder blocks, pressure treated pine and steel with cutouts. The kitchen and appliances itself can run 12-20,000 alone as appliances are expensive and so is the labor .
7 Are you going to have special lighting in your patio? Low voltage LED lighting, smart lights are just some to consider.
8. What about smart outlets? I love smart outlets and installed at least 4 of them so I can control them from my android phone.
9. I don't know about you but my outdoor kitchen is going to have seating for 5 at the bar and an outdoor HDTV LED for watching games and more. I will run HDMI over CAT 6. Some of this may seem like overkill but as I said, if you do it, do it right.
10. Structures. Are you planning on having some shade? Perhaps you want a pergola or pavilion. Pavilion have more in terms of covering and keeping from the elements.
11. Sound: sound is critical especially when entertaining and you want to be able to control the music from your phone as well as the volume. Check out my videos on Zoned Audio system and the bose outdoor speakers.
1. What is my budget? Well to tell you the truth, my budget was 1/2 of my final cost. Things I had planned on doing when visualized and saw what was out there just wasn't attractive enough for me and If i am going to live in my home till I die, you bet i am going all the way.
2. How much square footage are you going to use?
3. What material are you going to use for the patio floor? This is important as bricks, pavers, natural stone including bluestone all vary in their price.
4. Know what types of fuel and or electric/cables you want to run as you will probably be digging trenches to lay gas, electric lines. You can never have too many conduits for electricity down the road. We plan on and know we want a pool so we ran conduit ahead of time. We also know we are having a pavilion so we ran electric to the corners and cat 6 cable.
5. Are you planning on having a firepit? If so decide what type of fuel source you will use, ignition type and the shape. You can go with natural gas or propane and you can have remote controlled pilot, manual switch or match.
6. Decide on if you will have an outdoor kitchen and the different components you will have. For example if you are thinking of putting a grill built in are you going to have infrared, rotisserie? and how big is your grille going to be? What material will you build the frame out of? Typically people use cinder blocks, pressure treated pine and steel with cutouts. The kitchen and appliances itself can run 12-20,000 alone as appliances are expensive and so is the labor .
7 Are you going to have special lighting in your patio? Low voltage LED lighting, smart lights are just some to consider.
8. What about smart outlets? I love smart outlets and installed at least 4 of them so I can control them from my android phone.
9. I don't know about you but my outdoor kitchen is going to have seating for 5 at the bar and an outdoor HDTV LED for watching games and more. I will run HDMI over CAT 6. Some of this may seem like overkill but as I said, if you do it, do it right.
10. Structures. Are you planning on having some shade? Perhaps you want a pergola or pavilion. Pavilion have more in terms of covering and keeping from the elements.
11. Sound: sound is critical especially when entertaining and you want to be able to control the music from your phone as well as the volume. Check out my videos on Zoned Audio system and the bose outdoor speakers.
Zoned Audio and how to do it with Bose
This video takes you step by step from running speaker wire from your patio to your amplifier and zoned audio system to hooking up your Apple Airport Express for streaming audio from any smart phone including android and apple devices and laptops/tablets to your speakers and configuring the airport express for your home zoned audio system.
This video is long, extensive and fast forward to the end if you wish just to see how 1 speaker sounds.
We give shout out to the following companies
1. TuneBlade
2. Dayton Audio
3. Bose
4. DoubleTwist
5. CloudPlayer
6. Veridian Group
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