Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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While using sensors is great, there's a ton of automation you can do based on schedules in your smart home. In this video I'll show you the ways I use this in my smart home, and we'll go through how to setup your own time based automations, including converting these to Apple Home Shortcuts with decisions based on Apple weather data.

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00:00 Introduction
01:12 Automation tab
01:25 4:45 AM
02:22 6:30 AM
03:05 7:00 AM
03:28 Sunrise and Sunset
04:45 1:00 PM
07:05 3:00 PM
08:05 10:56 PM
09:16 Sunset when no one is home
10:23 How to setup automations of your own

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