Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this is TechFlow Quick Tips.
Let's do this.
So, as you can see, if you take a look around, it's pitch black in my bedroom right now.
There's nothing on except my keyboard.
So, as you guys can see behind me, this is my bedroom door.
Now, hear me out - what if I was to open my bedroom door, my door would sense that it
was open and then turn on the lights for me, turn on any plug socket that I wanted it to,
turn on my computer monitors - absolutely anything I desire, right.
Let's give it a go.
There go the lights.
There goes the skull.
Give it a second...
...And on come my monitors.
Second scenario - I'm really tired and I've just got in to bed but I've forgotten to turn
off all the lights.
I've forgotten to turn off my skull on the wall and I've also forgotten to turn off my
monitors. Well, all I have to do is simply come over here, put my hand on this tree,
give it a little shake, bring my hand away and just like magic, the lights go off, the
skull goes off shortly followed by the monitors.
Crazy, right?
Right, I've been working on this for quite some time because Elgato sent out their Eve
to me and said: Alex, do as you please with it.
So I've been messing about with it over the last month, if you've been watching my vlogs,
and it's actually really phenomenal.
They actually want to do a dedicated TechFlow review on it - this stuff, I use it every
single day.
So, Eve do a massive range of products.
I'm only going to be covering a few of the products - that being the door sensor, the
motion sensor and the plug socket.
Is it called the plug socket?
It's called the Eve Energy.
Right, so let's go over the two sensors first.
The first one being on my door.
So, on my actual door, I have a little thing stuck up there which is just always there
and then here, I've actually got a little Eve magnet thing which is, when I close my
door, like that, it can sense whether the door is open or closed and it would even tell
me in my phone if the door is open or closed.
As you can see, Alex's room door, it says there, closed.
So, we've taken a look at the door sensor, right.
Really simple - well, the motion sensor, it's even more simple than the door sensor.
It has a little lip on the front which obviously detects motion and then in the back, it's
simply powered by two double A batteries and you can hang it up on the wall, absolutely
anywhere.
Obviously, I've taken one of the batteries out because as it's moving about it's going
to be running numerous commands around my house - turning the lights off, turning the
monitors off etc. etc. etc.
OK, so this is the Eve Energy and it's just a plug with another plug on the, on the side.
A male and a female.
So, what we can do with this is, well, here, we have the power cable for my skull which
is on the other side of this wall.
We're going to go ahead and plug this in here and then just plug that in there like we normally
would.
Now, all of this stuff works with Apple's Home Kit so, unfortunately, you need some
sort of Apple device to make this all work.
That could be an Apple TV or an iPad or, like me, an iPhone, right.
So, what you can do is, well, you set all of the devices up in the Apple Home Kit app
which is really, really simple - you just scan the little code on each device.
You can then choose what actions, and what actions those trigger.
So, for example, I've chosen a simple one that the motion sensor when it detects motion
- it's going to turn off all of my Phillips Hue lights, turn off my monitors and turn
off the skull.
I've got it set so that when I open the door, when the motion sensor on the door detects
that the door's been opened, it's going to turn on all of the lights.
Now, you can even have it that it senses when the door is closed, it'll turn off the lights
but that would be a little bit of an inconvenience.
I'd rather just go and touch the tree over there because I like to keep my door closed
when I'm in here and I want the lights to stay on.
Now, as I mentioned, this all works with Apple's Home Kit so you can control these devices
with their names via Siri.
So, my monitors are, in Home Kit, called "monitors."
So I can say: Hey Siri, turn on the monitors.
They're already on.
Turn off the monitors.
SIRI: OK, the monitors is off.
ALEX: And they're turned off.
And if you have an Apple TV in your house, you can be out of the house with your phone
on 3G or 4G and say: Hey Siri, turn off the monitors.
It will then communicate with your Apple TV, your Apple TV will then tell the monitor connection,
the plug, to turn off.
It's amazing and it just works.
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