5 Steps to Make Your Home Hauntingly Smart with Josh.ai 🎃

Halloween is creeping closer, and with Josh.ai, your smart home can transform for even more frightful fun. From ghostly lighting and eerie soundscapes to intelligent automations that seem almost too alive, Josh makes it easy to turn your house into the ultimate haunted haven. Whether you’re summoning spirits for a party or delighting trick-or-treaters, here are five wickedly smart ways to let Josh work its magic this spooky season.

Step 1: Light Up the Fright

Every good scare starts with the perfect lighting. Josh’s seamless integrations with Lutron, Philips Hue, Oelo, and more partners means that your home can shift from charming to chilling in an instant.

Create a ‘Haunted Lighting’ automation that casts your living room in flickering candlelight, washes your exterior in ghastly purple, or makes your outdoor lights pulse blood-red when motion is detected. Josh’s AI Scene creation makes it effortless to simply say, “Hey Josh, set the exterior lights to the colors of a witch’s brew,” and it will design a perfectly eerie setup. At sunset, Josh can even trigger your haunted scene automatically, knowing when darkness has fallen.

Step 2: Fill the Halls with Haunted Sounds

No haunted home is complete without its soundtrack. With Josh’s integrations across Sonos, BluOS, Autonomic, AudioControl, and more you can unleash the sounds of the underworld at will.

Get the party started with commands like, “Ok Josh, listen to Thriller by Michael Jackson” or “Hey Josh, start my Monster Mash playlist throughout the house.” Use the Josh App’s music controller or natural language commands to tailor the atmosphere for each room to play howling winds in the hallway, eerie whispers near the entry, and deep, rumbling bass in the basement. You can even set up a random jump scare sound to trigger when an unsuspecting guest walks past a motion sensor.

Step 3: Bring the Horror to the Big Screen

Josh has you covered for a Halloween movie marathon. Thanks to integrations with Sony, Samsung, Kaleidescape, Roku, and Apple TV, you can summon your favorite horror flicks using intuitive remote control or with a simple voice command.

Ask, “Hey Josh, what are the best horror movies of all time” for inspiration courtesy of JoshGPT. Kick off your ‘Movie Time’ scene to dim the lights, close the shades, and get the candy corn ready. From there, a command like, “Hey Josh, watch Beetlejuice” finds it for you on HBO Max and starts the show.

Step 4: Greet Trick-or-Treaters Like a Ghost Host

Whether you’re home or away, Josh makes it easy to keep an eye (or an all-seeing eye) on your doorstep. With partners like DoorBird and 2N, you can see visitors, talk to them, or let Josh handle the theatrics. When motion is detected, Josh can flicker the porch lights, play a witch’s cackle through your outdoor speakers, and announce “Enter… if you dare!” via your whole-home audio. If you prefer something friendlier, Josh can detect families with kids (based on time of day and Josh Vision’s camera analysis) and instead trigger upbeat music and a cheerful greeting.

Step 5: End the Night Without the Nightmare

When the last ghost has vanished and the candy’s gone, Josh makes cleanup effortless because even ghouls need a good night’s rest. Tap into the Josh App to adjust your lights, shades, music, TV, and more devices.

You can also create a scene to ‘End Halloween Mode' that resets everything back to normal - Lights returning to their everyday settings, decorations powering down, and doors locking themselves. If you think you’ve left outdoor lights or music on, ask “Hey Josh, what lights are on?” The Josh App also shows you all of your currently active devices.

Enjoy your perfectly spooky home!

This Halloween, we’re celebrating all the creativity, fun, and imagination that make our Josh community so special. However you decorate, automate, or celebrate, we hope your home is filled with laughter, good company, and just the right amount of spooky surprises.

Let Josh do the tricking so you can focus on the treating. Happy Halloween from the Josh team! 🎃