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- RoboDomo
- After acquisition by Sonos, snips will shut down the snips console on January 31, 2020.
- Leviton DW15P-1BW Decora Smart WiFi Plug-in Outlet - Schedule Mystery Solved
- Roman Blinds work with smart blinds motors?
- How do these connectors work on RGBGenie LED controller? I’m sure this will end with a facepalm.
- Ring doorbell with Google Home
- Cheap smart dimmers
- Where To Buy Roller Shades?
- Which Alexa voice control option allows me smoother and more optimal control of my entertainment center?
- 110v permanent christmas lights
- Trying to setup a limited-access smart-home control panel for a Museum Exhibit
- myQ app & Chamberlain B1381 Garage Opener
- Led outside stair lights
- Hardwired electronic door lock
- Humidifiers and diffusers - switch > buttons
- Trouble installing a Lutron Caseta Dimmer in a 3-way switch
- Dumb tunable white downlight
- What’s the best labeling solution for small wires?
- Issues with Wemo plugs
- Need help diagnosing a problem...
- Looking to have lights turn on automatacilly when I walk into my bathroom how do I do this?
- Z wave on/off switch with dusk-to-dawn outdoor lamp?
- TP-Link Kasa (Spot Camera)
- Aeotec MultiSensor 6 - Bulkier than Fibaro Sensor, but is it better?
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| After acquisition by Sonos, snips will shut down the snips console on January 31, 2020. Posted: 08 Dec 2019 01:20 PM PST
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| Leviton DW15P-1BW Decora Smart WiFi Plug-in Outlet - Schedule Mystery Solved Posted: 08 Dec 2019 07:54 AM PST I solved my schedule problem. I thought others might encounter it. The short answer in my case was to disable Auto Shutoff Time. Auto Shutoff Time overrides any longer scheduled "on" period. I bought two Leviton DW15P-1BW WiFi outlets on sale at Home Depot. $20 bucks each. I wanted one to replace a simple timer outlet I use for a "night light" lamp in one of our rooms. My plan was to use on/off times relative to sunset and sunrise instead of a fixed schedule that I needed to adjust every couple months. I got everything set up in the My Leviton app and also setup notifications through the IFTTT app to tell me when it was turning on and off. It mostly worked but would shut off the light way earlier than the 1 hour after sunrise I had programmed. Since sunset was working I figured the location info must have been correct to get the local sunset/sunrise times. Because I was sending notifications to my phone I had an Aha moment and noticed the light was shutting off exactly 12 hours after turning on. That was too much of a coincidence. I searched and discovered in the Device Settings -> Settings I had the Auto Shutoff Time set to the max of 12 hours. This apparently overrides my 1 hour after sunrise "off" event scheduled more than 12 hours after my scheduled 1 hour before sunset "on" event. I suppose if you still wanted the auto-shutoff feature you just need to make sure it is longer than any scheduled "on" period. In my case the max of 12 hours wasn't long enough. [link] [comments] | ||
| Roman Blinds work with smart blinds motors? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 09:06 PM PST I'm looking to get Roman blinds for french doors since they'll cover the windows nicer without the roller at the top (imo anyway). But are there smart blinds motors that work with them? I'm honestly not sure what type of chain they use even after looking around a bit. Anyone know or have any experience with this? [link] [comments] | ||
| How do these connectors work on RGBGenie LED controller? I’m sure this will end with a facepalm. Posted: 08 Dec 2019 06:36 PM PST
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| Ring doorbell with Google Home Posted: 08 Dec 2019 11:53 PM PST Is there anyway to make the ring doorbell chime on the Google Home devices? IFTTT support both Ring and Google Home devices but they don't seem to talk to each other. Ideally the doorbell would trigger a routine to *broadcast* "There is someone at the door" and then maybe flash a couple Lifx bulbs. Any ideas on how I can do this? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 11:02 PM PST I'm new to home automation and like many black Friday(ers) I bought some things. Nest thermostat, nest "hub" and half a dozen treatlife smart dimmers. I've installed one of the dimmers and it works fine. Using the smart home app, everything is smooth. The dimming is abrupt, but I can live with it Now I'm reading about dimmers like lutron and second guessing this investment. What are peoples thoughts on these cheap wifi dimmers? I paid 15 each and all but one are still sitting in the box. Should I even install these or pay a little more for something like lutron. My main goal is to control the lighting and have some groups set up. I'd like to have a master switch at the top of my stairs to turn everything off when I go to bed. This switch happens to be a 3 way. (Do I need to install one at both the top and bottom? Google assistant will be my voice control but I'd like to have things automated. I'm still confused if I can create seperate groups within Google home or if I have to do this within the smarthome app and tell Google to trigger it [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 07:54 AM PST Please help, my wife is gonna kill me if I can't figure this out. I'm going to use a Qubino shutter controller for our living room window shade. It's wide, 96" across and 64" long. First problem, none of the big online shops and home improvement stores will sell me a proper roll of fabric that long. They insist that there will be a seam (or two) for fabric of the dimensions I need, which is bullshit because the fabric manufacturers definitely make the fabric I want in wide rolls. Second problem, it seems to be impossible to find a simple 110v tube motor, 1.5". No battery. No remote. No limits. No internal controls. Just a freaking tube motor (no room for a side-mounted stepper). Would be great to have it compatible with Rollease tubing, but that's not required. I'm not going to spend $2k on a turnkey Lutron shade or any others that require me to add another hub to make it connect to Smartthings. Now for a minor rant. In the metro DC area, every place that advertises to sell shades is a joke. Not one of them answers the phone or stocks shade components or fabric. Even the manufacturers, like Qmotion, are shady AF. Why is the shade business so shady? Hoping someone out there has some advice for a reputable outlet for the materials I need. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 09:50 PM PST I am currently building an entertainment center with an S series Denon AVR as the heart of the set-up and a fire TV cube as my streaming box/Alexa device. I currently have 2 options for enabling voice control for the entire set up
Which option provides the smoothest and most optimal voice control? Is there another option I should look into? [link] [comments] | ||
| 110v permanent christmas lights Posted: 08 Dec 2019 09:31 PM PST I have been watching several YouTube videos about installing year round Christmas lights but they all use 12v or 5v strips to control them with a pi or node. I then came across a video the other day were a guy used 110v led strips and I saw you could run like 330' without a power injection. I was just wondering can u still do cool lighting affects by controlling it with a pi or node like in the 5v or 12v [link] [comments] | ||
| Trying to setup a limited-access smart-home control panel for a Museum Exhibit Posted: 08 Dec 2019 12:39 PM PST I'm building a museum exhibit that incorporates some wifi-enabled relays that run through the eWeLink app. The intention of the display is to allow visiting children to interact with a touchscreen device to turn on and off the relays. I am able to get the relays to show up through the Alexa app and through the eWeLink apps, and I setup KioWare to restrict access to just one app. So all of that works. You can use the app to turn on and off the relays, you can't exit the app. That is all good. The problem, though, is that within those apps, there are a lot of other things to click on still which can take the screen away from the control panel that I want it to stay on. (The Alexa app, for example, can be navigated to skills and games where visitors will be in an altogether different spot than the device control section the tablet needs to remain on.) I've seen ActionTiles, and it looks like it would solve my problem possibly, but it has to be run through SmartThings, and I'm not seeing a way to add the relays I need into SmartThings. Any ideas? [link] [comments] | ||
| myQ app & Chamberlain B1381 Garage Opener Posted: 08 Dec 2019 01:39 PM PST UPDATE: I think the issue is that the Garage Opener could not send the serial number to the device. Tried the menu program and pushing the learn button/scan serial number.. keeps failing at "getting serial number" Just installed the garage opener. Everything works fine expect connecting to device & home WiFi. ( I like to be able to open/close thru the app and see open/close history) Using the MYQ app and following the procedure to connect, the issue seems to not being able to connect to the device/iPhone/iPad and home WiFi. Steps taken: 1. Program to pair/connect to device via menu-program and learn button 2. BLUE Led is blinking 3. iPhone connected to garage opener WiFi 4. Blue led still blinking. (No green led) 5. MyQ app message showing "difficulty setting up your device please call support" Emailed their support. But no respond back from them. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 08:58 PM PST I have stairs outside my home in front and lighting once dark is kind of crappy(you can see but not as i would like). Do anyone know a way that i can get some RGB LED LIGHTS mounted under the railing with 2 motion sensors that will trigger lights to come on when someone is approaching the stairs at the bottom or at the top? [link] [comments] | ||
| Hardwired electronic door lock Posted: 08 Dec 2019 02:51 PM PST Hi all I've been looking for a reliable and hardwired electronic door lock. There doesn't seem to be much on the market in the sense of hardwired but the client is very adiment he wants it hard wired. Open to all suggestions and variations. Thanks in advance [link] [comments] | ||
| Humidifiers and diffusers - switch > buttons Posted: 08 Dec 2019 04:06 PM PST Hello! I love smart plugs because they can ultimately make anything with a switch automated. For instance, I had a hot water circulation at my last house, and it had a timer for going on/off once a day. I wanted it to run multiple times so I disregarded the timer, left it in the on position, and then had a wemo plug automate. Viola! I am trying to do the same thing with other devices now. Mainly diffusers and humidifiers. Every single diffuser I have seen has a button, so they function similar to a TV, so once you kill power and then turn it back on, you must push a button. Any diffuser users out there know of a solid diffuser that has a switch that is always on/off (I believe they are referred to as A/B switches)? I wish there was an industrial standard to call these out in product specs for all things that plug in and turn on/off, with the advancement of smart homes. Thanks! [link] [comments] | ||
| Trouble installing a Lutron Caseta Dimmer in a 3-way switch Posted: 08 Dec 2019 01:31 PM PST So I'm trying to install my first smart switch, and I went with a Lutron Caseta dimmer (model PD-6WCL). I'm not an electrician by any stretch, and I have had absolutely no luck installing it properly. There were two existing switches controlling the lights, which were Lutron Maestro dimmers, and it looks to be set up as a 3-way switch. I installed the Caseta dimmer in one of the boxes and capped the wires in the other switch location as per the the Lutron installation instructions When I turn the breaker on, the light turns on, but the switch doesn't function and the LED indicators don't light up. A quick googling suggests a few troubleshooting steps, but I've tried all combinations of the following and always end up the same result:
Is there something I'm missing here? I've taken a quick photo of the wiring based on the vanilla Lutron instructions: https://imgur.com/a/nOhZPiU My house was built in the 1950s, I'm assuming the two bare copper wires are ground (I hope that's a safe assumption), but surprisingly the ground wasn't connected in one of the two Maestro switches that I removed, which I thought was odd. Anyway, I'm hoping someone with a lot more experience can help me understand what I'm doing wrong :) Thanks! [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 06:01 PM PST Does anyone know where I can find dumb low voltage tunable white downlights in the UK? I'd like to be able to to connect them to a wired driver of my choice, probably some twisted pair protocol like DALI or DMX. Unfortunately most of the lights I've found have built in 240V drivers and usually a set and forget temperature selection switch on the back. [link] [comments] | ||
| What’s the best labeling solution for small wires? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 11:54 AM PST I'm running a lot of smaller 18-22 AWG wires and looking for some cost effective labeling options. I've printed some flag type labels but they aren't the least bit clean. Do you have anything you use that works well? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 05:47 PM PST I recently purchased both a Wemo smart plug and a Wemo Insight and am having a load of trouble trying to get them to setup. I have a Ubiquiti network configured we pretty standard settings and two APs in a mesh. Each time I go to add either of the device to the Apple Home app (my main control center) It fails, and then kicks me to the Wemo app....which then kicks me to the Home app. I've tried setting it up manually, deleting and reinstalling the Wemo app. Adding the switches to the Home app manually and by scanning the HomeKit icon, it's just a mess. I've tried all of the suggestions here as well: https://community.ui.com/questions/Unifi-Wireless-not-working-with-Belkin-Wemo-switches/43ee2953-e436-4473-a756-2578a0685fdb/. Has anyone else had any success? If that doesn't work does anyone else have an idea on how to get them added to the Home app? Or a different Smart Switch suggestion? I just need one to toggle for a white noise machine and another smart switch that can notify me when the laundry is done (with energy monitoring). [link] [comments] | ||
| Need help diagnosing a problem... Posted: 08 Dec 2019 05:44 PM PST The other day while I was at work, I noticed that all of my TP-Link Kasa devices were offline. About the same time, my August locks kept disconnecting/reconnecting every few mins. So when I got home I tried to figure out what happened. Here's what I can figure out... For whatever reason all of my Kasa devices will disconnect and will not reconnect... can't even add them back to the wifi, unless I reboot my router. After I reboot then the Kasa devices will show up as connected in the app and I can control them with Google... for about 5 mins. Then they all go gray again and will stay that way until I, once again, reboot the router. So now I've about reached what I can think of and am getting ready to move over to hardware issues. Here's what I have, and what I've tried.
Before Friday, everything worked fine. I could use Google to turn Kasa lights on/off as well as the smart plugs. Then around 10am they all dropped off. I have...
What I have not done yet...
Other info:
Any ideas on what I could try next? Should I go ahead and order a new AP and just see if that's the issue? [link] [comments] | ||
| Looking to have lights turn on automatacilly when I walk into my bathroom how do I do this? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 05:25 PM PST Hello everyone my current setup is running home assistant off a amazon tablet. I was thinking of getting smart bulbs for the bathroom and having a sensor for when the door clothes the lights turn on. Is this the best route or is there something easier? I have no hub only alexa devices. [link] [comments] | ||
| Z wave on/off switch with dusk-to-dawn outdoor lamp? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 11:23 AM PST Having trouble with install a z wave on/off switch (Honeywell 39348) with an outdoor lamp with a dusk to Dawn photosensor. The light bulb never comes on. The switch pairs with Home Assistant, and a voltmeter across the terminals show the expected voltage characteristics. Troubleshooting reversion to the dumb on/off switch and the light works as expected, so the wiring and fixture and bulb appear to be fine. Is there any known issues with smart switches and dusk to dawn-equipped lamps? Maybe smart switches put out slightly altered power signal that conflicts with the photosensor circuit? Or are these confirmed to work and I have a bad switch? Which is hard to believe cause the voltages all looked fine. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 03:31 PM PST Hi, Does anyone have one of these? And if so, does it support RTSP? Google doesn't seem to have the answer, but i know their TAPO range does.. Thanks [link] [comments] | ||
| Aeotec MultiSensor 6 - Bulkier than Fibaro Sensor, but is it better? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 01:32 PM PST
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