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    Another Smart Blinds Build

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 12:30 PM PST

    Smallest smart bulbs. I need a smart bulb less and 8cm long

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 11:05 PM PST

    I just moved into a new home and I really want to set up with some smart bulbs. In my room there is a chandelier style light with a b22 light fitting. The issue is that the bulbs that are currently in are 7cm long with only a 1cm gap between the bulb and the glass on the chandelier. Does anyone know of any RBG or regular bulbs that would fit in this spot?

    After looking it seems the smallest smart bulb I can find is the lifx mini at 10cm long.

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    Any alternatives to Switchbot?

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 10:59 PM PST

    Looking for alternative to switchbot. Are there any? Just want to press turn on my AC (im in Australia) and press garage door open/close remotely. obviously the bluetooth only connection is a massive downside, they also want $100 USD for 2 bots and a hub which is outrageous.

    Any help appreciated!

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    Spring home remodel!

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 10:55 PM PST

    Hey everybody! I'm flipping a house this spring and was curious what you all would recommend installing once I get the walls torn out!

    Smart lights, light switches, thermostat, vents, speakers and hard wired in wall echo dots are all I got so far.

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    Anyone know what kind of lights these are?

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 09:55 PM PST

    Best hub to integrate with esp32?

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 03:02 PM PST

    I am planning to buy my first smart devices and I would also be building my own dumb switch interface using an ESP32 microcontroller. I am wondering which hub to use:

    • Hue: most expensive, HTTPS is supported by ESP32

    • Ikea: cheapest, COAP not supported by ESP32 so I would need a COAP->HTTP proxy

    • zigbee2mqtt: some assembly required, which doesn't scare me but may decrease wife acceptance factor, MQTT easiest for ESP32.

    Local operation only is a feature for me.

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    Notifications from HK iHome Smartplug

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 08:28 PM PST

    I am looking for a way to get a notification from an iHome iSP8 Smartplug turns on or off. I have it hooked up via iHome Control, Homekit and Alexa, but can't find a way to setup any type of push notification when it's been turned on.

    Any ideas?

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    MySensors MQTT Proxy with Node-RED

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 08:22 PM PST

    Tablet recommendation for Action Tiles

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 04:26 PM PST

    Going to set up a tablet or two running action tiles for new house build. I'm an apple guy (sorry) and honestly don't know what to grab in terms of a tablet. It's going to only be used for Action Tiles, and ideally it would be one that they make a frame for so I can mount it.... What do you suggest?

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    Vendor for automation-enabled motorized top-down bottom-up shades?

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 12:33 PM PST

    I'm about to outfit our new house with shades and would like motorized in a few rooms.

    The only vendor I can find that has motorized top-down bottom-up blinds is Levolor but their controllers don't seem to be friendly to home automation.

    Does anyone have any leads on either controller integration with Levolor or another vendor that has motorized top-down bottom-up systems?

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    Detailed Teardown of the Sonoff Basic Hardware

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 07:51 PM PST

    Im a bit interested in home automation, but I refuse to take my tin foil hat off. Is there a guide to help me out?

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 07:41 PM PST

    So I want to improve mostly the lighting and efficiency of my home, but with the price and lack of privacy of some of the products, I never bothered to read into it and its come pretty far in the passed couple years. I can do some things with arduinos but they dont really network and do anything large scale. My conditions are really just no phone apps, no wan connection, and no wlan to lan connections. I do have an alexa if its useful at all offline. I am interested in security too and am looking at building a nvr setup with freeNAS and motioneyeos, but I was curious if any quality smart locks can work under these conditions. I guess all it needs to do is lock my doors if I forget.

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    Automating a switch based on room temperature

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 06:55 PM PST

    Ok. Here's my quandary. I live in an apartment where the main controls for the HVAC system is a three way switch on the wall. Off in the middle, AC and heat in the up and down positions respectively. Now the heat and AC in this room are both dumb (running or not). So what I'm looking for is a system, hopefully inexpensive as possible, where I can mount something on the switch and a temperature sensor on the opposite side of the room. If that sensor registers outside of certain parameters, it would activate the switch in the necessary direction.

    Anyone have any ideas? I'm looking this mostly for cost saving on my electricity bill

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    Repurposing Exit signs and smartifying them

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 05:35 PM PST

    So this might be better suited to a subreddit about projects but thought I would ask here first..

    I won an auction for a box of electricians parts off ebay mostly for the cable glands and other things I could see in the picture - Mostly just spares and repairs stuff - There was a thing in the box missing it's frontplate, which I discovered was an Emergency Exit Sign - I looked it up and they are pretty cheap - The one I have has 26 Led's mounted to the top of the box, a battery that charges to give 3 hours standby and even a test button on the underside.

    I have just uploaded a stock photo from google but will upload the box itself if you click on the pico link and click to the 4th image it shows whats inside the box -

    I always thought there would be 1 single lightstrip or fillament strip on these things but turns out LED couplets, there are 26 LED's in total at the top of this box, plenty of space with the only other things inside it a small circuit board on one side and the batteries on the other -

    I'm thinking of breaking the LED strip up at the top, boxing it off into different sections and replacing the LED's with different colours and then plexiglassing a cover for the front, could just get some thin plastic or coloured plexiglass panels to match the boxes.

    Anyway these things are cheap as chips it turns out, thought they would be mad expensive -

    I was going to get into building a Nanoleaf or Hexagon style lighting system but think this could be a great way to get a modular lighting system off the ground, possibly smartified in some way as well.

    https://www.safelincs.co.uk/pico-led-fire-exit-sign/?fGB=true&gclid=CjwKCAiAu9vwBRAEEiwAzvjq-60Q_NX3DiCX6-WtMbds7fRLNaTG3DOACf5kMLtbHeBZ3V19VpLpqhoCyXsQAvD_BwE

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    Wifi bulbs vs zigbee? Will 10~15 wifi bulbs slow down your wifi network? I have hue and seems like most of the third party ones that work aren't an amazing price

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 10:00 AM PST

    I feel like zigbee is better and I understand that i'd need another hub for some zigbee type devices. Just not sure if I should do wifi or zigbee at this point.

    I mainly use hue for my 2 play bars behind my monitor I use for gaming. Then use hue sync on my pc

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    HomeKit environment: can I automate smart plug shut off by watts used?

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 05:03 PM PST

    I have a smart plug (Koogeek) that monitors usage. Can we activate a scene by the energy usage? Meaning shut it off if it crosses 100 watts at any time or 3 kilowatts in total. Or, alternatively, use IFTTT to export a usage report?

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    Ecobee4 - am I missing something?

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 04:55 PM PST

    I'm trying to ya my thermistor save money. I allowed the temp to drop to 18 degrees while at work and then when we got home it was to be at 22 degrees. It's been 4 hours running and it's just now reached 22. How am I saving money? Lol The thermostat was off for 5 hours but has been constantly running for 4+ If I was to maintain 22 throughout the day would that not actually = less run time?

    Or am I completely missing something? Tia.

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    [Help] What led strips will work with this connector

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 04:19 PM PST

    https://i.imgur.com/WyeGhSW.jpg I got these from LE but then i got another roll from another company to extend it but they had red and green swapped when i plugged them in?? 😔 which ones will work with this connector

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    Looking for a post...

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 04:12 PM PST

    Please if anyone can help me out it'll be AMAZING.

    Trying to find a post - a gif specifically - with a title referring to turning off lights with his smart home with his phone. He then goes over with his phone and physically turns off the light switch by pushing it with his phone...

    I sent it to multiple people but can't find it anywhere. Its making me go crazy! I laughed my ass off the first time and every time I see it.

    Help me u/ObiWanKenobi you're my only hope.

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    Hubble - The smart hub that amalgamates all of your smart hubs into 1 smart hub

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 03:06 PM PST

    Ok so this isn't a thing as far as I know, and I'm pretty sure the word Hubble is TM'd by Nasa -

    But can we please make this a thing - 1 hub that can run virtual hubs such as the Phillips Hue Bridge etc...

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    eWeLink + Home Assistant + Node-RED at the same time (Video Tutorial)

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 02:27 PM PST

    eWeLink + Home Assistant + Node-RED at the same time (Video Tutorial)

    Hello,

    I managed to find a solution and now I have the best from both worlds - Cloud and Local Sonoff simultaneously.

    Link to the video tutorial - https://youtu.be/DbBqa-rq31g

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    eWeLink + Home Assistant + Node-RED at the same time (Video Tutorial)

    If you prefer to read - https://peyanski.com/ewelink-home-assistant-node-red-control-cloud-local-sonoff-at-the-same-time/

    Prerequisites:

    • A Sonoff Device with the free eWeLink app installed and eWeLink account
    • Working Home Assistant or Node Red or better both

    I really hope that you find this information useful and you now have working Sonoff device with eWeLink, Home Assistant and Node Red simultaneously.

    Thank you for watching, stay safe and see you next time.

    Cheers,

    Kiril

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    Big order just arrived! Not technically for my home (working on a startup) but we're excited.

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 12:32 PM PST

    Trying to install first smart switch. Help?!

    Posted: 09 Jan 2020 12:21 PM PST

    Trying to install first smart switch. Help?!

    Hi all,

    I have an exhaust fan in my kitchen where I want to install a smart switch so I can set a schedule for it to run. Bestbuy had the TP-Link HS200 switches on sale, so I figured why not try it out. I have a couple of the smart plugs and haven't had an issue, and would like to keep using the same brand.

    I pulled out the existing switch and it doesn't quite line up to what the instructions show, so I wanted to confirm with someone with more experience as to whats going on and if this switch will even work there. As you can see, the existing switch has the white/black wire, plus a red wire that splits into a skinny red/black.

    The only thing I can think of is this exhaust fan is tied to the furnace? I seem to remember something like that brought up when we moved in that it had to be done. There is also a light switch on the side of my furnace, would this perhaps be a threeway switch?

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    Thanks!

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