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    Home Automation Recommendation for a wifi thermostat. Natural gas supplier is offering a $100 rebate

    February 03, 2020

    Home Automation Recommendation for a wifi thermostat. Natural gas supplier is offering a $100 rebate

    Recommendation for a wifi thermostat. Natural gas supplier is offering a $100 rebate

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 06:30 PM PST

    National Grid is offering a $100 rebate on a wifi enabled thermostat.

    I would like to integrate the thermostat into the Alexa ecosystem, so any recommendations that are Alexa enabled would be great.

    Currently have a dumb/smart thermostat that I can schedule by date and time only.

    Thanks

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    I really have to utilize my weekends better

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 07:05 AM PST

    Making smart RGB controllers remember state before power going off

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 11:51 PM PST

    I have 3 RGB controllers (2 eachen RGB that work with ewelink and 1 govee controller) all controlled by Google home, the problem is we have what is called loadshedding in South Africa, so my power gets shut off twice a day for 2 and a half hours at a time and when it comes back on these units switch on, their are no settings to remember it's state, does anyone have any ideas of how I can automate a routine when power resumes and switch of the lights

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    This Bluetooth selfie stick button makes the volume go up when you press it the first time and down the second time. Is there any way to associate it to ifttt or Google home routines to turn on and off the lights? Thanks Reddit!

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 11:09 AM PST

    Custom RGBW LED Strip Wiring Help?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 12:13 PM PST

    Hi Everyone!

    I'm starting my foray into home custom RGBW lighting with a large display case lighting project. I have 4 Ikea Detolf displays around my house that I want to move together side by side and light up. A friend gifted me two Home Depot RGBW that I would like to mount under each shelf, however the connectors they are packaged with are too long and there are not enough of them.

    I want to buy some wire and connectors to solder and customize, but I am not sure where to start or what to do. I noticed that the strips come pre-made with male/female pins on either side but online I see most kits have snap on connectors/open solder points. What i would like to do is buy some 12mm 5 pin cable and some male/female pin heads and make the extensions between each self running up the length of each cabinet like so

    Can anyone give me some tips on what I should by/ how you would route this? Further more, I was wondering about how I should route each cabinet. Right now my plane is for 4 of them to be side by side and bolted to each other and the wall. Since each one has 4 shelves, I was wondering if it would be better to run 4 set of 4 strips in a series in parallel to each cabinet or route all 16 strips in a series going up and down through each cabinet?

    Either way I am pretty sure I need to buy new power adapter and IR control. The strip package says it powers up to 6 strips and is 12v 1A. Since I would want 16 powered would I want to get a 12v 3.5 amp adapter and similar IR controller as the output is rated 1amp for the one in they came with?

    Thanks for any help/advice you can give me. I will try to answer any questions and give more info if needed.

    TL:DR I want to route 16 RGBW LED strips along 4 detolf shelves for display case lighting. The strips I have have female/male pin connectors rather than bare copper for soldering. What should I buy/ how should I go about making my own connectors and wires for proper routing in the cases so they are all on one IR controller and powere properly?

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    Help with installing Teckin light switch

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 11:25 AM PST

    I am trying to install a teckin single pole light switch.

    This is my current 'dumb' dimmer switch and the wiring. The red with white stripped cable is not hooked up to anything. There is also a white cable coming from the wall (breaker) not being used at all.

    The Teckin switch has 4 wires.

    Not sure how to proceed on this - the wall was re-wired 3 years ago, so the cableing is somewhat new.

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    Amazon Fire HD 10 Lannouncer fail

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 05:24 AM PST

    I have 2 Amazon Fire HD 8 tablets with Lannouncer installed / running and Fully Kiosk open in the foreground. They're working perfectly and talking away nicely.

    My new Fire HD 10 tablet has exactly the same setup but Lannouncer doesn't work unless it's in the foreground.

    Has anyone got any ideas? Please.

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    Looking for a battery powered remote/button device that can be mounted in a light switch box.

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 09:42 AM PST

    As the text above says, I want to control a zigbee fan with a light switch, but want it to look nice and have a wall switch that controlled an outlet that I wanted always on, and so I bypassed the switch and it now does nothing.

    I want a zigbee or z-wave remote that I can mount in there. Simplicity is preferred as guests will be using it.

    There is no neutral wire, so unless there is a remote that can power itself from just a hot lead, it will need to be battery powered.

    Anyone with suggestions?

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    How to truly automate my lighting system?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 09:21 AM PST

    Hey everyone,

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    So I currently have my lighting system hooked up via Lightwave. I have some lights on timers (Dusk Dawn and morning timers), and the rest either are used by the app or the switch.

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    While I feel like I have great control of the lighting system, it does not feel truly automated so to speak. I would like to walk in to a room, and have the lights automatically come on, and autmatically turn off when I leave the room for example. My question is really how is this best acheived, is it a case of simply sticking PIR sensors everywhere and integrating with google home? Are PIR sensors actually good, I do not want lights randomly turning on and off / inconsistently? If they are what would you reccomend, or is this the wrong approach completely?

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    What if I want to turn the lights off in a room while I am in it, IE watching a movie in the dark, how will that work with the PIR sensor in the room?

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    Thanks everyone

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