- Spent the last month settling into our new house, but now it's game time. Just pulled the trigger on ordering Lutron's Serena Shades for 2/3 of the house as well! Time to step up from voice control to automation.
- Best method for proximity unlock with z-wave Yale Assure?
- Currently have a Roomba 650. Bought a new house and now it gets stuck under some things that are the perfect height, or it gets stuck on little rails between surfaces. Is there a smarter vacuum robot that won't do these things?
- Do Brinks IQ Panel devices work with Hubitat?
- Wifi Switch that triggers an alexa routine
- An IP camera mobile app that can has different playback speeds and can export video to PC?
- 8 Lights are on a Single Switch. How could I create 4 zones using RadioRa 2?
- Very basic
- Battery powered IR to Zigbee adaptor?
- How to get Alexa to turn off LIFX bulbs instead of the physical switch?
- Advice on new construction with no neutral wire. Really confused.
- 2.4GHz—the real problem?
- iRobot Roomba i7+ (7550) Robot Vacuum with Automatic Dirt Disposal
- Dim based on time of day
- Validate My Media Mapping Diagram Please!
- Tilting Blinds
- Does anyone know of a way to capture/log Nest Thermostat usage over a long period of time?
- PEQ 3300-P Door Sensor with a Vera Plus?
- Can anyone suggest an in-wall dimmer that is either zigbee or tasmota-flashable, suitable for EU?
- Time to re-start...looking for advice
- Smart Dimmer Remote
- Lutron Caseta switches keep failing
- Hey I need help with my Arduino-Co2 Sensor Project
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| Best method for proximity unlock with z-wave Yale Assure? Posted: 20 Feb 2020 08:30 PM PST Hi all, I have a Yale Assure with z-wave, and I'm wondering what the best option for proximity unlocking is? I'm currently playing with SmartThings, but 1) the ability to add routines has been removed from the classic app 2) the new app has a the ability to set rules using the geofence and my iPhone which looks like it could work, but the range of the geofence is practically my neighborhood. Is there any additional thing I could do to better detect my actual phone-at-the-door? Do I need a new Hub? Another piece of hardware? Ideas? Prior to Z-wave, I had an August chip in my Yale Lock, but the Bluetooth connection for proximity unlock was insanely unreliable and worked perhaps 50% of the time. Thus, honestly I'm not very interested in moving back to August. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 20 Feb 2020 06:24 AM PST In our last house the Roomba was perfect, ran it every day and it rarely ran into any issues. Our new place we ran it twice and it was a PITA so we put it on a shelf. Now our seven month old is crawling and putting everything in her mouth, we'd like to look at something like a roomba again. House is about 2k sqft of tile and laminate. No stairs. Suggestions? [link] [comments] | ||
| Do Brinks IQ Panel devices work with Hubitat? Posted: 20 Feb 2020 10:38 PM PST We bought a house where the flippers installed a Brinks system with an IQ Panel and a bunch of sensors. You can add z-wave devices to the panel to control them and the sensors look like they are added as devices so... Can I add the sensors to Hubitat and use them for automation as well as for Brinks? I tried Googling and didn't come up with anything. [link] [comments] | ||
| Wifi Switch that triggers an alexa routine Posted: 21 Feb 2020 01:06 AM PST Are there any wifi switches that when you turn one on that can triggers an alexa routine, maybe through ITTT since I don't think it can be done directly? I know I can do with my alexa buttons if not. [link] [comments] | ||
| An IP camera mobile app that can has different playback speeds and can export video to PC? Posted: 20 Feb 2020 09:17 PM PST | ||
| 8 Lights are on a Single Switch. How could I create 4 zones using RadioRa 2? Posted: 20 Feb 2020 06:59 PM PST Hi, So, in my basement I've got 8 recessed lights all on a single switch. What I'd like to do, is create 4 lighting zones, each consisting of two recessed lights. Now, do I need a RadioRa dimmer for each zone? Or is there an inline module I could use to accomplish this? I found this PowPak thing, but I'm not sure if this is what I'm looking for. Thanks! [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 20 Feb 2020 07:49 PM PST My family has a house we are normally not at, and very far away, that we would like to keep watch on. We already bought an Arlo camera system as well as a few Wyze cameras. I messed around with a Wyze one, and it's mostly reliable except for one occasion where I had to unplug then replug it in order for it to finally allow me to connect and control it for more than a few seconds. Based on what I've read here and elsewhere it looks like this power cycling is regularly recommended whenever some smart home device loses connection. It's good that it works, but it would be very impractical for us to have to drive up there every time a power cycle is needed. Is there a dead reliable "smart plug" that would allow us to remotely trigger a power cycle? I don't really care what protocol it uses. I was planning to have a server running 24/7 I can connect to (whether SSH or some interface) in order to check the connectivity of the devices and power cycle if necessary. [link] [comments] | ||
| Battery powered IR to Zigbee adaptor? Posted: 20 Feb 2020 04:46 PM PST Does such a thing exist? I'd like something to talk to Home Assistant when I press the power button on my TV's remote to turn the WiFi switch for the TV on. [link] [comments] | ||
| How to get Alexa to turn off LIFX bulbs instead of the physical switch? Posted: 20 Feb 2020 05:45 PM PST When I first started deploying smart devices around my house, I wired up z-wave smart switches. Since then, if I say "Alexa turn off the lights" in any particular room, Alexa will trigger the z-wave light switch to kill power to the lights. Now, I've installed a couple LIFX bulbs in my master bedroom to help me slowly wake up and I'd like "Alexa turn off the lights" in my bedroom, to turn off via LIFX without cutting power via the z-wave switch. As of now, I've retooled the switch to be a "switch" instead of a "lightswitch" but when I say "Alexa, turn off the lights, I get "a few things share that name. Which one are you talking about?" Any advice? Picture for reference: https://imgur.com/a/sWeCMQA [link] [comments] | ||
| Advice on new construction with no neutral wire. Really confused. Posted: 20 Feb 2020 09:26 PM PST Converted a garage into a man cave. Contractor did an excellent job, up till I realized there's no neutral wire. The contractor did the electrical work himself. House is from the 60s but the garage is separate about 50 ft from the house and he put new wires for the electric. He's a little hard to understand and he keeps saying I need a two wire switch and that what I've brought him, the TP Link switches, are 3 way. They're obviously not and they're single pole and he's obviously talking about two different things. The TP Links don't work when installed on 3 wires. He's unwilling to change anything. I know I'm probably going to end up having to just settle with the Lutron Caseta with a smart bridge since he's offered to pay for them, but I'm just wondering why there would be no neutral and just thinking about the future and possible issues. I'm not really good with electrical stuff. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 20 Feb 2020 04:29 AM PST I have a modest number of smart home hubs. Six to be exact (going on seven). I used to place most of them in the same space as the modem and router (and receiver and a bunch of other things). I was thinking that a wired connection to a hub has to be better than a wireless and the location Is roughly in the middle of the house. Great. Or so I thought. However, I also live in a very densely populated area. If I just use the barebones WiFi scanner in the Airport Utility app on my iPhone, I can easily see 100+ WiFi networks. Probably half of them are 2.4 networks and that number doesn't include Zigbee networks. I've or course played with channel 1, 6 and 11 as well as Zigbee channels. I've seen some VERY strange behaviors—way too many to get into. But I recently started to separate the hubs (using my 5 GHz WiFi network instead of a wire whenever possible). I'll be darned. Some (but not all) of the odd behaviors went away. There has to be a better solution (that does not involve moving to the burbs—I'd rather go back to old-school switches, lights, locks, etc). Any ideas? What to play with next? [link] [comments] | ||
| iRobot Roomba i7+ (7550) Robot Vacuum with Automatic Dirt Disposal Posted: 20 Feb 2020 01:54 PM PST Can anyone tell me if this is worth the $1000??? Or is their a better alternative? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 20 Feb 2020 05:28 PM PST I have inovelli dimmer switches and a hubitat hub. Im trying to set it so when the switch is manually turned on between 6am and 6pm the light is 100% and 6pm to 6am only 50%. Also can i make Alexa follow this rule too when i tell her to turn the light on? Once i get that figured out i want it so if it is between 6pm and 6am and the switch is turned on at 50% and the switch is press on again it goes to 100%. I know the first part is possible but i dont really know what im doing and cant figure it out. The inovelli website says something about a smarapp see link below. The code keeps referencing smart things so is that not for a hubitat? [link] [comments] | ||
| Validate My Media Mapping Diagram Please! Posted: 20 Feb 2020 09:22 AM PST Hi, after following this sub for a while, I've created this diagram for the blueprint of my next house setup. Does everything check out okay? If so, my only two questions would be:
Thank you in advance!! [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 20 Feb 2020 12:20 PM PST I'm looking to automate the tilt of blinds in my house. My controls are currently all through the an Echo Plus, so WiFi or Zigbee will work. I have found the Soma Tilt. Price is OK and it would work on my blinds. It sounds like it doesn't play well with Alexa. Is there something else out there that would be easy to set up and cost effective? I don't want one of the ones that requires wide blinds. I may use on 1" mini-blinds. [link] [comments] | ||
| Does anyone know of a way to capture/log Nest Thermostat usage over a long period of time? Posted: 20 Feb 2020 08:16 AM PST Hi all, I recently set up a bunch of temperature sensors all over my house (and outside) that are logging the temperature every thirty minutes and recording them on an excel file. My hope is to gather long term data so that I can understand the energy efficiency of my house. Also I just want to geek out over a large amount of data that is relevant to me. That said, I need to find a way to incorporate when the heater is running. I realize the Nest app has a history tab but I am looking for data over an extended period of time. Is this possible? Thanks [link] [comments] | ||
| PEQ 3300-P Door Sensor with a Vera Plus? Posted: 20 Feb 2020 07:53 AM PST Have anyone tried the PEQ 3300-P Door Sensor with a Vera Plus? Does it work? My local thrift has a couple of unopened packages literally 1/3rd the price I'm seeing else where. I grabbed a couple while I could but am holding off on opening so I can return for a full refund. Thought it worth asking here first. [link] [comments] | ||
| Can anyone suggest an in-wall dimmer that is either zigbee or tasmota-flashable, suitable for EU? Posted: 20 Feb 2020 10:45 AM PST I fell in love with the Xiaomi Aqara light switches; they look nice, work well, and connect to my zigbee sniffer. Now I'm looking for a button/dial, which is 230V powered (EU, with neutral), and can dim some LED lamps. Should be able to fit in those round wall boxes that we have here in The Netherlands. I don't believe Xiaomi offers anything for what I'm looking for. Anyone have a suggestion? [link] [comments] | ||
| Time to re-start...looking for advice Posted: 20 Feb 2020 10:24 AM PST I had done some early home automation revolving around a Raspberry Pi, with a 433MHz Tx/Rx setup and Node-Red. Also, in the mix was Node-Red alexa contrib, for alexa control of my 433mhz outlets, and a few other things. Since then...Alexa contrib is dead, the Pi has been repurposed, and my home automation has fallen apart. I want to get going again. LONG ago I'd looked at Home Assistant (running in docker on my server) but didn't get it sorted out. I like things that are open and easy. Node-Red was easier for me at the time. I'd like to look at HA again. It seems like it has a good community and is continuing to move forward and integrates well with almost anything, or can be made to. I can run in a docker on my server (preferred, but may have too many port conflicts), or in a VM, or...if really necessary, on a RPi (prefer not). I have a prototype ESP32/433MHz device setup running OpenMQTTGateway (needs updated) for bridging in 433 device control. Also have a Logitech Harmony, Plex, Alexas, Google Home Minis, and probably a few things I'm missing. No Z-Wave/Zigbee at this time, but possibly as I know they have some good options for replacing 3-way switch setups..... Looking for any advice. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 20 Feb 2020 09:00 AM PST I'm looking for a smart dimmer remote pretty much like the Philips Hue dimmer remote, but that can work on any smart bulb and doesn't have to be hard wired into the wall. The idea is to use it on a bedside table, so hard wiring is out. Currently we have one of those long wired slidable dimmers that the lamp is plugged into, but I'd like to be able to use Alexa during the day to turn it on and change brightness and possibly color, then use the dimmer remote for early morning quiet. Last resort would be to shell out $50 for a pair of the Hue dimmers and $100 for color Hue bulbs. [link] [comments] | ||
| Lutron Caseta switches keep failing Posted: 20 Feb 2020 08:31 AM PST I recently updated an outdoor circuit to add 6 LED path lights (replacing 4 much older incandescent ones). The transformer used supplies up to 120 watts but the total draw when they're all on is about 90. Initially it had a traditional "dumb" switch on that circuit but I updated it to a Lutron Caseta (no neutral - specifically PD-5WS-DV-WH). I was fine for several weeks, working with a schedule, all was well, until one day it was dead. The circuit and transformer itself was fine, so I swapped out the switch with the same model, it worked for 2 days then that one died. What gives? [link] [comments] | ||
| Hey I need help with my Arduino-Co2 Sensor Project Posted: 20 Feb 2020 08:03 AM PST Hello everyone, first of all, I would like to point out that I am a complete beginner on this topic and still trying to learn as quick as possible. I also might forget to add important information for this question which I will provide asap, so sorry about that :D My Project I am trying to create a Wifi connection from my arduino NodeMCU v3, which has a Co2 Sensor connected to it. As a Powersource I want to use a simple Powerbank. The sensor will send measurment data every second to my laptop. First I tried it with an Arduino Leonardo connected to my Laptop via USB. With Arduino IDE I was able to see the sensors measurements. The Problem With the NodeMCU it does not work for me. I was searching for ways to do it and installed MQTT Mosquitto and tried the publish/subscribe method to get the data over wifi. For this I installed the ESPMQTTCLIENT Library as well as the PubSubClient Library. I got some help with the code and theoretically only needed to add my Servers IP adress my SSID and the network password. this is the result: 21:27:41.626 -> Connecting to (SSID) 21:27:42.200 -> ....... 21:27:45.983 -> WiFi connected 21:27:45.983 -> IP address: 21:27:45.983 -> (localhost) 21:27:46.971 -> AmbiMate sensors: 4 core + CO2 21:27:46.971 -> AmbiMate Firmware version 2.8 21:27:46.971 -> Attempting MQTT connection...failed, rc=-2 try again in 5 seconds 21:27:57.106 -> Attempting MQTT connection...failed, rc=-2 try again in 5 seconds (………….never ending loop) When I connect to my localhost i get the above result. But when I connect to an online broker for example: broker.mqtt-dashboard.com its working fine. Does anyone know how to deal with this issue? Thank you in advance! [link] [comments] |
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