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- Battery-operated touchless faucet
- Can you tie more than one google assistant (on phone) to same home lighting?
- How to chain multiple routines (Hue+Sonos) based around time of alarm? Fade out white noise, fade in wake-up light, then play alarm
- Will Hive door sensors work with Alexa ?
- Home office busy light?
- Rechargeable CR2 for home automation sensors?
- Auto-locking door lock no batteries
- Recommendations for best HomeKit Air quality sensor?
- First robot vacuum - Roborock S4 ($320) vs roborock S5 max ($600)? How useful is the mopping feature?
- tado servers down. Local control only until they get fixed.
- Need help installing Smart Dimmer
- Best way to deal with Velux
- [NEW TO HA] Lutron Caseta Light Switches .... starting out
- A wifi mesh with battery backup?
| Battery-operated touchless faucet Posted: 16 Mar 2020 07:22 PM PDT Just got a new place and considering a touchless faucet (I hate touching the handle with raw meat on my hands - germophobe). Does anyone have one and powers it by batteries? I'd prefer not to run new electrical to power it. A friend in remodeling told me that she always runs new electrical, but she also does high-end remodeling and this is NOT a high end kitchen. Thoughts on battery power? [link] [comments] |
| Can you tie more than one google assistant (on phone) to same home lighting? Posted: 16 Mar 2020 11:29 AM PDT Let's say you have a lighting system such as Lutron Caseta in a home and you have set it up. You then add that account to google assistant on your phone so when you're at home, you can say "Ok, google, turn on kitchen lights" (or whatever) and it's all working. So far, so good. But then your house-mate who also has google assistant on their phone also wants to link his/her assistant to the lighting system so they can also use voice commands on THEIR phone. Can they link the Caseta account to their assistant if you give them the login information? Would it hurt your link with my assistant? Also, what happens if you add a Google Home device to the house? Will each account on google home need to be linked to Caseta separately? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2020 07:15 PM PDT I'm trying to have my Sonos fade out my nighttime white noise over the 30 minutes prior to the time I set for my morning alarm. Meanwhile, I'd like to have my Hue lights start to brighten 30 minutes prior to my alarm to function as a wake up light. Then, ultimately, at my alarm time the alarm itself goes off. The trick is I'd like to set just 1 alarm and have the aforementioned routines run based around the time I set for that alarm. So if I need to be up earlier (or later) the next day, I just have to adjust the morning alarm time in one place and not redo a bunch of routine times. I've downloaded IFTTT, Yonomi, SmartThings and Olisto, and taken a glance through the apps, but there didn't seem to be any sort of intuitive way to set up this sort of linked chain of routines... Understand there aren't native fade functions accessible in Sonos/Hue, so I'd have to work in steps (volume down 20>15>10>5>0 and lights up 0>5>10>15>etc.). But I'm a bit lost on how to link a chain of routines in this way. [link] [comments] |
| Will Hive door sensors work with Alexa ? Posted: 16 Mar 2020 05:00 PM PDT Will it be possible to set a hive door sensor to turn off all my appliances when you leave the house, or turn a light or 2 on when I come home etc at different times, using an amazon echo as the hub (I have the hive hub also if that helps but no hive devices apart from active heating) thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2020 12:50 PM PDT Just started working from home more often, and my schedule isn't regular enough to set some boundaries (Balancing WFH with spouse with kids...) I would love to have a "Do not disturb" light of some kind that is upstairs, when I'm working in the basement. I use MS Office and Teams, and I currently have zero home automation equipment (besides a smart lock). Any suggestions? I'm trying to stay <$50. [link] [comments] |
| Rechargeable CR2 for home automation sensors? Posted: 16 Mar 2020 09:32 PM PDT I have a bunch of motion sensors which take CR2 batteries... they're Iris v1 sensors. Anyone have experience with rechargeable batteries which work well? [link] [comments] |
| Auto-locking door lock no batteries Posted: 16 Mar 2020 06:09 AM PDT I have a door to the basement of an apartment building. It needs to auto lock since it's a common area and the tenants are lazy. I need something that is hard wired or mechanical, or else the tenants will be locked out when the battery dies (which will be sooner than normal due to the number of people) defeating the point of having a keypad. It also needs to be and to open from the inside even when the power is off. Any solution? [link] [comments] |
| Recommendations for best HomeKit Air quality sensor? Posted: 16 Mar 2020 04:14 PM PDT The Eve Room seems a bit limited in quit's sensors relative to, say, the Awair 2, but the latter has no smart home platform integration... I would be keen for something that covers VOC but also CO and potentially more. Also if it doesn't look like an ugly 90s Casio calculator that would be nice. Any recommendations? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2020 09:39 AM PDT I moved into a new 1200 square foot apartment recently. It has wood floors for all all the areas except the bathrooms (tiling). We've also got a rug setup in the living room. We have no pets. What robot vacuum would you recommend for our apartment? I was thinking of the Roborock S4 since it's $320 but if the mopping function is useful then I would consider the S5 max as well since we have so many wood floors and cook a lot. Is buying a new model with improved mopping worth the $280 cost? How long do the roborocks last? If they last a while I could justify the price increase. Any other models or brands we should consider? Our budget is up to $600. [link] [comments] |
| tado servers down. Local control only until they get fixed. Posted: 16 Mar 2020 12:58 PM PDT |
| Need help installing Smart Dimmer Posted: 16 Mar 2020 12:17 PM PDT Hey all......this is my first smart switch installation. I bought a 2 pack from Costco. I hooked up the single pole fine, and everything works great. Issue I'm having is with the 3 way switch. I took out my old dimmer, and reinstalled the smart dimmer exactly the same way with the neutral wire and all. I followed the instructions and installed the same way the old one came out, but having issues. The switch is fine, and works like it should. However the second normal switch is acting as a master. If it's off, the smart switch looses power and won't work. Only way it works is if the second switch is on. Any ideas? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2020 02:55 AM PDT Hi there! I want to put something smart in my home, but the thing I need the most is controlling 2 velux windows and their shades automatically (In summer this could help a lot with the temperature). From what I understand one option is to buy the velux kit built in collaboration with netatmo. But I've been told, by netatmo support, that the sensors of this solution do not integrate with other netatmo sensors (wtf?) and I'm not sure how well I can create my own routines. I don't need to control air quality (I've got automatic ventilation) as much as I need to control temperature (e.g.: closing shades automatically in summer at a certain hour, open everything when it's hotter inside than outside). And, also from what the support told me, all the data from the sensors cannot be used to control other appliances (e.g.: I've got a CO2 and temperature sensor but I cannot use the data to control the heating and the ventilation but I should buy another netatmo sensor? seriously?) The other option, if I got it correctly, would be to buy my own smart thermostate/air quality sensor and... to get something that transmits using the io-homecontrol protocol, that apparently should always work with velux products, even if it's not a velux controller. Is this right? I've tried googling a lot "io-homecontrol" but I can't see "general purpose" controllers for sale. Am I getting everything right? BTW, I don't own yet the motors/shaders... I can buy them from another brand if they're compatible. Any suggestions? [link] [comments] |
| [NEW TO HA] Lutron Caseta Light Switches .... starting out Posted: 16 Mar 2020 05:32 AM PDT Hello everyone! So I am getting more and more into Home Automation, and would like to slowly build a HomeKit ecosystem. Currently I have 3 Door locks, a Smart Plug, and a thermostat being controlled by Homekit. Next up is a slow transition for Light Switches (I'm so tired of hollering at the kids to turn the lights off!). With that said, I am strongly considering the Lutron Caseta line of products for it's reputable integration with Homekit. I know I'll need to get a kit first to include their bridge, but after that, I should be good (unless I go over 50 switches, which wouldn't be for a while, those things aren't cheap!), correct? Thanks for any insight you may have. And if you're running these switches in your home, would you mind sharing some pictures of how they look on the wall? I have some wall plates with 3 light switches, do 3 of these even fit side by side in this case? Thank you!! [link] [comments] |
| A wifi mesh with battery backup? Posted: 16 Mar 2020 05:31 AM PDT I'm looking at Samsung SmartThings Hub V2, it comes with AA batteries that function as backup. This is exactly my requirement, are there any other cheaper options without sacrificing the connectivity and speed? [link] [comments] |
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