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- Does google have something like whisper mode that alexa seems to have?
- Can these smartplugs be trusted? If not, what should I be buying?
- What is your front, gate, and back doors setup like?
- Looking for a WiFi enabled power outlet monitor...
- Baby on the way, relevant home automation ideas and baby monitoring integration?
- Connecting LED light strips
- Door sensor recommendation that notifies me when my Nest thermostat is set to 'Away'
- Problem with Hue Lights and SmartThings Button
- Buying a renewed Roborock S4 on Amazon
- How to automate your weed consumption
- Automated way to turn off internet.
- Esphome + sonoff basic + dht11 = not turning on or off
- Wyzecam and IFTTT
- How easy would it be to replace fluorescent under cabinet lighting with LED lightstrips?
- Ring Doorbell and Leviton Smart Dimmer
- Robot vacs-dog poop detector
- Bosch Smart Home range too small, extend 888.3 Mhz signal?
| Does google have something like whisper mode that alexa seems to have? Posted: 05 Mar 2020 06:12 PM PST | ||
| Can these smartplugs be trusted? If not, what should I be buying? Posted: 06 Mar 2020 01:07 AM PST I bought some of these the other day on a whim. They work perfectly, but I'm wondering about the security implications... https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07M7CX1XY Are there any "known good" plugs that 100% just do the job needed of them and definitely aren't up to anything nefarious on the network...? I'd connect then to my "guest" WiFi but then it'd become a pain to actually use them from my phone etc... Any recommendations? [link] [comments] | ||
| What is your front, gate, and back doors setup like? Posted: 06 Mar 2020 01:01 AM PST Wife and I are constructing a house, thinking of going keyless but not entirely sold to the idea yet. my research so far gives 5 general options for locks:
our setup is we have a gate (perimeter / front yard if you will), then the main door and a backdoor. I think If I want make my entry convenient, I need to make my gate and main door smart at least. the backdoor could be a traditional key door? [link] [comments] | ||
| Looking for a WiFi enabled power outlet monitor... Posted: 05 Mar 2020 03:39 PM PST Long story short, I want to put a freezer in my garage and code has all garage outlets on a GFCI circuit. If that ever gets tripped and kills the power, I'd like to know via a notification so my meat doesn't loaf. The closest thing I've found is this: ...but it's cellular-based only and $200+ in addition to the monthly/yearly mobile data plan...otherwise it'd be exactly what i'm looking for. All of my networking gear is on a 2hr UPS, so WiFi/push notifications should work, provided I can find a solution. Things I've considered and discounted but willing to hear opinions on: - Network based UPS or PDC: expensive and large footprint - Raspberry Pi Zero w/ a PiJuice/UPS hat: Eh...maybe. I don't have the skills to write the code necessary to monitor the AC power and send a notification when it switches to DC. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. Thanks! [link] [comments] | ||
| Baby on the way, relevant home automation ideas and baby monitoring integration? Posted: 05 Mar 2020 01:11 PM PST My wife is 6 months pregnant and we finally have implemented automated lighting and a few other things around the house. Now we are looking at stuff like baby monitoring tech and it has me wondering how this could be integrated in with the home automation. Not really sure what the objective of all this is. Currently just hunting around for ideas. So far my automation setup is using homekit and ikea automation products(they were cheap in the ding and dent section). I've always wanted to roll my own system using stuff like Raspberry Pi's and ESP8266 kind of stuff but never got around to it. This is been something I've wanted to do since x10 was the way to go. I'm really liking the idea of the owlet sock. I don't think it will integrate with anything other than our iphones. Most of the wifi camera monitors I've looked at had very bad reviews. Lots of issues with buggy apps or subscription apps. I'm kinda thinking I might just use a Pi Zero with a night vision camera. Any ideas? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 05 Mar 2020 06:12 PM PST I have 3x 16.2 ft 5050 Multicolor LED Strip lights, I'm thinking about connecting them together using 2x 4 Pin RGB LED Light Strip Connector (the connector is the right one for my lights) & I'm wondering if that's a good idea? Also, is using a connector safe? I have zero experience with soldering and would like to avoid it, but I also don't want to burn my house down. [link] [comments] | ||
| Door sensor recommendation that notifies me when my Nest thermostat is set to 'Away' Posted: 05 Mar 2020 06:04 PM PST I only need one door sensor for a french style back door that is a lot of panes of glass. If anyone is gonna break in it's gonna be through that door so I'd like a door sensor. I only want it to notify me when I'm away and I figure the easiest way for that is to have it work with my Nest since the Home/Away on my thermostat works fairly well. So if I could use that to "arm" the sensor easily that would be the best, but I know they aren't supporting the "Works with Nest" stuff anymore so I'm not even sure if this is possible? I have not switched my Nest account to a Google account yet if that matters. I already have a Smartthings hub and some of the samsung water leak sensors which so far have worked alright. Samsung makes a door sensor that is only about $17 but it's pretty bulky and I'm not sure if it works with the Nest Home/Away. I saw this thing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWMTUI8/ which the size seems perfect but it has mixed reviews and again I don't know how easy it is to integrate to notify me only when I'm away. It's also $50 so I'd only want to spend that if I knew it was gonna work for sure. I also have Phillips Hue bulbs but the home/away stuff has in my limited experience not worked very well and I'm not even sure if it works with multiple phones. So can anyone recommend a door sensor to achieve what I'm looking for? I'm not against introducing other things into the mix (a different hub or something that runs on my computer) if that will reliably do what I need it to do. [link] [comments] | ||
| Problem with Hue Lights and SmartThings Button Posted: 05 Mar 2020 03:08 PM PST I have two Hue Lights attaches to two SmartThings buttons. They are set up exactly the same (see the link below), but they do not behave the same. As you can see in the pictures, one of them says "switch power state" while the other says "turn on or turn off." The one that says "switch power state" always resets to full brightness and warm lighting when the button is pushed. The other always turns on to the last brightness/color setting. Does anyone know why this is happening and what a fix would be? The behavior I desire is that it always turns on to full brightness and warm. https://imgur.com/gallery/jECZgxX Edit: forgot to post the images. [link] [comments] | ||
| Buying a renewed Roborock S4 on Amazon Posted: 05 Mar 2020 08:59 AM PST I wanted to see if anyone else has bought a renewed robot vacuum on Amazon before? I could save $100 getting this instead which would be nice. I really need a new robot vacuum with owning 3 corgis haha. [link] [comments] | ||
| How to automate your weed consumption Posted: 05 Mar 2020 06:24 AM PST After seeing the meme popup earlier today on this sub I realized that I have a somewhat similar setup at home and figured someone else might be interested in how it was setup. By doing this I will only assume that you live in a place where weed is legal. I am basing this mini-tutorial on what I have done personally, but it should work with other smart home setups as long as your vape is controllable by a remote and you have some form of IR sender connected to your smart home. Here is the setup I am using: My original plan was just to use a smart outlet connected to the vape and keep it on my preferred temperature, but after trying that I realized that the vape would not automatically turn on after losing power, which led me down this road of figuring out an alternate solution. To be honest, it isn't an amazing upgrade compared to doing it manually as you still have to pack the bowl with your herbs, but I do find it pretty practical to pack it ready, preheat it and then use the google home to activate the fan and blow up a balloon ready when chilling in the couch. And since a bowl usually lasts a few rounds the next rounds will be pretty much fully automated. And in terms of impressing other herb loving friends, it is pretty high up there in terms of home automation commands. Well worth the effort if you already have an Arizer Extreme Q, not really sure if it's worth the investment just for the automation part. Ok, lets get started. Assuming you already have your google home setup you need to set up your broad link IR sender. After downloading the app and following the connection instructions I had some small issues connecting it to wifi, but after some troubleshooting I got it connected. Then in the ihc app you go to the "universal remote" you just connected and press "Add appliance". Since this is a pretty custom appliance you will have to scroll all the way down and press "user-defined". I tried to upload the codes for others to use, but for some reason it does not seem to let me backup the codes in the cloud so you will have to manually add each button. I basically copied most buttons from the remote, but ignored a few of the ones I never use. Here is a picture of my button setup At this point you have a working wifi remote for your vape, but since it is a custom appliance it won't work with google just yet. But luckily it is an easy fix to get it properly set up through "scenes" in the ihc app. Simply go to scenes, press "+" and set up a scene to get it working with google home. Here are some examples of scenes I have set up: The commands will now work with google home as long as you have connected the ihc app through the google home app. To use a command simply say "Hey google, activate XXXXX" where XXXXX is your command. You have to say activate before the command which is a little annoying especially for the little clumsy "Hey google, activate vape off", but it works pretty well. To get around this you can, however, go into the google home app and set up a routine. Press routines in the app, scroll down to manage routines and press the "+" in the bottom right corner. In the "when I say" field right for example "turn off the vape" and in the "action field" write out the full command; "Hey google, activate vape off". It should now technically work without saying "activate" first, but to be honest, google is not always playing along with this and I find it easier to just use the activate command as that seems to work more consistently. I also saw another commenter in the meme thread saying he set the arizer up to aromatically shut off the fan after 5 minutes(the time it takes to fill up a bag) and that seemed like a great idea that I will incorporate myself once I get home. In the ihc app you can also add a custom picture to your appliance, so to finish it off I added this picture of the arizer in the app: Overall I would say I am pretty happy with this automation. [link] [comments] | ||
| Automated way to turn off internet. Posted: 05 Mar 2020 12:16 PM PST I'm needing a way to turn off internet from a specific time and it turning back on at specific time. Just turning the router off and on. Router is a google WiFi pod. [link] [comments] | ||
| Esphome + sonoff basic + dht11 = not turning on or off Posted: 05 Mar 2020 11:53 AM PST
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| Posted: 05 Mar 2020 10:52 AM PST So I've been trying to run wyzecam pan with IFTTT, using the feature straight from the app, for it to turn on when I leave and off when I'm home. The thing triggers like 10% of the time. I've given IFTTT all the permissions on my phone, no battery saver touch it, etc but it's just disgustingly unreliable. I can hear it panning as we speak, mocking me. I was thinking well I could always trigger with node-red via webhooks but ... why would it be any different different? How do you guys deal with this? [link] [comments] | ||
| How easy would it be to replace fluorescent under cabinet lighting with LED lightstrips? Posted: 05 Mar 2020 04:34 AM PST Hey folks, Had a shelly installed to control my fluorescent lighting, and it's not really getting on with it (it causes the Shelly 2.5 to reboot occasionally), which I've discovered is due to the voltage drop and stuff from turning fluorescent lights on and off. So I'm looking to replace the lights with LED strips. Here are the lights currently (this is one of 3), how easy would it be to change this to use a LED strip? And are there any instructions on how to do so? Thanks! [link] [comments] | ||
| Ring Doorbell and Leviton Smart Dimmer Posted: 05 Mar 2020 09:18 AM PST Back when Stringify was a thing, I was using it to increase the brightness of my Leviton smart dimmer to 50% whenever motion was detected and 100% whenever my doorbell was pressed. After five minutes the brightness would then go back down. It worked perfect. It went away and life continued without awesome dimming lights to brag about. However, I'll be parking in the driveway for the entire summer and would like to get my lights working again. IFTTT will allow me to increase the brightness, but without a timer, I'd have to set predetermined times for it to dim back down. Not ideal when someone strolls up right before that time and the lights immediately dim back down. Any ideas on how I could this working again with minimal investment? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 05 Mar 2020 09:07 AM PST I have an aging dog that leaves "poop balls" once in a while in the house, are robot vacs smart enough to detect this yet to not smear all over the house? Sorry about the gross topic [link] [comments] | ||
| Bosch Smart Home range too small, extend 888.3 Mhz signal? Posted: 05 Mar 2020 05:17 AM PST My bosch smart home controller has a very limited range. It just doesn't last into the second floor to the outside rooms. I am frustrated. I changed my wifis 2.4 ghz channel setup, so I wouldn't cause overlapping channel interference. My controller is placed at the most central spot I can get in my home. The idea with the range extension through the smart plugs is neat, but they don't extend the motion sensors. No idea why, but they extend everything but the motion sensors. My question would now be if someone has an idea how i can extend the range. Is there some kind of repeater for the 888.3 mhz / 2.4ghz band? Or can I like open up the controller and modify its internal antennas? I don't get how something like this can be designed and sold? It is only for apartments or small houses with thin walls. How can Bosch promote this as a smart home security system, when you can't even provide enough range for the overpriced sensors? Hue did an amazing job with their zigbee mesh approach, basically unlimited range. [link] [comments] |
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