Home Automation Tired of my dark house. Has anyone made a faux skylight with automated brightness and color temperature? |
- Tired of my dark house. Has anyone made a faux skylight with automated brightness and color temperature?
- What’s out there for text to speech options?
- SMART+ LED Strip Power Supply Connector Size
- Finally replacing my wink hub 2 but having trouble. Help please?
- Is it hard to run cat6 for indoor and outdoor cameras?
- Cheap options for ZigBee/Zwave switches (remotes)
- What to look for when hiring a Home Automation professional?
- Roller blinds clutch too tight for bead chain motor
- Smart light bulbs over two networks, one app?
- Creative uses for older intercom system?
- anyone have the TOPGREENER scene controller?
- Is there an alternate to Life Fuel?
| Posted: 29 Feb 2020 05:26 AM PST Moved from a large ceiling house with lots of windows to a more traditional house nestled in the woods. We miss the natural light immensely. Instead of putting in windows I would like to pop a 1x4 hole in the ceiling, build a recessed box and put a LED panel up there to simulate a skylight. Ideally I would like to have the color temperature and brightness automated like so: 6am: 30% brightness, 4000K 8am: 60% brightness, 4000K 10am: 80% brightness 5000K 12pm: full brightness 5000K 3pm: 80% Brightness 4000K 5pm: 80% brightness 3500K 8pm (or sunset): 50% brightness 3500K 830( or 20 mins after sunset): 30% Brighness 3500K 9PM Off Has anyone done this with panel lights? I would like to put 4 of them in total, but having trouble finding panels I can automate the color temperature (there are selective ones but I would have to program to pulse the lights on and off to select color temp) [link] [comments] |
| What’s out there for text to speech options? Posted: 29 Feb 2020 05:51 PM PST For example: I'm in the house making dinner. My wife who is part of my geofencing tracking app pulls onto our street. I am the only user home, and the smart home knows this, so my smart home addresses me directly stating "excuse me John, but it appears Jane has arrived home". Or, when the contact sensor in my mailbox is triggered, the smart home alerts my by voice "John, it appears the mail has been delivered". I am looking for wavenet quality voices. Is this possible? [link] [comments] |
| SMART+ LED Strip Power Supply Connector Size Posted: 29 Feb 2020 09:26 PM PST Has anyone figured out the size of the connector on the SMART+ LED strip power supply? I've picked up several SMART+ LED strips and they're working out nicely for several applications. I need to extend a couple of the cords on them, and realize there is an extension "kit" with the five conductor cables which plug in directly to the strips. Great, but a bit pricey, and has several cables I don't need. If I can figure out the size of the two-conductor connector on the power supply though (the one that then goes to the small interface box), I can use 2-conductor zip-cord and buy a pack of connectors for a couple bucks. Five mins of soldering and I have custom-made extensions. So, if anyone has found said cables for cheap, or been able to identify the size of those connectors, let me know. [link] [comments] |
| Finally replacing my wink hub 2 but having trouble. Help please? Posted: 29 Feb 2020 05:49 PM PST I just purchased a Hubitat to replace my wink hub. I have about 20 zwave devices, and removing them from the wink has been a very frustrating experience. Some devices just refuse to get removed, where during winks removal process, it times out. Other times, it seemingly gets removed, but come back as zombie devices with generic names. Most of my switches or dimmers are GE or Jasco. Another stubborn device is the Dome motion sensor Any ideas what to do? [link] [comments] |
| Is it hard to run cat6 for indoor and outdoor cameras? Posted: 29 Feb 2020 05:52 AM PST I want to have indoor and outdoor cameras. The most ideal is obviously PoE. The house isn't prewired for this. So I would need to run cat6 through the ceiling. I'm somewhat handy but I have no idea how to do this. The ceiling is a vault ceiling. The exterior walls are cinder block with stucco. Since there isn't an attic above the vault ceiling portion of the house, how do I run wire across it? I don't want to remove any Sheetrock to accomplish this. What about running the cat6 outside to the soffits and front porch area? Am I going to need to drill through cement block? Can I somehow use the same hole as where the front porch light receives wired power? If it's too difficult of a task I'll just have to sacrifice and use wireless cameras BUT the problem then becomes I still have to plug in the wireless cameras to a wall outlet which means it won't be a seamless and minimalist look. Then the last option being battery powered cams but I'll be replacing the batteries every couple days since I want to run 24/7. Even if I ran motion detect only it would still be heavy usage because indoor cameras will capture a lot. What do you think [link] [comments] |
| Cheap options for ZigBee/Zwave switches (remotes) Posted: 29 Feb 2020 03:10 PM PST I'm in the process of putting aeotec nanos in all our bedroom lights, mostly as a way to switch them from the bed without running a new set of cables. Unfortunately I seem to be drawing blanks on sensibly priced remotes. I'm using a smart things hub, and only need a single button (although dimming would be useful). Tradfri 5 buttons don't seem to work (I can see battery state and no buttons) Any other options I'm missing without getting into £40/50 ones? [link] [comments] |
| What to look for when hiring a Home Automation professional? Posted: 29 Feb 2020 12:51 PM PST Hi, So I have a house currently being built. Only the foundations are in. We are 6-8 weeks away from the electrician wiring everything. Today I visited a Control4 dealer in Preston UK as they were the closest to me and are a 'platinum dealer' according to Control4's website. Which made me wonder; what should I be looking out for, what should I be asking about, what can different dealers offer, do they make money from the equipment or installation mostly? I'm pretty educated in smart home setups and equipment, I think they were surprised. He also said he wished more customers came as prepared as I did, so he knows he can't pull the wool over my eyes 😂 Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Roller blinds clutch too tight for bead chain motor Posted: 29 Feb 2020 11:35 AM PST When adding bead chain motor automation kits to roller shades the roller clutch is generally unnecessary since the motor keeps the blind from dropping. In my case the friction clutch makes for a lot of work for the motors reducing the battery life and making for noisy slow operation. Is there some simple method to eliminate the "friction" part of the assembly?... or do I just grab a Dremel, get in there and start grinding away at the guts of the chain wheel assembly. [link] [comments] |
| Smart light bulbs over two networks, one app? Posted: 29 Feb 2020 04:47 AM PST I have two smart bulbs (the inexpensive Amazon kind) that connect through the Smart Life app and then that connects to my Google Homes. I have an private office at work without windows (I'm a college prof) and I hate fluorescent lighting. I want to get a smart bulb to put in my floor lamp just so that I can control the brightness and color (I like a really warm light). Obviously I'm on the school network there, but in my research someone suggested I can use my laptop's hotspot to set up the device. Now my question is: can I use the smart life app with devices on two different networks? Not at the same time, but if I was at work, could both my phone and bulb connect to my laptop hotspot and I could set it up on there? If not, I'm thinking I'll just set up the work one on my iPad so it's the only device on my app, but since I don't always have my iPad at work, it would be better if I could control it on my phone. Any advice appreciated! Edit: clarity [link] [comments] |
| Creative uses for older intercom system? Posted: 29 Feb 2020 08:26 AM PST We purchased a home with an older (~2001) high end intercom system throughout the house. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it working and not sure it's something we want/need any longer. Before I patch up the holes and bury the wires, any creative ways to use the legacy system? Maybe hard wired motion sensors, some sort of LV room control panel if such a thing exists? Open to any suggestions, even if they seem crazy! Our last home auto system was a hacked thing of beauty—just getting started on this one and I hate the idea of just burying what might be perfectly useful wires! [link] [comments] |
| anyone have the TOPGREENER scene controller? Posted: 29 Feb 2020 06:51 AM PST Before I go and right paragraphs of text of my problem, does anyone have and use this device? [link] [comments] |
| Is there an alternate to Life Fuel? Posted: 29 Feb 2020 02:32 AM PST I'm very interested in the idea of the Life Fuel water bottle. A smart bottle with an infuser for flavor cartridges containing electrolytes that you can control the strength of from your phone. However, the reviews are very bad and complaining that the bottle reads the cartridges as invalid. I was curious if there is a bottle that did the same without the issues? [link] [comments] |
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