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- My Home automation UI
- Renovating house from scratch, what automation/smart home topics to think about now?
- Adjustable recessed soffit lighting for old carriage house?
- My potential smart room?
- Switches in every room?
- How can I diffuse light up a wall from the bottom of the wall or top of the baseboard?
- Noob question Re smart plug compatibility, is there a dominant app for this?
- Temperature control in my smart reptile room
- Need help or ideas for automating home sauna
- Help setting up ESP8266 NodeMCU to control Smart Life bulb
- Home Security Cameras
- Google Home read out TickTick Task List when sitting down at Computer?
- Understanding smart bulbs/Philips Hue for a bedside lamp
- Control brightness of motion activated lights
- We all were moved to a free eWeLink plan. eWeLink app update , new UI, and PAID (?) plans
- Konnected Alternative?
- New Modem/Router Dead Smart Plugs
- Smartthings automation not visible in app
- Temperature Sensor to drive RolliBot
- Sonoff Mini physical switch
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| Renovating house from scratch, what automation/smart home topics to think about now? Posted: 11 Apr 2020 02:19 AM PDT I'll soon be buying and renovating a house completely. I'll be replacing electric, water, heating so essentially will be opening up all walls. While doing that, this is probably the best moment to think about smart-home/home automation topics if I want to install anything while the walls are opened up anyway. I've stumbled across that topic and trying to figure out what to think about and what would make sense. The house is old, but not ancient (from 1964), has 2 floors+basement+attic. Not central ventilation, but I'll probably be installing new central heating + central warm water. If you would be in my situation, what activities would you think about installing? I know it's a subjective topic, I'm interested in getting some inspirational ideas to brainstorm about. One thing I probably know for sure: I won't be installing any Google Assistant/Siri/Alexa in my house. [link] [comments] | ||
| Adjustable recessed soffit lighting for old carriage house? Posted: 11 Apr 2020 10:38 PM PDT I have a small hundred and twenty year old detached carriage house I'm renovating. I want to put discreet lighting in the soffit like 4" or less preferably. It's probably 12x25. The soffit is essentially hard to access given the way it was framed so I would prefer daisy chain them together so I don't have to keeping going in and out of the soffit cavity for each light. I would like to be able to do some of the following such as change color or at least color temp, create schedule, and other smart functionality. Any recommendation or tips. I'm currently using Hue in the home but not sure I trust them for scenarios like this. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 11 Apr 2020 01:38 PM PDT I looked for a thread that could answer my question, but had no luck. I'm trying to turn my personal bedroom into a 'smarter' one. My main question: What is my best option for smart plugs and bulbs, that work with eachother. At the moment I have a tv and lamp in my room that I would like to have connected to smart plugs, and would like a smart bulb in said lamp. I plan on adding another lamp shortly with the aforementioned add ons also. I already have an LED setup in certain areas of my room and it isn't the Philips hue, which if I had bought I would probably get the Philips plugs and bulbs aswell, but now it seems slightly counterproductive? TLDR; best and most cost efficient smart bulbs and plugs that can work from the same app? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 11 Apr 2020 06:05 PM PDT Do you guys put smart switches in every room of the house or just the main rooms? I'm trying to figure out which rooms I really need it in, I have it in my living room and kitchen and wondering if I should put more elsewhere. [link] [comments] | ||
| How can I diffuse light up a wall from the bottom of the wall or top of the baseboard? Posted: 11 Apr 2020 01:35 PM PDT I'm purchasing various sizes of Govee Dreamcolor LED strips to place in my bedroom. I'm getting a few 3m, a 5m and a 10m. I don't know exactly where i'll put them, but certainly I want to put the 3m strips on each side of my bed, behind bedside tables. However, I'd like to diffuse the light up the wall rather than out, if that makes sense? Unfortunately this is my bedframe, which has openings. I'm afraid if i put LED's behind my bedroom, it will be way to bright while in bed and will look cheesy. [link] [comments] | ||
| Noob question Re smart plug compatibility, is there a dominant app for this? Posted: 11 Apr 2020 05:11 PM PDT Hi all, I'm new to world of smart devices. Right now I just want to buy a couple of units that will turn off lamps via Alexa voice command or from a phone app, but I'm sure I will expand onto many other smart control devices shortly. Is there a certain standard and phone app that dominates this market that I should be looking for in order to assure compatibility with any type of smart hardware I buy in the future? In other words I don't want to have to download a different app if I buy a product from one manufacturer today and a different manufacturer in the future. So how does this work? Thanks in advance. [link] [comments] | ||
| Temperature control in my smart reptile room Posted: 11 Apr 2020 04:34 PM PDT Hey everyone, I'm new here! My roommate and I have spent the past year or so trying to make our reptile room as smart as possible. We keep all of our tropical species in another area because of the more stable temperatures, but the room in question houses only temperate and montane species - because of the all important temperature fluctuations between day and night and across seasons. For a bit more info, we're keeping lots of salamanders, rattlesnakes, various pit vipers, alligator lizards, and more. We've got our lights on smart timers that turn on and off with the daily sunrise and sunset times (hugely important) a smart temperature and humidity logger that records and graphs the conditions of the room, and a google home mini that runs a few voice commands for the room. The thing we still haven't pinned down is our temperature fluctuations. Ideally, we'd be able to do at least 10-15 degree temperature drop at night, with daytime ambient temperatures a little below 80 at the hottest part of the year and into the 50s at the coldest. Currently, door and vents are sealed off from the rest of the house so the room can be controlled on its own. We've got a LG window air conditioner that we will set our maximum temps too, and open/crack the windows if we need a little extra chill from outside. Long story short, our current system isn't really performing to the temps we need, and we'd like the day/night and seasonal fluctuations to be as pre-programmed and automated as possible. We are also aware that what we're asking is probably going to run our power bill pretty high. We're still new to the whole automation thing, so we're not sure what exactly would help us out. I've been looking at the google nest E as a possible solution but don't know if it will be compatible with the window unit in the room, or if that even can do what we want. The info on the google website doesn't go into enough detail as to be helpful here, but we're hoping having the google home in the room will also give us some extra capability. I hope this post makes sense to someone, any and all advice is hugely appreciated. Thank you! [link] [comments] | ||
| Need help or ideas for automating home sauna Posted: 11 Apr 2020 03:37 PM PDT Is there any device out there that supports more than a simple on/off? Our sauna has a start button once the power is on so I need something a little more complex. I'm new to this so excuse my lack of knowledge. [link] [comments] | ||
| Help setting up ESP8266 NodeMCU to control Smart Life bulb Posted: 11 Apr 2020 02:57 PM PDT Hi everyone, new to this sub, hoping someone here can end my frustration. I'll to include as much detail as possible but I'm happy to answer any questions in order to get this solved. I bought some smart led flood lights, novastella is the brand but the app used with them is the smart life app. They were recognized very easily in the app and with the smart life Alexa skill I am able to fully control them using Alexa. Here's the thing, I'm building a ESP8266 device that senses the presence of my car in the garage and I would like that sensor to trigger the flood lights and change their color. So if it's after sunset and my car isn't there the lights are on 100% and bright white, if it's after sunset and my car is there I want the lights to be blue. Between sunrise and sunset the light should be off. I initially thought this would be not too difficult as there must be some way for the esp8266 to trigger Alexa but I quickly learnt that isn't the case. So then I tried using ifttt, where I was pleasantly surprised to see smart life has a service. I was planning on using webhooks, and sending a POST to trigger the lights. However it seems that while I'm connected to the smart life service, none of my devices are showing up. All I get in trying to set up the trigger is "options unavailable" in the drop down menu where my devices should be. After some digging on forums, saw that creating a scene in the smart life app might be a workaround as in ifttt you will see scenes but not individual devices. For the life of me I can't see that option in the smart life app to create a new scene. My last resort is to figure out the different packets that are being sent to the light to do the things I want and then mimic them in the esp8266 code. This option is going to be really difficult for me as I have very little idea on even how to start doing this. Any and all help regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. TL;DR Need help getting ESP8266 to trigger color change smart life bulb [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 11 Apr 2020 02:42 PM PDT Has anyone installed outdoor security cameras? I'm in the process of building a house and plan on installing the camera system myself. Seems really simple but I haven't seen many reviews of systems online and wanted to see if anyone had an recommendations on what to use. I plan on doing a wired system instead of wireless. [link] [comments] | ||
| Google Home read out TickTick Task List when sitting down at Computer? Posted: 11 Apr 2020 03:57 AM PDT wondering if there is a smart device that can detect when I sit down at the computer that would trigger Google Home to read out a specific Task List from TickTick app? The reason I want to do this is that I often get distracted when I first sit down at the computer and this would be a good way of hopefully keeping on track and continuously reminding me of what I need to do. Google Home can read out a specific TickTick task list (as per https://blog.ticktick.com/post/189516482614/lets-talk-on-google-assistant ) so it's a matter of trying to trigger the event when I sit down. Is there a pressure sensitive cushion or something similar that could detect sitting down at the chair The other thing I'm trying to achieve is Google Home reading out my task list when I get home from work each day - how can this be achieved? it is sort of location based (home) and time based - but for it to be an automatic process, I am guessing a device that detects my entry into the home is required? (but not to trigger every time I open and shut the front door - so I'm guessing a door sensor would not be ideal) alternatively, I'm happy to get Alexa if that is more suited to carrying out this task. [link] [comments] | ||
| Understanding smart bulbs/Philips Hue for a bedside lamp Posted: 11 Apr 2020 01:37 PM PDT Hey all - I'm way behind and considering bringing smart bulbs into our house for the first time. The places we want to use our bulbs are in traditional lamps with 3-way dimmer switches built into the fixture. This seems worst case based on my research. As far as I can tell, we want to keep those switches "always on". But I can't find a simple way to be able to turn them off physically. We would either have to pull out our phones and go to the apps, or use Alexa from the other room. Am I missing an obvious solution here? Best I could find is the Philips Hue Tap but that basically doubles our total cost because we would need 3 of them for 3 lamps. Maybe that's just the way it is. Hoping for some guidance or better search terms. Everytime I tried to google it, I got solutions for wall switches but not the lamp switches. [link] [comments] | ||
| Control brightness of motion activated lights Posted: 11 Apr 2020 11:10 AM PDT What sort of hardware/software do I need to have automatic lights turn on at varying brightness depending on ambient light and time of day? Approaching from a dark room or at 2am should limit the brightness more than approaching from an already lit room or at 8am. Wired or wireless hardware, either is fine. Thanks! [link] [comments] | ||
| We all were moved to a free eWeLink plan. eWeLink app update , new UI, and PAID (?) plans Posted: 11 Apr 2020 02:54 AM PDT
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| Posted: 11 Apr 2020 08:13 AM PDT Long story short: months ago I ordered and installed Konnected. Fired it up and alarms started going off. Turns out I have 2 wire installations for smoke/co detectors and I'm non-compatible with Konnected. Do not want to change the detectors as my house is barely 2 years old. Is there a solution that gives my DSC system Konnected-esque features? I've looked at envisalink but don't think it's as similar as I want. I'd like to replace my crappy DSC panel with a tablet and run ActionTiles to control various HA things and arm/disarm security. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! [link] [comments] | ||
| New Modem/Router Dead Smart Plugs Posted: 11 Apr 2020 08:11 AM PDT | ||
| Smartthings automation not visible in app Posted: 11 Apr 2020 07:45 AM PDT I need some help. I have the smartthings hub and a bunch of devices. I have an automation that triggers when the basement door opens and it turns on the lights in the basement. It works fine. I've now added another smart light bulb but I no longer see this automation in the list so I'm unable to edit it for adding the new bulb. I've tried clearing both the app cache and app storage and reloaded the app. I still don't see it. Then I installed the classic app to see maybe it will show up there cuz I had the old app in the past. It doesn't show there either. Has anyone else seen this? Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks. I'm on Android. [link] [comments] | ||
| Temperature Sensor to drive RolliBot Posted: 11 Apr 2020 07:33 AM PDT TL/DR; Looking for an Alexa compatible temperature sensor that would act as a trigger to enable/disable portable HVAC unit. The thermostat in our upstairs RolliBot HVAC unit is less than accurate, so it never really turns itself off. That said, I purchased an EcoBee and deployed the remote sensors. I hoped those sensor values would be exposed to Alexa and allow them to enable/disable heat/cooling on the RolliBot. Unfortunately, it looks like Ecobee only reports the values from the base unit. All that said, I've searched this sub and not really come across much on this topic. There was a conversation last year, but the Sonoff units don't really seem to be all that great. Has anyone used the Tiles? They seem somewhat cost prohibitive for grabbing the temperature in just one room. Anyone done something similar recently and have a unit you'd recommend? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 11 Apr 2020 06:50 AM PDT I have a sonoff mini installed running the native firmware. For my installation it would be really useful to be able to enable/disable the physical switch on a schedule. I looked around in the app and was not able to find this option. Does anybody know if there is a way to do this? [link] [comments] |
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