Home Automation What are your favorite and least liked devices? |
- What are your favorite and least liked devices?
- SwitchBot Curtain vs. Tuya Curtain Driver - Full hands on, testing, teardown, and final verdict.
- Those pesky Cheap Consciot Zigbee Bulbs *again*
- Need some help flashing Tasmota to a new MagicHome RGB LED controller
- Smart thermostat with manual control
- My zigbee sensor to WiFi bulb is too slow. Advice pls?
- Sonoff Devices wifi connection woes.
- Door Contact sensor that work with smartthings
- Alternative to SmartThings
- Buttons - How to track one's medication
- Anyone able to recognise what model Xiaomi robot vacuum this is?
- Ideas on automating some kind of indicator so say I am in a meeting.
- On automatic door closing...
- Best local alarm system?
- (RF433/RFlink)PIR sensor sometimes doesn’t transmit.
- Color temp change alexa shop lights?
- QMotion shades with Alarmdotcom?
- Looking for good z-wave or zigbee GU-10 bulbs
- Recommendations on line/voltage thermostat?
- Favorite Smart Plugs?
- How to transition form X10 to another system
- Eufy Latency compared to Nest
- Alexa/Google smart home users - Would you ever switch from Alexa to Google or vice versa? Comment on why.
- Has anyone had issues with WiFi connectivity on the Flair Puck when configured as a gateway?
| What are your favorite and least liked devices? Posted: 18 Nov 2020 11:56 AM PST Hey /r/homeautomation, I'm a soon to be first time home owner and I'm ready to dive head first into the world of home automation. And I want to hear about your experiences! What are your absolute favorite devices or automation routines in your home? Brag a bit, I want to hear about all the cool stuff I've been missing out on! Conversely, what haven't you liked? What has just not lived up to you expectations, or maybe just straight up didn't work? Any gotchas along the way? [link] [comments] | ||
| SwitchBot Curtain vs. Tuya Curtain Driver - Full hands on, testing, teardown, and final verdict. Posted: 18 Nov 2020 04:16 AM PST
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| Those pesky Cheap Consciot Zigbee Bulbs *again* Posted: 18 Nov 2020 08:42 PM PST
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| Need some help flashing Tasmota to a new MagicHome RGB LED controller Posted: 18 Nov 2020 11:49 PM PST | ||
| Smart thermostat with manual control Posted: 18 Nov 2020 01:30 PM PST I am in the process of upgrading my thermostat and ended up buying the Google nest thermostat 4th gen. When I asked my HVAC guy about jt, he said he didn't recommend it because you are relying solely on your phone and wifi in order to use it. My question is whether there are smart thermostats that you can manually adjust on the device as well as your phone? Does the Google nest 3rd gen do this? I can't seem to find the answer to this. Thanks for any insight. [link] [comments] | ||
| My zigbee sensor to WiFi bulb is too slow. Advice pls? Posted: 18 Nov 2020 02:20 PM PST I'm pretty new to this. My first project is to turn the bathroom light in when someone enters the room. I'm running Home Assistant core, koenkk_zigbee2mqtt and eclipse_mosquitto as docker containers. I have a cc2531 dongle with Zigbee2MQTT firmware. In terms of devices I have a TAPO wifi bulb and a Sonoff SNZB-03 zigbee motion sensor. After some amount of effort, I got the bathroom light coming on as I came into the room. Success! Unfortunately, there's a two-second delay and that's enough time for someone to reach for the light switch, which will result in confusion. I'm not sure where the delay is coming from. I'd guess the motion sensor rather than Home Assistant or the wifi bulb, but I might be wrong. At any rate, I'd like to try and reduce the two seconds. Would a door sensor be faster? Advice appreciated. [link] [comments] | ||
| Sonoff Devices wifi connection woes. Posted: 18 Nov 2020 05:01 PM PST I have a few Sonoff devices. I struggle to get them to pair with wifi. I'm looking for help. I am working with various iDevices running the ewelink app in my attempts to get them to recoginze my wifi network. With 1 of my 6 devices, I was successful in connecting to it using the "Compaitiblity" option on ewelink app, where I connect to the ad-hoc network the device creates. Since successfully setting up that one device, it works reliably. The problem I have now that I can't get any of the others to work in a similar manner. I was able to see the ITEAD-1000xxxx network one of my parts announced once by looking for it with my Mac mini wifi connection, but by the time I was able to manually configure my iPhone to connect to that network, the cycle timed out, and I haven't been able to make it happen again. Any advice for how I can make these things announce their networks in a way that I can join them? I have wifi router with both 2.4ghz and 5ghz networks. I've disabled the 5ghz, and still no luck. [link] [comments] | ||
| Door Contact sensor that work with smartthings Posted: 18 Nov 2020 10:53 PM PST Hey guys, samsung is not selling its contact sensors for last we months in canada. Are there any other good contact sensor that will work with my smartthings hub? That i can get in canada. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 18 Nov 2020 10:22 PM PST Alternate to SmartThings I was about to purchase a SmartThings hub but I see that Aeotec purchased the hardware and increased the prices. Is there a decent alternative? I thought about Hubitat but the limitation in my eyes is remote access. I would like to have the ability to control things remotely, Hubitat from what I have doesn't have this ability. I want to stick with Z-wave too. [link] [comments] | ||
| Buttons - How to track one's medication Posted: 18 Nov 2020 03:56 PM PST Equipment: SmartThings Hub and SmartThings Button Connections: IFTTT and Google Sheets I take a lot of medication unfortunately and I have short-term memory issues with the mundane part of my life turning off the coffee maker, taking pills, etc. I wanted a simple button that I can press at my medicine cabinet every time I take my medication. I'm supposed to take six different meds in the morning, one at lunch, and four before bed of eight different meds. SmartThings button has the one press, double press, one long press, options for 3 different tasks. I wanted to use this button to accomplish the following tasks: 1) google sheet tracking when I take my medication. So when I take my meds and then two hours later I question whether or not I took them I could check the excel sheet to see if there is a timestamp in there. Missing a dose or overdosing is super problematic and can cause me to miss a day of work. 2) email myself that I need to request a refill. I kid you not... I sometimes will be down to my last pill before remembering to order more. 3) email myself to set up a doctor's appt. When I go to set up the button in IFTTT, IFTTT doesn't recognize SmartThings button as a button nor does it have it as an option as "pressing the button." Would any of you savvy folks be able to assist me in this matter to make things simpler with my medication? Thank you! [link] [comments] | ||
| Anyone able to recognise what model Xiaomi robot vacuum this is? Posted: 18 Nov 2020 09:08 PM PST | ||
| Ideas on automating some kind of indicator so say I am in a meeting. Posted: 18 Nov 2020 08:00 PM PST The title pretty much sums it up. I am looking for ways to automate a light that shows I am in a meeting. That way my family will know if they can come in to my home office. My Google calendar is always up to date, and I have a smartthings hub. I am not afraid of some DIY, but I don't know where to start here. The only limitation I have is that is is small. There is no lamp (or place for one) outside my office door, so just using a smart bulb isn't an option. In a perfect world I would have a single indicator the size of a christmas light bulb. Does anything exist? zwave or zigbeee - doesn't matter. I am just looking for ideas. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 18 Nov 2020 07:36 PM PST We all know and love (at least I do) self closing door hinges, like these. They're especially useful for exterior doors. But I have an idea to make these hinges even better... Now for all I know, this device could already exist, but I haven't seen it anywhere. The device would essentially be a door catcher or an automatic door holder, but the catcher or holder would have the ability to release the spear when prompted through an app or connected home assistant, and the door would close via the self closing hinges. This way, if you leave a door be, it is closed. If you wish for it to remain open, simply latch it so. If the door is open when you want it closed, but aren't in the door's vicinity, simply pull out your phone or ask your assistant to close it. Voila. I envision this would be more useful for interior doors. I realize that this leaves out being able remotely OPEN a door, and that there are products on the market that will do this ALONG with closing the door, but they are quite the pretty penny. Does anyone know of any such device? Is such a device plausible? P.S. I realized the concept could work with an electromagnet as well. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 18 Nov 2020 09:52 AM PST Does anyone have an alarm system they use that is local, but can integrate with home automation systems (like Domoticz or Home Assistant)? I was hoping to setup some Raspberry Pis as touch panels for disarming/arming the system. I'm really turned off on anything cloud these days and want to avoid cloud at all costs. [link] [comments] | ||
| (RF433/RFlink)PIR sensor sometimes doesn’t transmit. Posted: 18 Nov 2020 06:43 PM PST I'm having an occasional problem with some PIR sensors I bought, occasionally they outright refuse to send a message when triggered although the led lights up. I'm using them with an RFLink Nodo box which is in turn connected to HomeAssistant on a Pi. At the point I'm seeing failure, other RF433 devices are transmitting ok. Now I admit they weren't very expensive as these go, around £4 each on aliexpress but their range is very good and have an extendable antenna on each one - I confirmed it's connected to the PCB electrically and not just there for show. I bought these to replace some Sonoff PIR sensors which exhibited the same behaviour. I'm just wondering if there could be any other reason for the occasional lack of RF than just "cheap crap" and maybe a way to troubleshoot further. Also, if anyone has a link to more expensive but known to be reliable PIR RF433 units it'd come in useful. [link] [comments] | ||
| Color temp change alexa shop lights? Posted: 18 Nov 2020 12:33 PM PST Anyone know of some color change shop lights? I'm really looking for alexa compatible and can change color temp. I want to use them to make a fake window. Doesn't really specificially need a shop light if there are led strips out there that get bright enough. I have a bunch of 5050 lights on the ceiling that aren't nearly bright enough. I've found a couple lights that turn on/off via alexa, but no color control. [link] [comments] | ||
| QMotion shades with Alarmdotcom? Posted: 18 Nov 2020 08:32 AM PST Has anyone integrated QMotion shades with an Alarmdotcom system? I see Legrand is an ecosystem partner of Alarmdotcom but cannot find any information about QMotion shades. I know Lutron has shading systems and those integrate well with Alarmdotcom but they are quite a bit more expensive. Thank you! [link] [comments] | ||
| Looking for good z-wave or zigbee GU-10 bulbs Posted: 18 Nov 2020 10:18 AM PST Can any recommend any GU-10 smart bulbs? Trying to put up a tract light and all of them take these types of bulbs. Could go with BR20 bulbs, but cannot find any tract lights that use these. Anyone have any recommendations? [link] [comments] | ||
| Recommendations on line/voltage thermostat? Posted: 18 Nov 2020 01:46 PM PST Is there a z-Wave or Zigbee compatible thermostat has physical on/off button on it? Thanks! [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 18 Nov 2020 09:26 AM PST Hi All, I'm looking to get a few additional smart plugs for christmas lights, space heaters, and other potentially misc. items I want to automate this winter. I have a few older generation wifi plugs from different brands, but i'm not attached to any specific brand. It's been ~2 years since I've been shopping for them and it looks like the market has exploded. I also have an abode home security system that allows me to control devices using Z-Wave. Ideally, this is what I would use, to avoid connecting to more and more different apps, but again, i'm not attached. Anyone have a favorite set of smart plugs, Z-wave or Wifi? [link] [comments] | ||
| How to transition form X10 to another system Posted: 18 Nov 2020 01:09 PM PST
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| Posted: 18 Nov 2020 06:48 AM PST I was thinking of getting the video 2K video door bell that comes with the base, that you can hardwire or have battery powered & the touch lock, what are peoples experiences with latency or lag in using these products, in all the YouTube videos I have watched, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of lag which I would expect since everything is mostly running locally with the home base, I just wanted to see if that was the case based on everyone's experiences 😊 [link] [comments] | ||
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| Has anyone had issues with WiFi connectivity on the Flair Puck when configured as a gateway? Posted: 18 Nov 2020 01:37 PM PST Really banging my head against the wall on this one. Utilizing a Linksys WRT3200ACM w/OpenWRT. I created a separate interface & associated wireless network for IoT devices (security reasons,) but for whatever reason the Flair puck is not receiving an IP address. I have several other devices using the network including an ecobee, smart lighting switches, & a dedicated laptop for IoT configuration. All are working flawlessly. Would appreciate any similar experiences or suggestions! [link] [comments] |
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