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- YMMV. Lowe’s has zwave GE switches on huge clearance pricing. This was Rockledge FL store.
- Looking for a way to get a notification if my radon mitigation system loses pressure (identified by the green liquid). HomeKit would be great, but not required
- New Sonoff Dual R3 has a hidden secret, and I blew it up during the review ��♂️ [my fault]
- What do you use for your calendar/checklist app?
- Modern home security?
- M5Paper has UIFlow support
- What’s the best of the cheap outdoor security cams around right now? I don’t like the idea of a subscription. One can will be above my front door, the other will be aimed at my car (60 feet from my router), I may appreciate a 3rd about 50 feet away.
- Auto answer Video call
- Temp/Humidity/Smoke/Monoxide monitoring for a wood fired sauna.
- Automate usb desk light from mac
- Konnected Alarm System with Honeywell 5853 Wireless Glass Break Sensors
- What is the best way to convert traditional home interior lighting to smart lighting with Lutron?
- Can anyone ID this cable
- z-wave/Zigbee of WiFi Switches
- Energy monitoring plug ONLY?
- Convert an existing light fixture itself to smart wifi controlled solution without buying a bunch of smart bulbs?
- Unique Mesh Network Challenge (Outdoor) -> Advice Requested!
- Consolidating 6 thermostats (2 different systems) into 1
- Converting old remote controlled plugs to smart plugs
- Open/closed garage door status
- Yeelight vs. Lifx & an inquiry about replacing a combination light switch.
- controlling american split-phase 240v (two hots, no neutral) with a shelly1 ??
- Smart door locks wheaterproof?
- Caseta Wireless for bathroom/any two-switch
| YMMV. Lowe’s has zwave GE switches on huge clearance pricing. This was Rockledge FL store. Posted: 09 Feb 2021 05:18 PM PST
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| New Sonoff Dual R3 has a hidden secret, and I blew it up during the review ��♂️ [my fault] Posted: 09 Feb 2021 09:28 AM PST
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| What do you use for your calendar/checklist app? Posted: 09 Feb 2021 05:21 PM PST I'm trying to utilize something as a central resource for both event reminders as well as recurring to-do lists. Personal setup is a nuc running windows 10 but open to ideas. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 09 Feb 2021 08:41 PM PST What are people using for self-monitored home security systems these days? I'd like a motion sensor as well as door/window sensors. Ideally with a loud alarm as well as being internet connected and controlled. Ability to tie in with other home features such as door lock, cameras, smart lights, and Google assistant would be a big bonus. Was once interested in Google's security system, but I believe they discontinued that. [link] [comments] | ||
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| Posted: 09 Feb 2021 07:57 PM PST Are there other options besides subscription-based wyze and blink? Isn't there something that will just connect to my wife router and not require a subscription? My UPS guy is bizarre and when I have a pickup he only leaves the label and won't knock, then He doesn't come back. I call ups they say he told his "base station" he knocked. Also I think he stole a package once... in any case I don't care at all about connection to Alexa or anything. I just want a small non subscription camera that doesn't require a subscription to get full features, at the range I need... thanks [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 09 Feb 2021 11:26 PM PST Hi Im looking for a way to auto answer a video call to check whats happening in my house. Basically I want to leave my pc or laptop (windows 10) in my house on and be able to videocall from a phone from work. I tried the auto answer solution in skype and it works but only for like 10 minutes. After 10 minutes of inactivity on the pc or laptop the auto answer stops to work. It rings but it doesnt autoanswer. So its useless Another thing is the ipcam. Yes I could set the pc or laptop to stream video constantly but it would be a waste cause I would be checking on the house just couple of times a day. Ideally the best solution would be to the skype solution with properly working auto answer feature. Start stream when I call then end it when I finish. Anyone could help me wirh that? [link] [comments] | ||
| Temp/Humidity/Smoke/Monoxide monitoring for a wood fired sauna. Posted: 09 Feb 2021 12:35 PM PST Hey guys, I'm looking for a hopefully all in one device that can track the parameters above and notify when its at temperature or too much monoxide has been detected. This would of course need to be able to endure the extreme environment of a sauna, extended periods of 120f+ heat and high humidity. For the smoke/monoxide I would prefer something that will give an actual number and not just a boolean. It can get a bit smoky when It's first starting and I'd rather not have a dumb detector start screeching every time I fire it up. Does anyone have any thoughts or recommend any hardware? I'm well versed in HASS and have some experience with custom pi/esp based sensors. Thanks! [link] [comments] | ||
| Automate usb desk light from mac Posted: 09 Feb 2021 09:47 PM PST I have a usb desk light that I'd like turned on when my display wakes up, and shuts off when the display goes to sleep. Is there a way to automate this via the usb connection? Or would i need to plug it into a power outlet that's say, HomeKit capable, and then send a command to it from my mac when it turns on/off? [link] [comments] | ||
| Konnected Alarm System with Honeywell 5853 Wireless Glass Break Sensors Posted: 09 Feb 2021 09:26 PM PST Hey All! I just recently setup my old hardwired alarm system with Konnected in my house. All of the hardwired alarms (except a few that I need to fix) work great with the system along with Samsung SmartThings. The one caveat is that my home came with an old Honeywell 5800 wireless system along with a repeater. Konnected wont work directly with wireless glass break sensors but I have a ton of Honeywell 5853's. Has anyone out there found a round about way of getting 5853 wireless glass break detectors to work with a 3rd party system that can then alarm a single zone on a Konnected panel? Not looking for anything fancy, I don't mind having all my glass break sensors on 1 zone as I have individual zones for doors and windows. The 5853's are solid but I hate to throw them away. I know that Konnected offers an integration board that can connect Older Honeywell systems if you want to keep your old keypads and such. I want to remove as much of the older system as possible since I am adding touch screens to where all the keypads used to be. If you need more info let me know. But I am working with the "Konnected Alarm Panel Starter Kit", Honeywell (Ademco) Vista 40 board, Honeywell 5881 Wireless board, 5800 Repeater Board with 5853 glass break sensors. Thank you All! GME to the Moon! [link] [comments] | ||
| What is the best way to convert traditional home interior lighting to smart lighting with Lutron? Posted: 09 Feb 2021 08:37 AM PST Hi r/homeautomation, I just purchased a 4,500 sq ft home built in the 1960s which has a combination of standard recessed, fixture, and lamp lighting throughout. Some of the overhead lightings is already dimmable. To turn on lights in the AM and off in the PM requires me to walk around, flipping on/off 15-20 switches and lamps. I am hoping to create a system that allows me to "turn on/off all lights" or individually by room. Would Lutron the best way to do this? Smart bulbs, switches, outlets? I don't really know where to begin. Any and all recommendations are appreciated! [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 09 Feb 2021 01:34 PM PST I've got a cable run from my gate box to a utility shed. I'd like to know if there's pairs in it that I could run audio or baluned video over, but unfortunately, there's so little available slack on either end I can't just peel back more of the insulator to determine its construction. It's foil-shielded with 12 solid conductors around 20 awg, but the color code is weird: The whites don't have any color stripes or differentiating features that I can see, and at least as they're positioned at the cable end don't seem to be paired to the colors. The blues seem to come out of the bundle together at both ends. There's no printing or stamping on the parts of the sheath I can see. Does anyone know what this cable is normally used for and/or what it's structure is? [link] [comments] | ||
| z-wave/Zigbee of WiFi Switches Posted: 09 Feb 2021 12:07 PM PST I did a little bit of searching and was not able to find any current thinking on this topic. I'm new to ST (Recent Wink Defector) and am also looking at Hubitat as a longer term solution... Wondering what the latest thinking is around zwave vs wifi. Looks like you can purchase a decent Wifi switch(with Dimmer) for about $20 (Kasa HS220, a zooz Zen-22 for about $27 and an Inovelli Black for about $31 (Currently out of stock). I honestly have "no dog in this fight" and am simply trying to figure out where to jump off/in at this point. Thoughts and feedback would be appreciated. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 09 Feb 2021 04:04 AM PST I have by now killed a few smart plugs using them in my laundry, I'm guessing from the largely inductive loads. I don't use them for switching, just monitoring the power so I can track in my HA and send notifications. Does anybody know of any smart plug style devices, in Australia, that are monitoring only? I have looked around at using ESPs or a Pi, but where I am it is illegal to do mains wiring without the appropriate license. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 09 Feb 2021 04:57 PM PST Is there anything out there similar to this Acegoo wireless receiver https://www.amazon.com/acegoo-Wireless-Receiver-Controller-AC85-265V/dp/B01B4DRX10/ with wifi & Alexa control? I think I've been randomly searching on and off for years now wondering why no one makes a device that sits up inside the electric box and outputs to the existing fixture. To me it would just be the same as mini smart plug but hard wired on both ends. Why doesn't it seem to exist? [link] [comments] | ||
| Unique Mesh Network Challenge (Outdoor) -> Advice Requested! Posted: 09 Feb 2021 01:00 PM PST Hi there, First, thanks for you time! I am the tech guy for a rockclimbing stream on Twitch. (Bear with me) Our current setup is that we run a Nighthawk M1 (Mobile LTE Router), which his camera equipment wirelessly connects to on his body. We use that router to stream out to twitch via cell networks. As he streams and rock climbs, he moves up the wall or mountain. We are a single user, upload dominant network. Here's the challenge. We can't string a wire with us, and we lose Line-of-Sight pretty quickly through the rock face (Most angles are not 90° climbs). So if we ever needed our connection to be, say, at the bottom of a route and it couldn't move cough starl..., we cant just blast the wifi up the climb or take an ethernet cable. So we need a way of getting internet from a connection at the base up the climb. So my thought is to create battery powered "packs" that are basically a google Eero home mesh repeater (Or whatever brand) strapped to a battery and on a clip. I envision the climber dropping these packs on clips to essentially string a line of Line-of-Sight mesh repeaters. My hope is that they can be switched on and auto-connect... The more automated failure recovery the better. Then the climber would just "stream" the data to the closest switched on mesh repeater. Now, I'm in the research phase, and my application seems somewhat unique, so I can't find many resources. Our upload requirement is ~5000kbps so not huge, but not tiny. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas? I don't know where to begin figuring out what the maximum "range" you could get would be... If you string 2 vs 20 packs up a route. We also are very tolerant of transmission delay. If there's a way to "buffer" the data to smooth over any performance blips on the network so that the stream is stable, we'd definitely try that. My first step is going to be purchasing the best physically small and lightweight pack of 3 mesh repeaters and run some tests in my residential street, seeing how far I can maintain a 5kbps upload rate through the 3 hops just back to my home router. Thank you! [link] [comments] | ||
| Consolidating 6 thermostats (2 different systems) into 1 Posted: 09 Feb 2021 08:50 AM PST Hi everyone, We are purchasing a home that currently is heated via two different systems: 1) A forced air system that heats a living room, kitchen, and master bed and bath (2 zones). Right now it is not in the budget to expand the forced air to the entire house, specially since the radiant heat is a new high efficiency one. But what we want to do is be able to control the heat for these 6 zones without having to walk to 6 separate thermostats all over the house. Is there a system where we can have "thermometers" in each of these zones which connect to one central interface that can control each of these zones? I am hoping for something wireless which wouldn't require me to re-run wires all over the house. [link] [comments] | ||
| Converting old remote controlled plugs to smart plugs Posted: 09 Feb 2021 04:18 PM PST I have old unused Woods brand RF1112T remote control and 3x remote controlled plugs. See https://fccid.io/UNBRF111299 How difficult is it to convert those plugs into smart plugs by installing a microcontroller inside? If nothing from the existing circuits can be reused, at least the casing of the plug would be very useful. Are there easy diy smart plugs? [link] [comments] | ||
| Open/closed garage door status Posted: 09 Feb 2021 09:59 AM PST What I am looking after is to have a physical interface (it could be simple on/off light switch, or more advanced like tablet app) which would show me whether my garage door is closed or open. I've searched through the Internet and even though there were some devices, none exactly fits my idea. I do not want: sound information, app information or "push the button" to check. I just want a very simple yes/no output which would constantly show the status of the garage door and a quick glance at it would make me sure that I have closed it. P.S. I have three (or even four) doors to check (1 garage door, three fence gates), so a device which would show statuses of all of these (again - closed/open) would be even better. [link] [comments] | ||
| Yeelight vs. Lifx & an inquiry about replacing a combination light switch. Posted: 09 Feb 2021 11:56 AM PST | ||
| controlling american split-phase 240v (two hots, no neutral) with a shelly1 ?? Posted: 09 Feb 2021 05:51 AM PST good morning, i may have not done enough homework... i'm needing to control split-phase 240v, and wanting to use the shelly1 smart relay i've just bought. not seeing a way to break both hot legs on this circuit using the shelly1, if anyone has done this w/o an additional contactor or relay. all the results i've found from searching are switching "euro" style 240v that comes on a single hot and neutral conductor. any advice would be appreciated :) [link] [comments] | ||
| Smart door locks wheaterproof? Posted: 09 Feb 2021 02:51 PM PST Hi guys, anyone knows a smart lock that can handle rain and humidity? With wifi, bluethoot, nfc, keypad, with any of these or with all of these lol I've seen the xiaomi one but i dont think its ''weatherproof'' i think it is for indoors. [link] [comments] | ||
| Caseta Wireless for bathroom/any two-switch Posted: 09 Feb 2021 02:47 PM PST I'm new to a lot of this HA stuff, and recently installed a Lutron Caseta Wireless switch in my kitchen, and love it. I'd like to do the same in some other rooms, but most of them have the two switches (one for light, one for fan, or in the bathroom with the exhaust fan). How would I go about accomplishing this in those rooms? I don't really NEED the fans to be automated, moreso just the lights. [link] [comments] |
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