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- Made a script to display all my RTSP feeds in a VLC window
- My wife’s latest battle with voice assistants was hilariously awesome.
- I Made a Car Trips Tracker .... without using GPS
- What are some ways to uses 'scenes' on your home automation?
- Control this with that?
- Combination smart ceiling fan+light switches: Inovelli red questions
- Dry contact to trigger switch
- Is Instant ON/OFF with Lutron dimmer posible?
- Connecting ESP8266 or ESP32 to DC Fan Controller
- Does this make sense for a D1 Mini plus relay and DHT shield configuration or is there a better way?
- What's the best way to add outside power for cameras and lights?
- Do I have neutral wire?
- Noob question
- Voice controlled automation, not compromising privacy
- Conbee2 and link quality
- Smart colour change bulb flashes white before colouring when switched on
- Any service monitor if using devices from different brands?
- Best video doorbell that is wired and works with my existing chime?
- Phillips Hue Bridge for more than 50 devices?
- Rheem Econet Solution?
- Simple, affordable setup for wireless dimmer switches?
- Smart lock for this door, already tried level and it wasn’t compatible
- How to use a the webcam to activate the monitor under Windows 10?
- Amazon Music to Soundavo matrix controller from Android phone?
| Made a script to display all my RTSP feeds in a VLC window Posted: 28 Mar 2021 10:02 AM PDT
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| My wife’s latest battle with voice assistants was hilariously awesome. Posted: 28 Mar 2021 08:12 PM PDT My wife frequently has trouble with voice assistants understanding her phrasing. This evening was better than most. Getting ready for bed the following interaction happens... "Hey Google, turn the thermostat to 65 degrees" "Ok turning two thermostats to 65 degrees". She didn't intend to turn down the Tesla's thermostat, but whatever. She next requests Google to turn on her fan and her fan turns on. She next wants to turn off the bedroom lights but she can never seem to say turn off the bedroom lights. So she turns to me and requests me to ask Google to turn of the bedroom lights. She says "Tell the bitch to turn off the lights." Google is still listening and proceeds to turn off all the lights in the house, sending the rest of the house into darkness and annoying the kids. I am am still laughing at Google's malicious compliance. [link] [comments] | ||
| I Made a Car Trips Tracker .... without using GPS Posted: 28 Mar 2021 02:11 AM PDT
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| What are some ways to uses 'scenes' on your home automation? Posted: 29 Mar 2021 12:27 AM PDT | ||
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| Combination smart ceiling fan+light switches: Inovelli red questions Posted: 28 Mar 2021 10:54 PM PDT Is it me or is this product category extremely limited? The only popular options I can find are the Inovelli Red Fan+Light switch and the Treatlife combination switch which requires separate wiring in-wall for controlling the fan and light separately. The Lutron Maestro looks nice but has no smart functionality. Since the treatlife seems to have unintuitive UI, I am interested in the Inovelli but have some questions I can't find online.
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| Posted: 28 Mar 2021 10:26 PM PDT So I have an off-grid inverter and battery setup at home for power outages (there are many where I live, scheduled and unscheduled) and I want to be able to immediately (or as quickly as possible) trigger one side of the kitchen to switch off. My inverter has a wifi data-logger and dry contacts. I thought about the data-logger route: Use HA/NodeRed or similar and trigger an action when running on battery. But I'm not sure if that would work so well because as far as I can tell I would need to poll the data-logger for the battery signal and realistically I can't poll it constantly. By default it only sends it's updates out every 5 minutes. So I thought I could use the dry contacts. The NO contact closes as soon as the inverter runs on battery so that would be ideal, I can use that as the "switch" on a smart wifi module which can then trigger the smart plug to turn off. Ideally I'd also like to be able to "disable" the smart plug while the inverter is running on battery so those appliances can't even be turned on again until utility power is restored. Where I live we have prolific Sonoff availability so that would be the best bet I think. On the inverter side for the "trigger" I was hoping to use something low voltage as I could try to pull the power required from the USB port of the inverter. Otherwise I could use a Sonoff Mini R2 and send the dry contacts straight into S1 and S2 and be done with it, but then I need to run a plug into the large cupboard where the inverter sits just to power it. For the appliance plug side of things I was planning to use a Sonoff Dual R3 when they become available here but while I wait I do have a POW v1 rated for 3.5kW which will work just as well, but "outside" on the multiplug. Any ideas for the low voltage module to consider? [link] [comments] | ||
| Is Instant ON/OFF with Lutron dimmer posible? Posted: 28 Mar 2021 10:07 PM PDT Can I program the Lutron Caseta Dimmer Switch (PD-6WCL-WH) to instantly and fully turn ON/OFF the lights rather than the gradual brightening/dimming it does by default when the power buttons are pressed? Thanks [link] [comments] | ||
| Connecting ESP8266 or ESP32 to DC Fan Controller Posted: 28 Mar 2021 03:36 PM PDT
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| Does this make sense for a D1 Mini plus relay and DHT shield configuration or is there a better way? Posted: 28 Mar 2021 03:07 PM PDT
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| What's the best way to add outside power for cameras and lights? Posted: 28 Mar 2021 06:20 PM PDT I'm trying to see what would be the best way to add power under the roof eaves outside to add cameras, motion sensors and lights. I see several options:
Any other ideas? I'd like to have at least camera coverage of all the walls, and motion activated lights on the entrance, the garage and the backyard door. If I can plug some xmas lights as well when comes the times, that'll be a nice bonus, but not the main purpose. Has anyone gone through a similar project? [link] [comments] | ||
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| Posted: 28 Mar 2021 02:04 PM PDT Hi all. I'm renovating my first house (old house in Dublin from 1940s) and as such am running ethernet throughout for WiFi and stuff and trying to plan ahead as best as possible. Recently came across Shelly products and would like to look down that route instead of Phillip's Hue. However I've never played wiring or raspberry pi or anything like that. Watched a couple of videos but not fully understanding parts of the process. What's a good place to start? Should I be looking into electrical 101 stuff and work up or is it all very basic? Is EU wiring very different from US which is what the videos I've seen are? Any tips would be greatly appreciated [link] [comments] | ||
| Voice controlled automation, not compromising privacy Posted: 28 Mar 2021 05:44 PM PDT Hello! Looking for recommendation for voice activated smart home type device. I currently have Control4 system for lights, heat, security, blinds etc... I use my phone to control but am looking for smart home/ option for voice control. Issue is I dont want to compromise privacy/ privacy risk. Havent heard great things re google home/ alexa etc.. any suggestions? Any way to make most secure/private? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 28 Mar 2021 10:03 AM PDT I'm trying to fix signal issues with my Conbee2. It's connected to a NUC with a 2m extension cable. The best signal is seen in deconz when I hold the conbee2 a few feet from the wall of the room and pointed straight upwards. As soon as I try to put it some place that I don't need to hold it up in the air, the signal quality plummets. The only node that has consistently had good quality is a Samsung SmartThings motion detector from ~2014. Everything else (OSRAM flexible RGB strips) either have terrible signal or none at all and drop off the network. My NUC and the Conbee2 aren't centrally located and I don't plan to move it to a more central location in the house. In fact it may get moved to an even worse location where my networking equipment will be centrally located later this year. Is there a preferred orientation for the Conbee2? Pointing straight up in the air? I don't know the radiation pattern for the antenna. I'm wondering if I should buy an extender that I can centrally locate. If anything Home Automation adventures have taught me to buy hardware that I control the software on. I was thinking of the SONOFF ZBBridge and flashing it with tasmota or something else that gives me management control instead of what comes out of the box. Separately there is custom Zigbee router firmware to apply? Does it make sense to shoot for a Zigbee 3.0 product even though my coordinator and end devices are not zigbee 3.0? Update: Now I'm just laying the Conbee2 randomly across my desk and the signal is like 5x better to the far away nodes. So finicky.. [link] [comments] | ||
| Smart colour change bulb flashes white before colouring when switched on Posted: 28 Mar 2021 12:26 PM PDT I have a TCP colour changing bulb that flashes bright white whenever it's turned on via the app, even if the colour option is selected. This is very annoying and TCP themselves have been pretty unresponsive in trying to fix the issue. It's the second one I've had and they both do this. It works fine if I just use the light switch, but I wanted to program if as a wake-up light so that's no help to me! He as anyone had a similar issue and fixed it? [link] [comments] | ||
| Any service monitor if using devices from different brands? Posted: 28 Mar 2021 01:38 PM PDT Hi everyone Is there a monitoring service that will allow you to monitor devices from multiple manufacturers? say hook up a RING doorbell, a Nest motion detector, a miscellaneous Z wave motion or fire/CO devices? Sounds like though you can hook up z-wave compatible devices companies will only monitor their branded devices. [link] [comments] | ||
| Best video doorbell that is wired and works with my existing chime? Posted: 28 Mar 2021 01:37 PM PDT I currently have a video doorbell (skybell) that is wired and works with my existing chime, but its super slow and after motion, only has a 30 second recording time before going into a 15 second cool down period. It also misses motion a few times. From my own research I can only see the Nest doorbell as the only option that fits these requirements but I figured I'd ask around before limiting my options. Thanks [link] [comments] | ||
| Phillips Hue Bridge for more than 50 devices? Posted: 28 Mar 2021 09:50 AM PDT So I have exceeded 50 devices with Hue (I have a problem, I know). I have multiple bulbs, smart switches, scenes, etc. I decided I needed an extra Bridge to run the extra devices. Unfortunately, Phillips seems to make this very difficult. If I want out of home control each bridge needs to be tied to a different email address (which seems so dumb) and the bridges can't communicate with each other. Does anyone have any ideas for a different bridge that will control all my devices? Or is there an app that will give me better control over both bridges, PLUS giving me out of home control? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 28 Mar 2021 05:35 AM PDT It looks like Rheem moved away from their Rest API to MQTT a while back for their water heaters. I'm curious if anyone has found a way to shoehorn Echonet into Smartthings since then. [link] [comments] | ||
| Simple, affordable setup for wireless dimmer switches? Posted: 28 Mar 2021 05:20 AM PDT I just moved into a new apartment, and the lighting setup is not conducive to getting a toddler to sleep. To fix it up I'm trying to (on the cheap) do this: - Replace the lightbulb in her room with a dimmable light and remote switch - Replace the three lights in the hall with either dimmable lights on a remote switch (all are currently on one switch) or control the three lights separately. Currently there are no dimmer switches, and this is an NYC apartment so I can't replace anything hard-wired (or I'd just put in some lutron dimmer switches and dimmable bulbs). TIA! [link] [comments] | ||
| Smart lock for this door, already tried level and it wasn’t compatible Posted: 28 Mar 2021 12:15 PM PDT
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| How to use a the webcam to activate the monitor under Windows 10? Posted: 28 Mar 2021 07:28 AM PDT Hi guys! My plan is to use an old laptop with webcam as a smart watch and home server. I want it to activate the display when someone stands infront of it, using the webcam. Anyone any idea how to do that? Thank you so much! [link] [comments] | ||
| Amazon Music to Soundavo matrix controller from Android phone? Posted: 28 Mar 2021 11:09 AM PDT I was initially looking to get the Monoprice matrix controller/amp for setting up some in-ceiling speakers in my house but recently came across the Soundavo amp instead here - https://www.soundavo.com/collections/wifi-streaming-system/products/ws-66i My biggest question though is whether I could stream from Amazon Music using this device. Most of my music now is using Amazon Music on an Android phone via bluetooth to some speakers. It looks like it has streaming services built-in, but none are Amazon Music. However, it supports DLNA and AirPlay, but I'm not sure if I can use those directly from the Amazon Music app to the Soundavo from Android....does anyone know whether this would work? [link] [comments] |
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