Smart Home S**t
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- fyoucher10
What I did:
Go there, buy everything (i.e. Home security camera that's wireless is $35). Home monitoring is cheap AF (one year is cost of ADT's one month). They do door locks, doorbells, cameras, home security, sensors galore, etc.
It's so cheap, that once technology gets obsolete, you won't feel bad about having to redo everything. Hooks ups nicely with iPhone too.
Get the motion sensors ($11) and the bulbs ($15). Hook it up so that lights automatically come as you enter a room. Hook it up to Google so you can control it with your voice (Hey Google, turn off the lights).
Get the Wyze plug which'll allow you to control anything plugged in. We use that for lamps that don't use standard bulbs.
And get the leak sensor when it's available, wish I had that two months ago.
We have these window shades. Expensive AF, but look great and so worth it. We can control them via our iPhone and Google, Lutron switches, and remotes attached to the bed. We have them automatically open and close at dusk/dawn too.
https://www.serenashades.comThen get Google's Home Mini ($35). We got one for every main room. It's cheap so who cares. It acts as a second speaker too. We use it for asking questions, the weather, playing Spotify, etc etc – through voice control. Handy when you don't want to carry your phone around the house.
And finally, make sure your WiFi is up to snuff. We have Verizon Gig service and bought two Verizon Wifi "Expanders" (not Extenders...Expanders connect to your existing coax cables which your house should already have everywhere). We get 300mbps in our backyard, and nearly 500mbps throughout the house on WiFi. We cut cable a few months back and use YouTube TV for anything live (like football and the news).
- I have a few wyze plugs for hard to reach lamps, which I can turn on and off via the app, but had to use IFTTT and connect to weather underground to automate itbulletfactory
- ^Amazon sells buttons for thatfyoucher1
- nico4120
https://www.home-assistant.io
steep learning curve but theres nothing you can't do with that. I run mine on a raspberrypi and I control everything through homekit- Ahh! This is the one my GoogleFu was failing to find yesterday. I couldnh't for the life of me remember what it was.Nairn
- i_was-1
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- sted0
latest stuff i found and would install if by bathroom wouldn't had a nice big window:
app controlled, turns on/off the pure white on manual
smartplugs are great stuff one thing that are a lot of average households are using
- Light behind stone. That’s it.monospaced
- shower and electricity makes sense...uan
- I've never seen a shower without a light. Makes perfect sense.monospaced
- yeah it is that simple.sted
- microkorg1
Got a Nest doorbell and thoroughly recommend them, gives good comings and goings at your door/garden/road. Means you can also speak to delivery people if you are not home.
Went with this over Ring because it constantly records and you can view everything as a timeline, even when theres no alerts.
We have a smart bulb above our front door. This is very effective. Have it set on timer to come on/off with day/night. After 11pm at night I have it dim to 25% so its still giving some light but not glaring.
Have some other smart bulbs but they never get used 'smartly' just as regular lamps. We have a couple of bedside lights with smart bulbs so we can dim them as dont have a wall dimmer switch. Its a pain in the ass to open app to dim them and if we were dimming regularly then Id opt for a regular dimmer switch on wall :)