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i like my roomba when the battery isn't completely dead. i also want a garage door monitor app. all the rest of the smart home stuff is dumb garbage for idiots.
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lol if you don't feed every possible metric of your life to internet companies
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Mar 3, 2015 07:45
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roomba is epic
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Mar 3, 2015 07:45
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pram posted:roomba is epic my grandma got us one because she was fascinated by the concept of a vacuuming robot, and she demanded video of it doing Its Thing as soon as we got home with it. my grandma is cool.
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Mar 3, 2015 07:47
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what is 'grandma' is that some kind of cloud video appliance
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Mar 3, 2015 07:51
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i have a smart litter box that bakes my cat turds while im away
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Mar 3, 2015 07:55
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Flat Daddy posted:i have a smart litter box that bakes my cat turds while im away https://medium.com/@jorge_lo/the-future-a-cat-litter-and-drm-6dbda26428f8 Life with the CatGenie was great, but not quite perfect. Every once in a while, when the scoop misses a giant cat poop, the drying cycle cooks it. It gets dried out like a little raunchy piece of beef jerky. It ends up stinking the apartment up worse than one could imagine. It’s rare, happening maybe once every week or two and the smell goes away relatively quickly.
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Mar 3, 2015 07:58
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pram posted:what is 'grandma' is that some kind of cloud video appliance it was the best word filter
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Mar 3, 2015 08:12
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i remember being fascinated by the idea of your house unlocking and your security system disarming once your phone's bluetooth came within range but then i realized that if my phone died then i would be locked outta the house and then i used a bluetooth device for the first time and saw how much longer it takes to recognize than it would for me to simply take my keys out and put them into the door and realized how dumb it all was
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Mar 3, 2015 08:17
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i got home last night to discover I had forgotten my house keys and i was really mad that I was still using key technology but now i've read this thread and i think i'll just remember my keys
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Mar 3, 2015 08:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoqSJHB9QVs
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Mar 3, 2015 09:48
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Two whole pages and still no mention of http://www.openhab.org/ ....and you call yourself nerds. 
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Mar 3, 2015 10:03
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Visual GNUdio posted:I'll shamefully admit to having a boatload of smart home things in my house. please post more of this. thanbks
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Mar 3, 2015 13:40
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i just designed and oversaw the installation of a bitchin amx system at work for our new conference room slash product demonstration area. i want some of this stuff at home but it costs serious money
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Mar 3, 2015 13:47
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fart simpson posted:i just designed and oversaw the installation of a bitchin amx system at work for our new conference room slash product demonstration area. i want some of this stuff at home but it costs serious money AMX and Crestron are the fuckin own zone and also are the exclusive domain of millionaires. You must be a registered dealer to change anything in the environment, so if you want to add a light or whatever, call your dealer and prepare for another $1000+ service call to install the light and then add it to the programming for your system.
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Mar 3, 2015 14:09
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Flat Daddy posted:https://medium.com/@jorge_lo/the-future-a-cat-litter-and-drm-6dbda26428f8 our apartment gets filled with baked cat poo poo fumes but only 50 times per year so whatever
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Smart lights vs smart switches There's a lot of talk about Hue because Philips was the first major company to offer a straightforward way to control lights with your phone. I have 5 Hue lights of one flavor or another plus a couple GE Link bulbs that are compatible but without color change (so dimming only). A Hue set comes with a bridge that will bridge wired ethernet to ZigBee (note "WiFi" isn't on this list, despite Philips selling these as WiFi Connected Bulbs). There are apps from Philips and third parties for most platforms. These talk to the hub, the hub sends commands over ZigBee to your lights. Here's the problem with smart lights: they are plugged into your existing light socket, and that socket has a light switch at the other side. You plug in, turn on the switch, and you can get it paired to your hub pretty easy and take over. Wheee, I can change light colors from my phone! What fun! OK now turn off that switch, the light turns off like you'd expect. Now grab your phone and ... AWWWWW, you can't control poo poo because you've cut the power to the lights. Smart Lights become dumb not-lights once you turn the switch off. This doesn't sound like a big deal but it sucks in practice. You either a) leave all your light switches on and then try and fumble around for a goddamn cell phone every time you walk into a room, or b) use the switches and now you can't turn on lights without the switch and you should have just bought a regular goddamn bulb. Philips recognized this problem and has solved it with a horrible wall switch thing that you stick on to your wall. It's interesting in that it uses the force of you pressing the button to actually power the device (so no batteries), but it feels clunky and cheap and isn't what a person would expect to interact with on the wall to turn on lights. If you're a shut-in with no friends or guests then I guess it's OK, but people have expectations around how switches work, and smart lights and the Philips Tap do nothing to address this. A better solution is to replace your existing wall switches with "smart" switches (Z-Wave currently, maybe Insteon if you like dead ends or someday maybe ZigBee). You can get a switch for ~$35 (practically free in the Smart Home world), replace your existing switch, and now the lights controlled by that switch work just like they used to, but have the added ability to be controlled from elsewhere via your hub. If your hub shits the bed, no problem the switch works locally just as you'd expect. No, you don't get fancy changy colors, but you get a light that turns on every time and doesn't involve fumbling for your cell phone.
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Visual GNUdio posted:I'll shamefully admit to having a boatload of smart home things in my house. lmao owned
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Regarding Cat Genie When it works, it's awesome. We bought one when we moved to a new condo, and even had a closet built with a cutout to fit the device. Cat drops a deuce, Cat Genie scoops out deuce, grinds it into a slush and pumps it into your toilet. Easy! Until it fucks up, and it will. I'm not sure how this guy just wound up with toasted turds. Ours wound up getting cat hair clogged in the pump impeller roughly once every 2-4 weeks. Then I'd get the pleasure of tearing apart a machine full of liquefied cat poo poo to get at the pump and pull out whatever clumps of cat hair and cat poo poo I could get my fingers on, all while immersed in liquid cat poo poo. It was a deeply unpleasant experience and after a year or so of this we gave up because nobody could take it anymore and we'd rather scoop poops twice a day then deal with the clogged up Cat Genie again.
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PuTTY riot posted:so I need to do a timer for my pool equipment. a intermatic z wave contactor could control 2 240 circuits which would be perfect. my other option is 2 manual intermatic timers + freeze protection. the z wave (even adding a mi casa) would be cheaper. From the sounds of it you're heading down the right path. This is the sort of thing home automation is generally good at, meaning it's something that doesn't actually involve user interaction. Simply do a thing when this thing reads this value etc etc. The MiCasa line will handle this easily and once you set it up you can probably go about your life ignoring it. Visual GNUdio fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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Mar 3, 2015 15:10
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this is a good and interesting thread.
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Visual GNUdio posted:From the sounds of it you're heading down the right path. This is the sort of thing home automation is generally good at, meaning it's something that doesn't actually involve user interaction. Simply do a thing when this thing reads this value etc etc. The MiCasa line will handle this easily and once you set it up you can probably go about your life ignoring it. ty Elder Postsman posted:this is a good and interesting thread. 
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Visual GNUdio posted:Here's the general overall synopsis: I wanted to get a few things for my parents' place (MyQ, the ability to turn on lights remotely, etc.) but it all sounds like poo poo right now.
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Mar 3, 2015 15:36
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pram posted:what compels a man to mount a dryer on a wall the dryer exhaust is on the front. the dryer exhaust is on the front and blows the dryer air and lint into his house.
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Elder Postsman posted:i like my roomba when the battery isn't completely dead. i also want a garage door monitor app. all the rest of the smart home stuff is dumb garbage for idiots. Roomba should find its way back 2 the charger on its own so maybe u need to rearrange stuff if hes getting stuck.
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Mar 3, 2015 15:41
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Shaggar posted:Roomba should find its way back 2 the charger on its own so maybe u need to rearrange stuff if hes getting stuck. nah I mean the battery is dead dead and no longer holds a charge.
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Mar 3, 2015 15:43
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oh. you can buy a new one. if its a 500 series those batteries are way inferior to the newer 700+ series batteries anyway.
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it's a 400 series 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGQpjCztgA
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Elder Postsman posted:it's a 400 series wow. whats it like living in the dark ages?
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I kind of want to get a scooba but I guess they are not that good ?
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Shaggar posted:wow. whats it like living in the dark ages? it's ok.
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Shaggar posted:I kind of want to get a scooba but I guess they are not that good ? well u mop what maybe once a week? that's not bad to do on ur own. but u gotta vacuum like every other day or more so a robot vacuum makes sense.
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Mar 3, 2015 16:06
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if I had a scooba I could wash every other day too
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Scooba is mostly for the novelty, it takes a lot of robot janitoring to prepare it with water and cleaning mixture and to empty and clean it out afterwards, and when it breaks good luck repairing it. The service manual more or less says to replace entire the main unit for any problem, no matter how trivial it is. I still bought a new one when mine broke outside of warranty  Best robot on the market is probably the neato botvac, but i think the newest LG robots are finally getting wifi which will obviously make them better than everything so wait for that
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Mar 3, 2015 16:10
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dryers belong on top of washers
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Mar 3, 2015 16:11
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hey op is there like a 'low voltage' z wave thing? my garage door opener is rly old and it doesn't even have one of those keypads w/ the separate light/door buttons. just doorbell buttons. i know ur supposed to have a motion sensor/sounder thingy but i dont wanna do all that just a z wave momentary switch or w/e. also is the honeywell lynx z wave stuff poo poo like i assume it is? i should just do the mi casa and keep my alarm system totally separate right?
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Shaggar posted:the dryer exhaust is on the front. the dryer exhaust is on the front and blows the dryer air and lint into his house. madness
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i have a cheap chinese knockoff roomba and it works well. that;s my smart home
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