I am building a new house and I am trying to prewire as much as possible. If price was not an object what would you pre-wire?...
I admittedly don’t know much about home automation so please bear with me. I’m in search of the best option for me and my wife to be able to control access to our kids TV’s and game consoles. My wife and I both have modern iPhones and our home WiFi is a Google WiFi mesh router system. We also have a few Alexa pods. I’m...
Hi all, I have a sliding gate at my house. It works via a key fob. I’d like to make it smart. I can see some modules on line but I don’t know how to find out which cables are what. I attach some pictures. Help appreciated, thank you.
I’m looking for a smart DC fan controller to drive a 24vdc blower fan for my smoker…...
I asked bard to tell me how to wire the Shelly relay in a 3-way configuration. If this bypasses the relay, how can it trigger the light remotely??...
Seems such a obvious use case but no one seems to be making them other than the odd few no-name brands I see on AliExpress et al....
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I have an amp outside connected to some speakers. Right now I control it via Bluetooth from my phone and use Spotify to play the music. I’d love if there was a way to integrate Alexa or another helper so the kids can request songs when I’m not home. Is this feasible? Looking for cheap solutions ideally. My amp can take RCA...
Hello! I recently bought a strand of twinkly multi color lights and I love them. The effects are great and easily adaptable. However, I can’t figure out how to automate different saved effects to turn on and off throughout the day. For example, I also have Philips Hue lights and they are set to come on in a warm color at...
I have some devices that work with GH and some that work with HK. I was going to have both apps open at the same time, but GH doesn’t support multitasking on the iPad. So that led me to try to find an app that combines the two platforms into one view, but I haven’t been able to. Any suggestions?
I’ve done some reading on no-nrutral switches, but several of the posts have been from a few years ago. As were nearly in 2024 are there any newer options or recommendations?...
I’d like to switch on/off my Ezviz camera via google home. Also, I’d like to set and away/home automation that allows to remove/set sleep mode based on geofenncing for all people in the home. Is that at all possible? Tried but couldn’t do it....
Hey everyone, I am starting to experiment with some “smart home” ideas I have. Right now the main pain point I have is that my router is very limiting in terms of configuring and managing my network. Even the simplest port forward is a pain with it. I was wondering if you have any recommendations for a router that has a good...
I bought a bunch of cheap smart switches over the last few weeks and was wondering if anyone has managed to get these to work on a 12 volt dc system rather than the 100-265v ac system they are designed for?...
I run a small business from my home, with a small walk-in area for customers to walk in....
My in ceiling speakers are wired with a 4 wire phoenix connector. Many of the amps I see like Sonos don’t even have this connector on the back. How can I power these in ceiling speakers?
Hi, I would like to ask you to fill in a survey about the use of smart (home) personal devices like Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. This will help us greatly in doing our research for our project in the Computational Social Science programme at the University of Amsterdam. Thanks in advance!...
I need a Wi-Fi enabled button pusher preferably with plug-in capability and battery but battery is not required....
Hi, i have a smart display made with esp8266 and I want to fetch temperature data from Tuya zigbee sensors. Using API explorer on tuya.com I am able to get the data but there are many headers which change all the time I am not able to reproduce it in my ESP8266 project. I was not able to find any info online where someone is...
Hi, I have few zigbee temp sensors with tuya ecosystem (not connected to HA) and I have DIY smart screen based on ESP8266. I would like to fetch temp data from those sensors but I do not know where to start. I do have iot.tuya.com account and I can get it to fetch in API explorer and postman but can’t do it with ESP. Getting...
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Feeling pretty smart about this. But still dumber than before I repeatedly whacked my head standing up!
Is there a setup I can create that when a motion sensor is triggered a device that I have records audio? I don’t need any video recordings. What would I need to make this happen?
Does anybody have any recommendations of products they would use to monitor temperatures in various rooms of a home?...
Hello, I have a lamp that has a digital switch with different light modes that defaults to OFF when unplugged. I would like to know if there’s any smart plug available that might help me schedule this lamp and still keep the different light modes....