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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender @travisdh1
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      @travisdh1 said in Home automation - light switch:

      If you're me, you do it yourself, probably with these two items for less than $20 and a little bit of programming.

      Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266
      120V Relay

      I'm sure others will have easier, ready-built solutions tho. Me and @thwr actually enjoy this stuff.

      ROFLOL - dude, I am not a coder - I have no desire to write my own android app to control this.

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      • travisdh1T
        travisdh1 @Dashrender
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        @Dashrender said in Home automation - light switch:

        @travisdh1 said in Home automation - light switch:

        If you're me, you do it yourself, probably with these two items for less than $20 and a little bit of programming.

        Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266
        120V Relay

        I'm sure others will have easier, ready-built solutions tho. Me and @thwr actually enjoy this stuff.

        ROFLOL - dude, I am not a coder - I have no desire to write my own android app to control this.

        Yeah, like I said, someone else probably knows a much easier way 😛

        I'm planning to use my old rPi2 to run a webserver that does the communications with those ESP8266 boards. Who needs an app when you can make something that everything can access?

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        • BRRABillB
          BRRABill
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          I use this stuff in my mom's section of the house...

          http://www.insteon.com/

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @travisdh1
            last edited by

            @travisdh1 said in Home automation - light switch:

            @Dashrender said in Home automation - light switch:

            @travisdh1 said in Home automation - light switch:

            If you're me, you do it yourself, probably with these two items for less than $20 and a little bit of programming.

            Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266
            120V Relay

            I'm sure others will have easier, ready-built solutions tho. Me and @thwr actually enjoy this stuff.

            ROFLOL - dude, I am not a coder - I have no desire to write my own android app to control this.

            Yeah, like I said, someone else probably knows a much easier way 😛

            I'm planning to use my old rPi2 to run a webserver that does the communications with those ESP8266 boards. Who needs an app when you can make something that everything can access?

            As long as you make a mobile friendly webpage, I'm OK with that solution too. Though the idea of having to run a server inside my house - what another pain.

            If instead it's just an app on my mobile, and the devices are found through broadcasts, that would be awesome.

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            • DashrenderD
              Dashrender @BRRABill
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              @BRRABill said in Home automation - light switch:

              I use this stuff in my mom's section of the house...

              http://www.insteon.com/

              Ok this stuff is looking pretty good so far.

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              • thwrT
                thwr @travisdh1
                last edited by thwr

                @travisdh1 said in Home automation - light switch:

                @Dashrender said in Home automation - light switch:

                @travisdh1 said in Home automation - light switch:

                If you're me, you do it yourself, probably with these two items for less than $20 and a little bit of programming.

                Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266
                120V Relay

                I'm sure others will have easier, ready-built solutions tho. Me and @thwr actually enjoy this stuff.

                ROFLOL - dude, I am not a coder - I have no desire to write my own android app to control this.

                Yeah, like I said, someone else probably knows a much easier way 😛

                I'm planning to use my old rPi2 to run a webserver that does the communications with those ESP8266 boards. Who needs an app when you can make something that everything can access?

                For a single light, I would probably use a Philips Hue. Too much effort to built something yourself (e.g. installing relays, controllers etc.).

                For something bigger, I would

                1. install a central RabbitMQ broker (aka server, maybe on a Banana M3 using its non-USB attached SATA port to connect a SSD)
                2. Run a webserver on the Banana with a little webpage to show the states of each light and to provide switches to switch on/off specific lights
                3. Find some way to let the microcontrollers talk MQTT to the server without wiring (meshed ZigBee, Bluetooth LE, WiFi)
                4. Attach solid state relay modules to the uCs (benefit: they are way more reliable than mechanical relays)
                5. Install that package somehow in the hole of the lightswitch (hope you know what I mean. Just try to translate "Unterputzdose" 🙂

                Should be a good and affordable solution. There are some projects out there to unify the way devices can talk to each other, but I didn't look into any of them yet. On the other hand, MQTT/AMQP are both great protocols which can easily get the job done without much of a hassle.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
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                  Do they still sell Clappers?

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                  • wirestyle22W
                    wirestyle22
                    last edited by wirestyle22

                    I know Nest (Wemo switch) makes something you might find useful. I vaguely remember some Nest hate on ML although I may be wrong. Any of the home automation stuff is typically really overpriced IMO.

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in Home automation - light switch:

                      Do they still sell Clappers?

                      Yes. Still on late night commercials too.

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                      • dafyreD
                        dafyre @JaredBusch
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                        @JaredBusch said in Home automation - light switch:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Home automation - light switch:

                        Do they still sell Clappers?

                        Yes. Still on late night commercials too.

                        But wait, there's more!

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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch @JaredBusch
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                          @scottalanmiller said in Home automation - light switch:

                          Do they still sell Clappers?

                          0_1481040500418_upload-8ebdb00c-3e19-4a62-a098-e2083db2a536

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                          • travisdh1T
                            travisdh1 @JaredBusch
                            last edited by

                            @JaredBusch said in Home automation - light switch:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Home automation - light switch:

                            Do they still sell Clappers?

                            0_1481040500418_upload-8ebdb00c-3e19-4a62-a098-e2083db2a536

                            Do you have to take pills to get rid of that?

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                            • thwrT
                              thwr @dafyre
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                              @dafyre said in Home automation - light switch:

                              @JaredBusch said in Home automation - light switch:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Home automation - light switch:

                              Do they still sell Clappers?

                              Yes. Still on late night commercials too.

                              But wait, there's more!

                              What's else is there? "Premium hotlines"?

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                              • MattSpellerM
                                MattSpeller @JaredBusch
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                                @JaredBusch said in Home automation - light switch:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Home automation - light switch:

                                Do they still sell Clappers?

                                0_1481040500418_upload-8ebdb00c-3e19-4a62-a098-e2083db2a536

                                I had an idea to make one respond to the sound of racking the slide on a 1911 .45 pistol. Willing to bet that would sell well at gun shows.

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender @wirestyle22
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                                  @wirestyle22 said in Home automation - light switch:

                                  I know Nest (Wemo switch) makes something you might find useful. I vaguely remember some Nest hate on ML although I may be wrong. Any of the home automation stuff is typically really overpriced IMO.

                                  yeah, no thanks to any Nest products.

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                                  • wirestyle22W
                                    wirestyle22 @Dashrender
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                                    @Dashrender What was the issue with it? My friend has what I just linked and has no issues for over a year. That's the only reason I linked it.

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
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                                      @wirestyle22 I thought Nest has had some major security issues with their equipment.

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender @DustinB3403
                                        last edited by

                                        @DustinB3403 said in Home automation - light switch:

                                        @wirestyle22 I thought Nest has had some major security issues with their equipment.

                                        Yeah, i was recalling the same - that's why they aren't on my list.

                                        It's sad, they are a Google company... and they have horrible security.

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                                        • DustinB3403D
                                          DustinB3403
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                                          Here is one article on the Nest Thermostat (from March of 2015)

                                          I'm not willing to dig to much further into the issues, but I thought they had some other very serious issues, like using a root password of password or 123123 among other issues.

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                                          • wirestyle22W
                                            wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
                                            last edited by

                                            @DustinB3403 said in Home automation - light switch:

                                            @wirestyle22 I thought Nest has had some major security issues with their equipment.

                                            I remember it being "bad" but didn't remember why. That makes sense.

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