Home automation - light switch
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I'm not all into making every light in my house a smart light - but I do have one light that I would really like to be able to control from my couch without having to stand up.
I'd like a solution that does not require internet at all, but is controllable from an app on my phone.
It should be able to be controlled from 2+ phones. -
Clap-on, Clap-off
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@Dashrender Is it a standard 120v socket?
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@momurda said in Home automation - light switch:
Clap-on, Clap-off
wow - as much as that would annoy me.. it might be the simplest solution.
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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 RelayI'm sure others will have easier, ready-built solutions tho. Me and @thwr actually enjoy this stuff.
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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 RelayI'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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@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 RelayI'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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I use this stuff in my mom's section of the house...
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@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 RelayI'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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@BRRABill said in Home automation - light switch:
I use this stuff in my mom's section of the house...
Ok this stuff is looking pretty good so far.
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@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 RelayI'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
- install a central RabbitMQ broker (aka server, maybe on a Banana M3 using its non-USB attached SATA port to connect a SSD)
- 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
- Find some way to let the microcontrollers talk MQTT to the server without wiring (meshed ZigBee, Bluetooth LE, WiFi)
- Attach solid state relay modules to the uCs (benefit: they are way more reliable than mechanical relays)
- 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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Do they still sell Clappers?
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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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@scottalanmiller said in Home automation - light switch:
Do they still sell Clappers?
Yes. Still on late night commercials too.
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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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@JaredBusch said in Home automation - light switch:
@scottalanmiller said in Home automation - light switch:
Do they still sell Clappers?
Do you have to take pills to get rid of that?
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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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@JaredBusch said in Home automation - light switch:
@scottalanmiller said in Home automation - light switch:
Do they still sell Clappers?
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.
