I have automated a lot of things during the creation of a smart home, but in fact there is still a lot to do.
Of course, some people buy a lot of different devices, they try to install and configure them there, but these devices also cost a lot of money, and the most important thing is that sometimes these devices don't make much sense the automation they can provide.
Someone has an LED strip installed in every corner, under every nightstand, on every ceiling, or there are different sensors that respond to everything, or there are smart feeders that feed pets there, or robot vacuum cleaners that drive and clean.
Of course, a lot of things can be automated and all this will certainly improve the smart home, but I just haven't done some automation yet for various reasons.
For example, I have long wanted to make automation of curtains, opening, but in fact, first of all, the devices are not very cheap, and of course they will have to be put in every room, and if there is s...

Some time ago, I made a rather interesting solution in a smart home, I actually connected the TV to a Raspberry microcomputer and broadcast different information from it to this TV, that is, initially I tried to make a large dashboard there on which various useful information was displayed, that is, it is about sensors in the smart home, temperature, humidity, weather on the street, displayed different device states, whether the light is turned on or off somewhere or something else, and also displayed small images, pictures from cameras, so that you can see what is happening in which room or on which camera is displayed there.
Of course, I wanted to use other features for this, but it's not very convenient, the dashboard itself is just so static, that is, it happens there, so they also display different transport schedules, or display a shopping list, this is also convenient and in principle there may be some plan for today, for example, it is displayed and you can quickly view any i...

I have been using electric radiators and convectors as additional heating for a very long time, but they are not smart, but very simple, which in fact can only turn on and off, they can still maintain a certain temperature there, not very related to the temperature in the room, but more related to the temperature on the case, well, it is also mainly dual-mode, which have two options, there is half power or full.
Of course, I would like to manage these convectors and radiators in a more reasonable way, but I'm looking more towards convectors now, because they are more convenient, they look better and they can really be installed near the window, you can put them under the windowsill, attach them to the wall there and there, this is quite convenient such devices, and of course the advantage of convectors is that they heat up very quickly and cool down quite quickly, because of this, it is quite possible to maintain the temperature in the room very accurately.
For example, if you use ...

I use quite a lot of motion sensors in my house, they can of course be built on completely different technologies.
Previously, it all started with infrared motion sensors, these are fairly simple passive sensors that simply receive a signal about changes in the temperature of objects in the field of view, and accordingly simply send information to the smart home system, or simply if they are directly connected to some relay-type actuators, they can turn these relays on or off.
In general, all devices are divided into 2 main types, these are passive and active, infrared sensors are essentially passive, and active ones are all other options, passive ones can run on batteries for quite a long time, but active ones require mains power, and each of course has its own application.
There are combinations when a passive sensor is responsible for the initial detection of people or objects, and then the main device is already turned on and with the help of active sensors it tries to determ...

Very often people buy different devices, watches or thermometers or weather stations that show different useful information in the smart home, but all this can be replaced, of course, by one device, some kind of tablet-based dashboard, for example, it can be tablets on both Android and iOS.
I use more on iOS, but in principle I have experimented a lot on such tablets for Android, they certainly have a lot of advantages for Android, because the applications themselves are more different, and the possibilities in terms of managing this tablet are also much greater.
Almost all programs they can process different information, that is, they not only display a website, but you can also use other features of the phone or tablet, for example, it can transmit information about sensors from this phone to the smart home system, plus it is also possible to process the front-facing camera on this tablet or phone and this camera can also be used as a sensor, that is, for example, it processes th...

For some strange reason, the bathroom light itself started to turn on, and in fact this is a good way and a good reason to reconsider automation in general.
In principle, I reviewed the automation of light in the bathroom many times, completely rewritten from scratch, put different sensors, made different solutions, experimented a lot, well, in fact, if you make automation of light in the bathroom, then this is like some exam, and in principle then you can already automate at least where and at least what on this topic.
But in the bathroom, of course, the conditions are very harsh, people are constantly walking there, the temperature and humidity are constantly changing, so you can use different lights, maybe it's the lighting at the mirror, general light, some other options and a lot of ways and approaches to automating it.
Of course, the simplest way to do this is just to put some kind of motion sensor and then just the light will turn on when a person enters and turn off when ...

I constantly try to adjust and improve the microclimate in the room, including temperature, humidity, and various air quality parameters, such as CO2.
With the temperature more or less everything is clear, the main thing is to understand where to measure it, for example, near the window the temperature at a height of about 40 centimeters is about 2-3 degrees less than the temperature in the middle of the room at a height of 80 centimeters.
I usually find myself approximately between these two places and it is not very clear what temperature I should set as the target and measure, if I measure in two places and somehow average it, then it will already need two sensors to have and place them in different places, so initially I left and measured near the window, I think what is important is that the temperature still does not fall below a certain one in the entire room, but in general it turns out to be much hotter in the room and you need to lower the target temperature, that is,...

There are many fans of Apple devices, I myself prefer to use an Apple tablet than other manufacturers, and of course there are a lot of reasons for this, they are all different, everyone has their own, but if you still have such devices at home, then you need to do something with them and use them somehow.
Of course, Apple's voice assistants are not very convenient, they practically don't buy such speakers from us, and in principle the problem is that initially, of course, Siri understood much worse than the same Yandex assistant, and of course now, even in principle, I don't like how Siri works, for example, so I still want to build the system so that the voice assistant understood well and didn't need to come up with any specific phrases for this.
Voice assistants from Apple are not so popular with us, of course they buy more speakers from Yandex, and I basically have several stations from Yandex, and of course Siri initially understood the Russian language much worse, and now th...

For a very long time I have been thinking about how to make a smart home alienable, probably from the very beginning, that is, this means that how to make it so that if, for example, I decided to sell an apartment or I decided to rent it out, what to do with all smart home systems, that is, run and install, buy the cheapest switches, and change or change different lamps, it is clear that the new owner may want to completely redo the repair in the apartment and it is clear that here you can not bother and in principle either remove everything and sell it, but probably also not very clear how to show the apartment if it just does not turn on any light, but if all the same, for example, an apartment for rent, then it turns out that you need to run to the store, buy the cheapest switches or some other ones, or find old ones that were put on them and turn off all the smart home systems, for example, I had such switches, but they were good, from a good company, but really the second time the...

Finally, I installed a smart home system to a friend, well, this is a smart home server based on Orange Pi3 and once a long time ago, six months ago, we discussed with him that there seems to be such a need, you need to manage heating in a smart home, well, this is a dacha in general and I would like to be able to remotely turn on this heating, of course the task is the simplest and seems to be clear to everyone, because the rest are some ways to control a smart home, control lights or some protective functions, for example, for shutting off water or watering, or some other things in the country, they come only later, over time, when you already understand that what it is and how it works in general.
And even the simplest thing is just maintaining the temperature in certain rooms using a temperature sensor using, say, electric heaters, this also does not come immediately, everyone just wants to be able to turn it on or off, well, you can find many ways to solve this problem, you can ...

Basically, of course, everyone is busy with some things and there is absolutely no time to engage in a smart home, and do some automation, write, study sensors, different devices.
In general, of course, an interesting question is whether a smart home can save such a resource as time.
Of course, I study a smart home and spend a lot of time studying it, I study different technologies, and of course I am interested in doing this in principle, but lately, for obvious reasons, I have spent much less time studying a smart home, various experiments, and in this case, of course, I can also figure out how to find this time, find different ways and see how others can find such a time.
Of course, I do not consider the option of automation to be the simplest, there you can buy some smart socket, install the application and write a minimal script to make it work, or just manually turn on and off this socket, of course you don't need to spend a lot of time here, it's all done very quickly and ...

Whether or not to use different home-made devices in your smart home, everyone should decide for themselves, because on the one hand, home-made devices are at least interesting to make, but you still need to understand how it all works, what it can be assembled from, and for example, I really created there on the basis of Arduino, then on the basis of ESP, then for wireless battery-powered devices based on Attiny85, I made different devices, many still work, but some had to be turned off, because it's still a homemade device, this is some risk, because it's not clear what I did correctly, connected some component, or maybe some kind of power supply is used, but it may not be suitable for this device, it may accidentally close something on it, if it is touched, or for example I used lithium batteries from an old laptop battery there, and it is also clear that if something happens there, for example, it will discharge strongly or it may if something is also shorted, then this battery may...

Often when you read an article or watch a video, and then pay attention to the comments under these articles or videos, there are all sorts of disputes that what is done is not automation at all, automation is when everything itself, and someone says that there is no automation it can be and control using a phone or a smart speaker, but in general, of course, it turns out that automation is different for everyone, and when, for example, they make a very large house, and they spent several million on automation, the question still arises why it was necessary and whether it will really be used.
Of course, there are comments there, often from integrators that if the designer knows everything, the designer knows everything, the integrator knows everything and the customer, the owner of the house, he also knows everything and has lived in such houses, he will be able to provide everything that is necessary, ask, pay and in general,they will do it for him, of course, this may be such a s...

Many sensors in a smart home perform similar functions and we are even talking not just about different sensor manufacturers, or about different types of connections with these sensors, but in general about the types themselves, that is, for example, there is a presence sensor or a motion sensor, that is, they are basically both that and the other determines the presence of a person, and in in this case, of course, you can decide which one to use, one is more expensive, the other is cheaper, one has its advantages, the other has its advantages, and of course you can always think and choose the right sensor, or the right type of sensor.
Presence sensors, they are of course the most usually expensive, sophisticated, they have the ability to detect a person there. They are also different, there are also cheaper ones, which are historical and quite ancient devices, they simply determine where a person is moving and accordingly they will show, if he is not moving, then they will not show,...

I use a lot of different temperature and humidity sensors in a smart home, mostly I have sensors from Xiaomi, I have 10 pieces of them, and in principle I bought even more of them, but I gave away some, and of course I really like this sensor, it is very compact, it uses a small CR2032 battery, etc.
the advantage is that the sensor can certainly work from such a battery for a very long time, that is, I now once again begin to gradually run out of batteries in these sensors, one of the first was such a sensor, it stands in the bedroom and it has already worked for more than 400 days and the charge shows 83 percent, that is, I think that it it will work for another 50 days, but it has already started having problems.
It periodically does not send a signal to the smart home system.
it tracks me so that if the signal does not pass, then I can always see on the dashboard that if there was no signal for more than an hour, then it is highlighted with a certain sign, if there was no sign...

In a smart home, there is always a compromise between finding and buying a new device that is modern, with a bunch of functions, or simply using different algorithms to come up with some option for processing different scenarios and events in a smart home.
Of course, some things can not be replaced simply with a script, for example, if you want to automate the opening of curtains automatically, then without the opening drive itself, it will be very difficult to automate something there and write a script,but if this is some other sensor, or some device, then of course you can try using algorithms, and use the program to make some way for this device to work more intelligently.
For example, there is a good presence sensor, it can determine the position of people in the room, for example, the Aqara sensor is even more cunning, it allows you to identify several people there, now the new version is already in the room determines who is not moving, but also determines where a particular...

There is a very useful extension for smart home systems Home Assistant called HACS, this extension makes it possible to connect various non-standard integrations, additional user interfaces and greatly expands the ways of using this smart home system, and in fact we have this system, this module, it is very useful because only it can make it possible to integrate normally with the Yandex ecosystem.
Installing it is certainly not too easy, but it is quite possible, in fact, you need to download it either with a special team or just download this module from github, and then you need to get the developer's key on github, register, and then you can copy this module to the smart home system on the server and then you will need to keep a special account there key for enabling it.
While everything works with gihub, of course this module works, but everything can certainly change and this possibility may disappear. ...

To create a smart dacha, of course, it is better to choose the most reliable solutions, because access to it may be very limited, it may be quite far away, and if something stops working, you may not always be able to come and fix something there, because if you are in a house or apartment, you are most often there yourself, and you can fix something, so it is important that the connection there via the Internet is more or less reliable and the possibilities of this connection are also unlimited, because if you just install an operating system on the server, for example, then it is not a fact that you will have access to this server remotely, because there may be no way get a white IP address there in order to connect, well, you need some other options for connecting to this server. ...

With one friend, we decided to automate his smart dacha in general, to make it a little smarter, more comfortable, so that you can remotely turn on the heater at the dacha, for example, track various activities there, at this dacha, somehow manage remotely and monitor what is happening there at all, what is the temperature in the rooms, do not forget something turn it off, or turn it on before leaving, well, in general, make some such basic smart settings, and also come up with some automation.
We've made some of the simplest automations, but mostly this is more of an infrastructure part, so we're still looking to make sure that the signal is good and which devices and sensors to choose, so that they work best, and survive winter, cold weather, and various other bad weather normally, and then we'll see what happens in the summer., in order to protect devices from overheating there, it may be quite hot and they will also fail, for example, the server there may overheat, smart home, an...

Not so long ago, I started automating the dacha of a friend and of course this is more for an experiment, we decided to try how everything will work, what are the best communication methods to choose, what different sensors to install, for example, first of all, of course, these are wireless solutions, because the dacha is already ready there, of course, you can stretch anything with wires anywhere, after all, it is not a residential room with a designer renovation, you can also put wires on top of the walls, or drill them where you need to withdraw them anywhere, that is, it's all quite simple to do.
Wireless solutions are of course easier because when the site is for example large, say 6 acres and there are different buildings on this site in different places, it is quite problematic to first provide all the wires in the right places in advance, that is, you need to make a low-current shield somewhere anyway, where to install all the devices and other things control equipment, as w...

In addition to making a smart home for myself, I also sometimes help my friends and various acquaintances to make the same smart home, well, first of all, this is for self-made projects, that is, so that they can continue to support it, develop it, configure it, that is, not that I come there all the time and I tried to fix it somehow, but you still need to provide for many points, and so I basically do this with a typical server based on Orange Pi 3.
Now I chose this particular computer in order to make it the center of a smart home and already connect a stick to it right away, this is used to connect zegbee from sonoff, and it is clear that all the latest versions of all firmware and operating system updates are installed there, Home Assistant is also installed there,zigbee2mqtt is installed for communication, of course you can use the built-in one there, but I have been using zigbee2mqtt for a long time, so I also make the same decision for others. ...

I have in my apartment additionally use heaters in all rooms and even on the balcony, well, this is a balcony-loggia in order to maintain the desired temperature, and it seems like I turned it on and forgot and did not think, that is, it is maintained stably there is no need to take any actions, everything works by itself and everything is fine, but there is sometimes the situation is that when you look at the electricity bill, it's a little big and I've had it for almost the last three months, the electricity bill was there for more than 4 thousand and it seems like it's not critical, but it's too much.
In general, I want winter to be over, but when it became -25° outside, in principle, such a topic arose that you can experiment with the current electricity consumption in general, and in general with heat losses, think about what you can do in general, and for this I just made this decision - turned off everything that is powered by electricity, all sorts of heaters, underfloor heati...

In Home Assistant, of course, there is one useful feature that is the ability to build different graphs, by default they are added there for all objects of all parameters, data is saved in the database, of course they make it so that you can change it to another database, and not which is used by default, but this makes no sense, because the one that that is, it works fine, if of course you want to extract data somewhere from there or use it in other systems, then this is another topic and of course you can get so confused, but by and large if you just want to see how the values changed, draw some conclusion from this, then it will be quite interesting to do it in Home Assistant. ...

It is very often advertised that it is necessary to manage the humidity in the apartment, in the house, but this is actually more advertising than any benefit, because first of all, no one knows what humidity should be, high what high means, low what low means, and in general what it is needed and what is comfortable.
In general, of course, humidity is such a very strange unit of measurement for comfort in a smart home that when you look at, say, sensors, there are many temperature and humidity sensors, they are almost all the same, and some also measure pressure, for example, like the aqara sensor, but they also show everything in humidity, and they show absolutely humidity some kind of your own, that is, if for example you even take two sensors of the same brand, then of course, for example, I use a lot of xiaomi sensors and they show approximately the same humidity among themselves, that is, if you put them in the same room, in the same place, they will show approximately the same...

A fairly simple, but actually very useful and versatile sensor in a smart home is a sensor for opening doors and windows, of course, in fact it's just a reed switch that turns on or off under the influence of a magnet, but there are also wired such sensors, in fact it's just a reed switch installed, next to it some kind of magnet is installed and further along the wire information is transmitted to the control module that the reed switch is closed or open.
Of course, if wired, it is not very convenient to install such sensors there, if you need to install them at each window, for example, then you will have to pull a lot of wires to different places and to windows and doors, but if you do them sequentially, then well, they will show there in principle if one of the windows is open, for example, then it will show that there is no connection and the contact will be opened, this will sometimes also be enough to make a decision....

It often turns out that they forget to turn off the stove in the kitchen and it doesn't matter if it's a gas stove or an electric one, then the consequences can be very serious in any case, for example, something can run away from me, the soup ran away, and the whole stove was flooded there and after that the stove stopped turning on, of course there can get on electronics, can get on some connectors and this is in any case of course bad and it needs to be monitored.
Of course, I figured it out later, the problem was that I just had a connector that was not very reliably made and this electric stove was powerful enough, it was connected through this connector, but in the end it melted down there and of course it also needs to be monitored....

Of course, Aqara makes interesting different devices and one of the most breakthrough devices was the Aqara fp1 presence sensor, it was interesting to a lot of people, it was very compact, it first appeared on the market, then it suddenly disappeared, apparently there was a pilot way to introduce everyone to such a sensor, but in fact presence sensors and before of course, there was a lot of this, and DIY was different, that is, it was possible to assemble and experiment there, but still they are not cheap, and even the Aqara sensor itself, in principle, costs quite a lot of money, and in terms of capabilities it does not always surpass even the cheapest analogues or components or those that can be used for homemade devices....

Of course, the Yandex ecosystem, it is probably the most interesting for us, compared to others, because we have other ecosystems especially and their devices are also very difficult to buy, but Yandex, even in this case, does not stand still, develops there, and this is of course very good, that is, I am already constantly watching, it went all the way there when Yandex didn't know how to do anything at all, there wasn't even any smart home, but there were just Yandex skills that could be used to manage in a very difficult way, but of course now a smart home has already appeared and new devices are appearing in the smartest house and on sale, smart speakers are becoming smarter, from the beginning, of course, it was that wi-fi devices were connected to the ecosystem, it is clear that it is easier to connect them to the cloud, that is, they directly access the cloud and there is no need to buy any local speakers or gateways....

Of course, it is very easy and simple to use ready-made solutions in a smart home, that is, you can buy devices of different ecosystems on different protocols and on wi-fi and on zigbee and from Tuya, and from Xiaomi, and from Yandex, Aqara and others, and integrate all this and do only that from ready-made components making a smart home, building it, of course, is also quite difficult, you need to study a lot, try a lot, experiment a lot, but there is still a way to go to the next level, so to speak, and understand these devices why they are, why they have some properties, some specific functions, and for it is very convenient to use Arduino microcontrollers or there are different ESP analogues there, these microcontrollers allow you to program them in a certain way, connect different sensors to them in different combinations and try to make some basic scenarios directly on the microcontroller, or using some means of communication already integrate their smart home system....

I have been using smart sockets for a very long time and a lot, in general, I like this solution, this device is the most in a smart home, the main problem with sockets is that they come in different ecosystems, different formats, there are those that work over wi-fi, there are those that work over zigbee, they are very different for everyone parameters and if let's say this is the Tuya ecosystem, which I mainly use for sockets, then there is a complete zoo, there are absolutely different manufacturers making different sockets with different characteristics, with different functionality and with different designs, and with different reliability of these sockets, that is, of course, it is not very convenient and every time buying a new outlet it is unclear how it will work, even if it is visually similar and even the same manufacturer, it may turn out that it is completely different....

When it is proposed to implement a smart home system based on Open Source solutions, one very simple thing is kept silent, that Open Source eo means that no one really owes anyone anything, you can download and install any software there and use it for some of your needs, for example, but it turns out that if such a smart home if you do, then the question arises how to connect to it from the outside, if, for example, you consider some systems, for example, the Yandex ecosystem there, then they have an application, they have cloud servers through which you can connect, and everything connects there normally is friendly with each other and any device in the local network can be accessed from the Internet go in and manage it, if Xiaomi or Tuya or Aqara or some others are there, then they also have an application, they have their own clouds and, accordingly, everything works remotely through them too, and through the application and there in any other way, but Open Source is, it is a solut...

I still have a lot of switches in my house that have not been converted to smart ones, they are not used in principle, they just remained there by design and are generally meaningless now, but the idea came up to return to this issue and redo the switch that I have installed in my bedroom, that is, this switch is still combined with an outlet, that is, you can't just put some smart switch there, because it just doesn't fit in size, you will either need to abandon the outlet, or, accordingly, just remove the switch there then because of this, but in the end I decided to experiment, for this I also found a solution there in another place. ...

In fact, it doesn't matter whether an opensource solution for a smart home or some proprietary gateways are used, a smart home still depends heavily on the Internet, why can there be such a big dependence, because in fact, if branded gateways are used, then they use one hundred percent different cloud solutions for storing scripts, for remote access, and from-because of this, of course, they have to connect there and still store information on external servers. ...

It is often said that a smart home system can help protect an apartment or a house, or a cottage. Here, of course, you also need to understand that it probably doesn't always make much sense, for example, installing a door opening sensor on an iron metal door probably doesn't make much sense, because such a door is in principle very difficult to open and this may be necessary only if, for example, the door is not locked at all and it is not broken into there, but they are trying to open it, but exactly how plausible this scenario is is also a big question, because if you decide to go through the door there and open a modern lock, then probably this is already some kind of special training, and it's not just that some thieves have come to steal everything. ...

I use a lot of different temperature and humidity sensors and recently I decided to buy the Aqara sensor, it is basically very similar to the sensor from Xiaomi, but of course it also has additional functions like in principle all akara sensors, they are slightly different in at least something, for example, the motion sensor has illumination, built-in a light sensor, and accordingly a temperature and humidity sensor, it can also measure pressure.
If you use several acar sensors in the house, then of course the pressure is the same in different rooms and there is no big point in measuring the pressure, because it will be the same everywhere, and there is probably no big point in paying too much, for acar sensors, for example, it is easier to buy a Xiaomi sensor, it is smaller and more compact, it works it is no worse and it can last even longer on the battery, it's just a different type of sensor used in which by default it is possible to measure pressure. ...

There is a very interesting sensor, this is a vibration sensor from aqara, it is interesting because in addition to the obvious vibration function, it has many other functions and because of this, there are actually many interesting ways to use such a sensor, the sensor itself is very compact it runs on a cr2032 battery and of course there are more in this sensor interesting functions, for example, this function is not only vibration, but also determining the angle of the position of this sensor along three axes, and this is convenient because you can make different scenarios related to what position the sensor is currently in, it sends this position with some delay, it should be set, but by and large this is also where-then about a second in total and some scenario that does not directly require instantaneous action, such processing of this value will also be interesting, it also has a definition of a fall, but of course this is a very specific property, but you can throw it up and it...

The main and simple scenarios in a smart home are related to lighting control. To be honest, I'm not very fond of automations in the rooms that I have. Perhaps the only automation that I like is in the toilet and bathroom, but also in the pantry. There, it's just turning on/off the light depending on the motion sensor, which is not even connected to the smart home. Other automations are more focused on remote lighting control, so that you can turn off the light in one room from another room. This is certainly convenient. I have different wireless switches installed in other rooms, and I can use them to turn off the light if someone left it on in another room....

To automate a smart dacha, in principle, not so much equipment is needed of course the most important thing is probably some kind of webcam they can put two pieces there, one let's say that will look at the territory and is directed, in principle it is useful it can certainly not necessarily be expensive street there you can buy and put it indoors, of course she will not have an infrared version of the backlight there, but by and large they are now quite good at shooting in complete darkness and even there in color they can shoot, but this will certainly allow you to see what is happening in the country, on the site, there it is possible to track the presence of precipitation and snow, the presence of some animals or people, if they suddenly appear there, that is, in principle, it may be quite useful to look at the territory....

Of course, a smart dacha can automate many different interesting tasks, the scripts themselves for automating these tasks can be written in different systems, for example, you can develop scripts in Home Assistant, this is not difficult to do, but you can also write a script in different integrated ecosystems, that is, if for example there are some sensors from Home Assistant and the devices are pushed and added to the Yandex ecosystem, there through a special module, then you can even make some script in this one, for example, in the Yandex ecosystem, too....

One of the main problems at a smart dacha that needs to be solved is, of course, setting up remote access, it is clear that you need to connect a 4G router so that somehow the Internet transmits and put a wi-fi point so that you can distribute this Internet throughout the dacha, throughout the entire site, but of course there may be wired Internet, but in any case, even this does not guarantee that it will be remote access, because if you use some proprietary gateways, then of course they all work through the cloud and, accordingly, of course they can connect to the Internet, and then it is clear that you can get remote access through a proprietary application, and even some scenarios write small ones, or control some devices, or watch some sensors....

If you build a smart house in a smart dacha, then of course the main problem arises with how to provide communication in this dacha, because the territory there is quite large in the first place, and if you do some wiring inside, lay some cable to all the buildings, then this will also be quite difficult to do, but in the second place, you can- first, it is not always possible to design everything correctly right away, where it will be necessary to install some devices, but it will always be expensive to conduct it to the right places in such an area and put some intermediate devices for such wiring....

Of course, a smart home can be used not only in an apartment or in a house, but also in the country, in fact, there are probably even more opportunities in the country, because there you can control different devices and perform different management functions. In principle, you can also manage and automate heating, if gas is used there, these are some possibilities, if gas is not used, only electric heating, then these are other possibilities, also there you can make the management of underfloor heating more intelligent, while of course you can always track the presence of people or animals in the house....

When setting up a smart home, a lot of different programming languages are actually used. These can also be common languages that can be used for other needs, for work. The main language used is Python, but since all smart home systems use programming languages in one way or another, they are used for their development, and in the systems themselves it is also possible to develop additional scripts in programming languages and python is basically the most popular there, you can always run it....

I used to be calm about different LED strips, but some time ago I also bought just a white LED strip, I had it lying idle for a very long time, I didn't know where to apply it, it seems like the task is not very difficult, but I didn't see any sense in it. But quite a long time ago, of course, before when there were no LED strips, I also made different decorative lighting, but mostly I just used ordinary bulbs, they had the glass painted in a certain color, red, blue or green, and in fact I installed the bulbs in different places and it was possible to make some interesting ones color solutions in the room....

Basically, I tell you general ideas about whether a smart home is needed or not, but to be honest, I haven't fully decided myself yet. Of course, this is primarily a hobby for me, I experiment a lot, study different devices, try to find some interesting solutions, and try them out, but in reality they are not always applied, that is, I certainly have a lot set up and a lot works, but I could not say that this is directly very useful, sometimes it is even harmful in principle, and therefore I want to find some interesting solutions and make them really useful. ...

Yesterday I set up a typical server for a smart home, I make this server based on orange pi 3, I just took an old image for this server, it does not have the latest version of Linux Debian and not the latest versions of Home Assistant installed in this image, it is already more than a year old, Zigbee2MQTT is also installed, it is also almost more two years, and all this is still connected via the stick, the devices will be integrated on this server, on this stick the firmware is generally two years old, but there is no more recent one. ...

I have been writing a lot of values to a database about various parameters in a smart home for a very long time. I have this database made on an external hosting, because it is internal resources. Of course, if I use a microcomputer with an sd card there, then first of all it will not fit there and will greatly affect performance, and then it will also be quite difficult to analyze this database on this microcomputer, and of course this card may turn off and stop working at all at some point, and of course I would not like to lose this database. ...

If there is no microcomputer, then of course you can set up a smart home on a regular PC, but at first I didn't know it, I bought an Arduino, several different microcontrollers, and also bought a book describing how to make a smart home using these microcontrollers. Of course, it was all very difficult, it's not at all like a smart home, it's just different separate devices that are very difficult to connect with each other, and of course it was impossible to do any scenarios there at all. ...

I constantly listen to music in my smart home, of course, before I tried to listen to music in albums, because I thought that the artist he was there in a certain mood collected a certain album, and when I listen to it I will have the same mood, but of course after a while, I realized that they are still working on the album a lot of people have their own opinions, and as a result, there are still different ways to combine them into an album, so that some not-so-good songs are also released, and the albums themselves are certainly not very interesting, and I started switching to different types of collections, that is, collections in which there is a certain genre of music and under a certain mood, and of course such music is much more interesting to listen to, if the mood is good, you can listen to good music....

In order to try the smart home is not necessary of course there is basically nothing to buy you can not buy any smart speakers, you can not buy any gateways, no special devices can not buy, because in principle, a lot of devices already have all and you can just take some application for example smart home from Yandex application go to it and use the integrations in this app to connect different devices. Usually there are different printers, different TVs, and some other devices that connect to the network and, accordingly, can be detected using some application from this device or some universal one. ...

In order to make full automation in a smart home, different scenarios are often cited. For example, a person came home, got a key, opened the door, when he comes in with full packages in his hands, the light automatically turns on, then he goes there, for example, along the corridor to the kitchen, the light turns on in the kitchen, puts these packages there, then he goes back, the light turns off in the kitchen, after that the person takes off his shoes, goes to the bathroom, opens the door there, the light does not turn on automatically there, the tap turns on, gets soap from the dispenser, washes his hands, then wipes or dries, and then he goes out, turns off the light, closes the door, then goes into the room and in this room the light turns on, in the corridor it turns off and then he is there, in this room, already doing something....

Very often there is a dispute whether it is possible to automate a Smart home, for example, as in fantasy or science fiction films they show, of course many people are guided by some films like there's Iron Man and his smart assistant Jarvis, of course by and large I even had to review this film in order to just understand if I'm wrong, but by and large, of course, there is not some very smart artificial intelligence that guesses everything, but it is still just a robot in fact, and some kind of voice assistant that can simply execute commands, which can be cast by voice. ...

Communication is generally a very big problem in a smart home, and even this is not just the wi-fi or zigbee connection itself, but in general both hardware and software that work using these protocols. For example, if you use wi-fi, then of course this is most often a cloud solution, that is, you don't really expect any reliability from them, because after all, both the Internet and external servers are already available. Of course, in principle, I use the smart home more for experiments, buy some devices, configure them, see how they work, I look at how others interact with them, draw some conclusions, come up with some new algorithms, of course I constantly have various failures in these algorithms, and I understand that the device does not work correctly....

No matter what sensors to use in a smart home are homemade or branded, sometimes they certainly start working completely incorrectly, not as you expect from them, and of course this also turns into some survival in a smart home. Sensors can not only transmit the wrong value, for example, this is how I did a Xiaomi sensor, a temperature and humidity sensor, which for some unknown reason began to send very strange readings, maybe this was certainly not due to the sensor itself, but to the system that processes it already on the server side of the smart home. ...

In a smart home, it doesn't matter if it's a purchased or self-made smart home, something always breaks down, something stops working correctly, or as intended, communication is lost and different connections are not established, and sensors start sending the wrong value and something needs to be done about it, of course, something turns itself on or off, and in general the house can arrange an uprising of machines, and then of course from comfort and comfort, a smart home turns into a real survival. ...

There are rooms in a house or apartment that are difficult to automate, because there are people there all the time, spend a lot of time, sometimes even sleep, it can be an office, a living room, a bedroom or a children's room. If, for example, in the bedroom, of course, you can measure some scenarios of work, then in principle, for example, in the nursery, it will be very difficult to do this, it will be difficult to explain how what works, what is responsible for what, what can be done, what can not be done. ...

Many people do not like being in a smart home, do not want to change their habits, do not want to adapt to automation, want to prove that they know better how everything should work or want to prove that automation does not work very well, but of course you need to adapt to a smart home, have not yet come up with a device that can therefore, you need to understand how automation works, what voice commands are used, and what they are responsible for. For example, I have a living room automated turning on the light is a sensor of people present and it detects if a person enters the room, then it turns on and if a person leaves, then it turns off, but periodically everyone who comes enters the room tries to turn on the forced light themselves, and also when they turn it off, it seems like it turns out that it is very convenient, or vice versa, they are in the room and for example do some actions there, stop moving and of course the smart home can not understand that someone is in the room...

Often, remote access is advertised as the main feature of a smart home. Of course, in some cases it is useful and you can find a lot more ways to use a smart home, but it is certainly not very good to rely entirely on it, and there were many cases when just at the right moment the smart home and remote access were simply unavailable and could not be done some action. Many times when I was out of my house, the Internet router hung up, then for some reason the Internet just didn't work, then the smart home server hung up, there were situations when the zigbee stick stopped working, for example, it could be due to a thunderstorm and then of course it's not very clear how to manage it at all and if I'm in if this moment was far away, then in general it was very difficult to understand what was happening and how it could be corrected in general. ...

Of course, if the central heating radiators are fried so that you have to open the windows at -20, then probably the smart home system won't help much here, you just need to go and figure out why the heating system is set up like this in general. But if heat meters are installed, then of course it will be useful to somehow track heat consumption and perhaps even manage these radiators, make them less heated, and thus also save heat and, accordingly, money. But in fact, there were clever people who realized that in this case you can simply block the central radiators and simply heat your apartment at the expense of neighbors, in houses in apartments, and of course in many houses now, even if heat meters are installed, they are simply not used for this reason. ...

Smart home is used not only by the strong half of humanity. I watched what things, automations, scenarios others like and there are 5 ideas for gifts. Well, so that it is not some kind of frying pan, but a device that is useful in a smart home, although it may be more useful for some people at home. There are different devices for multi-cookers, kettles, refrigerators, washing machines, microwaves, which in principle are called smart, but of course they have nothing particularly smart, this is the maximum that they certainly connect to the phone. Of course, the simplest and most intuitive device in a smart home is a smart speaker....

The main problem and the most important element of the smart home system is, of course, the identification of people, the presence of people in the apartment or in the house. Because depending on this, of course, it determines what tasks to perform, whether to turn on the light, whether to control the heating or climate. And of course, there are not so many ways to determine the presence of people, and they are not all very simple and have varying degrees of accuracy. I've tried a lot of different ways, many different scenarios, some I still use, some I've already abandoned, but of course the most important thing is probably to determine how many people are present. And in general, it is desirable, of course, to determine even who is present, and then it will be possible to make some kind of scenario for a particular person.
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I have already spent more than 5 million rubles on building my smart home system. What do these costs consist of? Of course, during all this time, you constantly have to configure, adjust, reconfigure something, study something, experiment something, and of course it all takes a lot of time.
I started building a system at home with various simple devices, the idea of course was initially very simple to make the light control of one of the rooms so that I could remotely turn it on or off when someone forgot to turn it off there in a timely manner and I don't want to go to this room or ask someone....

Yesterday, the light blinked in my apartment, some of the devices survived this normally, some of course could not survive normally and various problems arose. I have a smart home built on the basis of a Raspberry Pi microcomputer version 4, in principle it uses a fairly good power supply and of course it can survive various short-term shutdowns, because the consumption is not very large somewhere around 1 amp, but if a little longer, then of course it will reboot anyway and after a while it will be loaded. But at the start there are some difficulties sometimes they are all scripts and scripts are immediately loaded, I have made it so that when loading it checks whether all the scripts work accordingly if some script or some smart home system has not restarted, then I also get a telegram notification about this and the system tries to restart this component....

It is clear that a smart home is some kind of computer, some sensors, integration, Internet connection. If you collect information about the car on it, you can use it in scripts and make various reminders related to the car. Smart cars are usually now called so, but of course they are like any other smart smart devices are not very smart and do not exactly integrate with smart home systems, at least manufacturers certainly will not somehow make both the home system and the car at the same time. Well, maybe only Xiaomi will mature and make cars and the smart home system will continue to do the same.
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I was starting to build a smart home system using only the wireless data transfer protocol, this is on the radio frequency of 433MHz. Now a lot of devices are still available that also work at this frequency and even new devices appear, for example, different switches in modern designs already, and for example there are a lot of relays available that also work at a frequency of 433MHz, there are smart sockets that also work, and in principle they can be used for some I now use three sockets operating at this frequency, these are sockets purchased quite a long time ago, but they basically have a convenient function, they also have a remote control in the kit....

In fact, if you use your own smart home system, it becomes quite difficult in principle to do voice control, that is, smart speakers, of course, they integrate with different systems, but they can almost all integrate normally with smart home systems, which is open source, because in principle it is not very profitable for manufacturers and of course, they try in every possible way to get around it, so as not to really make themselves some kind of competition, because of course they are still pretty...

Soon there will be a Holiday that May not be waiting for it, But it may coincide with someone's birthday, I suffered what gifts were given to me on this day and chose the 5 best gifts on the topic of smart home, of course, gifts are the main attention, but if you are interested not only in price, quality and price and usefulness, then you need to think that these may be classic gifts socks razor on board another probably smart home theme different gadgets such as trackers headphones watches or even phones everything seems to be personal and to understand the technical details of these devices Well, it will probably be some kind of gift from this topic is Charging now manufacturers have stopped even applying charging to the phone on the topic of smart home somehow they gave me a soldering iron in general even you are not a soldering iron, the soldering station is quite cool, which even has a soldering hair dryer, I was thinking now to solder something for myself with different devices, ...

obviously, a smart house without video cameras is some kind of full-fledged Smart house and where to put the cameras, of course, Everyone decides for himself, the apartment can be put, for example, near the front door or in the hallway, you can put some kind of watch in the room, for example, for small or with animals, or if there are several of them, Well, in the sense of these others, you can also watch at the same time if, for example, there is a robot vacuum cleaner, then you can watch him how he gets along there and pets with children whether they break him there, of course, the main thing in the cameras is video recording and viewing, preferably mostly online, of course no one is sitting in the apartment and will not watch what is happening in the next room, also a plus, of course, you can determine different things through the camera the action can be used as triggers, for example, the presence of movement or the presence of people in the camera's field of view, You can even obs...

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There are still a lot of devices available on the market operating at a frequency of 433MHz, there are still of course operating at a frequency of 315 MHz, but they are much less common and in principle practically not used, mainly these devices are used to make a security system because firstly sensors for example there are 3 doors do not depend on any additional gateways and therefore, it is much easier to integrate them and their reliability is in principle quite large because they practically do not charge a battery during operation, perhaps they never send information at all and triggering If suddenly it is not necessary does not happen to get together triggering does not open the door opens, on the contrary, I have had almost three such sensors for opening doors or windows. the battery has not run out yet, but in fact, of course, the battery is not very complicated, the only thing is that the setter needs to be disconnected from the surface, which is not very easy, and accordingl...

There is absolutely different information about whether you need to power a tablet connected to the network constantly and need to turn it off periodically about the iPad and different branded tablets there is a belief that everything is very smart there and knows how to manage the power supply of the network and batteries will let the battery explode maybe this is true to some extent, but I have an iPad, it is very old of course but the battery swelled up very much in it, so just the screen separated from the back of the tablet, I still have old ones for which it appeared more honestly, it just worked for a while And then stopped turning on, I thought the battery But it turned out that it had already exhausted its resource and after replacing it, it started working normally, nothing swelled up and it in principle, I have no problems working now, these old Pads are constantly plugged into the socket, they work 24/7 when turned on, I use them to display the data from the smart home and ...

Of course, the approach to heating and heating in an apartment is very different from heating in some private house in an apartment, it mainly uses central heating, and the maximum that can still be is some kind of additional heater or underfloor heating, mostly of course electric in order to if you need to warm up the apartment or, for example, the season add some heat, or an air conditioner with a heating function can be used, for example, so that If it is not very cold outside, then use...

Probably even the most basic and most interesting information about one house is, of course, information about energy consumption, because all the devices that are actually used they either run on electricity or consume electricity and or depend on electricity. For example, even the same batteries in different devices, they also sit down and need to be changed in order to understand the consumption of some devices, you can use different devices, for example, almost all smart sockets to them...

While studying the Smart Home and all technologies are connected with the smart home, I periodically read different articles watched different videos and when a lot of Telegram channels appeared, I started connecting to these channels, but I also read information on different forums about the smart home system on different devices, I looked at their descriptions on different sites, But of course I thought that now the forum and there will be some very useful information that I have not yet found or read on different video channels on various different articles, a lot of information about the devices of the device constantly appears, new manufacturers release them very often different versions of these devices and of course a lot of unpacking appears where they show how the device looks what characteristics it has there that it has something has changed there, something has improved, some kind of changed, some combinations of different properties have appeared there and further still sh...

Probably the first way I did to manage a smart home and get some feedback If I'm somewhere outside the house is Telegram Why I use Telegram because in fact the only messenger in which there is an opportunity to make bots normally and at the same time it's free and everything works fine there are a lot of possibilities you can connect and smart home systems in very simple ways there is a lot of documentation written on how to do this And therefore a very interesting solution and of course I immediately started implementing it At first I wanted to do it in general so that I could fully control the smart home through it, but after a while I studied and installed openhub on it, too, there was an opportunity to create start different devices and after that it was possible to get remote access through a special cloud from experienced users and see all the devices in the smart home to see their status of different sensors, it was possible to turn on and off different devices and of course the...

Recently I tried to make a very interesting solution, this is some kind of self-learning thermostat that allows you to automatically adjust the temperature in the room based on the experience of using of course, in fact, it's all very simple it's in advertising there they usually say something some kind of thermostat that with artificial intelligence can somehow cunningly determine the behavior of people and adjusts to their behavior and accordingly, there to control the temperature, turn on the light or perform some very smart actions, in fact, everything is of course much easier Anyway, everything is based on statistics and For example, I did not see the need to control the temperature somehow Intelligently in the rooms because I actually set the temperature keeps and it suits me quite a bit now I tried to do different experiments related to temperature changes from time to time, for example, to lower at night, but in fact it is not very convenient...

I have already spent more than a hundred thousand rubles on various smart home devices, that is, it does not concern the things themselves, such as heaters, fans, light bulbs, these are still the control devices themselves, basically these are different sensors. In fact, in a small apartment, of course, there seems to be no need for so many devices and, in principle, it is unclear what automation can be done in large numbers, but now I use different devices, I have 6 wired switches, push-button switches, these are wired switches that...

I build my smart home system completely with my own hands, of course, I do not involve any integrators to create this system, but it is not a fact that it will be convenient for other people to do it themselves. Of course, integrators still put a lot of experiments into their own cost, because all projects are different, all people are different, all houses are different, someone has a priority more to wired devices and a lot of forums write that it is necessary to first lay wires at the construction stage, the more wires the better, to...

In one house I constantly have the question of how to control different devices different equipment it can be a TV and a kettle and a washing machine and many others and the most obvious ideas are of course simple, for example, to put an electric meter and see what the current consumption is shown there, in fact, for this I originally made an electric meter it was not invasive the current sensor is simply installed on some wire, either phase or zero at the entrance to the apartment...

In order to make a smart home server, I tried to use many different options initially, of course, I immediately followed a simple path, bought a mini PC, this is a Raspberry Pi3 based on this micro computer, I have already deployed a smart home system, set it up, experimented with it, in principle, it is quite convenient, but I have a well-known problem that SD cards periodically come out out of order, and the operating system itself is actually deployed on the SD card, the smart home system is installed, after several experiments...

I have been using a dashboard in a smart home for a long time and a lot, this is done on the basis of two iPads, this is a dashboard and basic information about smart home sensors is displayed on it, for example, there I display the sensor readings of temperature and humidity sensors from different rooms, I have about five different sensors, mostly using sensors from xiaomi the simplest they are very compact, they work for quite a long time, the first batch of all these sensors worked for about a year and a half without any problems, there were small failures in these sensors themselves...

Many people don't even know how to set up a router to connect wi-fi, but if, say, they want to make a smart home, then an even bigger problem arises: I started making a house from the very beginning, I tried to use some homemade devices that I made based on Arduino, then, accordingly, I tried to make controllers like 8266, but then, too, still Looking at all sorts of ready-made devices which, in principle, look pretty pretty were very compact there were quite a lot of them already by that time and they cost a lot of money...

The task often arises to make some kind of alerts to the smart home system in order to have feedback with it, for example, I use to inform some events in the smart home, for example, that something has ended or some action needs to be performed initially, I just used a regular column connected to a micro computer on which I had the system installed smart home and this column just had an AUX output and just through it I gave some signals full voice control was first sl...

Very often a smart home is already being done when the repair is finished for a long time people have been living in a house or apartment and there is a need to do it, or I have such a desire, it just so arose I originally planned that I would go towards a smart home, so For example I bought the cheapest thermostats that just work on off holding some kind of temperature, that is, I immediately expected that there would be no smart functions, also when the electricians did the wiring for me, they offered to do it in every every...

I constantly have a question About what to do the next Smart home or the next kind of automation, Which sensor to buy or which device, and it seems that, in principle, we have already done almost everything that can be eaten, zigby has wi-fi, there is now a new format of the Master, but in general, for all the time I have already concluded that every year there is that-something new five years ago when I started building a Smart home, the sensors themselves, which can now be bought for 500 rubles, were very expensive and, accordingly, it was unclear what was better to buy...

I made such a multiroom system that allows you to play music on different speakers in different rooms. Initially, I planned to do this by analogy with wi-fi speakers, that is, not via Bluetooth or wire to transmit information signal, but simply there is some wi-fi device that can directly connect either to streaming audio or directly to what-then the online stations or the server tried to make an audio output on it, it's a minijack, and in principle of course they say that the sound is not very good and it's really bad enough, if in principle...

Today I set up geo-location on the phone I use in order to track the presence of people in a smart home, that is, they are in my house or have gone out somewhere and there are several different ways to assess whether there is a house or not, you can use wi-fi, for example, if a person's phone is connected to wi-fi, then in principle it is clear that is at home of course there are cases when the phone is not on the phone does not include wi-fi or forgot specifically and then the system of course will work incorrectly it is very important to estimate in general how many people are at home Who is Who specifically and even more importantly to understand who is at home or not If there is no one at all, it is desirable of course to translate the entire smart home into the absence of people mode also has tracking options, for example via Bluetooth or in some other way, for example, it is often suggested to use NFC to determine Who is at home, but this is all very difficult at first, and also ...

Very often offer to use your phone to control your smart home, of course it is a versatile and convenient solution that can either be an application installed phone from the manufacturer-for example, there are proposals from Xiaomi Tuya and, accordingly, you can use these applications to manage devices and configure the script to turn off the sockets and switches and different relay to watch different sensors and it is also comfortable enough but the constraint is that for each device for each ecosystem will need to use your application, which usually certainly not friendly, you can use any some aggregators for this you can use either Yandex or Google, or Apple of course there is possible to connect different devices in different ecosystems and to try to do something Well, for example in my opinion is the most advanced course of Yandex turns out that you and the script writing is quite convenient and the principle quite well developing its own ecosystem...

At first I tried to make a device that works and is powered by 5 Volts, but it quickly became clear That it was much more convenient to use a battery-powered device on the market, of course, there were quite a few devices that could be bought or did not cost very much, I had to study what these devices could be made on alternatively, basically I eventually came to the fact that I use a microcontroller shadow 85 has a special version that allows you to work with low consumption in sleep mode this is version 20 and on this version the consumption in sleep mode of this microcontroller is only 4 microamps so in the mode of operation of this microcontroller about 4 milliamps and this is of course For example if I use a ZR 2450 battery I chose it because it is bigger it has more the rated current that it can give this microcontroller, even in standby mode, can work for 17 years if it works in continuous mode, then of course it will work for about 6 days...

I use several different webcams at home, several cameras are initially I bought an esp32-based camera called esp32 k, this is the simplest camera, it cost quite cheap and allowed me to normally connect to a smart home, that is, it was possible to take a video stream from it and it was possible to take pictures with this camera to save Their Smart home of course resolution this camera is not good enough, in principle, It allows you to shoot almost fuh.d There's just a resolution of 4 by 3, But basically I of course set it up to the minimum resolution At first I tried to do 320 by 200, this is quite small, then 480 is of course better, but also not large enough in detail to be fully used for viewing, but in visual eyes, of course, everything is visible well enough and initially I I used the video stream I used a special program on the smart home server that allows you to record the video stream, the movement can be recorded if there are movements, you can record everything in...

Very often in different forums in different articles and in comments there is an opinion that automation or more precisely a smart home is only automation all other solutions such as remote control control via phone are not readable by a smart home of course I personally disagree with this approach because there are of course options related to automation and scenario development but I for example I started making a Smart home just for scenarios such as just turning off the light if someone is not in the room for a long time or so that you can remotely press a button in another room and turn off the light, it's convenient and it doesn't seem to me quite correct to consider it automation, so I think that after all, a smart home is more correct to use the term smart or if in Russian, then flexible, for example, allowing you to configure and switch the interaction more universally, that is, if it is an ordinary switch, it is physically connected to an ordinary physical light bulb by wire,...

the main problem in the house is that it is impossible to ensure the reliability of its operation normally, some problems constantly arise, these may be problems related to sensors, may be connected to devices, may be connected to the connection once, and for example, if this is some kind of Cloud solution, then it may not fall off at the right moment, or if, for example, it may not be at home there is no remote access to the smart home and then it is unclear how to turn something off or check when I do, for example, some sensors, for example, temperature and humidity sensors in order to adjust the operation of heaters or some other devices, a fan for example, then I have several similar sensors in each room, that is, it is a temperature and humidity sensor I use Xiaomi and there is also a homemade sensor and temperature humidity which I have built on the basis of attiny85 powered by a battery and you can also measure the parameters in the room, but the plus of course of homemade devic...

Today there was a big enough problem, my kettle didn't turn off and all the water boiled in it, even though I have a smart socket that is used and in case I'm just looking at Such a scenario, it turned out that it didn't work at all, it all refers to that case about different irons and other heating devices left in the kettle there are several the first protection options for this case is that in principle the switch itself is the main one, it works from the fact that if water starts to boil in the kettle, it gets on this switch there is a thermal plate that turns off the kettle when heated, this button turns off and, accordingly, the kettle turns off if for some reason, for example, there may be a lot of reasons, for example, it is either well closed the lid or for some other reason, for example, there is little water in the kettle on the element itself, it gets little hot steam And this plate it may not work and then the kettle will not turn off as a protective mechanism in the kettl...

I practically don't use any smart relays in my smart home, it's clear that smart sockets are the same relays that I have quite a lot of, but I stopped using smart relays myself for several reasons for a long time, but at the beginning when I started building a Smart house, I used a lot of smart relays and different relays in general, for example, when I was on Arduino I also started doing experiments to make different sensors and different devices, then of course there are classic examples When you need to take a relay very simple, connect the relay module to the Arduino and use it to control some kind of load to turn on or off these relays are sold a lot where and they can be 10 ampere, mostly such met for such homemade or 16 ampere if you buy these relays a little more expensive, they work on the principle of dry contact, that is, they simply close or open some kind of load, there are also solid-state relays...

Periodically I try to set up some devices that I have at home and make them a little smarter, for example, such as a kettle, microwave, washing machine, dishwasher, and in principle, the device itself is simpler and more mechanical, the theme is easier to set up, for example, I use an extractor hood near the stove in my kitchen, it is quite modern and it has many touch control modes, you can turn on the fan at different power, you can turn on the lighting on this hood, but due to the fact that the direction sensor is not so easy to connect to this hood and an example to remove the battery using electronics from the hood, it needs to be disassembled to deal with the circuit in this hood as an electrician everything is done and maybe then I can connect to certain wires to control the fan or completely to redo the system then it is no longer clear how it will be controlled by the touch buttons that are located on the hood...

This year I use as an additional heater an ordinary radiator connected to a smart outlet I made a thermostat based on a smart outlet that works from a smart home system and accordingly turns the heater on or off depending on the temperature in the room for the temperature in the room I use Xiaomi sensors a temperature and humidity sensor the outlet is also used by me a tuya outlet the other day I the socket hung up on me and stopped turning on and on and it remained on and at the same time the heater worked almost all day, of course the temperature in the room rose strongly, which was not at all comfortable, and even the fact that the temperature on the temperature sensor was already higher than the installed outlet did not turn off and the smart home system also could not understand what to turn off because the socket simply did not transmit the status of the smart home system there that it was turned on, I was made so that before changing the state of the socket to send a signal, the...

I use
several Yandex smart speakers
, I have a yandex.station 1 column
, and Yandex mini, too, the first one had a
lot of problems with Yandex stations
, of course it's not perfect
at all and for a very long time they could do nothing
with the sound in this station, this column
is made so that there are several
high-frequency tweeters and one
broadband speaker, which is
also different for you
and a lot of low frequencies on this
column and several years
Yandex could not solve this problem in any way
there were
internet options...

I have been using the smart home control method using IR remotes for a long time. This is quite an interesting story, previously there were such switches that allowed you to tie an IR remote control to them, some button from an infrared remote control and control the switching on and off, and even dim the lighting. But now, of course, there are no such switches, but in principle, the functionality can also be implemented quite simply. I use an infrared remote from the TV, I have a living room made so that the TV on the remote has several buttons, they are practically not used in any applications or in any other functions on the TV, and therefore they can be safely used for control...

I use several dashboards where I show parameters from the smart home system. My dashboards are made on the basis of iPads, these are quite old two iPads that can no longer do anything useful in principle, everything starts to slow down on them, and toys and just even surfing the Internet, so the only thing that can work normally on them is to open some simple website and an application can run on it without any additional graphics.
Even many programs can not be downloaded and installed on these iPads, one I have an iPad, this is an iPad 2 very old it is very many years more than 10, the second iPad, this is an iPad Air 2, which is of course newer, but it is also old. ...

I use a lot of wireless switches. I have switches that work on the zigbee protocol, there are switches that operate at a frequency of 433 megahertz. In principle, I have quite a lot of them and use them in different scenarios. There are for example switches that duplicate the main switches in the room, for example, when you need to turn on the general light, turn on a separate sconce in the room, then I have for example in the bedroom there are bedside sconces and in order to control them, it is done as follows. There is a switch that is located at the entrance to the room and it is powered for all three lamps, that is, it is a central chandelier and, respectively, two sconces to the left and right of the bed. Previously, I used to control these sconces from switches, too, which are located near the bed....

I use zigbee devices quite a lot, of course, when using zigbee, there are many advantages, such as this network works as a mesh network, that is, it allows you to greatly expand your coverage area due to the fact that some devices may be routers in this network, that is, not end devices, but transmitting devices. For example, I use switches, sockets, wireless temperature and humidity sensors, sensors for opening and closing doors and windows, and motion sensors. I also have wireless switches that also work on zigbee, there are buttons that work on zigbee....

Today I checked the number of values recorded in the database using the smart home system.
At the moment, there are already 33 million of them. This is certainly a lot, during this time I recorded completely different sensors, recorded different values, some sensors write values once a minute, some even more often.
When saving to the database, I also calculate the energy consumed, if the sensor can consume energy, then I have made a formula that determines the period of change of the sensor, I indicate what consumption of this sensor is per hour, and thus it constantly records the value of the energy consumed for this period. At the same time, I can then build graphs to see how much energy was consumed by this sensor, or by this device, more precisely for the entire period of use, by days, by minutes, by seconds, in hours, by months, which in principle is quite convenient....

Today I completed monitoring the operation of the water flow sensor.
I have it connected to the hot and cold water meter in the toilet. These are simple counters that have an additional wire that can be connected to the pulse counters. This wire works very simply: it either opens the connection or closes the connection, depending on the number of liters spent. The entire circuit opening cycle takes place in 10 liters, but for example, a circuit can pass through three liters, and an opening can pass through 7 liters.
The sensor itself is very simple: it is an attiny 85 microcontroller, in principle, nothing else is needed for counting pulses....

I recently reconfigured the CO2 sensor, I have a Nano connected to the Arduino, I started using the sensor not so long ago, it was already the end of winter, and it was not possible to check how it works in winter, and even during the time that I tried, of course, the sensor values were overestimated all the time, because the influx of air into the fresh air is not enough through the windows and even if there is one person in the room, after about an hour, and if there are two people in the room, then much faster, it becomes quite stuffy and the CO2 content increases by 500 points.
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I recently talked about wi-fi sockets, I have three of them. The disadvantage of these outlets is that they work through the Tuya cloud, and the plus is that they only need a router to work. Through the app, you can set up different timers, you can set up simple scenarios, but the problem is to add these devices to the smart home, since they are always some kind of crutches and there are no normal solutions.
I also have Zigbee sockets and I don't plan to completely switch to them, but of course they have a minus, this is one, this is the presence of a gateway....

Today I discovered that the light in the corridor does not turn on when entering the apartment, this is due to the fact that I recently redid saving parameters to the database and starting automation. I have automation written in bash scripts. I used to use python, but now I don't use it because many times I encountered a situation when the python versions changed, the system settings changed, and after that the scripts stopped working, I had to reinstall and reconfigure everything again, which is not very convenient....

Today I found out again that the bosses notification does not work for me, I use three wi-fi outlets in one I have a kettle connected in the other I have a table lamp connected in the third the heater is not connected, I also have a wi-fi switch that is installed in the corridor The problem is that which switches of the outlet use the tuya cloud to interact at home at first I thought that I did not send a signal to the cloud, respectively, my device does not turn on, does not turn on, but as it turned out, sending and a small delay actually works quite well for me, about 1 second, but I do not work back receiving device status changes, I update device statuses, they receive commands receiving device status and then process the changes all the parameters on off power consumption and others after some experiments when I tried to run scripts for integration with Google mode...

Today I found out again that the notification on the kettle doesn't work for me. I use three wi-fi outlets in one I have a kettle connected, in another I have a table lamp connected, in the third I have a heater connected. I also have a wi-fi switch that is installed in the hallway. The problem is that these switches and sockets use the Tuya cloud to interact with the smart home. At first, I thought that I didn't send a signal to the cloud, so my devices don't turn off or turn on, but as it turned out, I actually have quite good sending and a small delay of about 1 second, but the reverse acceptance about changing the status of devices doesn't work. ...

Today, the wi-fi router turned off once again.
I have about 30 wifi devices connected to it, in general, there are more devices in the network, about 50 devices, wi-fi devices are cameras, this is a Xiaomi camera, there are Tapo cameras, two esp32cam-based cameras are also used, I also use different wi-fi switches, mostly it's in the Tuya ecosystem, a few pieces I have a few wi-fi outlets too of the Tuya ecosystem, a few microcontrollers used based on eps 8266, and one esp32 microcontroller.
All this is waiting for me together on one router, I tried to make several different routers, my second router is quite weak, everything turned off very quickly on it....

today I found out that integration with Yandex does not work for me before I set up the skill and connected it to my site on which I have saved data from the Yandex lunar house I made a run of my devices for this I used the smart home system all sensors are turned on and a description of the types for these sensors is made and I transmit to the Yandex system all sensors at once with the necessary parameters, I threw all the switches there, threw smart sockets sensors now humidity tours and motion sensors door opening sensors as well as all wireless switches, an additional function has recently appeared in Yandex that allows you to transmit device statuses as well, it became possible to integrate wireless buttons opening temperature sensors and on the basis of these devices I would like to use the device as triggers. to make the transfer of the Yandex device, I made a special six-digit encoding with the help of this encoding, I encode all devices in the house the encoding is made as fol...

Today I checked the operation of the bathroom fan, it is configured so that it turns on when the light is on And if it is important it rises more than 70 percent works as the light is on or the humidity is less than 70 percent when the door is closed and the humidity is more than 70 percent, the fan runs for five minutes and after that if the humidity goes down [music] today led an experiment checked the operation of the fan with the door closed and 86 percent to 68 humidity
if the bathroom door is open, the fan is always forcibly turned off of course, the best way to reduce the humidity in the bathroom is to open the door due to this 1 the humidity in other rooms rises and the humidity in the bathroom drops very quickly, I also observed the rate of drop in the humidity of the bathroom it turned out that 68 to 35 percent humidity 24 minutes I use a homemade sensor a the humidity temperature of the bathroom is also installed on this sensor...

not so long ago I purchased an interesting device this is an akara cube this is a control device it is quite compact it works according to the zigbe protocol they began to cost quite cheap and in principle they can be bought in China and in Russia I bought at a discount for 900 rubles it was possible to find 500 rubles in our stores but in general this price is already acceptable device itself
It is interesting, it is in fact made as a cube of a fairly compact size has the ability to control different devices, For example, you can do support modes such as left-right rotation, respectively, you can put cubes on some of the sides, it accordingly determines some side and also do some action, or you can have another option to turn it over and it also determines this movement can be pushed and such an action is supported and then he passes the side he was on during this action supports a 90 degree turn and supports a 180 degree flip as well...

I reconfigured the operation of the light in the bathroom, I noticed that I often have the light on for various reasons when there are no people there, this is because I didn't do it so I work on a timer, I process events by sensors these are the sensors I have for opening doors and motion sensors, I have done so if the door opens then the opening sensor captures the signal and transmits it to the smart home system, and at this moment if the light was turned off, it turns on when the door closes, no action occurs and when the door is reopened, the signal is transmitted to the system again and checked if the light was turned on, then it turns off. I had a goal to do this so that when a person opens the door so that there is no desire to turn on the light manually, if this happens very quickly, then after a while, of course, the desire to press the manual button disappears, since there is usually no sense or even worse when the light lights up when the door is opened, but the person pres...

I reconfigured the operation of the presence sensor, I have such a sensor installed in my kitchen living room, I purchased a sensor here akara is an fp1 sensor, it basically appeared on the market for a long time, but it was very limited on sale, it was practically impossible to buy it and there was a recent sale quite inexpensive, you could buy this sensor, it is in principle quite interesting, this is one of the first after that, similar sensors began to appear on such mass devices, and you can also buy from Tuya, and in principle their price is quite similar, but the aqara sensor itself has some advantages.
In addition to the fact that it is basically akara and can integrate with different smart home systems, for example [music], but also the takara application itself, if you use the standard standard gateway, you can also specify in which zones the object will be located and you can see, for example, that there is a map where the entrance to the room is Where the exit is, that is,...