I use different ways to control light and lighting using LED strips, in fact they are not always tapes, there are some lamps made on the basis of addressable LEDs, there are tapes that do not support addressing, but just shine a certain color, and there is also a tape that shines, RGB is used there and, accordingly, you can change the color in with a large enough range, I purchased two different drivers to control the LED strips, which are essentially 12 volt, that is, with a constant driver voltage, they use a tape that is precisely designed for constant voltage, and these drivers allow you to turn the tape on and off, they also allow you to dim the tape, that is, to make it brighter or dimmer, but in fact, of course, the range is not very large, that is, the lowest level is still quite bright, and the most Its high level is not enough for full-fledged lighting, but it can also be used as some additional illumination in the room. You can also use such tapes as a night light, but of c...

I already have more than a hundred different automations done in my house, so I've now started keeping a directory of all these automations, but of course it's not very convenient to keep it, because there are a lot of different automations, and there are minor automations that simply involve turning on or off some kind of wireless remote control or a wireless switch. or some more complex automation systems, complex ones that involve many sensors and many different devices. I do most of the automation using scripts, I develop scripts on Bash, they run on my smart home server, my smart home server is based on Raspberry Pi version 4, these scripts run in different ways, there is a timer, there is a sensor trigger, I have sensors in fact, all information is transmitted via MQTT, the MQTT broker is installed and, accordingly, there is a script that listens to these messages via MQTT and then executes different scripts, I have made different rules for Bash, these rules are related to the c...

My main topic in a smart home is, of course, more related to heating, because it's constantly cool, there's not enough central heating, and of course I want to make it warmer somehow, but also often, let's say in a cottage or somewhere in a house where there's no other heating option, or let's say it's not always enough, then too some kind of additional electric heating is used, or it is a boiler that distributes hot water through pipes through separate radiators, but this is already such a serious decision, it can usually only be provided in houses, but if there is a very fast way, then usually an oil cooler, some kind of convector, or a fan heater is used, of course, each of these heating options has its pros and cons, I use almost all of these options and types of devices.
Usually, there are fewer problems with an oil cooler, as you are less afraid that something might happen to it, of course, this is also a rather dangerous thing, if it falls, it may overheat and not all radiators...

One of the first and most obvious automations, probably the most difficult in terms of implementation and stability, is the implementation of automation of light in the corridor, you can pass through the corridor quickly, you can stay in it for a while, there are a lot of entrances and exits from different rooms in the corridor, there is an entrance from the street, an entrance door, there is there is a wardrobe, a storage room, a bathroom and a toilet, so it is very difficult to foresee all these scenarios and do it correctly so that it always turns on when necessary and turns off when necessary. Previously, in order to turn off the light, you had to go to the front door, because the switch was there, and every time it was a problem, because in fact there are shoes at the door, it's dirty enough, and you didn't really want, especially before going to bed, to come and turn off the light manually, and even if, for example, you just walk down the corridor, then when you also want to tu...

An interesting question, of course, is how much it costs to make a smart home system in a small apartment. Well, for example, if, of course, we consider a two-room apartment with two bedrooms, there is a kitchen combined with a living room, for example, then in principle not so many devices are required, and you can quite keep within 100 thousand even, in fact, and in a much smaller amount, for example, 50. What can this amount include? Well, of course, the most basic thing is probably for a smart home, so that no one has any doubts that this house is smart, that it has some interesting functions, which, unlike the other, are voice control, voice control is the easiest way to make some kind of smart speaker. Therefore, if, for example, there are actually 3 rooms, then, for example, you can put one column in each room, for example, there is from Yandex, if you take a column and do not take the cheapest, let's say Yandex can, for example, take a Yandex Mini Station....

I use a lot of different wireless switches, wireless remotes to control my smart home, and not so long ago I purchased an interesting remote control from Aqara called Aqara Opple, and it has a lot of additional chips and very useful functions, which of course probably lead it to the leaders in all remotes. Well, first of all, my version is like a three-button one, but in fact each button is two different buttons and in total it turns out to make 6 different pressing options, 6 keys, and plus each key can also be pressed several times, you can press twice, you can even press three times, there is also a function There will also be one more action, and there is also a release function, which also works, and you can understand how long the hold was and, in principle, process it too, in total, you get a lot of different pressing options., that is, if you just take into account the single double, triple and hold, then you get four different actions for each button, a total of 24 actions ca...