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Can anyone help with the MIOS UI5 weblink? Not the getvera one.
Still running UI5 on a couple of sensors & lights and need to tweak PLEG but for the life of me I can't remember the link to tunnel back to the trusty machine.... -
The wifi on my router is turned off, and wifi around the house is provided using a mesh - 3 units altogether (one connected directly to the router) that are spread around the house.
I would like to start automating certain tasks around the house and intend to try adding a few smart sockets to my setup.
The mesh system I have supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz, and does not provide me with the option to control them - i.e. turn one or both on/off, give each a different SSID, etc.
The devices I wish to purchase/use only support 2.4GHz.
Will turning the mesh units off and temporarily turning the 2.4GHz wifi on the router to allow me to set them up be enough? Will I then be able to return to my usual setup and everything will work as it should?
Many thanks in advance
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Hey everyone, I'm currently working on developing a bed sensor that can detect when you're out of bed. It could be used to trigger other smart home gadgets, like lights or blinds, temperature etc.
The sensors are placed under the legs of your bed post. Should look and feel like "smart furniture pads" with size 2 inches in diameter and 1/4 inch thick.
Before we go any further, I'd love to get your thoughts on this - would a bed sensor like this be something you'd find useful? We're still in the early stages of development, so any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! -
ChatGPT samples:
Me:
Tell me about an iot program called openLuup.
It:
OpenLuup is an open source home automation system that is built on the VeraLuup platform. It is designed to be easy to install and configure, and provides users with a powerful and versatile way to control their home automation devices. OpenLuup offers a wide range of features, including support for many popular home automation devices, scheduling, scripting, and integration with other services. OpenLuup is designed to be customizable, allowing users to create their own home automation systems. It is an excellent choice for those looking to create their own home automation system without spending a lot of money.
Me:
Write an iot program using openLuup.
It:
--openLuup IoT Program-- -- Initialize Variables -- local device_id = "MyHomeDevice" local temperature_sensor_id = "MyTemperatureSensor" local temperature_threshold = 75 -- Create Devices -- luup.create_device("OpenLuup Temperature Sensor", 0, device_id, "D_GenericSensor1.xml", "I_GenericSensor1.xml", "S_TemperatureSensor1.xml", "") luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSensor1", "CurrentTemperature", 0, device_id) -- Start Timer -- luup.call_delay("check_temperature", 10, "", false) --Function to Check Temperature-- function check_temperature() local current_temperature = luup.variable_get(temperature_sensor_id, "CurrentTemperature", 0) --Check Temperature Threshold-- if current_temperature >= temperature_threshold then --Send Alert-- luup.call_action("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1", "SendTextMessage", {PhoneNumber="1234567890", Message="ALERT! Temperature exceeded threshold!"}, 0) end --Reset Timer-- luup.call_delay("check_temperature", 10, "", false) endMe:
Write an iot program using openLuup.
It:
Write an iot program using openLuup. -- openLuup IOT Program -- -- Variables local lampState = false local lampTime = 0 -- Functions function lampTimer() if lampTime > 0 then lampTime = lampTime - 1 if lampTime == 0 then luup.variable_set('urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1', 'Status', 0, lampDeviceID) lampState = false end end end -- Setup luup.call_delay('lampTimer', 60, 0) -- Main Loop while true do -- Check for motion if luup.variable_get('urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:MotionSensor1', 'Tripped', motionSensorDeviceID) == '1' then if not lampState then luup.variable_set('urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1', 'Status', 1, lampDeviceID) lampState = true -- Set lamp timer to 5 minutes lampTime = 300 end end luup.sleep(1) endWhat??
luup.sleep(1)Not good - looks like I still have some semblance of a job to fulfill.
Me:
An iot program called openLuup was written by akbooer. Who is akbooer?
It: (note: answer redacted and as I understand it, also incorrect re: AltUI):
akbooer is the pseudonym of the software developer and home automation enthusiast. He is the creator of the openLuup home automation software, which is an open-source version of the Vera home automation system. He is also the creator of the AltUI graphical user interface for openLuup.
Me:
Who created of the AltUI graphical user interface for openLuup.
and
Me:
Who created of the AltUI graphical user interface for the home automation system Vera.
Names two different people - mmmm.
Regardless very impressive - give it a few more years.
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...which I'd like to do. I know I go about these things all wrong (namely think of something I'd like to do, then try and work out what I need to know) but that's me 🙂
Just looking for some pointers on what I should google for really:
What I'd like is to provide a selection of (basically two word) phases which I can select from randomly (or even pseudo randomly) and pass to Alexa to be spoken. There are 10 such phrases only.
So what should I be reading up on to get me started?
TIA for any guidance
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Hi,
I am a student and recently i am working on smart home project and writing a seminar paper about the way users handle and manage IoT devices. I you have 3 min, please fill below survey. Its really short.
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For what it's worth, I've been putting the finishing touches on a much-updated version of my DP Apps spreadsheet -- specifically intended for HE users, at least for now -- and invite you all to take a gander http://bit.ly/hedb23 at the PDF one-page version.
Corrections and edits welcome (esp. for the HOMEKIT column, just added yesterday)! Thanks in advance, especially because I'm not a big dashboard user myself, but somehow accepted this role as "keeper of the list" as it were.
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Hello guys,
I would like to achieve two different things with lights, but I am not sure it could be done. I am starting with smart things, and I am far from any electrician knowledge, wo any help is really appreciated.
I have dumb switches in my hall, controlled from 3 places. I understood that installing one smart module before first switch will make them "hybrid", both smart controlled and dumb controlled.
I would like to buy ceiling light with two bulb sockets. What I would like to achieve is I would like to have one bulb for normal daily usage (lets say cold white full brightness), and second for night time (aprox from 10pm till morning) with some red/orange - minimum brightness.
So question are:
Is there a way to keep both bulbs turning-on separated? So only one will be on during day, and then only second during night?
And could that be done with pressing dumb switch? What would I need to achieve it? (maybe another module into the ceiling lights)
Thank you in advance
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Aften some testing I watt to clear KWH how ?
Regards Bjarne
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Hello,
I have a kitchen light that can be controlled by two switches, using either to turn it off or on. I have been slowly changing things over to be a smart home but this is the first switch I am attempting to install.
I am in a double wide modular home (mobile) that was built in 1994.
At first I thought I would need a 3 way switch but when taking the normal switches apart I realized that was incorrect because the wiring on my switches are different than anything I could find online.
For one a 3 way smart switch requires 5 wires and there are only 2 wires going into the primary switch with 3 wires going into the secondary switch from the primary switch (at least I think the 3 wires connect the two switches together). Images will be attached of the wiring.
There are two wires (one black and one white) going into the first switch and 3 wires (black, white, and red) going out of that and into the second switch (I assume). The odd thing is the red wire going to the second switch is connected to the white wire going into the first switch and the white wire going into the second switch seems to be a bridge wire or a traveler wire. Not exactly sure. You will see what I mean in the images.
I need to know what kind of smart switch I can use in this set up with one remaining a normal switch.
Note that for some reason the images got switched around when uploading them. The image with 2 wires on one side and 3 on the other is what I think is the primary and the image with just 3 wires is the secondary.
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You lot are more likely to have a view than most I know. Our much used Logitech Harmony is (not so) slowly dying.
And Logitech have discontinued the entire line.
And no one else appears to be making something similar.
Was going for a Sofabaton X1, but no numeric keypad. Sofabaton U1, but no favourites.
Anyone got suggestions?
Needs to have those features, oh and not be only a phone app.....C
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Since one member asked at one point about the "front end" and "back end", I drew this showing the controller from the base to the tip along with what I have found to be the best options from my testing. Almost every controller will try to integrate all elements, especially commercial ones but... they all have strengths and weaknesses so if one can have a medley of the best ones...
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I was just going to add my support for a Update Button for the bare bones version of MSR and find the thread has been removed.
I'm wondering what was so provocative that required it's removal?
Have we become as paranoid as an owner of another forum?Anyway +1 for an Update Button.
Starlink Available in Some Areas
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This morning I signed up for Starlink internet. This is the Musk project that has been aboard many of the SpaceX launches for some time. I watched this morning's launch (60 additional Starlink satellites), and they announced that the Beta was open in some areas. I went to the site, and it was open in my area.
The site (starlink.com) quoted $99/mo with $499 initial equipment and setup. I realize that's pretty pricey compared to Internet access in many areas, but I currently pay a fair amount more (monthly) to my current cable- (TV) based ISP, quality and speed are inconsistent, and every year I have to fight their customer retention staff to keep my pricing from nearly doubling as my "special offer" expires.
Verizon, the dominant cellular carrier where I live, has been slow to roll out home-based Internet on 5G. This is another alternative I've been excited to investigate, but still waiting.
I'm pretty excited. Yes, I'm a Musk fan-boy. Don't judge me.
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Interesting. I didn't know they were going to offer service that far south this year. I know some folks who are on the beta in the boondocks of north-central Washington state. They're ecstatic since they only had dial-up previously.
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Starling sounds interesting, On my street were I live(Sweden) I only have 24mbit from a adsl telephone line, feels like im the last house in hole Sweden on copper cable . Almost everywhere here its fiber with 1000mbit .
I tested 5G recently with my iPhone 12 proMax. I went in to Stockholm (20km) and got reception with 5G and did a bandwidth test. Shit!.....777mbit down and 47mbit up. would like that in my neighborhood ..... But I will be stuck with 24mbit for at least 2 year until fiber is coming... -
I have a 500m cable line. Does me just fine
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Public service utility “forgot” to cover my street, so we have no fiber and we’ll probably never get it.
There’s a public plan here in Italy to cover every house in a city with at least 100Mbit “broadband” connection, so they’re now doing FWA (4g+ to a tower, then fiber) and in two years we’ll get 5G.
There are zones where 5G FWA is already active and people are more than happy. I must say I’m happy too with 4G+, since the alternative was 6/0.5 and I’m now on a 40/4 plan, with 100/50 rolling out in the coming months and 1000/500 to be delivered via 5G. I’ll probably take a look at the mentioned service too.
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Well fibre optics were pretty much invented in my town. When it was built, the whole town had cable. In fact TV aerials were not permitted as everything was delivered via that cable.
FFWD 60 years and we have a great cable and fibre infrastructure for much of it (in fact there's a brand new (<12 months old) data centre less than 10 minutes walk from my house.It amuses me when we get ads here advertising boosters to guarantee good wifi in every room of at least 10m......
Finally ditched my cheapo rubbish late last year (was getting about 2m sitting on the damned thing) the spectrum is so polluted. I now have a couple of Ubiquiti APs (previous comments not withstanding) and now happily pull 150+ anywhere in the house.
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Situation in New Orleans, where things (esp. infrastructure and tech) are always behind the rest of the country. Starlink became available a week ago, which surprised me (NOLA is at 30 lat. N). Meanwhile, AT&T Fiber has been rolling out steadily over the past 2 years, so I jumped on board with no regrets. Their middle-tier 300 Mbps offering runs a few bucks less than Cox's 100 Mbps Internet service, and is far more reliably day-to-day. Thing is, when fiber goes out, it's typically out for days, not just minutes or hours like coaxial.
Can't speak to customer service yet. Back in the DSL/dial-up days, AT&T was the absolute worst in that regard, yet (aside from not honoring their sign-up promotional, which I had to kick and scream to receive) I've heard they have improved now. Cox is just a money-making monopoly with little interest in pleasing customers, so we're all thankful to see them get honest competition.
I will continue strongly urging neighbors to give Starlink a try, esp. my neighbor across the street, whom AT&T refuses to set up with Fiber, even though his other immediate neighbor has had the service for 2 years now, and the same poles pass his house. Weird.
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Not so happy with Starlink, myself, as I am an astro-photographer...
SpaceX’s Dark Satellites Are Still Too Bright for Astronomers
The company’s attempts to dim the spacecraft in its megaconstellation fall short of eliminating disruptions to the world’s ground-based observatories
Although we live in a rural area, we have fibre optic to the house with 1 Gb, since the CEO of a company who installs fibres lives in the village!
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I myself am running on dual WAN from both cable (Comcast) and fiber (formerly verizon but got resold twice) Total bandwidth of 1.3Gbps/600Mbps... Had to use pfSense on my QNAP to handle that (load balance+failover) on a 10G home network.
@toggledbits I suppose you drive a Tesla?
In spite of being a tech enthusiast, I am also very wary of the RF pollution these days and was personally absolutely frightened by the spectrum 5G is going after since it obviously will have shorter range and will require more RF power and denser emission points so I will stay off of it.
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Having been in a business on the commercial side of bandwidth, it's still crazy what we have to pay. When I sold my company eight years ago, I was buying at US$1/Mbps commit 95th percentile on the low side (tier one, but not regarded as the best service, but we never had any problems at all), still paying some top tier one providers $30-40/Mbps. I still get emails from various vendors, and recently got one for 10Gbps for $1000, which is $0.1/Mbps. AT&T, owning as much in the ground and on the poles as they do, and all the others, are having a field day in residential, so the more competition there is in the market, the better. Where I live, Comcast is dominant, and AT&T is secondary and still doesn't have last-mile fiber (it's in my neighborhood but not deep enough to reach my house, so I would get fiber to a DSLAM and then copper to premise -- still DSL; my neighbors did it and got about 6Mbps of an 18Mbps promise). Verizon and the other carriers with 5G have threatened to put a serious wrinkle in their monopolies, and that can only be good for pricing eventually (they wouldn't dare price-fix, right?). Having a disruptive player in the market is very welcome.
I suppose you drive a Tesla?
@rafale77 Actually, no, I've got my little hybrid Lexus that's 7 years old and still has near new battery capacity (luckily). I'm a cheapskate with cars. They depreciate too quickly, I have no vanity whatsoever around what I drive, and I'm past the point where I'd use it to attract a mate. It's just a car. I like it spotless clean and running perfectly, but beyond that, I think I could be happy in a Trabant if it had any quality.
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@rafale77 said in Starlink Available in Some Areas:
In spite of being a tech enthusiast, I am also very wary of the RF pollution these days and was personally absolutely frightened by the spectrum 5G is going after since it obviously will have shorter range and will require more RF power and denser emission points so I will stay off of it.
Since we're not be covered with fiber, unless I'll pay for it (at about 5k/10k, probably, and 100+ Eur per month), 5G is the only way to go for me. Good for me that I'm outside the city (at the very border) and the 4G/5G tower is at 1km just in front of my house, so coverage is 5 bars. I was on dual network too (WiFi link + 4G+) until last month, and I'll now transition over two 4G+, or 1 4G + 5G. We'll see.
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Reading your speeds and cost, I'm feeling pretty good about my 500Mbps up/500Mbps down fiber with static IP for $67 a month with the option of 1Gbps up/down for $99 a month no limits. Helps having a small company go all in on fiber and strike a deal with our city to run all fiber within the city owned electric conduit. 300k resident city installed in under 3 years I think. Middle of the US in Nebraska.
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Before the pandemic I used to live in Milan during the week, and I still have 2Gbps/1Gbps at 35 eur/month. In big cities coverage is another story.
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I'm in Michigan and paying $120/month for Gig speeds with no cap. I was checking out Starlink the other day as well, but there's not an actual NEED
