Kitchen Battle #1 – Beef stir fry with rice noodles
After a week of spending time looking at my little lab rats (sorry Elma, Dad and Mom), they did this for the ensuite, hallway, basement’s living room too. Ahhh kids. So, I added sensors and smart bulbs in the other rooms as well to do what I did for the kitchen, and BAM! the lights […]
Automating the kitchen lights – Magic!!
Welcome back, now that we are set up, I observed Elma and my parents behaviours. I noticed that they love walking into the kitchen and not turning off the light.. Typical. So that was my first experiment. I placed a sensor in the kitchen, and connected it to smartthings, installed my smart light bulbs in […]
Getting the right home automation ecosystem
Well, now that we are all moved in, we needed to find something that would work with our Xplornet network and how getting a smart home setup on a 25Mbs connection would be a challenge. During our research, we found a lot of products that can do a lot of things, but we stuck with […]
Hello World
Hi! My name is Hasnain Mirza and I am a lazy person. This statement has been really key in my life as I really believe that the less I think, the happier I am. I know it sounds odd, but really, if I need to do things more than once I try to automate it […]