It seems like the house is getting used to the automations faster than I expected as now lately I got a request from Dad, saying “Can you put motion sensor lights on my way to the washroom and kitchen, so that I don’t have to stumble at night?” and I said “DONE!!”. As I did […]
After a while of not flipping switches, whenever we left the house we got used to saying “Hey Google, turn off all my lights”. But then again, having to say that everytime sounded like repetition to me and we also had to remember to say that. It got me thinking – “If only there was […]
Being from a brown family, my parents are very careful about their money. This became more apparent as mom started complaining that the kitchen lights are being turned on even if it’s broad daylight outside which was her way of saying I was wasting energy. She suggested that I change the settings so that it […]
Well, having the lights controlled via the sensors for a month now has been fun as we all forgot how to turn on the lights in the major rooms, so mission accomplished! Now the challenge was that late at night you would have to wake up to have bright lights in your face. That was […]
Today’s blog was brought to you by – “Honey! I love you”. Those words have always been a warning sign that something will be asked of me. For those who follow Elma’s Instagram, (insert shameless plug to her Instagram account @elmamirandamirza), she put up the Christmas trees and decorations around two weeks ago. And yesterday […]
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 […]
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 […]
