The beauty of a smart home lies not just in the ability to control devices remotely but in automating actions based on specific conditions or triggers. SharpTools’ Visual Rule Builder offers a user-friendly interface to create such automations, from the most basic to the intricately complex. In this guide, we’ll delve into the process of […]
In the realm of smart home automation, the combination of SharpTools and SmartThings stands out as a powerful duo. Whether you’re a seasoned smart home enthusiast or just starting out, integrating these two platforms can elevate your home automation game. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to set up SharpTools with SmartThings, […]
Having an automated house has been great. Not just to save money, but also time and brain power (the little I do have). After Elma , Mom and Dad pushed me to write a book about it. Here is the first version of what could be more. Hope you read it, enjoy it and eventually […]
The last year in the “new to us” house we made a lot of changes in terms of automations. I think both Elma and I have gotten the house to a level that we both are very happy with and even happier that we were about to share the tricks, code and learnings to our […]
After using the sensors in the kitchen along with the weather for a while, we noticed that the weather information was not the most up to date which meant that the lights would not be turned on or off correctly. I did some digging into it and found the following Light & Motion Sensor which […]
With fall soon approaching, it brings the uncertainty of what the weather will be like. To ensure that Mom and Dad stay warm and, me not constantly running back and forth from turning the heat pump on/off and opening and closing the windows. I had to come up with something better. From a previous post […]
One of the biggest battles we had when my wife and I moved in together was because we both have our ways of cleaning the house. Elma is the proper take her time & detail-oriented cleaner while I on the other hand is quick & and hide it underneath the carpet kinda person. So we […]
Now that I got the IR/RF smart remote from the previous post, I wanted it to control my patio lights. Now the challenge was that these lights were not smart, and adding my indoor smart switch was not great for the outdoors. So I need to investigate. Luckily all-mighty amazon came to the rescue and […]
One of the perks of the new place was that we got three heat pumps in the house, which is amazing for keeping our energy costs down. The downside to them was that they did not connect to my smart eco-system. So this needed to change. After doing some google-foo and thanks to all-mighty amazon, […]
Living out in the woods has a lot of perks, but no one warned me about how quickly the grass grows and how much love and care it needs to keep trimed. Dad and I were prepared to put in the hours that it would need to take care of the lawn. He even went […]
