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 […]
It’s been a while since we’ve gone on a vacation and oh how I miss them. But whenever I’ve been on vacation I’ve always thought about the house and think about it safety. Now that we’ve moved away from town and our neighbors are farther away from us, we can’t count on them to let […]
After a few months with the SmartThings installed in the house, I knew that my code would have some issues. I wanted a way to see which lights were left on in the house so this way if I noticed a light being on for an extended period of time and none of my motion […]
For a very long time, Elma has been getting migraines and we did not know what was causing this. Now if anyone has had a migraine before, depending on the level, it can literally be blinding. Each person’s triggers are different so we, over the years, figured out that one of the major triggers was […]
Now that the dashboard was all setup, curious me wanted to see if I could add more information on it that I normally look up, like the weather. The big question was around what information do I like to see, was it just temperature or should I include cloud cover and other things as well. […]
People talk about the covid weight gain, I fear that mine has been well before covid even started. So to keep an eye on my weight, we had purchased a Withings (now Nokia) weight scale and in all good things it connects to the internet. With the dashboard setup and me used to keeping an […]
A few things we have learnt over the years; the sun will still rise every morning and will set every evening. A good metaphor around the challenges and hopes around our day to day lives, but also the fact that I needed to make things turn on and off in the house. Now that is […]
With all the automations in the house coming along just fine, like any developer, I knew my code might have some bugs. So to see what the status of the house and lights are, I leveraged the webcore dashboard. It comes as part of webcore and each “routine” which they call piston can have its […]
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 […]
