Smart Home Demonstration Video
This 3.5 min video showcases most of the smart home uses covered in this blog and more. It shows how a smart home can enhance the way of living.
Ranging from Lighting, Alarm system integration, Video and monitoring, Appliances integration, Scene controls, Visitor notifications, Fire Alarm sequences, Entertainment and Home Audio integration, Motion Sensors, Temperature sensors, Light sensors, In-Wall tablets, Voice control and Smart Thermostat integration.
Whole house automation is becoming more and more popular without having to spend tens of thousands of dollars. Many DIY products can be integrated directly or through 3rd party solutions into a home automation system.
Doorbell Z-wave Integration
To integrate your existing conventional doorbell into any existing Z-wave eco system, you have a variety of options to go about it. The method I chose was the easiest while requiring a little more hardware in terms of having to mess with timeouts, repetitive doorbell...
Smart Home 2016
https://youtu.be/mkPXzA_HlcI
Wallmount Android Tablets
Here is a way to frame any Android based tablet and wall mount it in the frame, color and style of your choice instead of buying a metal enclosure fitting it perfectly into your existing home design. Hardware required:...
Philips Hue Tap reseated
after having seen this video on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bNSFaS2as8 , I started looking around and contacting a couple of companies. With the help from Enocean and their distributors I purchased the following switches on Amazon...
Inexpensive Fire Alarm Integration
A friend of mine and I were discussing integrating Fire Alarms into our Vera's but we didn't want to spend money on buying Z-wave enabled Fire Alarms especially with 7 or 8 of them per house. After going through a couple of options and ideas we came up with the...
Samsung Tablet Wallmount
I am done with my latest project installing a wall mounted Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. This was a nightmare project and I had many setbacks but I am finally there and I painted the enclosure in white to match the other house interior. Here are some pictures and Garrett......
Yale Door Lock
The kitchen door lock installed and synced without any problem but the front door lock didn't work at all. I tried over 40 times over 2 weeks before I gave up. Then I called support and here is what I learned and what we troubleshooted. A) When you disconnect Vera and...
Cooper Wired Scene Controller
After having read what options are available and people saying that some of those wired scene controllers are not easy to setup... I thought that this could not be rocket science but I was wrong. I spent one whole morning with reading, research, verbose logging, try...
BlueIris + Logitech + AuthomationHD
I wanted to share a quick tutorial on how to add Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 via BlueIris and stream live to AuthomationHD. Assuming you configured BlueIris to have a working cam and use JPEG streaming over port 5000 which you can check via http://YOURIP:5000/ it...
Z-Wave Sprinkler system
This was one of my first projects around Z-wave where I integrated the sprinkler system into the Vera Home Automation system. The goal was to automate the sprinkling of the lawn on the pre-specified times but having the option to overrule and skip watering...
