When the smart home has a smart door lock, there are many useful (and useless) automations you can set up. It can be good to know when the children come home, or just generally know who unlocked the door.With ID Lock 150 this is possible. Requirements The lock must be…
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Automate car functions
Automating the car may sound drastic, but the point is to be able to take advantage of the car’s capabilities into your smart home.Most new cars have an app that you can set e.g. when to drive and thus the car will be hot at the right time. But what…
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Stop wasting money
One of the goals of a smarter home should be to save money and the environment.One of the areas we have looked at was then to make sure that the heating of the house was made a little smarter. It is a relatively simple matter to only adjust the heat…
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Humidity in the bathroom
Why should we turn on / off the hot fan manually when you can get a smart home to do this automatically? In order to automate ventilation in one room based on the humidity, you need two things. a sensor for measuring humidity the ability to turn a fan on…
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Auto clean up
If you have set up solutions in the smart home that fill the disk / SD card with data, then you may want to create an automation that deletes such files on a regular basis. With us, we have, among other things, set up camera recordings, and if you do…
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Camera surveillance and notification
When we are not at home, we like to have control over what moves at home. Therefore, in some rooms we have set up camera surveillance. These cameras will record video when there is movement in this room and none of us are home. At the same time, a push…
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Alarm in freezer and refrigerator
When the temperature increases in the freezer or refrigerator, so it’s okay to get information about this. Then you can potentially save some food. We have installed a Agar temperature, humidity and pressure sensor in all refrigerators and freezers we have at home. These sensors give us continuous status on…
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Node-RED and Home Assistant
Node-RED is a tool for visualizing automation to be created. By default, Home Assistant has a powerful automation engine, where you can create all kinds of automation. If you are going to use something more advanced than “Trigger”, “Condition” and “Action”, then you must have some programming knowledge.However, using an…