on the consumer market end id say the potential is equivalent to the folks that advertise assembling your cheap furniture and whatnot from walmart for you. Just technical labor, not worth the liability to sell the consumer grade gear, leave the support between the consumer and the manufacturer.
i just had to set up a honeywell leak monitor for one of our customers to monitor their sump pump. Honeywell makes rock solid gear, but UI is not their forte, this thing is junk. It requires a phone app, it has no physical interface, just a multicolored LED, you connect via bluetooth, then set up the wifi. you can only set it to check in 1,2, or 3 times a day. if the sensor is tripped, it wakes up, connects to the wifi, and alerts your app. This assumes that after power failure and enough time elapsing for your basement to fill enough to trigger it that you had enough battery on your router and modem to alert your app that hopefully is still on your phone from when you replaced it with the newest toy...too much liability in all that nonsense from consumer grade gear On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Zach Underwood <zunder1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have looked at http://www.networktechinc.com/enviro-monitor.html for a > ubnt mfi replacement when I build my new place. > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> > wrote: > >> I have the following in my house: >> >> >> >> Sense monitor on my main inside breaker. >> >> https://sense.com/ >> >> >> >> Great idea, but it’s not smart enough to detect most of my stuff and >> there appears to be no manual way to tell it anything. >> >> So it’s just kind of sitting there until they upgrade it to ‘useful’ >> state for me. >> >> I heard they just implemented IFTTT so it might make more ‘sense’ in the >> near future, lol >> >> >> >> UBNT mFi >> >> I have a few cameras and mPort senseors along with mPower plugs of the >> single/3 and 8 port variety in my house. >> >> I use these all the time to shut down the TV and Xbox on my kids. >> >> They can also report on power usage and have their own rule based set. >> >> But it appears to be abandoned by UBNT and it’s near impossible to find >> mPorts. >> >> I’m looking for a good replacement for these, any suggestions?? >> >> >> >> Alexa by Amazon >> >> I have it connected to a few things in my home. >> >> My wife and kids use it for music, but the speaker kind of sucks. >> >> I feel like we don’t really have the hang of it yet. >> >> And it’s not so great that my kids can control it. >> >> >> >> A few ZWave/Zigby Kwickset door deadbolt locks. >> >> I had a Vera to talk to these, but took it out because it sucked. >> >> I’ll probably hook these up to a Wink 2 when I get one later this month. >> >> These are perfect for outside high traffic doors, and my home office. >> >> The kids can get in with the code and lock it with a touch of a button. >> >> No more keys. >> >> >> >> Ecovent >> >> https://www.ecoventsystems.com/ >> >> I have replaced most of my vents in my 3100 sqr foot home with these and >> their controllers. >> >> It’s the closest thing I have found to a commercial HVAC damper system. >> >> The App is ok, and it has for sure evened out the temperatures in my >> rooms/house. >> >> But they don’t make a 6” round one that I need for three bathrooms, and >> those are still way off temp. >> >> And they can only do so much if your HVAC is totally screwed up like mine >> is. >> >> >> >> Chamberlain garage door control/monitor >> >> I absolutely needed this to be able to tell when my kids keep leaving my >> garage open for hours. >> >> I can remotely shut it and open it too. >> >> But there doesn’t seem to be any provision to tell it to automatically >> shut the door after ten minutes. >> >> If someone has figured that out, let me know because the kids keeps >> leaving it open. >> >> >> >> Harmony remote with Zigby/ZWave adapter >> >> Frankly I don’t use this at all. >> >> But I did program it at one time to switch my AV stuff on/off etc. >> >> It was slow to respond and often got in a bad ‘state’ because it doesn’t >> know the actual ON/OFF status of the devices. >> >> >> >> Nest HVAC control and smoke detector >> >> I do love this device, and it integrates with my Ecovent system directly >> >> So I occasionally manually adjust the main temperature on it. >> >> But most of the time I just control it through the Ecovent App now. >> >> The smoke detector is cool too and integrates well with the Nest. >> >> But I didn’t bother replacing the rest of the detectors, just one in the >> main hallway. >> >> >> >> Rachio sprinkler controller >> >> I got a good discount on this and a quick rebate check from UT state >> water conservation as well. >> >> It was a breeze to replace my two existing Rainbird controllers for the >> extended version of this. >> >> The app and control are awesome. >> >> It almost immediately killed my lawn though. >> >> The basic setup did not work right and I still don’t understand how to >> program it for my lawn conditions. >> >> My wife was super pissed off that our lawn was almost perpetually yellow. >> >> So this spring I’ve got my work cut out for me in re-programming the lawn >> ‘type’ and conditions so it works better. >> >> It has a hookup for a rain sensor which I bought this winter and will use >> with it. >> >> It also has the ability to hook up a main water flow device which I am >> planning to do to cross check my city water meter on our secondary water >> usage. >> >> >> >> I have one of those timer light switches in my kids bathroom that turns >> the fan/lights off after five minutes. >> >> But they keep pressing the buttons on it for longer times, like 60 >> minutes for a bath, so I still have to go check sometimes. >> >> >> >> I replaced most of the 65/75 W lightbulbs in my house with those cheap >> non-dimming LED lights. >> >> My power for lights being on all the time went way down, so I think it’s >> a good investment. >> >> Also, just the ease of not having to replace light bulbs all over the >> house every year was well worth it already. >> >> >> >> On the home wireless front, I just installed the UBNT Amplifi. >> >> It did improve coverage, but it cut my total speeds down by 1/5 on the >> high end 5GHz remote room wifi. >> >> So in a sense it works better than my spaceship ASUS router, in filing in >> the dead spots. >> >> But it is slower. The interface/app can shut down any device separately, >> so that is the feature I used the most. >> >> But it really dumbs things down in the app for control and you can’t >> really change much. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT,UACA) > My website <http://zachunderwood.me> > advance-networking.com > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
