I have a Nest thermostat at home that I find useful - Being able to turn on/off/adjust heating over the internet is handy when you have an unpredictable lifestyle.
I also have a Pebble Time smartwatch which I like - mostly for reminding me of calendar appointments on the go and the health-tracking stuff (I can't do much more because it doesn't connect to my FxOS phone - when I'm at home it connects to a tablet and it lets me control my thermostat, check e-mails, tweets, etc.). There's not a whole lot of 'internet' in this though, so perhaps that doesn't count... I quite like my Amazon Fire TV box too - being able to cast YouTube from my Android tablet is handy, then being able to play media from shared network storage (and Netflix and Amazon Instant, though I guess that doesn't count?). I occasionally use the web-browser on the WiiU - I'm not sure if/where games consoles fall on the IoT spectrum. It's a pretty nebulous term... Do they have to be things that wouldn't normally be on the internet? What's a 'thing'? I'd quite like to have an internet-connected light-bulb (to turn on/off when I'm on holiday, mostly), but tbh, I could probably do that with a dumb bulb and they're far too expensive to justify for such a minimal use-case. I'd be interested in hearing other peoples' uses of existing, commercial products. --Chris On 25 January 2016 at 16:58, Sam Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > I spent some of my weekend setting up OpenHab[1] on a rPi2 and a Z-Wave > multi-sensor device[2] that gets me temperature, light level, humidy and > movement. I have some more troubleshooting to do as the z-wave device > worked great on USB power right next Pi (with a z-wave controller stick) > but as soon as I put it on battery power on my front porch, its been flaky. > > OpenHab was a pretty straightforward install. Its a java-based server app > (built on jetty I believe) that has a system of bindings for different > devices and a slightly quirky DSL for defining models and views/layouts > (items and sitemaps) I don't know what else comparable is out there in this > space, but it seems quite powerful and flexible. They have a database of > devices that meant that even though the device I was hooking up wasn't one > of the best-known brands, it was straightforward to set up - though maybe I > got lucky. I've read a couple of places that z-wave devices can be flaky, > but I've not done the troubleshooting yet to see if I'm getting data and > its not displaying properly or what. > > I've got a wifi-controlled power outlet on the way which I'll hook up > next. I got a big pack of arduino/rPI-compatible sensors but 0 docs came > with it (not even labels on which is which) so I'm waiting on the vendor to > deliver the promised docs. > > 1. http://www.openhab.org/ > 2. > http://www.iwasdot.com/configuring-a-aeon-labs-multi-sensor-with-openhab/ > > /Sam > > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Karl Dubost <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Le 20 janv. 2016 à 05:56, Sam Foster <[email protected]> a écrit : >> > * per-room / non-central heating. I'm thinking a thermostat of sorts >> that plugs into a main outlet, that I can plug a small electric heater into? >> >> Before this one, there is one I would love to have. Basically, local >> thermometers in each room connected to my **local-only** network through >> the WIFI to my computer, a reading once every 5 minutes would be enough. >> >> The why. In Japan, houses have generally bad insulation, so people end up >> heating only the room(s) they are living in. It means it's freaking cold in >> winter and/or freaking hot in summer. Having a better understanding of the >> temperature variations could help define a strategy for insulation >> improvements and heating schedules. >> >> Example: This morning, my office room was 3°C (37.4 Farenheit). By 10am >> it had reached 12°C with an Aladdin [1] and now at 2pm, it's 20°C. >> >> >> >> [1]: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61JHErlikwL._SL1000_.jpg >> >> -- >> Karl Dubost, Mozilla >> http://www.la-grange.net/karl/moz >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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