Anyone here do home automation?

[th3w01f]

I have a lot of questions and if you do it professionally I'd like to get a quote.

The main issue I have at the moment is entering a dark living room and wanting to turn on the kitchen light that's 30' away. I'd like to use a panel or something similar to turn lights on and off from the hallway outside of the bedroom. Remote motion sensory or switches might also work but these are ceiling mounted so plug in options won't work.

[Great-Kazoo]

WE just installed a LED strip in a usually dark area of the house, it came with a remote. They also offer remotes for ceiling fans and lights. Along with sensor dimmer / ON - OFF light switches.
Probably not what you had in mind.

http://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products.../Overview.aspx

http://www.control4.com/

[gnihcraes]

Smarthings.com. works well. Not perfect but...

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[Brian]

I do a lot of home automation. If you just have one light though, I'd probably just go something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/SK-8-Wireless-.../dp/B0052ROEB2

[asmo]

I have a bunch of zwave switches, outlets, and sensors all around the house. I use SmartThings as my controller and am pretty happy. It's super easy if you have any electronic/electrical knowledge.

Let me know what specific questions you have - happy to help. Your requirements sound pretty easy. Couple of switches and you should be good to go.

[Grant H.]

I have been goofing around with Ubiquiti mFi outlets and light switches.

https://www.ubnt.com/mfi/inwall/
https://www.ubnt.com/mfi/mpower/

[def90]

Lutron RadioRa2..

The question is how much do you want to spend?

[drift_g35]

I installed some Wemo switches and they have been 100% so far. I also use an app called IfThisThanThat https://ifttt.com/ to control some stuff around the house. For example if I get within a certain radius then certain lights turn on for me.


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[Irving]

While you're at it, there is a WiFi controlled auto shut off for your main water line. I think you set it to detect water flow when you're gone and it automatically shuts off the main line.

[brutal]

While you're at it, there is a WiFi controlled auto shut off for your main water line. I think you set it to detect water flow when you're gone and it automatically shuts off the main line.

I could be wrong, but I suspect the water district here also has the ability to shut off my water remotely with the new wireless meters they installed. I asked him about moving it up into the floor joists (it's at the bottom of the damn stairwell) and he did say they can detect the lack of pressure to the meter and might come knocking (fraud detection or something). Not that I would expect they could detect a leak and shut it down, just commenting. For that matter, they sure as hell didn't proactively tell me I was using 3x my normal consumption when I found a water leak on the sprinkler system and then saw my bill two days later.