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From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Lewis Bergman <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> Reply-To: <af@afmug.com> Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 2:20 PM To: Animal Farm <af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Home automation I have a cheap wink at my shop. I have 4 of the commercial owners with myQ and all the doors have Schlage, I think, door locks. It comes in pretty handy, the person who cleans my place had a sub one Sunday and called me to see if I could let her in. She didn't want to give them Her code. I could see who was at the door with the camera and unlock the door. I'll also say that unlocking and locking the door is faster than with a key. On Jan 8, 2017 12:42 PM, "CBB - Jay Fuller" <par...@cyberbroadband.net> wrote: I glanced at the website, some of the stuff looks neat. I've got a lake rental property - it would be nice to use those particular door handles and be able to change the codes remotely or change the temp remotely. The rest is not as cool to me. We already use motion sensor lights, I have no desire to see my blinds go up and down automatically depending on what time of day it is (after all the days get longer for six months, then get shorter for six months), plus in terms of recurring revenue, i don't see it. Personally I think more money could be made working with an electrician and working on alternative forms of energy - not only that does save you $$$ over the long haul but you could setup a return visit to check on everything at least once a year - maybe twice - and the customer pay for it out of the savings from not having to purchase as much utility power. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tushar Patel To: af@afmug.com Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2017 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Home automation I guess it helps to do more research on the product before asking question, my bad. Zwave has very competitive list of products. Tushar On Jan 8, 2017, at 11:31 AM, Jaime Solorza <losguyswirel...@gmail.com> wrote: I have installed the Honeywell smart thermostats for two way radio repeater communication rooms on Franklin mountains . Emails client when temperature varies from his desired levels. Our summers get toasty so that is his main concern... Ice build up on antennas does happen but not much you can do about it safely. On Jan 8, 2017 10:20 AM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: What he said... From: Tushar Patel Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2017 6:40 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Home automation Do you have part list you used you can share? You mentioned Zwave. What else? Tushar On Jan 8, 2017, at 5:58 AM, Paul Stewart <p...@paulstewart.org> wrote: My house used to run purely on Control4 system .. professionally installed and quite expensive. I got sick of $125 service calls for rather simple stuff to be done and decided to replace it with a DYI system…. The Control4 system with labour and service calls etc set me back around $25k in total. Right now with the DYI system I have probably $4k invested plus my time … at most. Zero monthly subscription, zero headaches …. And no service calls. The one part though that I think a lot of folks overlook (as I did) is working with electrical in your house … I replaced outlets and switches for example and the zwave stuff I used is much deeper than normal switches – I wish now that I had just hired an electrician to mess around with that stuff in particular as it’s not something I do every day kind of thing …. I know someone in my area that does home automation for a living … done it for years. He is very busy … his main clients are folks who have cottages and wish to remotely control/monitor their properties especially during times they are not visiting it very much … Paul From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Joe Novak <jno...@lrcomm.com> Reply-To: <af@afmug.com> Date: Friday, January 6, 2017 at 4:13 PM To: <af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Home automation https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/ Just reading that a little bit may peak your interest in the DIY stuff. I am considering setting up a system at home. https://home-assistant.io/ is the software I'd like to use to run it. On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 1:48 PM, jay weekley <iluvbroadb...@gmail.com> wrote: That's what I was wondering. I look at the stuff Lowe's and wonder how many people have the knowledge to set it all up but I have zero knowledge in the products. Maybe it's time to automate my thermostat. On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Lewis Bergman <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> wrote: There is so much do it yourself gear out there now I would think the only money would be in the very high end stuff. Things you probably have to focus as a sole business. On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 10:23 AM jay weekley <iluvbroadb...@gmail.com> wrote: Is there any real money to be made in home automation? Any recurring revenue? How about headaches and problems?
