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The third in my how do I automate my home series begins today. First off, my rule for home automation project is whatever you do make your life more simple. Do not create complex systems that require you to expend time and effort to keep them running. While the concept of Rube Goldberg machines has always been fun to consider, they do not fit in the world of home automation. Home automation is about making things simple.
Door locks, as mentioned yesterday, are the easy button of home automation projects. They solve a universal problem (and by the way they are battery operated so in the event of power failures they continue to work)! Plus, they add the wonderful auto-locking, as well as the connect remotely to lock functionality to your life. Every single-family vacation we ever took via car started with us two miles down the road, wondering did we lock the front door, and did we close the garage door. Now, we can quickly look at a screen on a cell phone for the answer. We’ve installed the home automation easy button!
The next easy project is to install a Hue bridge and a Hue lighting gateway. First of all, I recommend the lights next simply because they are a simple and easy project to install and they allow you to turn on lights when you aren’t home. Including lights, allows you to maintain someone is home, even when they aren’t by having random lights turn on for variable periods. Always, though remember the shadow rule. If lights are in rooms with open, visible windows, burglars look for shadows. If they don’t see a shadow, then ring the doorbell, and if no one answers, they break-in. Home security is a critical part of home automation.
The last automation thing to consider is a video doorbell. SkyBell, Ring, and others install using the wiring of your existing doorbell and allow you to see who is at your door, even if you are relaxing on vacation at the beach!
I watch CNN to keep my English alive and they always show commercials of video doorbells. Ring. It is very interesting how the burglars are afraid of it
Burglars seek two things.
quiet
darkness
the reason for both is their goal is not to get caught. Video cameras, just the cameras will make them move on to another home!
It annoys me that burglars get away with making other’s lives a misery. However, I am not going to stress over it if I go away.
Your security systems work if you don’t have to pay for it monthly.
I don’t like burglar alarms I almost installed one here but my husband took 2 days to get over the sound of it going off when it was tested.
that becomes the issue, the value of peace versus the value of the security. you have to do what works for you!!!
Too many technical gadgets for me. I enjoyed one of the Home Alone movies I forgot what number where a lady lived in a house that you could tell it what to do or not to do and the house itself would do it.
For some things in our house now, Alexa can do that. But I do understand the reality of where we are is critical.
Ring concerns me a little. They all can be manipulated it seems.
if you don’t secure your account, they can easily be controlled. I change mine once a month.
to be honest i don’t have any of these gadgets … for now i feel safe and i don’t think i need such gadgets … i live in an urban settlement which is very safe …. for now
these are simply things people can do, no recommendation just reporting!
The post is very interesting, and maybe sometime I buy something for better security
There are many such devices, and the cost continues to go down!!!
When the hay market is falling for a while, it is not worth it to overtake
the value right now is that cameras are much cheaper. cameras that see at night etc are 1/10 what they used to cost.
Interesting information. I live in a house with my sister so I don’t need any similar devices at the moment.
thanks! I was playing around with old posts in terms of trying to try views. This is an older post but has lots of views.