House automation
Nov 18, 2016 14:13:35 GMT
Post by crankcase on Nov 18, 2016 14:13:35 GMT
Hmm. Why do I do these things?
I've just bought a Nest thermostat. This is now sitting in a box in my dining room, awaiting a Man to fit it.
Clearly, it's going to make the house wonderfully warm, predicting when we swan in after a hard day down the sugar mines, save me hundreds a year and open up a whole new world of smart device interoperability. I thought.
The reality, I suspect, is going to be endless fiddling to finally get back to exactly where we are now, slightly less reliably, at huge cost (it was £30 just for the stand, for Pete's sake) and a payback period measured by geology. I also predict Eeyore-ish postings ahead.
Mind you, it did mean I discovered the joys of IFTTT, where you can make "stuff" talk to "other stuff" very easily. Obviously, the only thing I could find to do with it as proof of concept was bizarre, but it worked. So now, every time the temperature in Cambridge drops below 10 centigrade, I get a random Fats Waller track on a Spotify playlist. Well, why not?
There's a website and app for IFTTT, it must be brilliant.
Anyway - anyone else doing "home automation"?
I've just bought a Nest thermostat. This is now sitting in a box in my dining room, awaiting a Man to fit it.
Clearly, it's going to make the house wonderfully warm, predicting when we swan in after a hard day down the sugar mines, save me hundreds a year and open up a whole new world of smart device interoperability. I thought.
The reality, I suspect, is going to be endless fiddling to finally get back to exactly where we are now, slightly less reliably, at huge cost (it was £30 just for the stand, for Pete's sake) and a payback period measured by geology. I also predict Eeyore-ish postings ahead.
Mind you, it did mean I discovered the joys of IFTTT, where you can make "stuff" talk to "other stuff" very easily. Obviously, the only thing I could find to do with it as proof of concept was bizarre, but it worked. So now, every time the temperature in Cambridge drops below 10 centigrade, I get a random Fats Waller track on a Spotify playlist. Well, why not?
There's a website and app for IFTTT, it must be brilliant.
Anyway - anyone else doing "home automation"?
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