Anyone here using smart home automation?

Control your aircond and lights from smart phone, lightings from smart phone and smoke detector sends signals to smart phone and etc.

planning to get Samsung SHS-P717 door lock end of the month when I visit kimchi land


and also LG Roboking VR 6370 LVM


Already have
-Smart home automation for controlling aircond, fan and TV in the rooms via phone
-Smart home automation for controlling aircond, fan, TV, Astro, Home theater via phone
-IP camera for movement tracking

This post has been edited by babyk: Apr 18 2015, 01:38 AM

LG Roboking I had it long time ago, the door lock worry no battery can't open door

This post has been edited by kimsim: Apr 18 2015, 07:24 AM

Why you need a smart Home?

It cost energy to use. Troublesome. Even just on/off a device.

how much price for door?

Because I can always remote access to my house to control when I am not at home

It is not troublesome, if you feel troublesome, your setup is totally wrong

Because I can always remote access to my house to control when I am not at home

It is not troublesome, if you feel troublesome, your setup is totally wrong

don't worry about that, it will give you warning about 1 week to replace the batteries

door lock price around RM1000

This post has been edited by babyk: Apr 18 2015, 09:53 AM

What to control when you're not at home?

No manual overwrite?

switching on my aircond when i am on my way back home

switching on my TV when I near to the house or upon timer setup

basically i control everything on IR remote such as TV, Astro

This post has been edited by babyk: Apr 18 2015, 10:15 AM

there are another model which comes with keys for manual overwrite

but the particular model i wanted you can use 9V battery to power up the door when the inside batteries are flat

I always read and hear people said this same thing.

For me, it is just a waste of energy and time. Doesn't really usefull. The only reason I can think of is, it is a luxury thing.

Let say, 1 day you comeback home and your lock out of battery. Either you,

1) Always carry a 9v battery.
2) Go out and get a 9v battery. If late night, 7/11 is the only answer.

wasting energy? far from it.
embedded systems use far less energy than your wireless router or the astro receiver. correctly integrated it will save lots of electricity.

The unit is still running on energy. There is nothing is zero energy. And the energy that run on this controller unit is worth benefit to me?

I don't really need to ON the aircon and light before I reach home. It doesn't save my bill this way. I doesn't need a phone to control everything. When the step to ON a device is too many and take time.

This is really my experience that I try before many many yrs.

sure. because it didn't work for you, i'm sure it won't work for anyone else.

cheers

i know it is a trend now to have "advance state-of-the-art" automatic home control, like sci fi movies....some even have voice / retina / biometric recognition n all....... but.......i can say that home automation has more cons

1) when thunderstorm n lightning (u know malaysia, tropical country) , zappp..... system fried
2) it is quite expensive
3) if u go for biometric control, ur eyes / fingers may be chopped off when thief rob u at ur doorstep
4) it makes u fat n lazy (by not physically moving to switch on something)
5) it makes u more "stupid", ur brain work less (especially when using timer control, u dont need to remember what time to ON the perimeter lights, or OFF the fan, etc etc)

there are pros and cons in smart home system

things i would do for smart homes:

1. integrated motion detectors with hd cctv cams and alarm system with fail safe, auto notification...its already available at a certain cost

2. cinema and audio smart mode for cinema/audio room....hehehehehehe
like if you wanna watch movie, just press the cinema mode and the lights auto adjusts its level, the projector turns on, the screen comes down, the amps turn on and your ipad has a movie menu

other than that.....i still prefer manual.....of coz auto gate is still a standard item to have lar