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Hi all sifu. New here and my house will be ready next year. currently surveying the smart home appliances.

Please bear with me if this is a stupid question cause i have totally no idea on smart home.

Do i just buy devices like Google home or alexa, and then make sure my light bulbs and some other home appliances is 'smart' and install a motor for curtain. Then i will be able to voice control them?

is mihome compatible with alexa? or aqara app can?

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I am new to this as well and would like to understand why Alexa is recommended compared to Google? Is it because of Alexa can be supported across more products?

No easy way. Perhaps you can tap the thermostat on water tank and calibrate to the actual temperature related to the current flow through the thermostat. 

Looking for similar solution, all my sensors and switches are connected to China server, I think my gateway is bought from china IIRC. Now thinking to switch to Malaysia server as the China server is really slow when trying to access on my phone with unifi. Sometimes I can't even refresh the app to remote control my lights.

Anyone having same slow response issue with China server?
Edit: what is the max equipment to connect to one single gateway? Thinking to expand with more switches and sensor and may need additional gateway.

Also, if I change to aqara gateway with homekit support, do I still need to link to China server?

is it to connect HA with aqara or xiaomi, we need to buy additional usb type zigbee connector?

Dear Sifus,

I wish ask abt the hub/ gateway, as I'm still confuse abt this Smart home concept, when it comes to AQARA or MIJIA? 

1. Which one I should get if I don't know how to read Chinese? AQARA or MIJIA

2. How do know which server that I should connect the hub/ gateway to? It is region dependent?

Recently I bought a Google Home Nest.

Thanks in advance.

Hi all sifus here.

I wanted to ask about ip camera, so far I used few Ip camera. DLink 942L, DLink 936L, Xiaomi 360 camera (bought from IOI City mall Mi Store), Ezviz C6CN 720p. All has detection area selection (in grids), but the issue is the notifications are delayed. I dont get instant notifications.

Among these few, I think Ezviz not bad. It has active tracking as well. Cheap price as well. Just only the notifications come late.

Is there any inexpensive and good notification speed IP camera to introduce? If can link to Nest Hub, lagi best. I'm looking to buy one to put at my shoe cabinet area. Anyone come to my grille will have motion detected and start recording.

Another thing is these IP camera recording is very very short. As i remembered, the most is also 30 seconds only. Is there any longer ones?

Make your own with 12V SK6812 strip.
Easy with 12V power brick, barrel connector, a NodeMCU and WLED software

Want to ask, anyone using Rubine ceiling fans? Want to use Wifi Infrared signal but the brand couldnt be found. Not sure what other altarnative brands that use similar infrared signal with Rubine. There are a lot a lot of brands to test one by one.

Hope there is Rubine ceiling fan users here that managed to set

Hi, any homekit or google home user here (planning to use these 2) can share experience of:

Just curious.... n wan to make sure b4 investing into these system....

Situation:
Say i am the person who set up the system, so every room i can gain access to their smart device n smart switches.... but once setup completed, eveything is running properly, n say my sis wanted to gain access to her own room and other common places, can i set access limitation for user? (privacy matter) like so that i cant control on her room's smart devices, and she cant control mine?

Sorry, new to this.....does tat mean if ur room is master room, n ur allowed user can control all includes Master room smart appliances as well? or u can juz allocate/restrict to room 1 or room 2 saja?

Question, I’m checking smart curtain but i need to go with Tuya motor so mostly dont come with rails... i need to buy the curtain rail separately is the attachment to the motor standard size/design i dont want the rail not compatible with motor

wanna ask regarding smart RGB LED strip controller, got such thing? from ewelink? or any other brand?

ic. this kind of thing quite technical. where can i start learning from? very interesting in deed