March 18, 2016 at 12:49Smartphone, laptop and tablet control the light in the apartment
Smartphones are firmly rooted in our hands. We sleep, eat, and, to be honest, go to the toilet with our favorite gadgets. Well, what without a favorite tweeter? How can you miss an important Facebook post? And almost everyone in the house has a Wi-Fi access point, which connects all home smartphones and tablets.
How to turn this bad habit into a useful one? Do not just spend your time on instant messengers, but return a little to reality? Adapt a smartphone to perform the necessary functions, and not just consume content and play. How?
It is known that today's smartphones through the application can control various household appliances, can be a universal remote control for anything from a TV to a microwave.
A slight lyrical digression.
For nine years, I managed the electricity of the capital of Belarus when I was at a shift in the dispatch network. Could remotely turn on and off the Minsk districts, plants, substations, electric vehicles, pumping stations and other facilities. Subsequently, my line of business changed, and I began to engage in information work in the power system, but the thirst for electricity management remained.
If you think about it, a smartphone can control electricity, at least in your apartment. Let me remind readers how the management of electricity in my apartment " evolved from slippers to remotes ." So, using these remotes (remote switches) and control units, you can control the light without getting up from the couch using your smartphone.
It’s enough to purchase a specialEthernet gateway , connect it to the router via Wi-Fi, configure its presence on the network, install the application on a smartphone - and here it is! You are the energy distributor of your home electrical network and control electricity remotely!
What is the practical use of this control besides just the thrust to control? There will always be those who will criticize, they say, and so we move a little, and here we don’t need to go to the switch, we’ll get completely fat. But there are objective situations, for example, when a person is temporarily immobilized or limited in movement.
Yes, it is in this situation that sick people or people with disabilities can be. He felt on himself when he was ill. At night with a temperature in the dark, when the children forgot to collect Lego and left it on the floor, it is not so easy to get into the toilet with dizziness. And he turned on “lighting in the corridor” from a smartphone, it became quite comfortable. Really rescued this function. I went to the toilet along the lighted corridor and turned off the light when I lay down.
I remember about mother-in-law, about every mother-in-law. Most elderly people often have to get up at night at night, not only to go to the toilet, but also to take medicine. This function is simply not replaceable, (so the mother-in-law said).
I use dimmable lights that set up night scenes of "dim light" so that bright light does not hit the eye.
Pleased with the built-in function of the gateway-timers.
Really use these amenities every weekday. Exactly at 6-20 hours, timer No. 3 (and there are only 8) turns on the LEDthe backlight in the kitchen, it illuminates both the kitchen and the corridor with a slight dim light, which in addition to the alarm clock says: “Get up, go wash and have breakfast!” Work is waiting! ”And timer No. 4 turns off the backlight in the kitchen at 7-00 and says:“ Have you breakfasted or not, but feet in your hands and into the parking lot, start the engine, or you’ll be late! ”
That's how two timers help every weekday morning morning job!
I did not forget about our smaller brothers. Now the life support system of the aquarium is also turned on by timer, because before they forgot to turn on aeration and light in it for a day.
Lighting in the nursery is also configured according to the script. At 21-30 hours the timer is triggered, and the scenario "reduce lighting by 30%" suggests that it is time to stop games and lessons, but you need to brush your teeth, then "potty", and sleep. At 22-00 hours the light in the nursery is turned off. It, of course, can be turned on, but this is a signal of an exact rebound.
Still pleased with the ability to use the "disable all" function. Now remotely, not even at home, I can turn off or turn on the lighting in all the fixtures attached to the system. Or turn on the light, simulating your presence.
To implement this function, you need to programmatically connect all sources to 1 channel. And turn on / off all with one click.
Further evolution I see the installation of control units on sockets, or on their group. So that you can even be on the road, but with the Internet, to manage the power supply of the apartment. How useful can the function remotely disconnect the iron or multicooker remaining in the "heating" mode and avoid a fire in the house, right? .. The
big advantage is that you can put each member on the smartphone to control the electrical elements of your home wiring family and you will have many remotes. Such democracy is not always useful, maybe children should not immediately give out such rights, but it already depends on the family structure of each specific household.
Especially for tech geeks who like to set up their own “smart home” on their own, or build it on Arduino bricks, I’ll add the following. This PR-1132 gateway has its own API, very simple and functional. Everything is described in detail in the instructions. So you can integrate this small and inexpensive system into more complex ones.
As a result, I have to admit that the smartphone has grown even more firmly into our hand and integrates even more into our lives! And I still control the light!
How to turn this bad habit into a useful one? Do not just spend your time on instant messengers, but return a little to reality? Adapt a smartphone to perform the necessary functions, and not just consume content and play. How?
It is known that today's smartphones through the application can control various household appliances, can be a universal remote control for anything from a TV to a microwave.
A slight lyrical digression.
For nine years, I managed the electricity of the capital of Belarus when I was at a shift in the dispatch network. Could remotely turn on and off the Minsk districts, plants, substations, electric vehicles, pumping stations and other facilities. Subsequently, my line of business changed, and I began to engage in information work in the power system, but the thirst for electricity management remained.
If you think about it, a smartphone can control electricity, at least in your apartment. Let me remind readers how the management of electricity in my apartment " evolved from slippers to remotes ." So, using these remotes (remote switches) and control units, you can control the light without getting up from the couch using your smartphone.
It’s enough to purchase a specialEthernet gateway , connect it to the router via Wi-Fi, configure its presence on the network, install the application on a smartphone - and here it is! You are the energy distributor of your home electrical network and control electricity remotely!
What is the practical use of this control besides just the thrust to control? There will always be those who will criticize, they say, and so we move a little, and here we don’t need to go to the switch, we’ll get completely fat. But there are objective situations, for example, when a person is temporarily immobilized or limited in movement.
Yes, it is in this situation that sick people or people with disabilities can be. He felt on himself when he was ill. At night with a temperature in the dark, when the children forgot to collect Lego and left it on the floor, it is not so easy to get into the toilet with dizziness. And he turned on “lighting in the corridor” from a smartphone, it became quite comfortable. Really rescued this function. I went to the toilet along the lighted corridor and turned off the light when I lay down.
I remember about mother-in-law, about every mother-in-law. Most elderly people often have to get up at night at night, not only to go to the toilet, but also to take medicine. This function is simply not replaceable, (so the mother-in-law said).
I use dimmable lights that set up night scenes of "dim light" so that bright light does not hit the eye.
Pleased with the built-in function of the gateway-timers.
Really use these amenities every weekday. Exactly at 6-20 hours, timer No. 3 (and there are only 8) turns on the LED
That's how two timers help every weekday morning morning job!
I did not forget about our smaller brothers. Now the life support system of the aquarium is also turned on by timer, because before they forgot to turn on aeration and light in it for a day.
Lighting in the nursery is also configured according to the script. At 21-30 hours the timer is triggered, and the scenario "reduce lighting by 30%" suggests that it is time to stop games and lessons, but you need to brush your teeth, then "potty", and sleep. At 22-00 hours the light in the nursery is turned off. It, of course, can be turned on, but this is a signal of an exact rebound.
Still pleased with the ability to use the "disable all" function. Now remotely, not even at home, I can turn off or turn on the lighting in all the fixtures attached to the system. Or turn on the light, simulating your presence.
To implement this function, you need to programmatically connect all sources to 1 channel. And turn on / off all with one click.
Further evolution I see the installation of control units on sockets, or on their group. So that you can even be on the road, but with the Internet, to manage the power supply of the apartment. How useful can the function remotely disconnect the iron or multicooker remaining in the "heating" mode and avoid a fire in the house, right? .. The
big advantage is that you can put each member on the smartphone to control the electrical elements of your home wiring family and you will have many remotes. Such democracy is not always useful, maybe children should not immediately give out such rights, but it already depends on the family structure of each specific household.
Especially for tech geeks who like to set up their own “smart home” on their own, or build it on Arduino bricks, I’ll add the following. This PR-1132 gateway has its own API, very simple and functional. Everything is described in detail in the instructions. So you can integrate this small and inexpensive system into more complex ones.
As a result, I have to admit that the smartphone has grown even more firmly into our hand and integrates even more into our lives! And I still control the light!