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Am a fan and enthusiast of home automation, tried various things in the past and now settled with few things which I would like to share.
- Light Automation is the first and most popular thing to do — Initially I started wiring with PIR sensor available in Amazon, later upgraded the entire light system to Philips Hue and along with Philips Motion sensor, so far so good. Its expensive than my initial solution but had to choose that because of wired vs wireless situation in home
- Smart-plugs are another common set of devices — while I have both combinations of commercially available one and also I personally flashed few of Sonoff smart switches with Tasmota firmware
Lets get to the Curtain Rollers — So for these here is the catch, I have a remote for these and thats about it, nothing more nothing less, My ideas were mostly around having network connectivity and manipulating them.
- First and foremost thought that these are blue-tooth based and am wrong
- I went to DFROBOT and bought IR-Transmitter and IR-Receiver, nope they dint work
- I went Amazon and bought some other IR-transmitter and Receiver — Again, wasted a lot of re-search time dint work or I could not make them work
- Some one recommonded Sonoff RF-Bridge, ordered in Ali Express and waited for 35 days only to find out that they only work mostly with Sonof supported devices, there were ideas to flash but it was too…
