Using Homey in a large home

Jon

Okay so therefore you "can't" recommend one from 3rd party
I see I see...

Jon

By the way, @Emile, you mentioned before in this thread that you 'will be looking into supporting IR-repeaters'.
Do you expect this to be the case for the out-of-the-box version of Homey that will be shipped to the backers?

Confuzer

If you really want it everywhere, and affordable, I think a smartwatch is a better option for the time being

Siri sucked because you need to press a button. Now they say the smartphone has the "Hey Siri" modus, but to install Siriproxy again and see it change version/protocol/server so nothing works anymore. Tired of that Apple needs to make an API. And I guess with that feature on, the 18 hour will become 4 hours on 1 charge

Btw what did you use for the always listening functionality? The Voice Recog mod from Arduino or something else? The closest I find is stuff like Jasper to directly put a mic on the raspberry and I really want to install it at home because I am tired of opening and pushing my web interface buttons. I really loved the Wit.ai interface and just need a way to sent audio to it

RobinVanKekem

And will this only extend iR or also 433MHz and voice?

Emile

We're using proprietary techology by Sensory (the same as the Moto X)

As of IR repeaters, I don't think we will support them at launch. It is something I'd rather leave to the community, as *maybe* we will create our own infrared extender as well.

Falcon

I think it's time that Homey get's some wheels/drone-things and can come to you and then listens what you have to say ;-)

*Listen Homey, take a spin

anom

Is there any news on the IR extender?
In stead of having to put a sender and receiver, I'd hope Homey only has to produce or support a 3rd party receiving-end to prevent introducing more single point of failures and power consumers - this is under the assumption the homey hardware is capable of supporting it.

Use case: I have my Homey in the living and want to control infrared devices in a separate room. E.g. a ceiling fan with IR, an airco and an infrared controlled balcony heating. I'd like to put timers on the fan and combine it weather situation via IFTT etc. I don't need speach support in the separate room as IFTT works well enough hopefully combined with the soon to be released smartphone app.

Jon

Hi @Anom try Klikr. I've backed them and believe they're almost launching the device! See https://forum.athom.com/discussion/comment/4046/#Comment_4046

anom

Hi Jon, thanks for the reply. Yes that would exactly serve my goal if it integrates with Homey. The only downside I see is the battery, however also found 400 times rechargeable CR2032 batteries so that's not the objection either :-).

GeurtDijker

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