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Using Homey in a large home
Bgrolleman
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I have large home and already need three wifi routes to provide internet access everywhere. Are there already thoughts on how homey will handle these situations?
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We're investigating the possibility to make Homey a Wi-Fi repeater as well, so other devices can connect to it as well!
Z-Wave (or ZigBee) protocol works in a mesh network, meaning every Z-Wave product acts as a repeater when connected to AC-power. So range shouldn't be an issue in a large home using either Z-Wave or ZigBee.
Maybe some microphone/speaker repeaters would be helpful?
My issue is knowing whether the homey could support two voice commands from two microphones simultaneously.
So, this 'extender' (or the receiving homey, or location-dedicated homey) should be aware of the location inside the house; cause if the location (living, bathroom, garage) where a voice command like 'light on' is spoken could (should!) switch on the right light bulb - no need to speak 'turn on the light in the garage' - just 'turn on the light' should suffice, right? Just sharing my thoughts about how I think it should work ;-)
e.g. http://www.klikaanklikuit.nl/shop/nl/signaalversterker-aex-701
Keep in mind that there can only 6 senders be repeated by that AEX-701 from KaKu.
The first add-on we're looking at is an Infrared repeater. Just don't forget it reaaally expensive to make a new product :-)
http://www.globalcache.com/products/itach/
But an extender is the next go-to thing which should be developed. And even in variations like just a microphone or combined with a speaker/infrared repeater/etc. Chances are high amazon is developing this already for Alexa, so you might use those
I don't want to walk into the livingroom to give voice commands, it needs to be around me constantly in the house (smartwatch! :P) and also be aware which sensor picks up the command to get the location (which is ofc an easy thing to implement). So for now the Homey concept is very very cool, but has a limited use.
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