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There are a few Raspberry pi and Kinect projects out there with face recognition, but it might be much easier to use a bluetooth beacon of some sort. Any particular use case you are looking for?
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Acceptable. I would not do it if it doesn't work perfectly. good voice recognition is hard already and multilanguage only makes it harder. Besides, there are more important things on the to-do list.
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Global variables might be nice, but you could also use a dummy device to store the variable. Example 1: Make the "living room" device and assign a temperature variable to it. When my thermostat temperature or my secondary temperature sensor chang…
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My short answer would be: Homey is an improved HomeWizard. A separation is forming between hubs and sensors/actors. Klik-Aan-Klik-Uit (Click-On-Click-Of) products, Philips hue lamps, Nest thermostat or Fibaro are all sensors/actors. HomeWizar…
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btwvince said: Just a small question. Will Homey be able to detect which language is used? For example in my case I speak dutch and my girlfriend speaks French. It would be easy if Homey could detect the language and replied in that language…
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Nest is comming with an OpenTherm version:http://tweakers.net/nieuws/106347/nest-brengt-nieuwe-versie-uit-met-opentherm-ondersteuning.html#r_8017385
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I think Fibaro + Kaku + Hue is a very powerful combination. Hue has high quality lights, but the switches are simply impractical. Kaku Wall sockets are a great addition to upgrade existing lamps with wireless control. Fibaro or KaKu switches (dep…
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@Aaron: Sounds like an interesting experiment. I have been thinking about something similar using a raspberry pi. It will all depend at how good the microphone of a smartphone is and how well Homey can recognize the activation comment. The accuracy…
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Congratulations Homey! What a great achievement.
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honey said: Thank you rscheers and thank you JaapPelt for the nice explanation, halving the heating cost is really great. I started to read about the OpenTherm and I can`t find Boiler what uses this interface. I am planning to have either Vaillan…
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I was thinking about attaching one to the remote only to realize Homey will also replace the remote :-)
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Has anyone been to convention in Eindhoven? I was under the impression it was mainly focused on professionals and companies.
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I know there are quite a few alternatives to TrackR Bravo. Perhaps some of them can pair with multiple devices. Pairing only with Homey isn't such a bad idea as I normally only look for my keys in the house anyways and then my both me and my girlfri…
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I'm not an expert, but from what I have read, a thermostat will ensure your boiler works more efficiently. OpenTherm compatible heaters for example allows a boiler to decide how high it should be heating the water by comparing the current with the d…
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Reading the manual is a good tip. From what I read so far, all the Fibaro stuff is really amazing, but the Busch-Jaeger might be convenient when there is less room in the wall socket. The swipe switch looks totaly awesome. I want to control my…
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So, now that we covered to topic of cables, which light switch do you guys recommend? I only have experience with KaKu AWMD-250 which is a receiver only. I like to upgrade some of my switches to z-wave or zigbee, but I'd rather not depend on a wirel…
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Michael said: We just have to make sure Homey will support MQTT. TheThingsNetwork uses this protocol. Amazon IoT, which is also just released, also works on MQTT. I think this will be a very important protocol in the future for IoT application…
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DieterKoblenz said: Do you know what type of intercom and door driver you have installed? The fact that you can't open the door when nobody calls makes me a bit sceptical if this works. An urmet: https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs1…
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ThermoSmart is already present in the Homey App store: https://apps.athom.com/ If you have an OpenTherm heater (which is common in the Netherlands), you probably don't want a Nest.
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Personally, I would not use ethernet anymore for anything except placing your router at an optimal spot in the center of the house. Zwave and Zigbee have excellent coverage. Tip of the day: Ensure you have a blue and brown wire everywhere (even i…
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Very interesting concept. I'm considering backing this one, but I don't know for sure if my intercom with audio and video is supported. My apartment is sharing the same cable with the apartments above and below me. If nobody calls, I can't open the …
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Joolee said: Will Homey be able to function as a receiver? I don't have any Hue hardware but I do have an ambilight tv that is able to control Hue lamps. I would like to use that signal to let Homey controll the colour of my led strings …
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OGS said: @Emile, maybe you could do a lauch day when you have some of the final products? You already did the backers barbeque, maybe something like an open office so people willing to travel to Enschede could meet the people behind Homey? …
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kasteleman said: @ReneBoeije: with KAKU still no assurance that it will execute the command if the problem lies otherwise. You have no feedback. Same with infrared... Reliability of receiving devices is not something we can expect Homey t…
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@kastelman: KAKU is not a problem, the on and off are different, so if you send 'On' twice, no issue. This is unfortunately not true. Kaku dimmers are an exception. After sending the ON command twice, They will go into a continuous cycle …
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Honeywell is the only opentherm thermostat I know of which works together with the zones, but I don't know if "blokverwarming" is opentherm or simple on-off. You can always use smart thermostat-knobs. I have read that the possibilities and effici…
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Hi Emile, Congratulations on your apartment. How do you find the time for it? If we all come over and help you paint/move, will Homey ship a week sooner?
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I think we can now safely confirm that Homey is indeed run by humans instead of alians/robots. I was beginning to worry that they were using alien technology to propel us humans into the future faster than the human race could handle in order to ful…
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Hi Everyone, This has happened to my as well. As an experiment, I removed all wall light switches from the living room just to see if it would work. Of course my girlfriend wasn't too happy about it, but it was in the name of science, so she conc…
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For android apps, developers sometimes have a seconden beta app in the play store. (Chrome for example)