Home Automation - Smartkit

Don't stone me... but how lazy must one be to have an automated blind ?
Next automation: Toiletroll replacer robot, including auto as$wiper.
 
HunterNW said:
Don't stone me... but how lazy must one be to have an automated blind ?
Next automation: Toiletroll replacer robot, including auto as$wiper.
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Then the question should be why automate anything?

I automated the outside lights turned on/off, because it was a hassle to do every single day of my life.
I still open the blind every single day, why not automate it? I know its only 1minute each day, but I would like it to happen for me.
 
HunterNW said:
Don't stone me... but how lazy must one be to have an automated blind ?
Next automation: Toiletroll replacer robot, including auto as$wiper.
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I think you're in the wrong thread.

When you have to open/close 11 blinds every day automating it is really nice.
 
HunterNW said:
Don't stone me... but how lazy must one be to have an automated blind ?
Next automation: Toiletroll replacer robot, including auto as$wiper.
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Also, rich people have a second thing that looks like a toilet, where it has a water washer for your bum. So not completely off with that joke of yours...
 
chickenbeef said:
I think you're in the wrong thread.

When you have to open/close 11 blinds every day automating it is really nice.
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Uhm.. no ? It's the home automation thread ? I read about Sonoff mini devices and stuff and is still deciding how and where to use it. So wrong.

If this is the thread ONLY for the rich with a gazillion blinds - Sorry, wrong place.
 
HunterNW said:
Don't stone me... but how lazy must one be to have an automated blind ?
Next automation: Toiletroll replacer robot, including auto as$wiper.
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there is one blind we for example never really open because "meh", but if it was automated will be nice, plus will give a sense that someone is home if the house is watched. And it is fun to do so why not.

automate your kids curtains for example, open them at 5:30 am in summer and get them up the easy way xD
 
Steamy Tom said:
there is one blind we for example never really open because "meh", but if it was automated will be nice, plus will give a sense that someone is home if the house is watched. And it is fun to do so why not.
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Like i said, don't stone me. Obvious there's uses for all automation. I agree with having a schit load of blinds. I don't have blinds - yet, so don't know the hazzles involved in opening/closing them.
 
HunterNW said:
Don't stone me... but how lazy must one be to have an automated blind ?
Next automation: Toiletroll replacer robot, including auto as$wiper.
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7 stackaway/sliding doors - 2 blinds each - my time is worth more than doing that everyday - if I can automate it, I will.
 
HunterNW said:
Don't stone me... but how lazy must one be to have an automated blind ?
Next automation: Toiletroll replacer robot, including auto as$wiper.
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Very little to do with lazy.

It can be an essential means of temperature control which can therefore save you money.

Automatically open when the sun is out in winter and closer when the sun is out in summer etc.

There is of course simply the cool factor of grouping it with other things say when turning on your TV and it’s extra bright part of the day to have them tilt automatically, but so nothing if the same happens at night etc.

Automation is almost never about being too lazy to push the button, it’s about never needing to push the button in the first place.

Further application I can think of is replacing your alarm by letting blinds open by X time so that you can wake up more naturally etc.

Hundreds of things it could relate to. In fact I’d specially go and install blinds in additional places if I had to go this route.
 
Soldered the capacitor onto 5 new Sonoff Mini's... Tomorrow I go into the roof to swap out for those already up there.

I really need a new side cutter to trim pcb better
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ebendl said:
For anybody running Home Assistant, here's a useful sensor anybody can add:

- platform: command_line
name: eskom_loadshedding_status
friendly_name: "Loadshedding status"
command: "curl http://loadshedding.eskom.co.za/LoadShedding/GetStatus"
value_template: '{{ value | round(0) | abs - 1 }}'
unit_of_measurement: "Stage"

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For some reason this has stopped working for me, anyone else having this problem?

This is what I get when I test locally.

Code: 
$ curl -v http://loadshedding.eskom.co.za/LoadShedding/GetStatus
*   Trying 147.110.251.73:80...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to loadshedding.eskom.co.za (147.110.251.73) port 80 (#0)
> GET /LoadShedding/GetStatus HTTP/1.1
> Host: loadshedding.eskom.co.za
> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
* HTTP 1.0, assume close after body
< HTTP/1.0 302 Found
< Location: https://loadshedding.eskom.co.za/LoadShedding/GetStatus
< Server: BigIP
* HTTP/1.0 connection set to keep alive!
< Connection: Keep-Alive
< Content-Length: 0
<
* Connection #0 to host loadshedding.eskom.co.za left intact
 
Steamy Tom said:
there is one blind we for example never really open because "meh", but if it was automated will be nice, plus will give a sense that someone is home if the house is watched. And it is fun to do so why not.

automate your kids curtains for example, open them at 5:30 am in summer and get them up the easy way xD
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The waking up in summer is the exact reason I want them. Its far nicer to have the blind open slowly and let natural light in than to have a piercing alarm do the same thing.
 
ThatGuy_ZA said:
For some reason this has stopped working for me, anyone else having this problem?

This is what I get when I test locally.

Code: 
$ curl -v http://loadshedding.eskom.co.za/LoadShedding/GetStatus
*   Trying 147.110.251.73:80...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to loadshedding.eskom.co.za (147.110.251.73) port 80 (#0)
> GET /LoadShedding/GetStatus HTTP/1.1
> Host: loadshedding.eskom.co.za
> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
* HTTP 1.0, assume close after body
< HTTP/1.0 302 Found
< Location: https://loadshedding.eskom.co.za/LoadShedding/GetStatus
< Server: BigIP
* HTTP/1.0 connection set to keep alive!
< Connection: Keep-Alive
< Content-Length: 0
<
* Connection #0 to host loadshedding.eskom.co.za left intact
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They forcing you to https. So fix the url.
 
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