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Homeseer automation movie#
Homeseer automation android#
Homeseer automation Pc#
Homeseer automation free#

Not only is it cheaper but being Z-Wave I am able to control it with Homeseer.

Control the thermostat – I looked at Ecobee and Nest when my thermostat finally crapped out last year and ended up opting for a Honeywell Z-Wave thermostat.

I think everyone in my house is deaf so this has come in handy with the pizza delivery and UPS several times. “Get off my fucking lawn!” I also have a Z-wave device hooked to the doorbell so that when someone rings it several lights flash and Homeseer hollers “someone is ringing the doorbell”. I haven’t really been interested in adding it in but I also have a Chromecast hooked to a set of speakers on the front porch so the wife can listen to music out there and I could add in a message for visitors if I really wanted to.

Tell us if someone is at the door – I really like the idea of the Ring video doorbell and things of that ilk and while I will probably pony up the cash eventually to get one I am currently using a combination of Blue Iris and a camera and motion detectors to achieve the same results.

Homeseer automation movie#

Yeah, just as easy to use a remote but I can tell HomeSeer (or, more often than not) to “turn on FireTV” and it switches on my television and change the HDMI input to FireTV, If I say “turn on movie time it does the same but dims my lights and turns on the LED strip backlighting that’s behind the TV

Media control – I am currently using HomeSeer and several Globalcache IR controllers to operate my televisions and dumb audio receivers.

I can also use my actual motion detectors and door/window sensors to tell Blue Iris to start/stop recording, send notifications to my phone and more.

It allows me to have the cameras double as motion detectors to switch on lights, send me notifications, etc. There is also a Blue Iris plugin for Homeseer.

Homeseer automation android#

I can view them all via web browser, the desktop software or the Android app. Rather than using a separate app on my phone to view them I use the Blue Iris software to pull all the feeds into one central place. The thing about each of them is that they all have a feed. I also have two Foscams and a couple of webcams up and running. It’s a Walmart piece of crap basically, at least the software is. I have seven hardwired cameras all connected to an old Samsung DVR. Homeseer, using the HSTouch plugin has support for Foscam right out of the box but I chose a more complicated solution. Spend a ton of money on a system with compatible cameras or be like me…get whatever is on sale on eBay. With security cameras you have several choices. Currently I have about ten or eleven feeds going and a couple more cameras installed. Cameras! – I am a nut about this and have been since my oldest daughter hit her teenage years.I have started using the MQTT protocol as well and am in the process of removing IFTTT from stuff like this. TV show ready to download? Turn my desk lamp red and sends me a text (this can be done without IFTTT actually but that’s what I am using it for.) Last person leaves the house (tracked with the life360 app)…turn down the heat and make sure the doors are locked. I also use a few Hue lights and Wemo devices (my coffee maker has Wemo built in) and even though it’s easy to add them in to my Alexa I also like to have my home automation system keep track of an control things. Like Alexa, it adds a lot of value to my system. IFTTT support – Even though I prefer to make sure that everything important is 100% local control I like being able to tie IFTTT in with my system.Using plugins and scripts you can have it function as your own Jarvis with custom responses.

Homeseer automation Pc#

It’s only so-so with regular PC microphones. I have found (at least with the hardware that I currently have) that if you have a decent microphone array the voice recognition works very well. No need to worry if the CIA is listening in because it’s all local.

Voice Control – While there is a skill for Alexa (which I use extensively now and love it) Homeseer has this baked in and I’ve been using it for a long time.

Over the years the support from the company has been hit and miss for me but I can almost always find the answers to what I need in the forums.Īnyway, here are a few things you can do with HomeSeer. The HomeSeer forums are for user to user support (the devs are also somewhat active there as well and monitor it) and it is one of the oldest home automation forums currently online. One of the things I like about it so much isn’t even part of the software itself.

Homeseer automation free#

While there are plenty of pros and cons about it, mainly because it’s paid and everyone wants free beer, that’s not what this is about. I’ve been a pretty loyal HomeSeer user for the last 17 years or so, ever since I got into Home Automation.