Devices and automations in my apartment in Valencia

I think I’ve ever told you I’m Valencian. My wife and children also in me, we were born there and moved to Tres Cantos in Madrid about 7 or 8 years ago. The thing is, I sold the apartment where we lived there that was also a large 4-room apartment but I keep the apartment of the beach and we use it as base camp when we go to Valencia to see the grandparents or in failures or when they play marathon of Valencia.

In summer, as soon as the children finish school and the extra-school, the summer tournaments, and the festivals of my two dancers, we go to the apartment until the end of August. I mean, by taking the summer season off, I go down to the apartment once a month or sometimes not, and that’s why I have some of the devices and automations I’m going to tell you.

For starters, I have the light differentials down.. I don’t cut the light at all but there are phases down completely. I mean, that I have no Internet connection.. There I have O2 fiber but I don’t want a boring neighbor (you’ll tell me how he’s not going to be bored in winter on the beach) to get down days trying to sneak into Emi wifi with an attack of stable rainlaws.

The point is, the router has no current, but for the router I have a semi-smart plug that carries a SIM card. and activate the current.

In addition, The plug has a temperature sensor, so I can get an alert if it gets hot for whatever reason or if there was a fire or something..

This plug has a conventional regatta connected and to activate it simply send an SMS or call your phone number. In that regatta I have the router and a HomePod Mini.

Why don’t I have a smart recess? Basically because it would have to have the router and HomePod light always active to make it the centre of accessories accessible from the outside.

Once with Internet connection and With the HomePod activated, I can already access the other smart sockets where I have for example the electric thermo and a couple of radiators of those oil, that in a beach apartment in winter it is quite fresh but in Valencia there are not many houses with heating, so it is to pull from conventional oil radiators.

The plugs are brand Meross and are directly compatible with HomeKit. I bought a 4 pack that comes out very well of price.In addition, they now have a coupon of -15% off and are still better, at less than €10 per plug.

I use the HomePod mini temperature sensor to know if it’s too cold and then turn on the radiators. And as always, the house has to act alone, that is, if it does less than 17 degrees and we are in the area, entones turn on the switch where the radiator is. It’s a big apartment, as you know I have hundreds of children and I need at least 3 rooms and enough meters to keep my nose off each other.

Apart from the two radiators and the electric heater, I have the fourth plug on a little lamp in the living room that never turns on manually. As you say. Emilcar Why are we going to use our own hands as if we were troglodites being able to automate this, so I have a shortcut on condition and, if we’re in the area and it’s getting dark, then light the lamp. In this case the area is much more narrow as the radiators turn them on if I enter the Valencian community because if I have given the current to the router and you can execute that condition is that I will pass through the remote

I can go to Valencia for a meeting or for leisure and not go through the apartment, so in that case I don’t send the SMS to the plug and nothing is done. However, the area defined in the automation of the lamparite is much smaller to the urbanization where the apartment is and little more.

I don’t have much more tame in the apartment. I’ve ever thought about putting on a gas detector as the kitchen works on butane chocolates but I like that it’s the one from Aqara that is compatible with HomeKit and it detects gases like butane, propane, CO2 and so on, it’s not yet Thread, it’s zigbee and it needs the Aqara bridge… I don’t want to get so much. In addition to this you can mess up everything you want because there are smart valves that allow you to close the gas key, although in my case it would be to close the calves that have the butane bulbs… but what if the leak is in the same bottle? That can happen, right? There’s also a partner.

lo.org / telegram «rel =» noopener «target =» _ blank «> in the Telegram group I’ve already told you not to go through there if you don’t want to spend more money than you have on the budget that has put a smart valve in the housing pass key that is a key of these ARCO a quarter back, so if the water leak detector detects water, then close the pass key. If you can finally mess up anything you want.

Well, I also have a single-capsule coffee maker (you’ll see how this looks some barista coffee lover as my friend Joaquín from the podcast The Cupertino garage… the fact is that this coffee maker works by pressing a button and I’ve ever thought about putting on a switch that I prepared the coffee for when I get back from running… but anyway you have to put the capsule manually, so I have to get close to it the same.

I had also thought about putting an open door sensor in case the door opens at some point I’m in Madrid, but I think it’s not worth it either and I would force myself to have the router and the HomePod mini always on, not that they consume a lot of light but something they consume… and what I’m most concerned about is that some boring neighbor always sees my wifi’s SSID and to try to touch the nose. The good thing about the door-opening sensor is that it could be put as a condition for the light of the living room if we go into the house at night as I have it in Madrid, that the light is turned on so that you don’t go into the dark and the 4 minutes it goes out alone.

Because you’re only supposed to be on your way to the room or the bathroom.

Actually, The only thing that will solve a real need for me is the issue of temperatures when it’s cold because, as sometimes a couple of months pass without us going and it’s on the front line on the beach, it’s a lot of moisture and fresh in winter. I mean, it’s Valencia, it doesn’t get to -14 degrees either, but when it’s closed and on the beach, the house is very cold every time we get there. However, heat is not a problem, even if we are in the middle of a heat wave in summer, sometimes at night we have to close the windows because it comes in quite a bit of air and makes fresquette.

So you see, with an investment of less than 200 €with the GSM plug that is not cheap, I have all the real needs and I can get to the apartment from Madrid knowing that it will be at the right temperature in winter and that the electric heater will have hot water in case we want to shower when we arrive. wp: block {«ref»: 1612} /