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Sanity check, please. I’ve got a Honeywell RTH9580WF thermostat, and I’m tired of Alexa not being able to change from heat to cool, and its own scheduling sucks. (App’s pretty good, though.) Talk me out of getting an ecobee3 Lite and buying a couple of sensors rather than getting an ecobee4 (that I’ll immediately turn off its built in Alexa integration and just let me Echos run it). Seems like the 3 has better hardware quality, I have a c-wire, and I don’t mind buying sensors a la carte given the lower price of the 3. Rational reasons against this choice, such that I should choose the 4?
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Oooh, the red-light disabled Alexa in the 4 could be a WAF problem. Funny how this is the very day I'm strongly considering this, given the price cut of the 4.
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Thank you all for your input. I've gone with the 3 since I found a deal on sensors, and my old 1973 home only has a simple furnace and heat pump.
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housefly posted:Where did you find the sensor deal? I’m interested in picking one or two up.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:13
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Thomamelas posted:PC with Blue Iris. And Hik is a fine option as long as you understand that the cameras should be behind a firewall with no port forwarding or other direct exposure to the internet.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:15
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Oh, indeed. No access to the Internet by the cameras themselves, you bet.. but the VMS made VPN-viewable. Roger that.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:44
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CopperHound posted:Okay... I didn't realize what a clusterfuck security camera supply chains are. The only direct to consumer vendor I can find that doesn't seem sketchy as gently caress is B&H, but they cost ~$100 more than I was expecting. Legitimately curious: What price point were you hoping for, and what price did you find (expensive)? Not being argumentative, but B&H’s prices seem.. completely normal. Were you envisioning like $30 cameras?
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Nov 14, 2017 03:27
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CopperHound posted:I was expecting $100-150 for decent fixed lense cameras of various focal lengths. 
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Nov 15, 2017 00:02
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Droo posted:All the ones I see on B&H are over $200 except like two for just under. I'd been looking up B&H Photo on Safari on my phone all this time, and for the item B&H# HIDS2CD2132I MFR# DS-2CD2132F-I-2.8MM, 3MP 2.8mm outdoor, my phone shows $106 whereas Chrome on my PC shows $206... the hell? The one you linked, the B&H# HI2CD2142FWD, is $243 on my PC, as you've seen, but on my phone it's $151.07 (below) Same Hikvision and B&H part numbers. This is why I've been confused, perhaps. Anyone else confirm? 
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Nov 15, 2017 17:33
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I feel better now. Kind of.
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Nov 15, 2017 17:48
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Matt Zerella posted:If I have a NAS running 24/7, does that mean I don't need a hue hub if I use something like Home Assistant? I think I get what HA does, it kind of ties everything together for different smart home stuff? Does your NAS have z-wave and Zigbee radios, etc?
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Nov 27, 2017 18:22
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Use “bedroom lights,” not “lights in bedroom.”
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Feb 19, 2018 18:41
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Anyone had recent experience with blinds from either Lutron's Serena line or from ZebraBlinds? We're not super picky about the blinds themselves (vanity, fabrics, snazz) but are more interested in the quality of their Z-wave radios, remotes, and motors. The price difference isn't straight up double, but it's close. We're looking at single blackout rollers or blackout cellular and would upgrade to double rollers in a few big rooms for both blackout and diffuse sweetness. Point out any pitfalls, goons?
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Is it just me, or the Live Chat button on the Smartthings support page completely unclickable? Only the email button responds... https://support.smartthings.com/hc/en-us Leftover from the big NA outtage two days ago, maybe?
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Mar 15, 2018 23:07
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So, everybody wants blinds but nobody’s got ‘em? A trip report would be superb. Mind you, both Zebra and Lutron look nice, but I’d love 1st party feedback.
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Mar 16, 2018 22:22
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Please.
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Jun 9, 2018 18:20
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My home keeps the peace by having a physical switch, even if just a wireless one, mounted on the wall like the batteried Hue one, at every point we were used to the old rockers. So switch touch, voice, or app works. Said personal hell is avoidable. It just costs more. (I have gently caress all for common wires at like 75% of my switches/outlets, soooo...)
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Jun 22, 2018 18:48
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Zero VGS posted:It's stupid, I got one for free with my smart phone and flipped it on eBay for $30
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Honest opinion, as in “I honestly think your question is best answered by ignoring the main focus of the question?” You really thought his girlfriend specifically *didn’t* want a speaker-based device? To hell with an argument of popularity, how about answers with topicality. Ah.... but your hot take wouldn’t fit in then, huh? And, like, your experience would be, what... antithetical? I should stop answering my own questions, I think.
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Zero VGS posted:I hadn't read anyone else's replies when I made the comment about it being a dumb gimmick Let's all be better posters. Topcality, you see...! I'd say the Minis sound a smidge better than an Echo Dot, but I agree with Thermoplye that most any non-flagship model speaker should be piped through a better sound system, AVR, etc. (Yes, hot take is a disparaging statement.)
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Housefly, in addition to advice you’ve been given, I’d like to add that I recently had a four-way dumb switch setup (3 locations with old rockers, 2x 4T8 luminaires) that’s been upgraded to a smart-smart-dumb setup (Leviton Lumina RFs). Existing wiring was such that the last remaining dumb rocker was never touched. Thrown, it totally turns off the two overhead fixtures, while in the on position it just lets the radios in the smart switches function normally. /recent anecdote
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I’d love to hear about this as well as I’m about to expand into one or the other, and I’m leaning towards HA.
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Jul 28, 2018 21:49
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The Mini’s logo isn’t oriented to magnetic North, is it? Plus or minus 15 degrees? Cause that’ll do it.
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Aug 3, 2018 20:43
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For what application? FOV with striking brightness and dark shadows? Long shot needing deep focal depths? Vandall resistant / high rando activity area? For dirt cheap (turrets) for $52 on AliExpress for grey market kit? For night time ... at all? A Starlight with Sony Starvis sensor! In general, the 2~12mm+ Varifocal lens and Starvis CMOS by Sony, in a compact turret FF, make the Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-ZE an awesome camera and a non-terrible price (if you get them through Andy of EmpireTec, they’re about $168. No better bang for the buck, almost. Tapedump fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Aug 13, 2018 |
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Ah, the please reread my edited post. So, these are strictly for daylight hours? You need dome for physical trauma resistant, right? FOV can often be quite wide. I’m hoping we’re not confusing focal depths for FOV... (although the adjustment of focal depth indeed affect FOV). Also, I can’t find any cam worth buying that doesn’t have IR blasters and lowlight mode. You can turn those off thought, if your target zone is perpetually light. Finally, you want control of camera over LAN. Does this mean you can access their GUIs and adjust brightness, etc. as well as set focal depth on a verifocal model? Or, do you envision a whole setup where you spend a whole bunch of money on Pan, Tilt, Zoom (PTZ controls) cameras. Tapedump fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Aug 13, 2018 |
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Okay, you DO want a PTZ camera. I dome would indeed best hide movement, but many PTZ models exist. Again, they’re all gonna have night vision and IR blasters that you will apparently want to turn off. Edit: And it’s gonna cost three to four bills (or half that on AliExpress if you order through Andy) Tapedump fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Aug 13, 2018 |
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FWIW, it's does B, G, and N.
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Lord, don't turn on b, whatever you do. It does nasty things to the devices connected to the newer specs.
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Medullah posted:My only real problem with Blue Iris vs cloud hosting was that if the power went out I was SOL. I was on a week long trip and my power went out the day I left for about 8 hours, so while my battery backup lasted a bit, it wasn't enough and the PC didn't reboot by itself. So, you've battery powered cameras recording to microSD cards, ya? Or does your UPS run your WiFi/WAP/router and/or your POE switch along with your recorder?
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Any recommendations for door open/close sensors.. something z-wave perhaps, SmartThings-compatible (sane thing I guess) that'll push notify a phone? Also, audio sensors for glass breaking? Thank you.
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They could very well deal with six month battery changes, even three months maybe. They're dead set on Arlo Ultras to go with these, wirelessly, so they'll be in the habit.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:29
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With what Google is doing to Nest, you might want to consider other hardware....
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This might be a bit out of scope.. I'm looking for a self-monitored security system that allows for zones. There's a building with three areas, and some people need access to all three areas and some people must be kept to only one, etc. Three keypad/fob stations, one per area. Having a hard time. Any suggestions?
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May 22, 2019 04:13
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How many people afraid of Dahua/Hikvision/et all dialing home to China give their cameras valid gateway / DNS values? Honest question: Are they concerned these cameras defy TCP/IP and have hidden Internet access buried in there silicon? Even in the face of wiresharked data showing otherwise?
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Aug 19, 2019 00:15
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I should have clarified better. My question should have been, "Absent a separate VLAN but given that cameras are setup without any gateway nor DNS servers defined, how certain are one's observations that these (two brands of) cameras are reaching out to anything at all?"
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It means do devices on your local network need to talk to other devices on your network, or do they just need Internet access? An example of the former could be a laptop and a WiFi printer, or a tablet and a Chromecast. An example of the latter would be a device that literally only talk to the Internet (web browsing, Spotify, etc.) Devices in the latter category could be siloed off from one another in the ways Moey said.
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Nth-ing the slew of responses about Blue Iris
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The Wonder Weapon posted:I debated going with a camera system that doesn't use wifi in order to keep the video private, but being able to check from my phone is too valuable to pass up. I've got eight BI servers in my phone's app right here. I assume you didn't mean, "I want an NVR without any Internet connection" based on your other posts.
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Frank Dillinger posted:There’s an iOS app too. Just as janky, but functional. Ditto. Apps have been around for years
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