I got my first Homey flows going Leave a comment
I’m excited to report that I managed to get my first few flows stay in Homey. I related the Aqara T1 LED bulb to each Alexa and Homey and have a few flows working utilizing that gadget.
I additionally acquired the Aqara water leak sensor related to Homey and am completely thrilled with it to this point. It’s actually excellent for my use case.
But it surely’s not all excellent. I seen that I’m lacking out on some options and performance with the Aqara gentle bulb together with the Homey Professional hub in comparison with if I had an Aqara hub as an alternative.
It makes me marvel if I ought to have simply purchased an Aqara hub as an alternative of the Homey Professional, however extra on that a bit of later…
My first Homey flows
The primary flows that I arrange are fairly fundamental, however it’s a must to begin someplace, proper?
That is what I began with:
- Water leak battery monitoring
- Eating desk gentle battery monitoring
- Kitchen water leak detected
The primary two are actually easy. If the battery share in both gadget will get right down to 10%, I get a push notification and a notification contained in the Homey app reminding me to go and alter the battery. Straightforward peasy.
The final one is definitely serving to to resolve an actual downside we have now in my house. If a water leak is detected on the bench beside the kitchen sink, that is what occurs:
- The eating desk gentle turns ON
- The Sonos Arc soundbar says “Kitchen water leak detected” at 40% quantity
- I get a push notification
- I get a persistent notification contained in the Homey app
I’d say it’s fairly good for protecting most eventualities the place both my spouse or myself may need forgotten that the water filter is working and alerting us to the actual fact. After all, there are most likely eventualities the place I nonetheless won’t learn about it instantly, nevertheless it offers me peace of thoughts and it’s definitely higher than what we had earlier than, which was nothing!
Positively well worth the cash for the water sensor in my view.
I’m shopping for extra Aqara gadgets
I’m so impressed with the Aqara gentle bulb and the water sensor that I’m hankering to do extra. I’ve already purchased an Aqara vibration sensor (extra on that coming subsequent put up) and I additionally ordered three extra T1 LED gentle bulbs and a movement sensor for the elevate foyer space exterior our entrance door.
I’ll preserve you posted on how that goes as soon as I get the whole lot related and arrange a circulation or two.
Why can’t I management the “heat” on the Aqara T1 gentle bulb?
This query bothers me.
Severely, do I simply not get it, or is that this a short-sighted enterprise determination on the a part of Aqara? Don’t get me improper, to this point I really like their merchandise, however why on Earth can’t I benefit from the full characteristic set until I’ve an Aqara hub?
That is mindless to me. I imply, absolutely they may expose the complete performance to third-party ecosystems like Homey in the event that they needed to, proper?
One principle I’ve is that Aqara needs folks to purchase their hubs as an alternative of third-party hubs. If that’s actually what’s occurring, I feel that’s short-sighted. I wager you if Aqara allowed third-party programs to have entry to the complete characteristic set of their merchandise the uplift in gross sales on their full vary of merchandise would greater than make up for some nominal loss in income from promoting fewer hubs.
However hey, perhaps I’m means off the mark…
Subsequent time, I’ll let you recognize what occurred once I connected my new vibration sensor to my front room desk in hopes that I’d have the ability to flip the whole desk right into a “gentle swap”.
Spoiler, it didn’t actually work the best way that I hoped that it would!
Till subsequent time, have a very good one.
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