I obtained my first Homey flows going
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 operating utilizing that machine.
I additionally obtained the Aqara water leak sensor related to Homey and am completely thrilled with it up to now. It’s actually good for my use case.
However it’s not all good. 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 a substitute.
It makes me surprise if I ought to have simply purchased an Aqara hub as a substitute of the Homey Professional, however extra on that a bit later…
My first Homey flows
The primary flows that I arrange are fairly fundamental, however you must 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 proportion in both machine will get all the way 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 now have 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 operating and alerting us to the very fact. In fact, there are most likely eventualities the place I nonetheless may not learn about it immediately, but it surely provides 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 for my part.
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 publish) and I additionally ordered three extra T1 LED gentle bulbs and a movement sensor for the elevate foyer space outdoors our entrance door.
I’ll hold you posted on how that goes as soon as I get all the things 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 mistaken, up to now I like their merchandise, however why on Earth can’t I benefit from the full function set until I’ve an Aqara hub?
That is unnecessary to me. I imply, certainly they may expose the complete performance to third-party ecosystems like Homey in the event that they wished to, proper?
One principle I’ve is that Aqara desires folks to purchase their hubs as a substitute of third-party hubs. If that’s actually what’s taking place, I believe that’s short-sighted. I wager you if Aqara allowed third-party programs to have entry to the complete function 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, possibly I’m approach off the mark…
Subsequent time, I’ll let you understand what occurred after I hooked up my new vibration sensor to my front room desk in hopes that I might be capable to flip all the 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 an excellent one.
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