Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Google Nest Protect, worth it? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by questfor17@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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Looking to upgrade the smoke detectors in a 1400 sq foot 3br house. I think I'll need 4 of them. I'd like something that is easy to silence when I'm cooking, and can alert me to problems when I'm not there.

Google Nest Protect is recommended, but at > $100 per each they are quite expensive.

Worth it?

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[–] YourGrandmasSpoon@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I believe so, Costco and Lowe’s run periodic sales on them. Be sure to check the dates and don’t get the old ones. I like them because there’s no guessing if you heard 5 or 6 beeps. We had a traditional interconnected smoke/fire/CO alarm go off in the middle of the night and for the life of me couldn’t remember what the beeps meant. In my daze I didn’t want to get on the floor if CO was present but also didn’t want to run around if there was a fire. In my sudden awakening I wasn’t aware those thoughts were flawed. I grabbed the kid and bolted out the second floor window. I did a Google search on the beeping and found out it was my CO alarm. Anyways, I never want to be in that state of confusion where I don’t know what the proper life saving steps are. And you can have the alarm test itself.