Must have technology in your house?

[Gamble]

Been on this house hunt forever it seems and figured it might be worthwhile to gather a list of those must have items to make my life easier. What do you guys have that you love or can't live without?

And if any of these on my list suck let me know

So far I have 3 I want:

Nest thermostat
Roku3
Ryobi door opener (awesome, clicky)

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[Mook]

Nest ftw. Love mine. Ive got an Amazon Echo / Alexa and its not exactly useful but I do use it. Mostly for automated lights and listening to music.

 

[10sec]

That garage door opener is DOPE AF. If I ever buy anything again, I'll definitely want to upgrade to it.

 

[Gamble]

Nest ftw. Love mine. Ive got an Amazon Echo / Alexa and its not exactly useful but I do use it. Mostly for automated lights and listening to music.

How does that bitch work with lights? Special wall switch?

That garage door opener is DOPE AF. If I ever buy anything again, I'll definitely want to upgrade to it.

Ha I knew someone would love it. I'm hoping it's as quiet as they say

 

[Mook]

How does that bitch work with lights? Special wall switch?

You gotta get a something like a Wemo. Plugs into an outlet, uses wifi. Plug your stuff into that, amazon can control it or your phone can for that matter...the echo is far better tho as the wemo app blows dick.

 

[garage door guy]

Liftmaster my Q.. And my cameras

 

[Gamble]

I'm going to get some of these too

https://www.snappower.com/

 

[Shawn1112]

Call me basic, but the only thing I need is wifi and only reason it's needed is for work. If I didn't work from home half the time I wouldn't need shit. Fuck I got a tape deck and cassettes in my garage, lol.

 

[Stink Star]

Can't live without my hue lights. Also a huge fan of my ring doorbell. I love my nest t-stat so much I also got their smoke detectors. Have an Amazon echo but barely use it- for me that's a pass.

My next purchase will likely be a connected garage door opener. I've only lived here a few months and I can't tell you how many times I got into a nervous sweat at work not remembering if the garage door closed all the way.

Don't know what kind of phone you have but iOS 10 is featuring a "home" app and widget that'll let you control everything from one place without needing to go into each individual app even though everything is different brands.

 

[Intel]

I use an ecobee (get 100 dollar rebate from nicor and 20 dollar from comed) and amazon echo along with automated lights/front door lock through a vera lite home controller.. but these are all wants not needs.

I really want the new liftmaster garage doors as I currently have loud af chain drive ones right below my office.

 

[importcrew]

I have wifi connected recessed lighting in my living room and kitchen. It's connected to a hub (Wink Hub). I also have a Vivint security system that came with a wifi doorbell (w/camera), 7" panel, sensors, wifi t-stat, and deadbolt (connected to the security system as well). I control everything through Amazon Echo. I tell Alexa to arm alarm and it does. I tell it to turn on movie night and everything within that group turns on (or off). If I'm cold, I tell Alexa to turn up the temperature or turn it down.

If you want a clean look for your entertainment area, do a pipe chase from your main living room (or theater room, game room, ect) and have all cables hidden in wall to where your receiver will be.

Another good thing to do is get LED lights/bulbs. Less electricity used, lasts long, and just overall better IMO.

 

[TommyGloves]

Ecobee3 T-stat with 3 room sensors
Chamberlain MyQ garage door opener
Various z-wave light switches and light bulbs
Door/windows sensors
Wink hub
Amazon Echo
Roku 3s on the TVs (a couple older Chromecasts too)

I can control everything with the Wink hub (mobile app) or voice with Amazon Echo.

 

[Nccstud]

How nice are the nest t-stats? I have 10 zoned rooms. Nice enough to drop 2 grand on getting each room done?

 

[Miss Esa]

Nest Thermostat and smoke alarms
Wink Hub

I want to get this lock for the front door: Click me

 

[Stink Star]

I had the KeVo at my old house. It was awesome

 

[Gamble]

Does the wink hub just allow you to interface these things with your phone ?

I want to know more about the iOS home app since I have an iPhone

 

[Eagle]

Nest thermostat and at least 1 fire alarm. Built in Co2 which allows the fire alarm to shut down the furnace. Great safety feature IMO.

 

[Intel]

Does the wink hub just allow you to interface these things with your phone ?

I want to know more about the iOS home app since I have an iPhone

So to use smart locks/lights/ other connected devices that don't directly hook up to the internet you need a gateway. The gateway talks to Z-wave/zigbee devices over their mesh network and then allows your phone/computer to talk to them.

Hue light -> Wink Hub -> Local Network -> Phone connected to wireless.

 

[Stink Star]

Does the wink hub just allow you to interface these things with your phone ?

I want to know more about the iOS home app since I have an iPhone

 

[Gamble]

Wonder if you can use the apple home and echo together

 

[Stink Star]

I don't see why not. I use all my apps and the echo right now.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

Insteon lighting

 

[Mr_Roboto]

If I didn't have a divergent amount of hobbies that pull my fiscal interests everywhere I'd have a nice NAS (in reality probably a cluster of them which replicate.) Probably a RAID6 with 6 or 8TB spinny disks fully mirrored to one another.

ED:If I was building a house I'd probably have 10G capable copper run all over the place.

 

[BrianG]

Ryobi door opener (awesome, clicky)

Holy shit I need this! That is amazing!

 

[Mook]

Holy shit I need this! That is amazing!

I dont need one but I need one.