When we were constructing our second house, I went to a nearby hardware shop to buy some items.
There, a new lady homeowner came to purchase some items.
During billing time, that lady asked the shop owner for an alternative solution for the float valve. As it stops water before filling the sump.
Staying in rental property is one type of problem…
Having our own house and managing it properly is another type of problem…
This is what I noticed after we entered our first house.
Out of all the homeowner’s problems, one problem that fell under my responsibility was operating the sump valve weekly.
The float valve is a perfect solution to automate… In our case, our tap is located a little deep inside the sump.
So, if we install the standard float valve to automate my sump valve, the float valve won’t allow us to fill our sump fully…
Yesterday was Saturday, so my brother was staying at our house. So, I planned to implement my Sump automation to stop water automatically once the sump is full.
This is the same as what float valves do, but no height limit exists.
That means… no matter where your Tap located inside the sump, it can perform On/Off of tap based on the water level you set.
The same concept has been implemented in my first building but not in the second building… now recently our water man leaving too much water so we need to On and Off tap many times a week.
When I went on the Rameswaram trip, I noticed somewhere in some public lights that they adopted the same concept that I shared inside my outdoor lights automation.
But…
That’s on street lights.
I’m not guiding you street light setup.
That setup is different from our outdoor light automation setup. Only the product is same.
One of my friend’s houses is near our house.
I used to see this friend’s house from our house until now. Another construction work is going on between our buildings, so I cannot see their house these days.
After dinner, when I come from the first house to the second house through the back door, I notice one thing in my friend’s house on most days.
When it comes to doing any kind of automation in the home, you might think it’s a costly thing and need separate service providers to do that.
On one level, that’s true.
If you are going to use sensors and want to automate inside the house, then you need a different team, and it costs more to implement.
While I started implementing the automation switch to my parking light, one device I tried was – the Sonoff switch.
It requires the internet to work. That’s not an issue in my house, as I properly planned everything and can get a Wi-Fi signal anywhere I want in my building.
It was working fine.
I realised this problem after having our own house. Until we had our own house, we used to stay in the rental property and never have to worry about outdoor lights.
In most cases, the owner takes care of that. In some cases, no one ON the outdoor lights.
Life goes without worrying about homeowners’ problems 🙂
Then we had our first house; that time, our house was on the first floor. Every day we need to turn on/off the parking lights.
This Saturday, we changed our second building’s outdoor light automation from one tech to another.
The previous one was self-made, and it worked fine. In fact, it has many more features than the current setup, but it also comes with many requirements to work.
So we decided to give it a try on this brand new device to make it simpler to operate.
Initially, we followed the straightforward guide mentioned in the device; after using it for a few days, we noticed a lot of disadvantages in using it as is…