The best time to plan a home automation concept is… as soon as you get your house plan from an engineer, you can plan your home automation stuff. First, you need to have a rough idea of what type of automation you need and where it will be installed. Some automation requires special requirements, and some don’t require much. As soon as you start your house construction, you need to execute based on that requirement....
At around 2:44 PM today, I got a call from my current Broadband service provider. While working in my Home office, I picked up the call confusingly. I said Hello… On the other end, “Sir, this is ISP (Internet Service Provider) support. We need to visit your home”. I asked, “Why now?.” ISP guy, “You raised too many support tickets, so we need to visit.” All those issues were already addressed 1 month before itself....
Yesterday, my brother worked on some changes in the network box. As it’s Sunday, we will always work on house-related stuff or improve the existing setup. The current network setup has caused some issues over the past few months… so my brother decided to fix that issue by trying a workaround. Somehow, we were able to fix that issue. If you have CCTV and Internet connection in your house and are planning to buy a network box, then you need to remember a few points....
I opend my CCTV app on my phone and when I try to view cameras visuals… visuals open and suddenly stop showing. This is some new issue I started facing in my new building. The reason is low WiFi signal. As it’s a new building, I haven’t done full proper networking setup. All the ports in my networking switch is already used. If I need to add more Wifi router, I need buy new network switch....
BDA acquired many empty land in Bangalore to develop a BDA site. The project name is “Dr K Shivaram Karanth Layout”. If you watch the news or read the newspaper, you might have heard about it. After so much opposition from the land owner, BDA finally got a green signal from the court to acquire land. But on a condition to give alternative sites once the development work is over....
Today a lot of our relatives came to our house. In those relatives, one guy is a pro builder. They already own 3 buildings and a few resorts here in Bangalore. Each building has multiple units, and all those buildings are for rent. Me and that guy have a casual chat on construction, gov’t work, bribe, water etc., He also went and checked all our building work, materials used in both buildings, cost and a few other related topics....
We have rental units in both buildings. Each building contains 8+8 spacious 1 Bhk units. All our tenants are college students. While building both houses, I properly planned and did networking for both buildings. While doing this, I didn’t plan on offering internet to all the tenants in our building. But still, I did the network setup. Because in future we cannot do so. On some random day, one of our tenants requested me to share our internet setup with him at a discounted rate… because taking a new connection for him costs a little more....
If you plan to use CCTV in your house now or later, here is something you should keep in mind. To enjoy CCTV benefits to their fullest extent, you must plan and adopt a few tech stuff. They are… Have a wired network connection to CCTV DVR Don’t use a Wireless network unless you don’t have wired network options If you need to watch LIVE CCTV visuals from different locations, then you need to have internet connections at home as well as user who need to see visuals...
During our first house construction time, I wasn’t aware of the smart home and IOT concept yet. But one thing I’m sure of is… having a proper network should be set up for our entire house. So with my networking knowledge, I implemented the networking concept for the full building. Due to good broadband speed… I learned the smart home concept online and implemented some automation in our first house....
A few years back, I bought a robotic vacuum cleaner for my home for cleaning purposes. It is imported from China. When I imported that time in the Indian market, only one or two brands of robotic vacuum cleaners were available. And that too only basic features models were available with too costly price tag (₹35K+). So I decided to buy it from China, which has few advanced features and a lower price (I guess ₹12K to ₹18K)....