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. His father slowly comes down from the first floor just to turn off the light daily....
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. For my Outdoor Light Automation setup, you don’t need such automation experts 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. However, the problem with the device is that it did not last longer because of voltage issues....
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....
When we built our first building, I noticed one task which is a boring, painful and time-consuming task we were doing is… Switching On/Off of our outdoor lights. After noticing this pain, I thought of doing something about this. That time, I got a few ideas I could try, and I experimented with those. Some of those different ideas felt worth implementing in our second building. Initially, I used my own self-made IoT devices to do automation in my first and second buildings....