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Title: Sleep until morning - home automation for the kids
Tags: english
-Date: 2013-02-10 11:00
+Date: 2013-02-10 12:50
-
+
With kids in the house, one challenge is getting them to sleep
during the night and wake up when it is morning. I mean, when I
@@ -12,26 +12,27 @@ sleep until 07:00 is a small challenge every day. They have adapted
quite well, and rarely wake up at 05:00 any more, but some times wake
up at times like 05:50, 06:15, 06:30 or 06:45, and it is hard to put
the awake one to bed again without disturbing and waking the rest.
-And it is perfectly understandable that they fail to sleep until 07:00
-some times. There is no way for them to know if it is before or after
-the magic moment without coming and asking us parents.
+And I understand perfectly well that they fail to sleep until 07:00
+some times, as there is no way for them to know if it is before or
+after the magic moment without coming and asking us parents.
But yesterday I came up with a method to solve this problem. It
involve home automation. A few years ago I bought a
-Tellstick and RF
-switches at the Clas Ohlson shop, allowing me to control lights and
-other electrical gadgets using my Linux server. When I moved from the
-old flat to a small house, I put away all this equipment as most of
-the lighting in the house was not using wall sockets and thus not easy
-to connect to the gadgets I had. But recently I bought a
-Tellstick
+Tellstick and RF
+switches at the local Clas
+Ohlson shop, allowing me to control lights and other electrical
+gadgets using my Linux server. When I moved from the old flat to a
+small house, I put away all this equipment as most of the lighting in
+the house was not using wall sockets and thus not easy to connect to
+the gadgets I had. But recently I bought a
+Tellstick
Net to be able to read sensor input as well as control power
-sockets. I want to take control ovens in the basement to avoid
-freezing the piping, and monitor the humidity to detect flooding. The
-default setup for Tellstick Net is to be controlled by the vendor web
-service, which to me is a security problem, but it is also possible to
-build ones own
-firmware
+sockets. I want to control ovens in the basement to avoid the pipes
+to freeze, and monitor the humidity to detect flooding. The default
+setup for Tellstick Net is to be controlled by the vendor web service,
+which to me is a security problem, but it is also possible to build
+ones own
+firmware
with local access instead of being controlled by a Swedish
company, thanks to the release of the GPL licensed firmware source
code. I plan to get that running before I let it control anything
@@ -39,11 +40,17 @@ important. But while working on this, one idea to make it easier for
the kids came to me yesterday. We can set up a night light controlled
by the computer, and turn it automatically on at 07:00. The kids can
then check the light in the morning to know if they are supposed to
-get up or not.
+get up or not. They joined me in setting everything up, and I
+repeated the concept several times before bed times to make sure they
+remembered to check the light before getting up in the morning.
-We tested this morning, and all the kids stayed in bed until after
-07:00, and every one of them commented on the fact that the "morning
-light" was turned on and signalled that the morning had arrived. So
-this look like a success, and I am excited to see how this develops
-the next few days. :) I really hope this can allow us all to sleep a
-bit longer in the morning.
+We tested it this morning, and all the kids stayed in bed until
+after 07:00, and every one of them commented on the fact that the
+"morning light" was turned on and signalled that the morning had
+arrived. So this look like a success, and I am excited to see how
+this develops the next few days. :) I really hope this can allow us
+all to sleep a bit longer in the morning.
+
+A nice advantage of this setup is that we can remote control when
+to tell the kids to get up. We do not have to wait until 07:00, and
+can also delay it if we want to.