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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
 
-<p><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-02-10-morning-light.jpeg"></p>
+<p><img align="left" style="margin-right:25px;" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-02-10-morning-light.jpeg"></p>
 
 <p>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.</p>
+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.</p>
 
 <p>But yesterday I came up with a method to solve this problem.  It
 involve home automation.  A few years ago I bought a
-<ahref="http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick">Tellstick</a> 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
-<ahref="http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick_net">Tellstick
+<a href="http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick">Tellstick</a> and RF
+switches at the local <a href="http://www.clasohlson.com/">Clas
+Ohlson</a> 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
+<a href="http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick_net">Tellstick
 Net</a> 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
-<ahref="http://developer.telldus.com/blog/2012/03/02/help-us-develop-local-access-using-tellstick-net-build-your-own-firmware">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
+<a href="http://developer.telldus.com/blog/2012/03/02/help-us-develop-local-access-using-tellstick-net-build-your-own-firmware">firmware
 with local access</A> 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.</p>
+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.</p>
 
-<p>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.</p>
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>