From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:42:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: New post. X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/543a9673dcfa55d929ce0b1437b8d9c0c0e614da New post. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2013-02-10-tellstick-morning.txt b/blog/data/2013-02-10-tellstick-morning.txt index 5f8c206235..455e409cd0 100644 --- a/blog/data/2013-02-10-tellstick-morning.txt +++ b/blog/data/2013-02-10-tellstick-morning.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ Title: Sleep until morning - home automation for the kids Tags: english -Date: 2013-02-10 11:00 +Date: 2013-02-10 12:50 -

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.