Tech upgrades around your home

[Maddmike]

Staples Connect with 5 door/window sensors, 6 ge link bulbs throughout the house, motion sensors for lights to come on in both bathrooms and the living room. Lil girls room light set to turn on at sunset and turn off at bedtime. Glofish tank light in their room comes on as lights Go out for bed.

Mancave got the Onkyo 7.1 receiver with 10 surrurrounds (can switch between all on or true surround) and 2 12" powered subs.
6 mics around the room for Windows voice recognition. PC running to the 60".

60 gallon saltwater aquarium with auto lights at sunrise and sunset. Automatic feeders. Auto wave makers on and off every two hours. Sump tank with 5 chambers.

Some more random shyt everywhere in the house

Hip me on that salt water tank breh....is it as difficult as people say? I'm seriously thinking about starting one

 

[Uh Oh]

is wemo the most affordable one? may get one for travel. I assume these can't have a surge protector plugged into them to control multiple devices at once?

I'm not that familiar with the WeMo switches, since I don't own one, but according to the Manufacturer (Belkin) you can:
Amazon.com: Questions And Answers: Can i plug a Power strip/surge protector into this device?
Amazon.com: Questions And Answers: Can I plug a surge protector into this, and thus have control over multiple devices plugged into the surge protector?
For WiFi switches, it looks like WeMo's are the cheapest. The switches I use (Etekcity) don't use WiFi, just a remote, but they're also cheaper.

 

[B86]

Hip me on that salt water tank breh....is it as difficult as people say? I'm seriously thinking about starting one

I feel that ppl over exaggerate a lot of things, but they ain't lying about salt water. It's not necessarily hard, but there's a lot of science involved and you gotta be willing to learn. Once you get your salinity right and have enough live rock to convert your nitrites to nitrates you're good. Frequent water changes is a must and you absolutely need proper lighting if you want more than just fish (inverts, coral, etc.). There's a significant difference in the price of maintaining salt water compared to fresh water, though.

 

[Maddmike]

I feel that ppl over exaggerate a lot of things, but they ain't lying about salt water. It's not necessarily hard, but there's a lot of science involved and you gotta be willing to learn. Once you get your salinity right and have enough live rock to convert your nitrites to nitrates you're good. Frequent water changes is a must and you absolutely need proper lighting if you want more than just fish (inverts, coral, etc.). There's a significant difference in the price of maintaining salt water compared to fresh water, though.

Yea I think Ill just stick with freshwater cause I travel a lot. and my girl is a walking pet cemetery She already killed my dog, 2 birds and my hermit crabs

 

[B86]

Yea I think Ill just stick with freshwater cause I travel a lot. and my girl is a walking pet cemetery She already killed my dog, 2 birds and my hermit crabs

Got damn, breh. Yeah, just stay with the fresh water until you get some time for salt

 

[teacher]

Solar Panels, and a 3g ADT system

 

[winb83]

Upgraded to 2 Harmony Elite remotes and added the Philips Hue Light system in the apartment. I'm tempted to get a Nest cause my heating bill is nasty and this analog thermostat doesn't help. I'd just toss theirs in a drawer and when I move out take out my Hue lights and my Nest and reinstall their stuff.

It's weird to have to use my TV remote or cell phone to control my lights.

 

[newarkhiphop]

Solar Panels, and a 3g ADT system

How hard/expensive was it getting the solar panels setup? How much are you saving

 

[Golayitdown]

Wound up keeping and installing the EcoBee. It's dope being able to control my phone from everywhere. Extremely simple to install and seems to work much more efficiently than my old traditional one.

 

[Silkk]

Squatty Potty

 

[jalamanta]

Squatty Potty

Does it help?

 

[Silkk]

Does it help?

Yeah