Just getting started
Добавлено: Чт янв 03, 2013 3:14 am
Hi, I'm just getting started with home automation.
My story: I left my house over the holidays in the "care" of my girlfriend's brother, who didn't think it was important to tell us the house was unusually cold while I was away. When I got back, the entire house was below freezing, and all the pipes on the first and second floors had frozen. The boiler was running continually in the basement but couldn't push water through the frozen pipes. Fortunately there doesn't seem to be any permanent damage, but I'm trying to put in place a system to make sure this doesn't happen again.
So, what I'm looking for are suggestions for video cameras and a thermostat that would work well with Major Domo or at least let me remotely make sure that the temperature is set right and someone is actually checking in on the house. Does anyone have any suggestions?
By the way, when I signed up I had to answer a security question in Russian. I don't know any Russian so that was a bit hard. I had to use Google translate to translate the question to English, then to translate the English answer back to Russian. Maybe there should be a different security question for the international forum?
My story: I left my house over the holidays in the "care" of my girlfriend's brother, who didn't think it was important to tell us the house was unusually cold while I was away. When I got back, the entire house was below freezing, and all the pipes on the first and second floors had frozen. The boiler was running continually in the basement but couldn't push water through the frozen pipes. Fortunately there doesn't seem to be any permanent damage, but I'm trying to put in place a system to make sure this doesn't happen again.
So, what I'm looking for are suggestions for video cameras and a thermostat that would work well with Major Domo or at least let me remotely make sure that the temperature is set right and someone is actually checking in on the house. Does anyone have any suggestions?
By the way, when I signed up I had to answer a security question in Russian. I don't know any Russian so that was a bit hard. I had to use Google translate to translate the question to English, then to translate the English answer back to Russian. Maybe there should be a different security question for the international forum?