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<\/p>\nI reach home from work when it’s already dark. I got to park my car in front of my house. I said to myself wouldn’t it be awesome if I could light up the house exterior light using my mobile phone? I bought some WiFI enabled switches from the internet and installed it. Here’s\u00a0a diagram of the installation.<\/p>\n
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‘All iz well’ except for 1\u00a0problem.\u00a0Nayar’s highness has stop his car,\u00a0unlock his\u00a0phone, launch an\u00a0app, press the LIGHT ON button, then reverse his car. Nayar is not happy!!!<\/p>\n
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So I had to make a system\u00a0such that\u00a0whenever Nayar reaches home, the exterior lights up automatically? Makes sense right? How did I achieve this? Simple but not so simple.<\/p>\n
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The Wireless Switch\u00a0was\u00a0vendor locked in; meaning it works with their cloud service and Android\/iOS app.\u00a0It doesn’t\u00a0give me the\u00a0flexibility for I need. Had to do the following steps in order to be free:<\/p>\n
After lots of research and development, trial and error, it finally worked \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
And the Laziest Award 2016 goes to?<\/p>\n Coming soon. Very soon:<\/p>\n Wanna get into the world of Home Automation too? Wanna turn on your coffee machine from your bed and more? Feel free to contact me on LinkedIn<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0Facebook<\/a><\/span> or Twitter<\/a>.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I reach home from work when it’s already dark. I got to park my car in front of my house. I said to myself wouldn’t it be awesome if I could light up the house exterior light using my mobile phone? I bought some WiFI enabled switches from the internet and installed it. Here’s\u00a0a diagram … Continue reading Iot Series: Internet of Things (IoT) in Mauritius!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,1],"tags":[232,237],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-internet-of-things-iot","tag-smart-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3921,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160923_230001.jpg\")
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\nIs it over? Nope. Who’s gonna turn off the lights when I enter home? Ofcourse I put a 3 minutes timer in it \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n