askpete

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by askpete 14y ago
We will be shipping these http://www.shop.wattsclever.com/european-socket-type/47-ea.h... in a couple of weeks. They don't have UL/ETL unfortunately so we won't be selling them in the US. You can get these from amazon http://www.amazon.c
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by askpete 14y ago
@windexh8er we are not as naïve as it probably seems to someone of your experience ;) We are taking a different approach to the established players and definitely the other startups - who we aren't directly trying to compete with anyway. Wo
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by askpete 14y ago
Well said @huhtenberg we certainly hope to serve your lazy ass ;) We do remote control sockets today. Not elegant but at $10-15 a piece best priced laziness available. We are cooking up something for IR controlled heating/cooling.
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by askpete 14y ago
please ping us help@ninjablocks.com
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by askpete 14y ago
A Ninja Block might be a good match. pros - You can retrieve folded historical data for sensors from the api (min/max/avg/interval etc) - You can set a callback that POSTs every reading (every 45s) - cheap, additional temp/humidity sensors
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by askpete 14y ago
AFAICT Iris is a zigbee/zwave hub? We have experimented with a zigbee via a usb dongle - not production ready but its doable. We'd love to support Z-wave, but its a longer term feature with licensing issues and bandwidth pushing it down the
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by askpete 14y ago
hey @drism - we are still waiting for our twines here in Aus. You make some excellent points. -- Production delays -- this is our second go around, we had a kickstarter back in March and it was late (and not a great product to be honest). W
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by askpete 14y ago
Totally agree in principal @frozenlock. 433 was simply the path of least resistance for us. It gave us very cost effective off the shelf sensors, and critically, remote control power sockets in all regions. Its not super elegant, however, i
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by askpete 14y ago
Hey @windexh8er, from the sounds of it you are already well automated! I'm not sure how much NB offers you today, however ... Ninja is ultimately (read: not yet) a meta-platform for connecting stuff. As you point out, there are plenty of di