My two cents

[HansS 3]

OK, so it's a drag to read all the negative posts on this forum. I seem to be one of the lucky ones, not having seen that many serious problems with my HC2. Could be that I don't have any of the problem devices that many fooks have problems with. Thing is, I'm having quite a good time with my Fibaro system.

Yeah, well, ok, I don't have any of the fancy automation that is showcased in the Fibaro video. No Range Rover flashing it's lights at my entry gates. Simply because I don't have any gates to flash at

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My main issue is that the device token gets screwed up when using the iOS app, after which notifications stop working. That's one of the main issues I hope will get fixed soon.

My first real automation job for Fibaro was to stop devices from drawing power when not needed. I've placed a motion sensor in my computer room, which switches on the power to my pc's and monitors when it detects motion. I'm using Greenwave power strips for this. If I don't turn on my pc within a couple of minutes of motion detection, the sockets ae powered down again. Works great!

Sure, it's a large investment to just prevent this "leaky current". But it's a start.

Other stuff I have realised is getting a push notification and an e-mail with a picture when someone rings the door bell. Useless maybe, certainly when you're not able to talk to the person ringing. But fun! Because you can!

I've been playing around with trying to determine if someone entered or left the house, by checking the detection times of my front door webcam, and my hallway motion sensor, but that's a tricky one. I'm curious as to what's in the works at Fibaro as far as detecting the number of people inside the house goes.

I've been playing around with home presence detection. It's based on the location of my phone still, but combining ping/mac tech, Estimote beacons and the Geofency app, it seems I'm close to getting it to work the way I imagined it. When I get home tomorrow, the lights should turn on because the Fibaro notices me coming home, and it being dark.

I get that non-tech end users lack the skills to get a Fibaro system to do what it's advertised to do. On the other hand, I bet most of the users on this forum are not the average end users.

So basically, It's been a blast. I hope Fibaro will integrate HomeKit into their system, and then definitely hope that Apple will finally order Siri to start learning Dutch! No better way to command your home than by talking to it, but it's still a bit disappointing to do that in English.

Don't make this another Fibaro flame topic please, just wanted to put something positive out there for a change. Let's have some Fibaro speakers and panic buttons ye!

Have fun!

[dawiinci 5]

You use iBeacons?

Back to topic.

I think Fibaro will be one of the best systems over time. However there are issues we all are waiting to be fixed (weeks, months). That said the support team makes a great job.

Let's just hope these hotfixes will be served hot and small rather than big and cold... :->

[boomx 43]

You use iBeacons?

Back to topic.

I think Fibaro will be one of the best systems over time. However there are issues we all are waiting to be fixed (weeks, months). That said the support team makes a great job.

Let's just hope these hotfixes will be served hot and small rather than big and cold... :->

I use iBeacons for detecting home/away-status

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[HansS 3]

Haha yeah, deliver the hotfixes at daily snack time during happy hour

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And I recently acquired some Estimote beacons, indeed for detecting home presence. A bit more about that here:

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[speedy 64]

What type and how do you integrate them in HC2?

Until we get an Fibaro iWatch app i carry around my iDevice to control the home.

But i want it to be automatic, ex with beacons.

[HansS 3]

I have ordered the Estimote Developer set from

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. You get three of their ' regular' beacons. I've integrated them with the Geofency app (note: not Geofancy). The app does HTTPS posts with JSON data to a PHP page I run on my Synology Diskstation. The data is inserted into an SQL database. When Geofency posts something, and then another PHP script is fired off to press a button on a virtual device. The vdev gets the data from the DB, and sets global variables based on what happened. I have scenes that react on the global vars.

I wanted to use them also to determine where I am in the house, and for example switch on the light in a room I enter. Looks like that requires some tuning however. Sometimes, beacons upstairs are seen by Geofency when I'm walking around on the ground floor. I've adjusted the beacon range, but can't seem to get it right.

Estimote has a development kit to create your own apps. One of the features is Indoor Location, which determines where you are by checking the range to various beacons. I started playing with that, but the SDK is in objective C, which I don't know, and I haven't been able to integrate it into a Swift app.

Also, I have just set this stuff up, and I seem to be missing Geofency calls, or Geofency seems to not send them sometimes. So all the stuff is in place, but it's not working perfectly as of yet.

[speedy 64]

Very cool indeed, thanks for the reply!

I want these functions as well.

One thought, could you not HTTP post directly to HC2?

For me a DB is overkill, i just want a direct call to HC2 and have all my stuff there.

Turn off alarm, open doors, turn on light.

Some very nice things can be done.

*Edit

just ordered a set

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Cant wait to test it out.

[HansS 3]

Check this also:

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I'm not sure how to post the Geofency data directly to HC2. It's a JSON encoded array. If you can post that to a virtual device and decode it, then it should be possible. I like the database for now, because I haven't got it to work exactly the way it should work, and I can use the database to see what has been successfully posted by Geofency.

[speedy 64]

Nice, thanks.

I also have a synology so i might do the DB version if i have to.

For med its a little above my expertise with all the code but with the link provided and some digging i think i could do it.

Good stuff!

Will report back with my findings!

[HansS 3]

Love to measure stuff...

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