How does home automation work
So how does a home automation system work? All home automation systems, whether they’re as simple as something like an Alexa, or as complicated as qualisys or fibro or something like that, or control four. A home automation system needs to know what to do in certain circumstances, so you have to tell it certain rules.
Now the terminology varies between system manufacturers, so I’m going to use the terminology that I’m familiar with, but it might be something different on your system. So first type of system is or first time of rule, sorry. Is a schedule something that happens each and every day at the same time, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
It might be at 06:00 in the morning, turn on the central heating, or it might be at ah, 10:00 at night, turn on the porch lights, something like that. Something very simple happens every day. And, you just automate it like that by setting a schedule. The next type of rule, is a scene.
Now that’s something where you issue a command, very often verbally, but you issue a command to the system and it does a number of different tasks. So it could be that you say to your system, run my first thing in the morning scene and it draws the curtains for you it turns the bathroom light on it might set the coffee maker to start, something like that something that you want to happen.
So rather than issuing three different commands to your system, you issue one command and the system goes off and does however many different things that you’ve programmed it to do. The last type of system is a trigger also known as an alarm or an alert. But something that happens when a condition is met, something else happens as a result.
So it could be that if the time is 08:00 in the evening and it’s at dusk, then you turn m the back garden lights on. Or it could be, if the weather forecast is wet, don’t start the irrigation. It could be a negative action as well as a positive action.
It could be a don’t do something instead of a do something. Those kind of commands can be really complicated. As I just pointed out, there could be two, three, four different, conditions that have to be met for a trigger to run and again, you could then set it to run a scene so that the trigger happens and a number of different commands run. And that’s the way that you automate things with home automation systems.
So how does a home automation system work? All home automation systems, whether they’re as simple as something like an Alexa, or as complicated as qualisys or fibro or something like that, or control four. A home automation system needs to know what to do in certain circumstances, so you have to tell it certain rules.
Now the terminology varies between system manufacturers, so I’m going to use the terminology that I’m familiar with, but it might be something different on your system. So first type of system is or first time of rule, sorry. Is a schedule something that happens each and every day at the same time, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
It might be at 06:00 in the morning, turn on the central heating, or it might be at ah, 10:00 at night, turn on the porch lights, something like that. Something very simple happens every day. And, you just automate it like that by setting a schedule. The next type of rule, is a scene.
Now that’s something where you issue a command, very often verbally, but you issue a command to the system and it does a number of different tasks. So it could be that you say to your system, run my first thing in the morning scene and it draws the curtains for you it turns the bathroom light on it might set the coffee maker to start, something like that something that you want to happen.
So rather than issuing three different commands to your system, you issue one command and the system goes off and does however many different things that you’ve programmed it to do. The last type of system is a trigger also known as an alarm or an alert. But something that happens when a condition is met, something else happens as a result.
So it could be that if the time is 08:00 in the evening and it’s at dusk, then you turn m the back garden lights on. Or it could be, if the weather forecast is wet, don’t start the irrigation. It could be a negative action as well as a positive action.
It could be a don’t do something instead of a do something. Those kind of commands can be really complicated. As I just pointed out, there could be two, three, four different, conditions that have to be met for a trigger to run and again, you could then set it to run a scene so that the trigger happens and a number of different commands run. And that’s the way that you automate things with home automation systems.
