To make your home “smarter” — perhaps the dream of almost every second geek, and for good reason. It is very convenient, when to change the temperature in the apartment can be from the same iPhone, to view on a smartphone information about air quality and humidity in the house, as well as receive alerts from motion sensors. One of the best centralized solutions for this introduced by Apple and called it HomeKit, but there are other solutions.
A complete system of “smart home” can cost several hundred thousand rubles — this will include electric blinds, intelligent door lock, coffee maker, which itself will be included as soon as you open your eyes — in General, the option is not cheap. Unlike HomeKit that this technology allows to acquire like expensive accessories and quite a low cost sensors that can satisfy most users ‘ needs.
In Russia such devices, unfortunately, not very much, and if they do, the stores are often “cheat” to the price almost doubled. In addition, many gadgets with support for HomeKit have no notifications and if you want to order them from another country, there is a risk that the cherished device “wrapped” in custom back (lucky if you do not make to pay a fine). We have searched and found that devices with notifications actually a lot, and most of them works with HomeKit.
Let’s start with an easy one. Here is a motion sensor from the company Elgato, you can install near the front door so you always know who is in your apartment. Once the sensor will notice suspicious activity, he will immediately send a push notification to the iPhone, and to disconnect his attackers will not be able because it works on batteries. It should be fun for about $ 50.
A little more expensive you can take Eve Room Sensor from the same company. This device is placed anywhere in the house or apartment and is used to measure air quality, temperature and humidity in the house. There’s even a function of the identification of harmful substances, so it is a kind of home weather station. Special attention is given to the integration with Siri, where you can find all the information from the sensor.
Another popular manufacturer of sensors is a company Tado. For example, you can set the temperature controller in the house that supports the set value due to battery and air conditioning. The list of supported air conditioning is very large, and the battery is sufficient to install a special thermostat.
To control lights with a special smart bulbs, which are produced by many manufacturers (but not all have the notification), including Elgato. Several modes of lighting, full control with the iPhone — about the switches you can forget. Conveniently, for example, if you go on vacation and want to create the appearance of human presence in the apartment.
Well, quite the turn out of the apartment, the fortress, will such a sensor system — it can be installed on the front door and Windows. With its help, you can maximum control of areas that can be exploited by attackers to penetrate into the house.
Another arrangement of the “smart home” offers the company Xiaomi (especially true for owners of Android devices as they don’t support HomeKit). It is believed that such devices it is better to order in China, but in fact with the Chinese versions can be a lot of problems — for example, the manufacturer likes to block device with the new firmware. The U.S. implemented the international versions of Xiaomi gadgets, that is, they are adapted for foreign markets.
In this case, the device management is not using the built-in iOS applications “Home”, and with the help of third-party program Mi Home available for all platforms. So, for example, you can get a smart scales which not only weigh you, but also report health indicators like body fat percentage, and conveniently aggregate the received data in the mobile app.
Xiaomi also offers smart bulb (like Elgato), only releasing them under the sub-brand YEELIGHT. This interesting device will cost less than $ 50, but it can be controlled directly from an Android smartphone (or iPhone), then there is a variety of lighting modes. Plus a stylish accessory that will complement the interior of any home.
And cleaning will help robot vacuum Xiaomi. It can be programmed to clean at any time, to view the route of the vacuum cleaner and even to teach him the arrangement of furniture in the apartment. HEPA filters and other useful gadgets included.
These and many other devices for smart homes you can order Amazon.com really most of the shops do not deliver the goods to Russia, while the price of many items is very attractive. To help in this case comes to the service “mail-order”, which provides you with a us address and he engaged in careful sending parcels to Russia.
An important benefit of “our services” — if, for example, to order multiple gadgets from different shops, you can ask the staff to combine all stock in one package, so shipping was cheaper. And for maximum convenience a service “Help to buy”, when experts themselves are buying the product’s taxes and escort you throughout the purchase.
To register in the “us.”
Shipping usually takes no more than two weeks, after which you will be able to make your home “smarter” by using new sensors. And since notifications on new devices appear every day, soon available to send to Russia devices will become much more.
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