Our house is very secure and very smart. Walk into the hallway, light’s on. Not in the hallway? Light’s off. We also have cameras watching our house. We have 3 cameras right now and on Tuesday, we will get a PTZ camera or a pan tilt zoom camera. Our TV is smart and it connects to our “hidden” speaker. The speaker makes you feel like you’re part of the action and the hue lights can also sync with the media you’re playing on the TV. If you’re having a party, I can go to my computer and make all the lights flash in a party strobe pattern. When it’s sundown, I might even program the lights so the lights turn on until it turns off again at sunrise. I will also make sure the lights can be controlled by Alexa. So our house is smart, and in the future, our smart lights will light up the back yard too! I might ask my dad to buy me a smart plug and we will buy normal string lights for the back yard so the smart plug will connect to the hue bridge. Then, I can control the normal string lights through the smart hue lighting system! So I hope you enjoyed my blog guys! Bye guys!
Category: Technology
IP Camera on the Internet!
I figured a way to configure a IP Camera so it can broadcast to the internet. What I had to do was go to the DDNS settings and configure the 3rd party DDNS to No-ip. So when I went to the website, I saw my camera there. So now I think maybe I can trick it into streaming on you tube. Of course I am just testing so I would never do that. But in this case, I am messing around with the cameras settings. But when I tried it didn’t work. So I guess I will have to find another method because it requires the RTMP feature and my cameras don’t have that. Maybe I can install a software to make it work! But for now I don’t need that feature. I also might need some help on mounting my new camera and I hope it supports RTMP features. So right now I am hiding my outdoor camera in a tree so I might make a video on how to hide a security camera. I also think viewing my camera on a website is cool enough so I like my cameras. I also want a NVR to connect to the TV so we can see the camera right at the TV and I also dont need to always run up to my PC and sync it up. So I hope you enjoy this blog guys! Bye guys!
Christmas is Coming Up
Christmas is coming up and I am excited. I wonder what present I have, maybe it’s a light bulb or ip camera! We have a Christmas tree inside our house and im guessing at Christmas Eve, we will get to open our presents. I think my sister got a barbie doll because she likes dolls. I think I will get a PTZ Dome Camera so I can mount it at the garden to see if someone is there. The camera I put at the driveway is on a flower pot hanging from a stick up stem so it always shakes. One time it shook so hard that it fell off. I then put tape on it so it wont fall off. Y Viens mom sent a letter to Santa saying that Y Vien wants a doll for Christmas. So I think she might get a barbie or something. I also think I will also get presents from other people like Ba Noi and some more family members. I also hope that on Christmas Eve, we will go somewhere entertaining. Christmas is my best holiday and we can go to other states but this Christmas we wont. So I hope you enjoyed my blog guys! Bye guys!
My CCTV Camera Setup and the On-Q Internet Problem
Hello guys and today I will talk about my CCTV Camera setup. I have 2 cameras right now, one upstairs and one downstairs. The camera upstairs is wired meanwhile the camera downstairs is wireless. Our router isn’t really good and so the cameras downstairs won’t work. So when I go to the Home connection center, I found out that there were so many wires and saw the SECURITY ethernet wire. There were 8 ports in this house for internet and on the On-Q Control center, there were 8 ports! So I had to pin point each one and see what it is. Now I need those ports to work so my camera downstairs can function because I won’t make it wireless. So I tried plugging the internet cord that was hooked up to the router into the LINE IN port. Nothing happened. So let’s forget about that for a bit. As I said, I have 2 cameras. I will get another camera to put on the ceiling and it will be a dome camera. So once the internet ports work, I will plug my downstairs camera to a port so it can have internet. But there is one problem. The On-Q system requires a separate internet cable for each port! Isn’t that crazy?!?!?! I wished there was a master cable but there is none. Very disappointed.
My Video Technology Statement (Special Bonus!!!)
The inventions always brought us closer and improved us on video technology. It went from the magic lantern to our smart phones. So video technology gave us one step closer to our convenience when it came to entertaining of watching movies..
Smart phones, tablets, computers, etc… all of those let us watch movies in the comfort of our homes. We can even take them on the go now! So that’s why technology today was improved by old inventions from the past and it still goes on…
My Smart Light Plan #3 (Front Yard)
Today, I have gotten another smart light plan but it’s about our front yard. So I thought of lighting up our driveway because it is always dark and spooky. I would always be scared to go into the garden because there is no light and it’s not lit up. So I decided that I would put a light strip there to light it up. The driveway is next to it so I don’t really need anything else for the garden. In the drive way, I will put some Hue White candle lights in the light fixtures. I will also put some AC/DC powered lamps out there and connect it to the smart plug. Or I can buy a small light strip and put it in the driveway to light it up. I will also put some bollards out there too. But if that looks kind of normal, I will get into some more advanced stuff. This involves me and my dad taking the WHOLE light fixture unit out and I would put a Yucca light to replace it or a color lantern light there. It will cost more But I think it will be worth it. So once I finish this setup, I hope our house is the best on the block!
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Shall I also light up the back yard too with a Color Lantern from Philips Hue?
My Hue Lights Plan #2
Tomorrow, my dad and me will be going to Home Depot to buy another smart light. Now I have to make a choice. I can buy a Hue White bulb and install it at the backyard. The light there is broken anyway so I think it would be worth replacing it. The other option is that I can buy one color light to put into a light fixture since I already have and I can put it behind the TV or the table. I also need a Hue Dimmer switch for my bedroom so I will buy that next week. I think my dad won’t buy me the Color light bulb because it costs about 45 dollars. One time in 2017, I had one color smart bulb from Hue but I didn’t play with it much. I wish we kept it so I can put it in the living room. I also hope I get a spare smart bulb in the house. When I finish putting the smart bulbs in the light fixture in the living room, I will go on Amazon, buy a small lamp post. Now the reason why I want this lamp post is so I can light up the driveway. But you might be thinking the lamp post is not smart. But I am gonna make it smart by connecting it to the Hue Smart Bulb. So then I can have a outdoor Hue motion sensor so the lamp post can turn on if it sees something. At night, I will set it up so the lamp post will turn on to light up the night. So I hope you enjoy my blog guys! Bye guys!
I’m Getting a Hue Dimmer Switch!
Today, I am going to get a Hue Dimmer Switch! Now this switch is a smart switch, when I press a button on it, it will turn the light on or off and it can also set the brightness. I can also even turn on all the lights in our house! It can work without a Hue bridge and connect up to 10 bulbs or you can connect it to a bridge and then control unlimited bulbs. I used to have a dimmer switch but it broke. So when I get the dimmer switch from home depot, I will put it into the office because the office has ambient light and this switch can change scenes of color. But if home depot doesn’t have it, we will just buy the dimmer switch that comes with a bulb but that’s $44 so we won’t. So if it doesn’t have it, we will just buy another bulb I guess. But if that doesn’t happen my dad can buy a color bulb for the living room. It cost $47 dollars each so we will buy one by one as we get up to four. We might also buy just a white bulb for the backyard because I want the backyard to be bright at night so we can see our way. I should also get a bollard light for the driveway. So I hope you enjoyed this blog! Bye guys!
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My Smart Light Plan
Today, I will talk about my smart light plan. So right now I really want the Philips Hue Bloom or Iris. The reason I want this is because I want to put it in the living room and add some color to it but the Bloom or Iris is around $59 dollars. At that rate, my parents won’t let me buy it so I will just buy a Hue White bulb for the kitchen. I also want to buy another Hue Ambience so I can put it in the Master bedroom. I also have 2 Hue Whites in my room and I don’t really need some expensive ambience lights in my fan lights. I also think of putting 4 Hue Color lights in the living rooms E26 light fixtures. It would also bring out the color. I might buy 3 more color lights to put it into a E26 fixture above the dinning table and then a Hue White to put in the back yard light fixture. For my birthday, I want a Hue Lilly Spot 3 pack for $339 dollars but my mom won’t let me because that’s too expensive. I am thinking I’m too greedy now because I want so many light bulbs. Maybe I might even put a driveway light. It looks like a solar powered light but it is a Hue version and can change colors and it is called a Hue Bollard. But it costs $100 dollars per unit. It’s too expensive, I know. So I hope you enjoy my blog guys! Bye guys!
My Smart Lights
Today, I will talk about my smart lights. Now when I was young, I had Hue Lights. My dad bought us a starter kit and some other light bulbs. We installed it and I played with it. After some days, we went to buy the lights for the office. It was a Hue Ambience and it can change to warm and cool shades of whites but no colors, the other lights were just white lights and were dimable. After a few days, a light blew out in the office and it was a Hue Ambience. So today we are going to buy a new one. I stopped using Hue after a while because Hue wasn’t very good. But Lifx was too expensive so I went back to Hue because it was cheaper. I also didn’t really need color lights so it was fine with me. I also think that my unused Lifx bulb can be used to decorate our house on Halloween. I also think later on I might buy another light bulb so I can put it into the kitchen. Right now I have a portable light fixture in the kitchen with a Hue White light in it. I can control all the lights from any device and anywhere, even from Italy I think. So I hope you enjoyed my blog guys! Bye guys!