BrokrnEyes
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Over the Christmas holiday, my parents got an echo dot and a few smart home devices of which they asked me to set up for them in their den. After about an hour I had the system up and running and was admittedly rather impressed by the fact that the lights, TV, and really everything in the den canal be controlled with my voice or my smart phone. When I got back to my own place, I went on to Amazon and started looking at all the smart home products. The first thing that popped into my head when I saw the smart home power strips, and even a smart home temperature and humidity probe that did not need to be hooked into the thermostat, was how to apply this to my grow tent.
Smart home temperature and humidity probe, which is of particular interest, can have it's an off threshold set to turn any device plugged into it on or off, perfect for turning on a ventilation fan when the interior of the grow tent gets too hot or too humid.
The individual outlets on the smart home power strips, unfortunately it seems that all of these power strips only have four outlets and for USB outlets, can be independently controlled to turn on and off (The USB outlets are controlled as a block, and so would be more useful for circulation fans).
From my own experiences with the smart outlets my parents got, I know that these can run on timers that you set from your smart home, as well as can be turned on and off from the same device when at least in the wi-fi network (I haven't had a chance yet to test if you can control the system outside of the network, but would be surprised if I couldn't. What's more, the fact that I could set the schedules from my smart phone means that it would be far easier on my eyes (admittedly a personal issue) then giving myself a headache trying to read the LCD screen of the timers currently use, not to mention the hassle of reprogramming them during a Grow.
So has anyone actually done this to their grow tent yet? If so, what are your thoughts and experiences? Would you recommend it?
Smart home temperature and humidity probe, which is of particular interest, can have it's an off threshold set to turn any device plugged into it on or off, perfect for turning on a ventilation fan when the interior of the grow tent gets too hot or too humid.
The individual outlets on the smart home power strips, unfortunately it seems that all of these power strips only have four outlets and for USB outlets, can be independently controlled to turn on and off (The USB outlets are controlled as a block, and so would be more useful for circulation fans).
From my own experiences with the smart outlets my parents got, I know that these can run on timers that you set from your smart home, as well as can be turned on and off from the same device when at least in the wi-fi network (I haven't had a chance yet to test if you can control the system outside of the network, but would be surprised if I couldn't. What's more, the fact that I could set the schedules from my smart phone means that it would be far easier on my eyes (admittedly a personal issue) then giving myself a headache trying to read the LCD screen of the timers currently use, not to mention the hassle of reprogramming them during a Grow.
So has anyone actually done this to their grow tent yet? If so, what are your thoughts and experiences? Would you recommend it?