Smart Home is an IoT application that enables its users to control various home appliances. Smart Home combines technology and services to facilitate your better living quality, enhanced security and energy efficiency through IoT experience. Elements of a Smart Home Automation system includes networking of home appliances and a Smartphone app. Home appliances networking is done by using BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). Smart Gateway works as the local broker and communicates with the app through MQTT protocol. BLE enabled home appliances(Smart Switch, Smart RGB, Smart Curtain etc) can be controlled or pre-programmed through BLE supported mobile.
MAIN FEATURES
1. Home and Room management
2. Smart Switch Control
2.A Assigning loads to Smart Switch (Load types: Non dimmable Light, Dimmable Light, Fan )
2.B Load Control using app: On/Off, Dimming
2.C Manual dimming from hardware
3. RGB Light Control
3.A On/Off
3.B Color and brightness changing
3.C Party mode
3.D Saving favorite colors
4. Integration with smart gateway and controlling devices through internet
5. Server integration
6. Multiple user control
7. Camera live stream (Supported DVR: Hikvision)
REQUIREMENT
a) To fully access all the functionality of SmartHome app hardware setup is required in user’s home.
b) Smartphone must be BLE supported.
c) App can be downloaded from App Store.
KNOWN ISSUES
1. Backup restore in BLE mode has issues
2. Multiple user support is not fully stable yet
3. Switch version 00 is not compatible in IoT mode
4. Server auto syncing not implemented yet
5. Random crash issue
6. Load status does not update after channel configuration from dashboard in IoT mode
7. Real time status update doesn’t work while app is in background, needs to refresh after relaunch
8. Normal user gets deleted from server after clicking on Publish configuration
9. App requests for load status every time user comes to RGB window