Help with Home Automation

The Arduino Yún or simply the Wifi Shield should allow you to do that. There's a bit of code called "the bridge" which is designed to do that.

Have a look at the Internet of Holiday Lights challenge there should be lots of examples there.

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As for how to do this, you can look at the Internet of Holiday Lights contest from Last winter, it has many examples of wireless and Internat controllable devices like you describe, for instance here is my post http://www.element14.com/community/tags#/?tags=byob_party

there are many examples of wireless here

A lot of the strip LED's come with controllers built in and a remote [IR ] You could have a central MCU for the IOT control and a IR transmitter as master remote connected to that central MCU. I have something similar in my room without the IOT [controlled from a touch screen on  the desk instead]  and it works as long as every strip receiver is in line of view.

Just updated my thread above

Take a look at http://www.element14.com/community/community/design-challenges/forget-me-not/blog/2014/10/20/final-submissionthe-forget-what-project-an-iot-based-home-automation-system-part-1 and lemme know if you see something you like.

Hello,

          Am not an expert yet but I have tried some stuff like that. Why don`t you use an arduino uno itself with a wifi shield and a relay board to control the LED strip rather than the IR. It will be simpler and you can set some preset of the effects you want like with a bit of coding. And also for simple communication you can program it to send and receive only one character for the start. You can also use an online android app development called "App inventor: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ " to create a simple app. I hope I helped you.

that tends to be expensive. Why don't you look at a solution? first step back and define your problem. are you going to try and control multiple things? are they all together or in different rooms? If this is a one-off and you are only messing about then fine.

But for IOT and home automation I like a TI launchpad CC3200 this has WiFi on it and its cheap. 29 bucks from TI itself. Now lets talk WiFi, in my house I don't want all my nodes, on my house's WiFi, as it messes about with the laptop and some other things that operate in the same spectrum. I think a better choice would be the ZigBee units, as they are cheap, robust, and don't interfere with my WiFi

~~ Cris

BTW I am doing an IOT Roadtest it should be finished in the next 30 days

Also, I am not a booster of "openHab". It's cool, but I want to start with a clean paper. I want to control lighting in each room that uses relays in the ceiling. Yes, I don't think the Nest went far enough.

Nowhere do you talk about comfort, that consists of the following: Temperature, Humidity, Circulation (that is how many times per hour do you change the air). and openHab got one out of three. Not to mention the lights as well.
Currently in my apartment, I leave the temperature set to 78 but the humidity about 45%, and every hr I turn on the furnace blower for 15 minutes.

Please see update above

Hi,

   Thanks for sharing AppInventor, i did not know about it ... Is there something similar for iOS ?

Regards

No, sorry for ios i don`t know yet thats like the Appinventor.