I have just started getting into home automation. First, I started out playing around with some wemo switches, then adding some IFTTT rules, then creating some Tasker rules, then writing some batch files on my PC to add some "If this...then that..." logic to the mix. I am really getting bit by the bug.
I was brainstorming some ideas on how to take this a step further and thought about a "whole house" Google Now project. I thought of this after one of my sillier ideas for home automation (a "Jarvis"-like audio greeting when I walked through the door). I have an old phone with a shattered screen that I should be able to set up to always be listening, and then I thought I could set a couple of bluetooth speakerphones around the house in a few places to widen the area of communication.
Before I began and started from scratch, however, I wondered if anyone else had been down this road before and I could compare notes.
I was brainstorming some ideas on how to take this a step further and thought about a "whole house" Google Now project. I thought of this after one of my sillier ideas for home automation (a "Jarvis"-like audio greeting when I walked through the door). I have an old phone with a shattered screen that I should be able to set up to always be listening, and then I thought I could set a couple of bluetooth speakerphones around the house in a few places to widen the area of communication.
Before I began and started from scratch, however, I wondered if anyone else had been down this road before and I could compare notes.
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