Free Blue Series 2-1 Switch Game Thread

[inkaboo]

X10 switch

[amdbuilder]

Wink Hub / GE Link Bulb

[greenawayj]

Insteon Hub & Outdoor plug

[mark.kunitomi]

Roomba smart vacuum

[cgolebio]

ADT Door and Window sensor

[travis.mara]

My first was a Vera hub.

[MRobi]

The worst part is… I’m like 100% positive you’ve told this story before, I just can’t find it!!

[ryknow27]

For day #2, my guess is the Ecobee Thermostat.

[nil]

Quirky Tapts

[Eric_Inovelli]

@davbay2

I believe it was a Nest. Probably the Nest Thermostat.

Correct! Good memory (or was that a lucky guess?)

My home automation journey began with a Nest thermostat back in December 2015. Every year I go down to Florida around Christmas to get away from the snow and I thought, “there has to be a way to control my thermostat remotely, it’s 2015…”

Sure enough I stumbled across Nest and purchased it. That’s what started my hobby.

Very quickly it grew into an obsession lol. I purchased the Philips Hue starter kit next and then purchased a Wink hub.

I went all in on Wink and bought GE Link bulbs to outfit my entire house (big mistake - they worked well don’t get me wrong, but the fact that everyone in my family and my friends would turn off the bulbs manually).

I then bought the Quirky (Wink) Tapt switches which were way ahead of their time and actually where scene control came from for the Red Series.

Then I started seeing what worked and didn’t work and eventually settled on the GE Z-Wave switches and took out all the Tapts as they were just really slow (this is where I get a chuckle out of the 700ms delay issue bc I used to wait anywhere between 3-20 seconds for a light to turn on lol).

I started Inovelli in April 2016 and moved to SmartThings and stuck with all Z-Wave (aside from the Philips Hue bulbs).

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Today I am still with SmartThings but have used Hubitat and Home Assistant (about 1% of it and it’s extremely powerful - just still a learning curve for me) and I have Z-Wave switches (all Inovelli now haha) and a couple of the Blue Series ones along with Philips Hue and Inovelli bulbs. I have an ecobee thermostat and that’s pretty much it as I had to move out of my old house and am renting (story for another day lol).

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Let me get with the rest of the team to get a question from them and I’ll post it this afternoon.

Great guesses and congrats to @davbay2 - I’ll send you an email in a second to grab your info!

[Eric_Inovelli]

Question #2 - What Air Force Base was Courtney born at?

[Eric_Inovelli]

I have to give you credit for your sleuthing skills! I got a notification that you liked this thread:

How did you end up deeeeeep in home automation?

Haha, oh man, this should be fun! Hey, I’m Eric and I love answering 3-Way wiring questions. I’m from Kalamazoo, MI, but actually grew up in New Jersey (don’t hold it against me please). My dad is an Electrical Engineer at DTE (I did get a chuckle out of @oscopeaaron’s DTE comment) which clearly did not pass down the EE genes to me. I chose the exact opposite field… marketing (think, pretty pictures). Ok, so how did this start and where did Inovelli come from. As I’m sure you know @simriv…

And looked back and thought, wow, I forgot I shared that.

Nice work! If only someone wouldn’t have guessed the Nest Thermostat before you, I’m sure you would’ve nailed it.

[andrew]

Andrews Air Force Base, I think? From here:

Employee Feature - Courtney (AMA)

Thanks for playing along @kreene1987! What did you do before Inovelli? Have you lived in MI your entire life? I was in real estate for 10 years before switching careers and joining Inovelli! I was licensed but mostly worked on the back end as the office manager, processing closings and contracts, putting listings into the MLS, paying everyone on our team, etc. I was born at Andrews Air Force Base in MD as my dad was in the Air Force at the time. Shortly after we came back to Michigan and I …

[sdbigio]

Andrews Air Force Base

[Eric_Inovelli]

Dang, I really need to work on questions that aren’t posted publicly lol. I thought, there’s no way anyone would know this and there’s like 60ish air force bases in the US.

I’m going to do a redo on Courtney (but still honor the answer, nice work haha).

[Eric_Inovelli]

Courtney question #2 redo (and I’ve scoured the internet to see if it’s been posted!): What is her favorite candy?

[Emalton]

Reese’s?

[tube]

twizzlers

[thanatar]

Tootsie Rolls

[cgolebio]

Skittles