Putting GF on smart outlet?

[joe]

Yup, @karaelena.

How long should I leave the Glowforge on?

Same SOP. I fired it up at the beginning of the day and shut it down at the end. Via ‘Alexa, Turn on the Glowforge’ & ‘Alexa, Turn off the Glowforge’. Start to cut is about 2~5 mins. Which is about the time it takes for either me or my wife to sit down and fire up the app of choice. I would leave it running if there was a time out/idle for the lid LEDs ( i.e. 15~20 mins with a WOL like function via the UI). At night the unit completely illuminates the office and the hallway and shines in unde…

How Much Juice is that Laser Using?

This is what I use on the house now : On the power usage test I did I used this : (Well, its not EXACTLY this, but uses the same chipset) Now the HA system I use : Any two of the devices come up less then that device and you’d get a heap of functionality. Another other way would be a RPi with a Z Wave ‘HAT’ then poll them that way. An example use case is me and the wife went on vacation to CA last year. The mother in law stayed home. Both me and her got a push notification @ 3AM EST …

Home automation and Glowforge

Impromptu demo of what I have setup. [Alexa & SmartThings Demo] Here’s an example of the UI. [image] (Note: In my config. I have Alexa & Google Home only able to lock the doors and report the status (if the door is opened and unlocked or closed and unlocked) but not unlock. Last thing I need is some one shouting outside the house ‘ALEXA OPEN THE FRONT/DECK/GARAGE DOOR’ Heh.)