{"id":17929,"date":"2016-12-08T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=17929"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T18:02:10","slug":"the-home-automation-tech-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/the-home-automation-tech-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Home Automation Tech Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home automation has gradually become more and more prevalent over the last few years. We all love our WiFi-enabled coffee makers and auto-hook up Bluetooth speakers &#8211; but what else is out there? Here&#8217;s a list of some of the (in my opinion) most notable home automation and tech products that can (you guessed it!) interface with <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/labview-home-bundle\/\">LabVIEW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8446 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Labview-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Labview-logo.png 344w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Labview-logo-225x56.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Phillips Hue:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.meethue.com\/en-us\/\">The Phillips Hue<\/a> is a smart light that connects to an app on your phone through WiFi. It allows you to control the brightness, hue of whites, colors and power switch of the light from your phone. Phillips offers a few different bulbs with varying price ranges &#8211; white and color, just white, and three generations to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>It has a welcoming accessory and additional product lineup that, above all, excites our inner geek:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phillips Hue Motion Sensor<\/li>\n<li>Phillips Hue Dimmer switch<\/li>\n<li>Phillips Hue LED Strip (yes&#8230;a dream come true)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And a number of other lamps, lights and little button accessories. As mentioned above, the Phillips Hue can interface with <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/labview-home-bundle\/\">LabVIEW<\/a>. Follow our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:hue:start\">LabVIEW MakerHub<\/a> tutorials, and download our pre-made Hue VIs on the LabVIEW 2014 VI package manager.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17930 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PhillipsHue-600x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PhillipsHue-600x283.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PhillipsHue-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PhillipsHue-800x377.png 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PhillipsHue.png 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nest Thermostat:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nest.com\/\">Nest<\/a> is a WiFi-enabled, smart thermostat that learns your schedule and can be controlled by your phone. Tell it when you wake up in the morning and it&#8217;ll make sure your home is comfortable and warm to wake up to, while it lowers the temperature at night to save on heating costs. It knows when you&#8217;re gone and when you&#8217;ll get back, and adjusts the temperature of your home accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>You can monitor and adjust the temperature of your home from away &#8211; too. As long as you have WiFi, Nest will listen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:nest:start\">LabVIEW MakerHub<\/a> has tutorials on how to interface Nest with the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/labview-home-bundle\/\">LabVIEW <\/a>API. You can download Nest control VI&#8217;s from LabVIEW 2014 VI Package Manager.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kinect One:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An accessory for the Xbox One, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/xbox-one\/accessories\/kinect\">Kinect<\/a> can be used as a motion control or voice control for the Xbox One. It is constantly watching and listening, so even when your Xbox or TV is off, just say &#8220;Xbox turn on&#8221; and the Kinect will do the job.<\/p>\n<p>The LabVIEW API ties the Kinect into the home automation by taking in color, depth, infrared and skeletal information from what the Kinect sees. How will you use this? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:kinectone:start\">Watch our tutorials<\/a>\u00a0on how to get started and download the Kinect VIs from the LabVIEW VI Package Manager.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17931 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/xboxone-600x328.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/xboxone-600x328.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/xboxone-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/xboxone-800x437.png 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/xboxone.png 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other great tech products that can interface with the LabVIEW API:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:leap:start\">Leap Motion Controller<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:ps4controller:start\">PS4 <\/a>&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:xboxonecontroller:start\">Xbox One<\/a> Controllers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:kodi:start\">Kodi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:ardrone:start\">The Parrot AR Drone\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Comment below and tell us what you will develop with these home automation products using <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/labview-home-bundle\/\">LabVIEW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-17929 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='17929' data-nonce='4d1b41d1d7' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-17929 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-17929 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='17929' data-nonce='4d1b41d1d7' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-17929 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-17929 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to do some Home Automation? Look no further, for LabVIEW can help with all your devices-working-on-their-own, smart home needs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":17931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1561],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4492],"class_list":["post-17929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/xboxone.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4492,"user_id":41,"is_guest":0,"slug":"erickerson","display_name":"Ella Rickerson","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fe955cc73725d3ad87e297d094c41be82c3845c2a4488842c1a74a78ca36b60?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}