I'm looking for suggestions on monitoring a few specific things in a second house that is very remote. (Pete, you've had lots of ideas about this over the years...)
My family has a ranch house that is in a remote area in Texas. Due to a really good investment, the local telephone co-op has tons of money and is running fiber to every home. Yeah, the home in the middle of nowhere, down in a canyon, will get fiber before my house in the city that CenturyLink announced as one of their first... but I digress.
Since nobody lives in the house full time, I want to monitor a few key things like temperature and humidity inside, water sensor by the water heater, outside lights activated when someone crosses the cattle guard (think of it as driveway entrance several hundred feet from the house), etc.
We are really diligent in keeping the thermostat set properly for the season, but water heater leaks, turkeys crashing through the plate glass windows (yes it happened), and other things are what I want to monitor for. The turkey incident wasn't noticed for a couple of months, and there was significant damage because of it.
What do y'all use for remote monitoring? Should I put a Zee and a few z-wave devices in the house? What's the most reliable since if something crashes there's usually nobody there to reset it?
My family has a ranch house that is in a remote area in Texas. Due to a really good investment, the local telephone co-op has tons of money and is running fiber to every home. Yeah, the home in the middle of nowhere, down in a canyon, will get fiber before my house in the city that CenturyLink announced as one of their first... but I digress.
Since nobody lives in the house full time, I want to monitor a few key things like temperature and humidity inside, water sensor by the water heater, outside lights activated when someone crosses the cattle guard (think of it as driveway entrance several hundred feet from the house), etc.
We are really diligent in keeping the thermostat set properly for the season, but water heater leaks, turkeys crashing through the plate glass windows (yes it happened), and other things are what I want to monitor for. The turkey incident wasn't noticed for a couple of months, and there was significant damage because of it.
What do y'all use for remote monitoring? Should I put a Zee and a few z-wave devices in the house? What's the most reliable since if something crashes there's usually nobody there to reset it?
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