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Whole home automation for disabled with ALS
Last May 2023 my wife was diagnosed with ALS. She now is in a wheelchair and is barely able to speak or walk. She can currently use her iPhone to text, email, homekit, etc. and just received an iPad Pro with TobiI Dynavox integration for eye tracking control.
Last June 2023 we had a house fire where we lost 95% of our contents and they had to strip the house down to the studs and are now rebuilding.
During the rebuild, I'm planning on making the house more accessible for my wife including widening doors, roll-in shower and as many smart home automations as possible to make things easier for her.
I'd like to get your thoughts and suggestions on what else I can add to increase the smart accessibility of our home.
I've always been an apple guy and we have many Homepods, AppleTVs, iPhones, iPads, Macbooks, Apple Watches etc. For my smart home, here are my plans and purchases so far:
1. Three AppleTVs, 1 for each TV in our house.
2. Homepod or Homepod mini in each room. (I have setup a shortcut on her phone/ipad that will intercom over every homepod asking for help)
3. 65 Philips Hue slim downlights for kitchen, livingroom, hallway, dining room
4. 5 Philips Hue flourish ceiling lamps for each of the bedrooms.
5. 2 Philips Hue bridges.
6. Pre-order Inovelli White (Thread/Matter) 2-1 light switches for every light switch in the house.
7. Inovelli White (Thread/Matter) 2-1 smart fan switch for all bathroom fans / ceiling fans.
8. Ecobee Smart thermostat premium
9. Eve Energy Outlet (Thread/Matter) outlets for every outlet in the house.
10. 3 SmartMi Air purifiers (HomeKit)
11. 5 Ubiquity UniFi G5 Pro outdoor cameras
12. 1 Ubiquity UniFi G4 Doorbell Pro
13. 1 homebridge running on Rasberry Pi 5 for UniFi and other HomeKit integrations.
14. Schlage Encode plus smart lock (HomeKit)
That's it so far. I really would like to get some smart blinds, but haven't really found any that are HomeKit/Thread/Matter and not ridiculously expensive. Any suggestions?
What else could I add to improve accessibility? Thanks!
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Last May 2023 my wife was diagnosed with ALS. She now is in a wheelchair and is barely able to speak or walk. She can currently use her iPhone to text, email, homekit, etc. and just received an iPad Pro with TobiI Dynavox integration for eye tracking control.
Last June 2023 we had a house fire where we lost 95% of our contents and they had to strip the house down to the studs and are now rebuilding.
During the rebuild, I'm planning on making the house more accessible for my wife including widening doors, roll-in shower and as many smart home automations as possible to make things easier for her.
I'd like to get your thoughts and suggestions on what else I can add to increase the smart accessibility of our home.
I've always been an apple guy and we have many Homepods, AppleTVs, iPhones, iPads, Macbooks, Apple Watches etc. For my smart home, here are my plans and purchases so far:
1. Three AppleTVs, 1 for each TV in our house.
2. Homepod or Homepod mini in each room. (I have setup a shortcut on her phone/ipad that will intercom over every homepod asking for help)
3. 65 Philips Hue slim downlights for kitchen, livingroom, hallway, dining room
4. 5 Philips Hue flourish ceiling lamps for each of the bedrooms.
5. 2 Philips Hue bridges.
6. Pre-order Inovelli White (Thread/Matter) 2-1 light switches for every light switch in the house.
7. Inovelli White (Thread/Matter) 2-1 smart fan switch for all bathroom fans / ceiling fans.
8. Ecobee Smart thermostat premium
9. Eve Energy Outlet (Thread/Matter) outlets for every outlet in the house.
10. 3 SmartMi Air purifiers (HomeKit)
11. 5 Ubiquity UniFi G5 Pro outdoor cameras
12. 1 Ubiquity UniFi G4 Doorbell Pro
13. 1 homebridge running on Rasberry Pi 5 for UniFi and other HomeKit integrations.
14. Schlage Encode plus smart lock (HomeKit)
That's it so far. I really would like to get some smart blinds, but haven't really found any that are HomeKit/Thread/Matter and not ridiculously expensive. Any suggestions?
What else could I add to improve accessibility? Thanks!
#home
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