Turn Your Games On From Your Phone

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This may be old news, but I just got a wifi enabled power strip and it is a game changer. I can now turn all my games on with one button from my phone. Sooooo much easier. This enables me to hide the power strips and I don't have to worry about multiple switches, etc. I think I might set my whole house up with wifi enables switches, outlets and power strips. I went with Tonbux after a bit of research, $30 on Amazon. I kept my Monster power strips in line for now just in case. If anybody has suggestions for a better one let me know, I am going to be adding these to more games soon.
 

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I'll flip a switch. My gameroom is attached to the house, but the sound is pretty isolated. I don't want something that can potentially be activated without me knowing and have a row of games be on for days.
 
I'll flip a switch. My gameroom is attached to the house, but the sound is pretty isolated. I don't want something that can potentially be activated without me knowing and have a row of games be on for days.

This is LITERALLY the only reason I haven't done it yet. If a lamp or something is on while we are going e - meh. Bank of games? On no bro.
 
I do the same with my cocktails in the house, since the power switches aren't the easiest to acess.

Games are controlled with iPhone/iOS native Homekit and Homebridge installed on a raspberry Pi. Reflashed Sonoff modules (~$5ea) handle the task of powering on/off the games. Scenes can power on all games at once if desired. Phone always shows status whether games are power on or off.

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I've got a smartthings setup and Alexa at home - that I spend way too much time on configuring.

I can walk in the Basement and say "Alexa Turn on Quarter Drop". My cabs come on, my PC boots to Hyperspin on the projector, the lights start a color rotation, another PC starts playing a playlist on the the stereo, and finally my wife's eyes do a hard roll. When I'm done I say "Alexa Turn on Game Over" and everything shuts down/goes back to normal.

If this strip will sync to smartthings I'll be getting several.
 
That's cool stuff. :)

For those who don't want to use their phones, I have this one by Belkin.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Belkin-L...2428&wl11=online&wl12=523473850&wl13=&veh=sem

6 outlets controlled by a remote control switch, 2 always on. I like it cuz you can get as many strips as you want and have them all power on/off with one remote. Been using this setup for years without issue (at the time this was the fanciest strip on the market before WiFi ones) :D

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I've got a z-wave power strip, has 5 or 6 independent outlets on it.

I use it to make sure that my games are turned *off*. After my kids turning them on and leaving games on overnight again and again, I finally automated it to turn them off in the middle of the night.
(edit - Hey Snake - I do this through smartthings too, its an Aeon Smartstrip)
 
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