Not the things that you depend on, but automations that are just for fun
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In alarm away mode, if motion sensor in the middle of the house is triggered without having set off the motion sensors elsewhere, disable that sensor until alarm disabled.
Friggin’ hyperactive cat, doing leaping zoomies.
Interesting. Our sensors don’t see the cats. Unless I place once of the basement ones directly opposite the stairs; it can apparently see them if they’re a couple of feet away at sensor eye level.
But the one that sees people in the kitchen doesn’t see the cats on the counters when they get up there in the night.
I think if they saw the cats, I’d have to figure something else out, because our’s get everywhere.
I had a Marvin Gaye protocol. All the lights in the house would go out, certain lights would come back on dimly and Sexual Healing would start playing.
Nabu announces, “The great fire orb has retreated” every evening at sunset.
This is fucking glorious! Hahaha
I built a pressure plate in my bed so when I get in bed after the sun has gone down it puts my adaptive lighting in sleep mode, and turns off all the lights in the house.
I never understood how people can do this unless they live alone.
I specifically have two automations that I run as I’m getting in bed (manually, either through a widget on my phone or via voice command): one for if I’m the last person in bed and one of my wife is still up and hasn’t come to bed yet so it doesn’t turn out all the lights on her.
A couple of years ago I lived in a house with a few friends that we rented from one of their parents. They had a somewhat extensive homeassistant setup. We set up a couple of fun automations.
-Enter 8675309 on a keypad by the door - Play the song at full volume
-Enter 911 - Play police sirens at gradually increasing volume
-Enter 420 - Play that one sample of Snoop Dogg saying “smoke weed every day.”
-Leave the fridge or freezer door open for more than five minutes, start playing Dare to be Stupid by Weird Al at full volume and set all of the lights to red.
I have an NFC take at the bottom of the stairs that I scan before going up for the night. It turns off all the appropriate lights downstairs, bedroom lights on upstairs, sets the air filters, etc. But it also has the voice assistant tell me good night and to sleep well. Because I apparently need that to happen.
None of that is pointless. It sounds useful and reassuring.
I guess he means the NFC could be a simple push button. The rest, I agree. I would need something similar
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Dealt with something similar with my rgb bulbs in my bedroom. Flashed ESPHome on the bulbs and since they were on light switches I set them to come on as a shortcut. Need the light on and don’t have your phone? Just flip the switch off then back on. Have a power flicker or an outage you get bright lights from 7 rgb bulbs set to full blast. Wake up to burn your retinas bright light at random times of the night.
I use the bulbs as a wakeup sequence that shows weather via color and temperature as well. Then some others light up in order 25% every couple minutes. Then turn off after a certain amount of time. If I sleep through it I’m generally sick or that tired and need the extra rest, I use my phone’s alarm function for the have to be up and moving fallback.
At one of my jobs of scripting, I remember hearing about somebody using “eject” Linux command to make an adjacent computer reboot.
oh that one is a classic, here is a telling but it was old in 2007 when this was written
I’m using a few numpads as simple remote controls for HA, and I got a bit carried away and set 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 to set the alarm clock time for the following morning.
Never used it, I always just set the alarm time through the UI
One of the dumb things my girlfriend and I do is call out one another for forgetting about Dre.
I have a Home Assistant automation that simply sends the following message as a notification to her phone:
“Reporters are on the scene in [redacted], where earlier today, blue collar workers encountered a Florida woman who forgot about Dre.”
I didn’t set any triggers, just manually ran it while she was at home after our air conditioner was serviced.
When my girlfriend is over and the freezer door is open, I play ice ice baby. It never fails to cause some eye rolls
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I broke my daughters cuckoo clock so I gutted it, replaced the circuits with a pi and made a HASS interface so I can adjust the cuckoo/alarm/nightlight times from a webpage.
I set up a smart plug to turn a lamp on when I started a print on my bambu printer and then it turns it off when it finishes. More so testing the automation stuff, but I eventually want to do more things.
turn on fan to exhaust fumes
I mean. I tell HA “To play that song I like” and it plays “Lone Digger” by Caravan Palace. Back in the olden days of Google Home I had a routine called “shut up” that would turn off the mic if I told it to (if a show or audio playing mentioned “hey google”.
