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At one of my jobs of scripting, I remember hearing about somebody using "eject" Linux command to make an adjacent computer reboot.
Nabu announces, "The great fire orb has retreated" every evening at sunset.
This is fucking glorious! Hahaha
When my girlfriend is over and the freezer door is open, I play ice ice baby. It never fails to cause some eye rolls
When I plug my phone in to charge, it says “Oh yeah, stick it in me, baby”.
Yes, I am a fully grown adult.
And I can do what the fuck I want (regardless how much my partner requests I do not do what the fuck I want).
I did almost exactly the same, except it was "Hit me with your rhythm stick"
My colleagues iPhone says "I've got the power!" and I'm a little pissed that he still hasn't managed to play the music snippet I provided him.
On Christmas morning, when the motion sensor in the hallway next to the living room is triggered, it slowly turns on the Christmas tree, turns on the stereo, sets the stereo volume to 0, starts a Christmas music playlist, then slowly turns up the volume.
Sounds magical! Nabu, play Imagine Dragons.
Giant halloween window eyes that randomly wink every few mins.
All year? Please tell me "Halloween eyes" is just "scary eyes" and that you do this all year.
When I turn the coffee maker on (or off), it's light also gets turned on (or off). I couldn't just used the same switched socket for both, but I had one free so here we are.
Are the outlets near each other? You may be able to get a wire from one to the other and share the switch leg
Oh they are part of the same 3 socket smart power strip. But at the time I would've had to go to a different floor and get a splitter plug (no idea what to call those things). Adding the automation was just faster. And I can always do this if I ever actually need that switched socket.
Keep in mind what the original question of the thread was.
Keep in mind what the original question of the thread was.
Yeah i forgot that for a moment lol. My bad. That said, there are a lot of things people use automation for which would be better served by just pulling a wire somewhere.
I'm considering a similar one.
Our kitchen ceiling lights now have a Shelly relay in their circuit. I'm considering a smart bulb in the rangehood - unusually, it fits a full-size A60/B22 bulb, so basically any standard smart lighting is an option - so it can be synced with the rest of the kitchen lights.
Also who wouldn't want to be able to have green light while cooking?
Our assistant speaker tells us... "Your shit's clean" and "Your shit's dry" a few minutes after the washer/dryer stop (just using power consumption stopping). Useful I guess but generally you can hear them stop. It was more for comedic value than anything else.
I have a couch light turn on when I sit down at a certain spot on the couch after sunset at 30% using an "Everything Presense sensor" totally to play with my wave tech
My laundry automations send phone notifications to my girlfriend.
"Front load washer's got a big, wet load for you."
"Dryer's got a hot load ready for you to take."
We have notifications sent to all our phones when the washer is done, and based on who's home, there's also a tts announcement on certain speakers.
Same. Ours also uses a timer to re-check in 15 minutes if nobody is home. That way one of us gets alerted when we’re actually home and can do something about it.
It also doesn’t alert us between 11pm and 8am so we don’t get woken up if we start a late night load.
Due to two things:
- The fact that our washer and dryer are actually out in our garage.
And,
- We live in a very hot and humid area, which accelerates mold and mildew.
We just don't start loads that will be unattended, even for a few hours. Because laundry left in the washer for even as little as an additional 45 minutes will need, at a minimum, to be rewashed, or possibly even just completely thrown out, as our clothes would have begun to get very mildewed indeed.
Yuck. Makes me glad ours are in our relatively dry basement. But with them down there we used to forget about loads we started until I set up the notifications.
my daughter's heart shaped mirror (DIY pixel strip) rotates a rainbow for her to get out of bed
That's definitely a basic necessity and not pointless.
I have the same thing for my son (well, not a heart but the great A'tuin)
A device was occasionally failing and I wanted to know about it fairly quickly. I didn't always notice push notifications, so I made my room light cycle through the rainbow. It's hard to miss.
My Chromecast slowly stopped turning on the sound system and TV via CEC so instead of buying a new one, my family knows there's a red button in the theater room. It cuts the power to the Chromecast via a smart switch and then power cycles the TV and sound system. Saved us $100 and the world some e-waste.
Jesus Christ, I have to scrape up money to eat everyday. This is some dystopian shit foreal
Ooooh! Totally not useless, but I have a version of this.
I have a cheap, but powerful, amp for the home audio system, and discovered it burns out if left perpetually on (yeah, I'm on my third). So I got a wall switch that's turned off after 10 minutes of no audio streaming to that snapclient.
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.
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.
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
For work, I made an autohotkey script that would:
- ask how many times you wanted to repeat, 2. ask if you wanted a phrase entered.
- Click where the cursor is.
- Optionally, enter the provided phrase, using a semi-randomized human-speed delay.
- Ctrl-tab to the next tab Repeat X times.
Cool, but this post is about home-assistant, which is a smart home platform.
My fancy toaster came with dire warnings to not leave it plugged in when it's unsupervised, presumably because the cut-off on the mechanical timer can fail. Instead I plugged it into a smart socket with an automation to kill the power if there's a continuous draw for more than 4 minutes.
Not for fun but probably my most pointless. Other than when I was testing it I don't expect this automation to ever fire.
That did used to be a reasonably common failure scenario for mechanical toasters. I would have hoped it’s not anymore
It's not pointless, but needlessly silly: as part of the alarm system, in addition to the standard siren, the home audio system turns on and plays Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" at full volume.
At 7pm on school nights, one of a number of versions of "Hushabye Mountain" is played, if music isn't already playing.
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
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.
Even though I live in a studio apartment, when my doorbell goes off (dumb doorbell with a tiny mic next to it) I have HA set the alarm volume to max on both my phone and tablet and send an alarm trigger. It sounds like a bunch of sirens going off whenever someone rings the doorbell. But it's not entirely pointless, because I wear noise-cancelling headphones all the time whenever I'm home, so there's always a chance I won't hear the doorbell going off.
When I first setup my Christmas tree lights on a smart switch I created an automation with Google Home where you'd tell Google to turn off the Christmas tree, Google would respond "Ho ho ho... ho"
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.