Subj : Home Assistant
To   : deon
From : Captain Obvious
Date : Thu Dec 14 2023 05:38 am

On 14 Dec 2023, deon said the following...
 de> What do you get your home assistants doing?

Voice control with Google and Amazon. At some point when the technology gets better I'll use a local only solution for that. There's just not anything as good as Alexa and Google Home (which is a barely passable home assistant as it is in this context). I am able to do it using Tasker on my phone but that's not a great solution around the house.

Voice announcements. Coffee is done, laundry is done, based on power usage. Reminders to take medicine, take the garbage to the street.

Reminders if we are leaving and the back door (that the dogs use) is open. Get those via voice, text and email, that way if it lags for some reason and we're a block away we can go back.

Pause TV when the doorbell rings. When the TV is powered on the backlighting automatically turns on.

I've got a Telegram chat tied to Nodered and then Homeassistant so that I can query or control anything in it from wherever.

Different lighting control based on location and occupancy, holidays, etc.

The system monitors what doors/windows are open and will turn off my hvac if they are open for longer than a few minutes.

Altogether probably have north of 500 events and a ton of virtual devices between the two home automation systems. 20 years worth of tinkering. Some stuff works and makes sense, some the wife hates and I usually will end up disabling those, or any where the hardware isn't reliable.

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