I am kinda obsessive about home automation. We built a new home but did not fully plan for home automation, unfortunately. I ended up having to retrofit a lot of stuff like sockets and lights and fans with 3rd party zigbee switches. Nevertheless, our home is maybe 90% automated - I don't think anyone ever needs to turn a light or a fan on or off anymore. The fans go on or change speed when it's too hot, and rooms with not much airflow get bursts of fan every hour. Lights go on when you walk into a room (only if it's dark outside), and change temp when you sit down at the dinner table or sofa. The bathroom light turns on at 2% dim and a light blue color during the middle of the night so you don't blind yourself or wake others. Blinds go up when you open the bedroom door in the morning, go down at sunset, but only if the windows are closed. If not, a TTS announcements alerts of any open windows and unlocked doors. We have a single zigbee button near the bed which runs a automation to ensure all windows and doors are closed and locked, then sets the fan and the AC mode, then wishes you good night via TTS. If a window or door or motion sensor triggers at night, lights go on and a TTS alert is sounded. But exceptions are made if the bedroom door opened first (like getting up to get a glass of water), then certain lights are turned on as a courtesy, and turned off when you return to the bedroom. A TTS speaks in thai to tell our maid the laundry is done or if someone is ringing the doorbell. I have heaps more examples like that... I also develop custom integrations for even more specific nerdy tasks. This is what happens when you retire from software engineering, you sit around the house all day and think "how can i refactor this, or how can i change that to be more efficient". You never really retire actually 5ๆ
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