Comment by dwedge
19 hours ago
> Now, she opens her bedroom door, I get “kid is awake” alert on my phone, and the machine brews the coffee.
Out of all of the smart home threads and articles I've read over the years this is the only sentence that made me wish I had it. It's genius
Until the kid uses the bathroom in the middle of the night and goes back to bed. Though the GP seems to not mind stale coffee so perhaps he won't care.
Exceptions like the above make automations hard.
It seems pretty easy to throw in an earliest time to trigger it
DR stands for "didn't realize"; the first time it happens you just run back to the drawing board and add some safety boundaries on it.
So... just make sure the automation only becomes available from ~6 AM to 8 AM. ;)
Sure, but in home automation there was a whole lot of those didn't realize situations that you won't get right. In the one end I often go for the question, 'is it really worth the bother of trying to set this all up'?
In most cases, there's nothing wrong with the switch on the wall. I don't need a complex home automation. I do have Home Assistant. It isn't very useful. It's kind of nice to have a couple of lights on from dark until 9 p.m. but with the efficiency of modern LEDs, it's probably cheaper to just leave those lights on 24-7 than to leave my home assistant machine on 24-7.
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