Not the things that you depend on, but automations that are just for fun
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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.
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.
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.
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
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”.
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.
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).
Wait how does one set up that sort of thing with your phone?
Nabu announces, “The great fire orb has retreated” every evening at sunset.
This is fucking glorious! Hahaha
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When my girlfriend is over and the freezer door is open, I play ice ice baby. It never fails to cause some eye rolls
