Not sure this belongs, but my most proud automation is an automatic water bowl for my dogs. It automatically drains, rinses, and fills 16 times per day so they always have fresh water. They deserve a better life than my lazy ass can give them.
:O it’s hooked to the tap and a drain I assume? How big is that?
Correct! It connects to a sink drain the same way a dishwasher does. It is actually a bathroom sink, the kind that sits on top of the counter. We have had three Great Danes at one time so trying to keep up with a clean water dish was really impossible. We no longer have large dogs but the desire to keep them in clean water persists.
What a clever idea! Is the dirty water drained from the bottom of the bowl or is it pumped out?
Pumped from the bottom. The basin sits on a raised box that holds the internals, including a pump for draining and a water valve for filling. Basically it uses a timer that commands the pump and a sump circuit for the fill valve detecting high, low, and overflow conditions.
The pump runs for three minutes every hour for sixteen hours between 0600 and 2200. The three minutes is enough to drain the entire thing with enough time for the clean fill water to rinse the basin and be drained away before stopping the pump and letting the fill top it off with clean water.
Super cool. I’ll have to keep that in mind for behind my kitchen wall 🤔
I get notified whenever a band on or adjacent to the ipecac label is about to play in stockholm.
“It’s dark in here” sets a scene where all the lights in our living room are set to bright white.
I made an automated sandwich maker. The automation turns it on, sets a timer, shows the timer on tv, turns it off when the timer goes off, pauses the tv and turns lights in kitchen on, if after sunset. Ridiculous? Jup. But also super cool.
Mine is turning on a fan when an exercise video is played. Pressing a button is way too difficult.
I used to do this for lighting and fans whenever my VR headset turned on.
Not too crazy but I have automations based on whether external doors are open: if it’s hot and it’s cooler outside and someone opens the door then the fan near it gets turned out. Similarly if the heater is on but someone leaves a door open longer than one minute (conservative) the heaters will shut off.
Does meal prep because I don’t really like cooking count?
alias la=“ls -la”
-al, heathen.This is really common where I work but I don’t understand why. On macOS I’m more likely to use
ls -1. Do you need to know permissions or file sizes often?alias l=“ls -al”
alias cd… =“cd …”
alias cd. =“cd …”I’m a monster.
cd? Let me introduce you to my lord and savior zoxide
llThis is engrained in my muscle memory and throws me off anytime I use a system without it set
What a wonderfully ridiculous waste of time and effort. I hope your daughter realizes how lucky she is.
My dishwasher automatically selects it’s Eco program when powered on. The Eco program uses more water and more energy than the Auto program while also taking almost twice as long. So I have an automation that triggers when my dishwasher is powered on and then selects the Auto program for me - because pressing a button to change the program after loading the dishwasher would be too much to ask.
How did you measure the water going through? Did you hook up an in-line flow meter to the dishwasher? I would be interested to know if my Bosch dishwasher is the same way because I always use Eco.
@JustEnoughDucks @EarMaster I’m not the original poster. I have seen lab test results supporting the LOWER water usage claim in ECO for common devices.
According to my own monitoring via smartplug, my own dishwasher uses about a 20 to 30% less electrical energy when in ECO mode as opposed to AUTO mode. It is a Bauknecht, which is likely very similar to your Bosch device in many ways (Bosch, Siemens, Bauknecht household devices all being manufactured by the same company…).
Thanks for that. Now I need a new dishwasher.
If it uses more water and more energy, what exactly is “eco” about it?
@pfr @homeassistant just remember that this machine needs to clean it’s pipes too, just using chemicals for that won’t do very well i guess. I’m not saying that this is logical (making this eco mode) but using more electricity for hot water and using more water (for not reusing too much water all over again) is probably the sweet spot for lasting much longer. Which in turn is not in the interest of the company selling these machines. I guess.
@EarMaster
Is somebody trolling a little bit out there?
ECO mode, exactly as the name implies, uses less water and less energy.@EarMaster
Under some specific circumstances AUTO might be more economic but that would be the exception rather than a rule.It is for me. The user manual states how much water and energy is used for each program. For the Auto program a range is given. The water consumption of the Eco program is almost identical to the worst value of the Auto program. I can measure the power consumption using a smart plug and I know that - at least for my dishes - the Auto program uses less energy than the Eco program.
I click a button when taking my pill so I don’t take it twice by mistake, it also alerts me if I’ve forgotten my dose. Not really ridiculous, but I wanted to feel included lol
That’s genuinely useful.
this isn’t bad!!!1one
Do you have it set to tell you after x amount of pills to pickup new ones and/or see your doc for refills?
frog I can’t even remember to get my meds renewed let alone take them half the time. 30 days of pills last me upwards of 3 months before I get a new bottle. no wonder I’m so messed up
MedTimer (FOSS) and a 7-day pill organizer changed my life.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve had to upgrade to one with AM/PM distinctions to balance the uppers and downers.
Also, you have ADHD. Talk to somebody about it.
I have 4 lights in my room that I use for different things. Ceiling light, light above my bed, lights hanging from the high part of the vaulted ceiling (these are yellow glass really pretty but kinda dim great for before bed) and a small stained glass lamp.
I have an automation to turn on the small stained glass lamp at 7 because that’s when I should be getting ready to get in bed, wind down, read a book, something like that. At 825 my phone goes into sleep mode, night light and night mode activated. At 830 all the lights in my room turn off and my fan turns on.
At 330am my alarm goes off and the stained glass lamp turns on and the fan turns off. It’s dim enough to not be blinding but bright enough I won’t just turn my alarm off. At 340 the yellow lights come on to make sure my ass gets up. As I’m walking out of my room, I can double tap the light switch down and it will turn off all 4 lights and the fan if any of the above are on.
I also have a button hanging by a command strip on my night stand that can control everything for when I’m too lazy to open the app on my phone 😂
We have a ZzZ script which slowly turns off the TV and lights.
It works from one end of the house through the kitchen, then lounge, then up the stairs, the idea is it follows me to bed turning off things as I’m walking…
A separate script tells me that it’s time for bed (as I find finishing the day difficult).
Not as fancy but an hour before my bed time my small stained glass lamp turns on as a reminder I have an hour left. 5 minutes before bed my phone goes into night mode. At bed time all the lights in my room shut off. It’s been way more effective than my ADHD ass having no idea what time it is and staying up super late.
Turn the lights on and off in the basement. The kids kept playing with the lights and arguing over it, so I automated the whole floor and blocked the switches off.
Arguments immediately stopped.
@spaghettiwestern The two that made me dive into the home assistant rabbit hole:
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When the rabbits are out around sunset (door sensor on their cage) lights turn red and my and my wife’s phone get a notification. Too many times we remembered that the rabbits were loose while it was pitch black. Not too good with black rabbits…
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Fixing the mess that is my Marantz receiver, communicating with my TV over hdmi and lately my wiim streamer. Turn it on and off depending on need, controlling zone 2 as well as turning on power for the zone 2 amplifier when it’s used in the receiver. The ridiculous part here is that it’s necessary - these things should just work!
Did you post about this in the home assistant sub looking for recommendations on how to do this on Reddit awhile back? If not someone else did because I distinctly remember a rabbit notification and light setup lol. Wild the random info my brain retains 😂
@greatwhitebuffalo41 I don’t think I did. Most of this is straight forward. Honestly the hardest part was pairing the door sensor.
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