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What are some home automation projects you have been working on? Recently I setup a counter for when the sump pump runs, and an alert if the pump gets stuck on.

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[–] alpaca_math 4 points 1 year ago

Recent best little projects for me was moving home assistant from raspberry pi to proxmox as a VM. A coupe of the challenging ones was setup frigate nvr in docker & getting the TPU to work with it. Then integrating it with home assistant over mqtt. I was driven to set this up to get to turn a cheap ip camera into a smart camera & stop all the false alerts & actually identify what it found. Then only send notifications only when conditions are met, like a person in my driveway or by my front door. Or simply record all dogs so that I can find out who’s repeatedly not picking up after their dog pooped on verge.

Another was to liberate my roborock s5 robot vacuum from the cloud by flashing valetudo. It really just throws a web server onto the vacuum to answer & trigger the API calls, so give local control & no longer needs their cloud or their app. It’s now also integrated with home assistant as well & can use the Siri voice commands as I leave the house.

[–] bazingabot 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have many automations, the ones I am proud of

  • making my vacuum robot really smart (cleanse when not home, tell me when to change mop, refill water
  • kitesurf forecaster, tell me for the surf spots in my region where wind is from right angle and strength
  • laundry forecaster, check the electricity cost forecast and tell me if now is s good time to make my laundry
  • movie rating, whenever I switch on tv and watch something via Chromecast tell me the imdb rating so that I don't waste my time with bad movies
  • recently, use rhasspy in combination with piper to have a good sounding text to speech engine...i call him Jarvis
  • music follows me automatically around in the house, smart setup of Sonos and motion detectors
  • shopping announcer, my better half and I we use the shopping list, I connected it to openstreetmap, now, whenever I am in a supermarket I get a notification on my phone what to buy
  • just some nice ideas ;)
[–] jonmardyla@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, I really like the movie rating Automation. Simple, yet incredibly useful!

[–] bazingabot 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one requires a little bit of python coding...hope you know how to do it

1.Create an input_text sensor in HA for the rating 2.Install pyscript from HACS 3.Write python code to create a service by utilizing Cinemagoer library..steps here A) identify movie ID from title B) get rating for movie ID C) write rating into input_text sensor in HA 4.Set automation so that when your chromecast starts playing that the script is started with the movie name 5. Create another automation for when the rating sensor is filled to announce it via text to speech or notification on your phone

[–] jonmardyla@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Great advice. I do know python, but I haven’t used it with home assistant. I mainly use node red.

[–] bazingabot 2 points 1 year ago

Oh no. All the formatting is broken, my first day on lemmy

[–] bazingabot 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My next one planned is this

https://youtu.be/DnNW4rJkFhY

combined with flower irrigation system ... Lets see how that will go

[–] jonmardyla@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That’s a cool project!

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I moved to a new house, so my current project mostly involves trying to recover what I had, lol. I am making some upgrades in the process like putting zigbee contact sensors on garage door and more windows!

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once again try to get my sprinkler automation working perfectly after I blew up my last controller. Pretty happy with my OpenSprinkler Raspberry Pi and how easily it integrates into Home Assistant. Most importantly, no cloud.

Also, I have been looking into replacing my PIR motion sensors with radar presence sensors. No more dancing in the kitchen to keep the lights on. Pretty happy with the first one I ordered and probably gonna order some more.

[–] jonmardyla@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a Rachio sprinkler controller. I’d prefer something I can locally control at some point. I want to make a “blowout” mode for the fall which would cycle through each zone with time dwells in between for the compressor to reach pressure.

I use aquara motion sensors. They seem ok. I have some logic that holds presence in the room for different durations depending on the time of day.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

want to make a “blowout” mode for the fall which would cycle through each zone with time dwells in between for the compressor to reach pressure.

Huh, never really thought about automating that. Currently I just plug my compressor into the system and flush out all the water manually.

I have some logic that holds presence in the room for different durations depending on the time of day.

I do the same and it works pretty well for areas where you usually just walk through but starts falling apart in toilets, bathrooms and the the kitchen where you usually stand/sit for a longer period without moving.

[–] jonmardyla@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My sprinkler system takes a long time to blowout with my air compressor. I have 1.5 acres, so the pressure doesn’t last long.

I also don’t have motion lighting in any bathrooms, etc. My motion lighting is in all the major rooms on the main floor. But I don’t turn off the lights till all motion on the floor clears. I just dim the lights based on percentage occupancy.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 1 year ago

I have 1.5 acres, so the pressure doesn’t last long.

Yeah, that makes sense. My garden is a lot smaller than that.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mainly use HA for monitoring, have only 1 automation which turns on a heating-wire when outside temp drops below 3C.

[–] jonmardyla@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have been slowly adding automations. The largest automation I have is motion lighting for the first floor of my home. I calculate a minimum percentage based on percentage occupancy. So the more you occupy the home, the brighter the unoccupied rooms will be. This started as a project to avoid turning on lights in the middle of the night while making bottles for a newborn. I prefer to program in Node Red.