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A superb plugin for Home Assistant that every Hass user should install immediately as it solve or, can solve a lot of problems and save hours of frustration in trying to track down errors!
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I wanted a bed sensor, I really needed to be able to tell if my partner is or is not in bed and using previous HA systems this was not possible so I had to sorta fudge together things to get as close as I wanted to what was required. I didn’t get very close in reality.
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I wanted to make an old ceiling fan that was “dumb” and couldn’t be controlled other than manually smart without having to buy a new unit and have the hassle of swapping it. Something I’d been thinking about for a while and couldn’t find much info on.
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One of the things that really grabbed me when I started out in home automation many yers ago was the notion of lights coming on in a room when you were in it and, going off when you weren’t.
Back then it was nigh on impossible to do. Kinda.
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To offer a bit of background, I’ve been messing about with smart home technology since the early 1990’s when, as a somewhat younger guy I was going out a lot on weekends (as you do) but kept on leaving stuff on in the house when I left. I needed to cure that problem of things being left on while I wasn’t there as it wasn’t unusual to leave on a subwoofer or lights guzzling electricity for days.
It wasn’t practical to use a timer for that as I didn’t watch stuff on a schedule as such and so my solution was to bring things on only when needed.