Home assistant is the shit. I’ve got lighting automations based on time of day and via motion sensors within specific timeframes.
Many sensors. Motion, climate, humidity, you name it.
Home theater automations. If I want to watch something, I tell voice assistant (Siri in this case) “turn on home theater.” It turns on the TV, receiver, and Apple TV, and uses the receiver’s API to switch the input to the media input. When I hit play on a video it turns off the living room lights, and if I pause or stop the video it turns them back on.
It has monitoring for all my thermostat sensors, solar, batteries, keeps track of my fridge and freezer temperatures, list goes on.
It also fully supports zigbee antennas and Bluetooth devices over Wi-Fi with simple esp32 Bluetooth extender configs. HAOS is just an outstanding piece of software.
Home assistant is the shit. I’ve got lighting automations based on time of day and via motion sensors within specific timeframes.
Many sensors. Motion, climate, humidity, you name it.
Home theater automations. If I want to watch something, I tell voice assistant (Siri in this case) “turn on home theater.” It turns on the TV, receiver, and Apple TV, and uses the receiver’s API to switch the input to the media input. When I hit play on a video it turns off the living room lights, and if I pause or stop the video it turns them back on.
It has monitoring for all my thermostat sensors, solar, batteries, keeps track of my fridge and freezer temperatures, list goes on.
It also fully supports zigbee antennas and Bluetooth devices over Wi-Fi with simple esp32 Bluetooth extender configs. HAOS is just an outstanding piece of software.
I got a motion sensor set up to blink inside lights instead of a door bell. I now know every time there’s a cat or bird on the porch…