Re:Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform runn...
by toomuchtodo on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:10AM
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For those who don't want to go all in on home automation, you can buy solar timers for your lights that have an on off button, but also accept your lat long as a parameter and contain a solar calendar internally; they will turn your lights on and off automatically around dawn and dusk (and variations of).
Re:Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform runn...
by adanto6840 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:26AM
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There are now even LED lightbulbs (~$7-10 each) that have light sensors in them that will run dusk-to-dawn. Is a lot better than trying to remember to switch the porch lights on/off every day! :)
- I have my outdoor lights turn on when the sun goes down and turn off 4 hours after sunset - If it is after sunset, if it detects mine or my significant other connecting to the wifi, it automatically turns my Nest from away mode and turns on lights inside. - It will automatically turn off all my lights and my nest to away mode if it detects that no one is home.
There is a lot more flexibility to it (i.e. it can send you an email if someone gets home and you are not home, things like that).
You can do a lot of those, I do not know how much work you have to do in it, but you can make your own "sensors" and it will integrate into home assistant.