I’ll have you know, I let my bathtub drop for a year before fixing it
I’m sure if they evolved in an environment with electricity, they’d be going from room to room turning off light switches.
…Well if someone else in this damn house would ever turn them off I wouldn’t have to now would I?
My step kid literally turned on the kitchen, dining, hallway, and bathroom light after I went to bed and left them on. Cue grumpy ass me turning off lights after my late night pee. The hallway light alone is enough to light up every single one of those rooms for grabbing whatever you need before bed, the switch is five feet from their bedroom and I have a switch in my bedroom for it as well. So of course that couldn’t be the only light left on. Rant over
I’ve got presence sensing within one device or another in probably every room. I’ve never messed with the templates for this kind of stuff. I wrote some basic scripts a few yrs ago but since rebuilding HA from scratch (bought mini pic, tired of rpi sad burning out) a few months ago, haven’t done anything interesting. Did you write yours manually?
Currently I don’t have any mmWave sensors outside of my ecobee thermostat so I haven’t gone as far as creating lights based on presence. Currently I just use timers, adaptive lighting, and have a couple night lights using PIR sensors and a timer. I have been wanting to get some mmWave sensors but haven’t found anything that fits the bill as I want something with an ambient light sensor, mmWave sensor, temp sensor, etc. I have seen the Everything One from Everything Smart Home but at $65 each, I’d be spending a few hundred at least.
Also if you ever want to go back to your RPi, you can use an SSD as your boot drive. I have mine running off this so that I don’t have to use a crappy SD card.
That’s actually a future project for me. I’ve got plenty of self hosted things going on, so adding one more just adds to the fun. Unfortunately, a lot of the upgrades to my house were done late 80s/early 90s and things I’ve done the last five years or so. So there’s an ungodly number of incompatible light fixtures in this house. Damn led fixtures that you can’t replace the light, halogen sconces, florescent tubes, and my favorite, the asshole fixture that has these fittings that currently hosts two 100000k temperature, bright as fuck, lights that I want to die, but not enough to be the fifth fixture I replace in this house.
Not sure of the compatibility, but you might look into Shelly relays to automate old fixtures, lights and switches. They just wire in parallel to the switch and sit in the electrical box behind it. Also they make GU24 to E26 adapters. I had to buy some for our outside garage lights which are also GU24 sockets as well.
I’ll have you know, I let my bathtub drop for a year before fixing it
…Well if someone else in this damn house would ever turn them off I wouldn’t have to now would I?
My step kid literally turned on the kitchen, dining, hallway, and bathroom light after I went to bed and left them on. Cue grumpy ass me turning off lights after my late night pee. The hallway light alone is enough to light up every single one of those rooms for grabbing whatever you need before bed, the switch is five feet from their bedroom and I have a switch in my bedroom for it as well. So of course that couldn’t be the only light left on. Rant over
Motion detector switches. Had to do that with my brother that used to wander in a stupor.
Not sure how much into electronics you are, but you could setup Home Assistant to automatically control your lights and/or use motion sensors.
I’ve got presence sensing within one device or another in probably every room. I’ve never messed with the templates for this kind of stuff. I wrote some basic scripts a few yrs ago but since rebuilding HA from scratch (bought mini pic, tired of rpi sad burning out) a few months ago, haven’t done anything interesting. Did you write yours manually?
Currently I don’t have any mmWave sensors outside of my ecobee thermostat so I haven’t gone as far as creating lights based on presence. Currently I just use timers, adaptive lighting, and have a couple night lights using PIR sensors and a timer. I have been wanting to get some mmWave sensors but haven’t found anything that fits the bill as I want something with an ambient light sensor, mmWave sensor, temp sensor, etc. I have seen the Everything One from Everything Smart Home but at $65 each, I’d be spending a few hundred at least.
Also if you ever want to go back to your RPi, you can use an SSD as your boot drive. I have mine running off this so that I don’t have to use a crappy SD card.
That’s actually a future project for me. I’ve got plenty of self hosted things going on, so adding one more just adds to the fun. Unfortunately, a lot of the upgrades to my house were done late 80s/early 90s and things I’ve done the last five years or so. So there’s an ungodly number of incompatible light fixtures in this house. Damn led fixtures that you can’t replace the light, halogen sconces, florescent tubes, and my favorite, the asshole fixture that has these fittings that currently hosts two 100000k temperature, bright as fuck, lights that I want to die, but not enough to be the fifth fixture I replace in this house.
Not sure of the compatibility, but you might look into Shelly relays to automate old fixtures, lights and switches. They just wire in parallel to the switch and sit in the electrical box behind it. Also they make GU24 to E26 adapters. I had to buy some for our outside garage lights which are also GU24 sockets as well.