Home Automation

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Discussion about general home automation ideas and projects, home automation protocols like Z-wave, Zigbee, Matter, etc, and home automation software and hubs like HomeSeer, Home Assistant, OpenHAB, Homey.

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Joining from the trenches of home automation on Spezdit (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/homeautomation

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to make a quick post to say hi and inspire other lurkers to join in on the communities they love.

I come from Home Assistant and Home Automation on Reddit and figured my low post count on those communities wouldn't help grow these communities unless I get my hands dirty and participate where I can.

Anyways I am happy to be here and I guess I'll end off with asking what everyone else is using for their home automatons?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Welcome, doing the same myself. I wasn’t much of a contributor prior to the great migration and I’m trying to step up my contributions in order to help grow things.

Personally my entry into Home Assistant and Smarthome was to fix a very strange series of light switches in my house that all turned on or off different lights in 1 area and I used a series of smart switches, smart bulbs and lighting groups to make them all controlled as if they were on circuit, as the cost to do so electrically was prohibitive.

Now my automations are mostly to check on the state of the house and report problems. Such as if the door to the laundry room is left closed too long (as the litterbox is in there) and to check on the state of battery powered devices to see if batteries need replaced.

I try to keep the automations simple and unobtrusive.