The bathroom now has an automated lightswitch 1, this house is done! Well, the lights anyway. And some of the rooms (ours, kitchen, dining room) still have the old IKEA style automated bulbs rather than an automated switch, but mostly it does the same thing. And it's all in Home Assistant.
Why automate the bathroom light I hear you ask? Well for one thing it still works as a normal lightswitch, that's still there, you'd not know it's automated. And for another I am probably not going to be turning the bathroom light on using my phone or anything. The main reason to do it is so my master "I'm going out turn everything off" switch by the front door can turn that light off too. Stops people leaving it on. And then I do have other options at my disposal if I want, I can set it to turn itself off a certain time after being turned on, make sure it's not left on by mistake. Or I can do full Home Alone style "no-one can possibly tell we're away because the lights are going on and off".
I've set up the treadmill to send me a notification when it's used now too. I should probably go for a run on the treadmill now just to see if it works, and if it gets the cost estimate right. But I've still got a bit of fully belly from my pasty and beans lunch, so would have to wait a while. Maybe tomorrow.
⬅️ Run done, and new home automation bits arrived :: I will come back to this ➡️
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