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Home automation - why?
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In short, enlightened laziness.
I can turn the bedroom lights on and off, from my bed.
I can turn the bathroom light off, after my young daughter left it on, in the middle of the night.
My livingroom lights colour shift, to keep my family's sleep cycle in vague check.
I can turn my heating down room by room, if it's not needed. Conversely, I can preheat the house, on the way home.
While the setup took a bit of prep work, it's now highly reliable, and makes my life a lot easier.
Agreed, a little home automation can be nice. I like being able to turn my lights weird colours on a whim, it's pretty. With the exception of edge cases and people who have a disability I really don't understand smart large appliances and smart locks. I really hope there's a reliable smart lock for them and people in the edge cases. I haven't looked into it at all so I'll just leave it there.
I have a Yale front door lock tied in to Home Assistant through Zigbee. It's completely controlled locally.
I own a bed and breakfast. The day a guest arrives, I have homemade apps that get the last 4 digits of their phone numbers and program them into the lock. The day they leave those numbers are deleted from the lock. The lock also runs on schedules. It locks at 10pm and unlocks at 7:30am, unless we have no guests where it just always stays locked.
It's so so nice. It's also pretty secure.