fyi if you use the homeassistent app HA knows (if enabled) the time of your next set alarm (it’s in the sensor settings for the app)

inverter controls, oh god. that’s pretty weird on mobile… 😬 looks nice though

or vim

time. find time to play board games with them.

thinkimg about this again - maybe something passive-aggressive would be nice.

‘someone should turn the lights on’ ‘maybe someone could start the vacuum cleaner’

put ‘drumknot’ and ‘willikins’ on that list

‘Eeeey!’ or ‘Alter’ - ‘Alter, mach mal licht an’

an esp8266 (or esp32 if you have on laying around) and a long wire. cut that in half, remove the insulation from the ends, wire one to ground and one to any output pin on the esp. detect when the pin gets shorted (basically a button activated by water). use esphome and the button input.

the ‘actual daylight level’ is my main automation trigger. I used to do it using the azimuth but that didn’t cover rainy days or days with a clouded sky so I added the lux sensor of my outside motion sensor into this. until the battery went out during a holiday. I now have a template sensor named ‘reliable light level’. It uses the actual lux sensor as the main value, if that is not available I use the sun azimuth and do some calculations with the date and time to get a light level. after that it was a bit of trying things out to find the perfect levels for

• turn on light in the staircase with motion
• turn the staircase lights on completely
• shut the blinds when it’s too sunny

I do this by activating different mode booleans (dim, dark, light) so the automations are triggered by them turning on or off and Incan also check the state of these in the automation conditions.