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"Hur Hur that's what a timer on your phone is for dude"

Yeah but this was a smart plug that was going dusty in a drawer!

Anyway it's not the notification that makes my brain tickle in that special way, but the fact that my HA takes note of who was in the kitchen when the air fryer was started and only notifies the floor with that person on when it's done.

Now I've worked that logic out with a silly Air Fryer notification I can reuse it in all my other automations.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have also since this post purchased MMwave sensors. But they’re worse for picking up the cats.

You can fine tune some and the Aqara FP2 seems to do a good job ignoring pets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah I've kinda found the sweet spot now to be fair, but I'm using an esp32 board and some dude's yaml, so I've been groping in the dark a bit