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tech never works for long (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I work every 3rd day, so for an odd schedule it's nice. I set up Home Assistant to look at my calendar.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    HomeAssistant and vlans are kind of the answer to most of the issues/concerns regarding smart devices this post has

    I have to say though, I find anyone who leans too far either way to be extremely silly

    Well chosen devices from reputable manufacturers can drastically improve quality of life

    One big one for me was window blinds on a sun timer. Because after a decade, I was swapping from nights to days permanently having spent that past time swapping from nights to days every Wednesday and had signifcant issues both waking up and staying up on those days, and even now I still do

    Having my bedroom windows open in the morning on their own to use natural lighting to wake me up has been extremely helpful for that, and then using HA that could be tied into external camera systems to close the windows automatically if a person or vehicle is detected within specific parameters, or having the ability to open my son's window if I hear him crying to be picked up from a nap but I can't immediately respond has been wonderful

    Now there's also your Rings, your creepvacuumbots, any smart TV at all and any other host of problems with iot devices, but there are some gems that make life much better without the dark patterns we increasingly associate with connectes devices these days

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    A lot of the "automation" we can buy is a joke: it should be unobtrusive and provide actual quality of life improvement and it's not. Turning on a light shouldn't require us to interact with an app on our phones.

    HA with some good hardware choices does that if you don't mind putting in the work up front. Most of my automations require no interaction to work: they passively check conditions and trigger automatically -- if I'm home, leaving, need to wake up for work, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    My phone has a built-in calendar and is about the only "extra" I use it for. It works flawlessly, and I have no other need for any other electronic calendering system. I do admit to using a wall calendar for certain things too. Old habits as a farmer are hard to break. Ye Gods, how I miss the weekly flip calendars I used to get from Cenex every year.....

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