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This is not the helpful answer you were looking for, sorry. I'm fairly certain that the consensus among data hoarders is that the answer is more storage space not smaller files.
My wife likes AnyList so I use it too. If you're looking for privacy-focused group lists I would suggest Home Assistant to-do lists (assuming you're running Home Assistant already).
When I couldn't find anything that seemed to work for me I decided to go with a "hands-free" approach. My alarm will arm-home when everyone has been home for 15 minutes. It arms-away when everyone is gone. It disarms when someone gets home. If armed-home and an exterior door is opened with presence detected inside by that door it disarms. I haven't had a mis-fire since I started it.
Oooh, that is a pretty looking thing. I can't wait to read your thoughts.
lol - that won't work for me, I live in Texas and that means my light would always be deep, dark red. Cool concept though.
As I replied to another who suggested ESPHome - I don't want a bunch boards and wires stuck everywhere and unless I am misunderstanding it I'll need to get into 3d printing to make enclosures for stuff. I can see going there some day but no room for a makerspace in this house until the boy moves out.
You don't need to unlock your phone to fire an event in HomeAssistant. My iPhone needs to be awake but will still scan and run shortcut while locked.
I don't do NVR - my servers are all low power except my PleX and I have so much storage dedicated to that I just can't see adding more. All cameras have SD storage and I have key events backing up to cloud.
Done all that except the Xmas stuff - my neighbor across the street puts up incredible holiday lighting all year long...literally tens of thousands of dollars worth of gear in play. I can't afford to even make a showing next to that.
no...just no! I refuse to succumb to the sad place I retreated to after the 2016 fail - that is not our future, that is not going to happen! I can not let myself imagine this future and you shouldn't either.