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  • Panq@lemmy.nztohomeassistant@lemmy.worldBed Occupancy Sensor?
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    2 days ago

    You’re right in that it’s a useful tool for various kinds of abuse, but so is almost every useful home automation/home security sensor.

    The most obvious/useful use cases I can see are:

    • turn on bedroom lights when the last person gets out of the bed
    • turn off whole house lights when the last person gets into bed.

    Both should be easy with load cells under the bed legs but rather difficult otherwise.

    (Useful assuming a household of two adults in one bed that is).


  • Panq@lemmy.nztohomeassistant@lemmy.worldHA Doorbell
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    2 months ago

    Is dumb doorbell + separate CCTV camera a valid alternative? Even my fairly basic Reolink camera has a much better image quality than any doorbell camera I’ve seen, and HA can pull an image from it and push it to my phone in only a few tenths of a second whenever someone pushes the doorbell.