Over the last few years, while building out my smart home automations, I’ve come across various different types of trigger to invoke fun automations. Here’s a handful of triggers that aren’t really obvious – hopefully they can give you some ideas to work in to your smart home! Enjoy!
Timestamps:
00:00 – intro
00:34 – State Duration
01:35 – Location
02:15 – NFC tags
03:10 – Mac sensors
04:15 – Vision
05:30 – Epochs
07:27 – Power Draw
The blog post which goes with this video can be found here:
Links to devices in this video:
Govee Glide Hexa Panels –
Aqara door sensor –
Ulanzi pixel clock –
COB RGB IC LED Strip –
WLED controller box –
Sonoff zigbee smart water valve –
Elgato Key Light –
Govee Rope Light 2 –
Aqara temperature sensor –
Innr smart plug –
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The best thing I’ve seen since HA automation on Youtube is this idea of yours on how to scare cats! Excellent!
No examples?
Some great ideas here that I can apply to my own home – particularly the power draw sensor. I tend to forget to turn off my portable AC unit when I leave the office, so combining a power draw sensor with a presence/proximity sensor could send me an alert if I’m not in the office and the AC unit is still running.
I’m also working on another probably unique one. My wife is scared of lightning, so I’m setting up a lightning detector trigger that will automatically close the window shades (which I have not bought yet).
how do you set up zones outside of your home?
“If a cat is detected … it opens the doggie door!” 😄