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I don’t have many, but I’ll share my most used one:
My lamps and overhead lights are all smart bulbs. I’ve got several different modes (lamps only, overhead only, all lights, etc) and can control them with a unified dimmer.
The problem I had at first was that the overhead lights overwhelmed the lamps, and everything was too bright. So I added a step to the dimmer control to set the overheads to 75% of the dimmer value while keeping the lamps 1:1. Works great. I can even toggle that on and off.
Using HomeAssistant with all the logic in NodeRED.
I added a second switch for the basement lights by the bullhead door. Didn’t want to run wires for a real three way circuit, so I just put a smart switch attached to nothing by the bullhead and wrote a very basic automation to sync its state and the state of the switch really controlling the lights.
I don’t have a lot of automations, but I collect a lot of data with my home assistant. My favorite ones are mostly outside lights.
I turn on my driveway lights at dusk and off at dawn.
Similarly, I do my holiday lights the same, except turn them off at 11 PM.
I have another that alerts me when my ZFS Pool is unhealthy.
Another is to notify when the washer and dryer are finished running.
I have a washer notification too (dryer beeps on its own). Very handy.
Ours both beep, but can be tricky to hear sometimes. I also have them notify on the television using the Android TV Notification Service. It can be handy when we have it on and waiting for it to finish.
