DayDreaming
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3 Amazon Echos, and a few wi-fi controlled light bulbs.
My mistake.I was implying that our house was dumber than yours. We have a couple motion activated solar lights. No Phone, Cable or Satellite. Only WIFI is the cell hot spot for the laptop.
This worked for me with my now-gone cat. She would wake me up every morning around 4am for a feeding. I got the auto feeder and set it for 3:30. She no longer woke me up. However, if she was sleeping on my bed at the time the feeder went off her vaulting off the bed within 1 second of her hearing the noise from the feeder might wake me up now and then. She learned fast what that noise meant. Good luck to you.I just added a wet cat food feeder so hopefully my cat with disassociate me with getting fed in the morning. Goal is for him to stop waking me up an hour or more before feeding time.
Interesting. Although I an 100% local with everything else, I went the other way with thermostats. Let me explain.When doing some research it seems they use the cloud and/or don't integrate directly Home Assistant so I had no interest in them.
Exactly, we have the yellow lab as well.“What have you done to add smart devices and automations to your home?”
Zero.
Our refrigerator: A regular Maytag Dumb top-freezer unit.I'll admit I've always been a bit of a gadget guy and that hasn't changed in my retirement.
The last few weeks, I've been adding to my home security and automation gadgetry.
What have you done to add smart devices and automations to your home? I'm always looking for new gadgets that add value to my life.
Don’t dis da’ Ting! It is not home automation, it is home protection against electrical malfunctions, such as transformer problems, loose wires, etc. It is cheap insurance against electrical fires, which is why State Farm offers the device for free.I agree. The smart garage door opener was just...because it's there. I do use it if I go out on a walk- don't have to bring a house key or the manual control.
Two other items (I knew I'd forget one or more): my insurance company (State Farm) offered me a Ting device that you plug into an outlet and it monitors the flow of electrical current to detect abnormalities. Pretty boring. Once in awhile it tells me there was a power failure when I already figured it out. And, most puzzling, I used to fill out marketing surveys for e-Rewards till I got tired of being kicked out 90% of the way through the survey. Occasionally I got a product to test, usually something inexpensive like toothpaste or paper towels, but a few years ago I got a Keurig Duo coffeemaker. During the test period I had to connect it to my Internet via an app. After a few months they told me I could disconnect. I got to keep the unit. I guess they'd learned enough about my coffee-making habits.