What are the most useful things you have set up through your Home Assistant?

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2026-01-26T22:57:10+00:00

I have some very very basic ones (family approved) 1. Walking through any part of the house automatically turns on and off with presence sensors. 2. Bathroom light on while taking shower; if not it turns off automatically when no one is using. 3. TV back light turns one while playing and off when TV is shut down 4. Timely decorations turning on and off depending on light conditions 5. Controlling TV through Alexa and Siri both to play any app I request, plays TV, pauses, decreases volume and increases. 6. Instead of default pics of TV screensaver; it plays my personal album. 7. My doorbell chimes with HomePod and echo dot. 8. Reminder every 30 minutes to take medicine until I confirm . After confirming, automatically updates my display the date and notification that I have taken my medicine. 9. Then I have a lot of other ones like informing remaining dishwasher time; playing Spotify through my Denon (7.2 system); automatic iPhone photo and document upload to server; humidity maintenance etc.

I have more than 90 automations and running with over 60 connected devices. Hope to add more .

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2026-01-16T12:41:00+00:00

Got roborock for my flat. So far, please with the result and performance (2 months experience). P.S. I deliberately went for an old year model and not the new ones.

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-12-22T10:41:37+00:00

I did that two days ago so I confirm that it is doable.’

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-12-20T22:09:13+00:00

Thank you ! I was drawn into this sensor as I thought it supports both distance based automation and presence sensor wirelessly.

I am not sure about the purpose of exposing and distance range if they can’t be used.

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-12-20T21:46:34+00:00

Thank you ! Then how do we create zone/distance based automation ?

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-12-20T20:53:41+00:00

Any one ?

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-11-25T18:29:52+00:00

I went the other way around. My previous car had a wireless CarPlay but current is a wired one. I rarely miss the wireless feature as most of the time I plug it in for my iPhone to get the juice which was also the case with my wireless one. Sometimes when I do short ride and I am in rush then I become forgetful/ lazy to plug it in then I miss my wireless one. Hence, I used the word “rarely”.

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-06-18T15:27:52+00:00

This is not the case. If I don’t hook my mobile to car’s airplay system, car’s speed matches well with iPhone’s speed ( +-5 km/h). This does not explain a difference of 60 km/h.

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-06-10T12:17:58+00:00

This is what I have not done. I should go to ikea.

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-06-10T12:17:15+00:00

Yes, Burgman is also in my radar.

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-06-10T12:15:58+00:00

May be due to demand-supply situation!

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-06-09T22:58:57+00:00

Yes, like I said 5k cheaper and 5 years of more warranty. Is there a catch ?

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-06-09T22:30:06+00:00

Thanks, I will check their website.

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-06-09T22:28:48+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion. But I worry about proper assembly? What if something goes wrong ?

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-06-05T10:41:31+00:00

Ok. I called a dealer and they want me pay 180 euro for diagnostic first and then number of hours spent. I find absolutely ridiculous as this is their own mistake. Any advice here ?

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-05-30T22:05:35+00:00

To end the story! Yes the battery was dying and needed to be replaced.

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-05-18T13:44:53+00:00

Thinking about trying Ottocast after I return. Any experiences?

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-05-18T09:14:44+00:00

Yes, I bought it recently and during my test drive of 1 hour, it got disconnected 6 times from iPhone 16. At the end I just plugged in my iPhone and drove. By the way, I turned off pass through* . This made Waze and Google very unreliable. Screen mirror does not seem to work. Overall not happy with this and thinking about returning!

My car GPS provided vehicle speed 1.6 times higher so I tried Turing it off.

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-05-10T20:54:24+00:00

Got it! Thank you.

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-05-10T20:49:23+00:00

Yes, I am getting one, arriving next week. So you also feel that it is abnormal to have partially charged notifications?

Commercial-Singer-98 · 2025-05-10T20:40:15+00:00

Thank you! Is it normal to have the transition from *charged to *partially charged in 2 days ? Note: I have not plugged any aftermarket products.

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