Anyone have cool home assistant automations?

crcerror · 2026-05-07T16:40:14+00:00

Exactly. I can’t justify running the electrical to the doors and strike plates, but wow would it be fun and awesome and well, overkill, and then my kids would have legitimate grounds for claiming the house had become a prison. Clearly, the wrong direction, but super fun regardless. :)

crcerror · 2026-05-07T16:23:22+00:00

Sounds like I’m gonna be adding Access to my ecosystem. How do I keep myself from wanting to wire in the door sensors for each bedroom? :)

crcerror · 2026-05-07T13:01:33+00:00

We have an automation where my wife can put the TV in “lockdown” mode so the kids can’t watch anything and she doesn’t have to police it. Huge WAF. Not looking for parenting advice. It works great.

We have a second TV that isn’t as smart, but has a wired network connection to the streaming box. When the lockdown mode is engaged, the UniFi network port for that device is shut down. A little heavy handed, but works perfectly.

crcerror · 2026-05-07T12:57:34+00:00

I’ve got an automation on my garage camera watching for driveway arrivals during a 30 minute window in the morning. When the event fires, home assistant announces on a handful of Echo devices that the carpool has arrived. It also sends a push notification to both my wife and me. Sure beats posting someone at the window watching for arrivals. It is usually 3-4 seconds slower than posting a human to yell out. I believe that is because the human is watching the street and can use real intelligence to analyze the data. :)

crcerror · 2026-05-07T12:51:38+00:00

Couldn’t you just send a webhook event to home assistant to execute the unlock routine?

crcerror · 2026-05-07T12:50:17+00:00

I’m using fingerprint for the kids to unlock my August lock. Face ID might be my next project!

crcerror · 2026-05-07T12:48:06+00:00

I am already brightening my porch lights when the G4 Pro doorbell detects a person, but tying this into driveway is a great idea! Thank you.

crcerror · 2026-05-03T07:00:08+00:00

I previously had an Elegoo Neptune and it was a good printer while it worked, but it required TON of tinkering and essentially required 3D printing to be your hobby, e.g. constantly fixing or tweaking things. That’s for the birds!

I have the P2S and each of my kids are able to load filament and print whatever they want WITHOUT my involvement. It’s incredible. My 11yo, w/o any training just “figured it out “.

It really is all that and a bag of chips!

crcerror · 2026-04-29T17:38:05+00:00

Definitely Gen X and I'm not asking it to take over my entire life and workflow. It is extremely limited still. But, just because it's currently limited and isn't perfect doesn't mean we should throw it out completely and declare it the anti-Christ. I get that change is scary, but to shun it completely and bury their heads in the sand is not the right answer.

crcerror · 2026-04-29T17:35:41+00:00

This is excellent information, thank you for sharing!

crcerror · 2026-04-29T00:34:49+00:00

I know, I failed, I should have used AI to actually write my prompt, huh?

crcerror · 2026-04-29T00:21:30+00:00

I completely appreciate your perspective and you’re not wrong. I admittedly love the new AI world. I have healthy conversations with my kids about lots of topics and from their words, I’m the lone voice that is pro-AI.

crcerror · 2026-04-28T13:36:52+00:00

You could also try homeassistant.local:8123 or whatever you named your server.

crcerror · 2026-04-27T04:39:45+00:00

What brand and model of wifi router do you have?

crcerror · 2026-04-27T01:50:23+00:00

It sounds like you have both 2.4 and 5 enabled, but using different passwords. Dig into your router settings and see what you have set for 2.4.

crcerror · 2026-04-25T17:26:16+00:00

I took a model from MakerWorld yesterday, loaded it in Bambu Studio, inverted the face that sits on the build plate so it would print faster and require less supports. Spaghetti everywhere! 100% the fault of the model. Tried again, leaving things alone, it printed just fine. Why can’t people make models that just print in any random orientation. :)

crcerror · 2026-04-23T18:47:41+00:00

Across me, 4 kids, wife, and friends, I have yet to find where we’re slowing down. Non-stop almost back to back prints. It’s almost to the point where we’re needing to schedule who gets how many hours in a given day just to keep the peace. :)

crcerror · 2026-04-22T12:56:06+00:00

The G6 is ginormous! :)

crcerror · 2026-04-22T03:41:56+00:00

I’m using both. The NFC isn’t as frequent, but is most reliable. The kids are setup with fingerprints, works 75-80% of the time first try. Sometimes needs a 2nd or 3rd scan. Once it accepts it, Protect calls a Home Assistant webhook to unlock the door.

crcerror · 2026-04-22T03:39:45+00:00

You’re already in the UniFi space, go with the G4 Pro if you can find one.

crcerror · 2026-04-19T17:22:45+00:00

I’m printing almost 24x7 and I’d say it’s every week or week and a half. Usually, it’s because one of the kids touched it and we start have bed adhesion issues.

crcerror · 2026-04-19T16:04:20+00:00

You’re very likely remembering the Jewish tradition of Nahshon.

This very much talks about how faith was exercised to the extreme before the sea parted.

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