Asklemmy

For a lot of things, it's a solution in search of a problem. I set it up on its own vlan because since I do networking every day for work segmenting things off is really simple for me.

I only have a handful of automations that I use.

• Turn on the garage backyard lights and the back door lights when I get home after sunset.

• Send my robo vacuum out whenever I leave the house for more than 5 minutes.

• Turn on the porch light and the exterior housing lights at sunset and off at sunrise.

• A button to turn off all the lights on my house on my phone that I use every night when I go to bed.

• A button in my living room that turns on two table lamps, a floor lamp, and some accent lights instead of turning them all on individually. It also turns them all off.

• Scene buttons at the bar that will turn on multiple lights and change colors. I'm planning to do animations with the lights here so that I can press a button and the lights do a little dance.

I don't really like motion sensors for rooms or areas because there are a lot of times I come in I don't actually want the lights on. I also don't have a million sensors because I don't want to deal with batteries or really care about everything. Things should have a purpose and not just lights that feel like they are there just for the sake of "hey look, I have lights that do something."