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Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
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#2Reading ebooks.
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#3Lights in the garden/living room come on automatically based on sunset time and weather. Fans ventilate the house/shed based on moisture and CO2. I'm in the process of automating the sunscreens on our windows.
So, mostly domotica stuff.
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#4Watering my plants. Nothing fancy, just using an automatic watering system.
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#5Hallway lights come on automatically at sunset.
Heating comes on at 4.30am in cooler months, turns off when we leave to go to work (along with the bedroom, hallways and kitchen lights which come on at 6am)
Heating comes back on at 2pm if outside air temperature is below a certain threshold.
Bathroom floor heating and towel rail switch on and off at various times during the morning, afternoon and evening depending on the day.
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#6Funny enough, possibly because I work on embedded software for automating random processes, and also from home, I don't feel the need to automate anything not work related.
When you spend most of your day stuck in front of a monitor, it feels good to get up and turn lights on/off.
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#7My WiFi router is turned off automatically at 9PM. No fancy electronics is needed for this, just something like: https://www.lazada.com.ph/products/24-hours-auto-switch-off-...
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#8Automatic driveway lights via motion sensor. Automatic house fan (when in saves me money on heating or cooling). Light assisted alarm, makes the bedroom lights 10% brighter a minute before the alarm goes off.
Pretty amazing how cheap things are these days, an arduino or Pi 0w and some relays can do quite a bit. Just bought a opengarage.io and considering the opensprinkler.
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#9Daily backups (ARM board in my parents' garage plus rsync and cron, and vice-versa). I think the original script is over 10 years old now.
Reminders to do cleaning and maintenance, just cron emails to Trello.
Music alarm clock, this has been local control of Amarok (KDE) or a Python script for a Chromecast.
I intended to automate control of the central heating, which for some reason has a commercial grade control system in my apartment with an ethernet port. But I found the building is so well insulated, it hardly runs anyway. (Which I found by monitoring the state of the heating and making a graph.)
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#10Deleting the empty "Email attachments" directory that OneDrive keeps making inside my drive. Systemd timer unit does the trick.