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I used DSP to recognize the commercials in the radio broadcast on my stereo receiver and turn down the volume automatically ("adblock for the radio broadcast"). I described it here: http://blog.rekawek.eu/2016/02/24/radio-adblock/
This for TV would be great!
https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Comskip
It seems the tuning of the algorithm is complex though. There's a dedicated forum for it: http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=effa4b...
I trained a mobile neural network to feed the dog every morning, and his brother to feed it every night.
Monthly credit card payments. So money flows from my employer to my checking account to my credit cards. Also of course to my 401K, IRA, Mortgage account, Saving account etc. Which means I don't encounter money much and I like it this way (I generally make sure I live within my means and my money does flow into my investments). Downsides: -I'm not actively thinking about money and hence improved investments -I'm not…
Like you, it does mean I need to make mental notes to check into things every now and then so that there aren't charges I don't understand or investments that really seem out of whack.
Pretty much the only other thing of note I do, besides have a lawn service, is some automated plant watering because of the aforementioned traveling. For this and other reasons my schedule is variable enough that none of the usual SmartHome stuff really does anything for me even if it solved problems I felt I had, which I don't other than some remote monitoring.
I built an accelerometer-based washing machine sensor which sends a notification to my phone when the washing is done. This is useful because the machine itself has no indication when it's done: http://www.instructables.com/id/Washing-Machine-Notification...
My machine has a time remaining feature which is great in theory but it's completely inaccurate. It might tell you there's 45 minutes left in a cycle, you'll come back an hour later and it'll say 17 minutes. I guess I know where the windows file-copy dialog author went to work after Microsoft
Screen scraping photos of my kids from a kindergarten website. Recognizing good photos that feature my kids and deleting everything else is manual, though. Alerts to my phone if the fridge or freezer temperature exceeds a limit or the humidity under my dishwasher starts rising. Granted, neither are fully automatic and require manual intervention.
I wouldn’t be that pleased with a childcare facility taking photos of my kid then putting them on the internet. I suspect I’m in a small minority though.
I actually haven't shared my scraper script just because I think someone would then share the pictures (perhaps accidentally).
EDIT: I'll just add that there are no public photos of my kids and I ask anyone who takes photos not to share them outside family. So I do agree with your point.
For glucose monitoring I use Dexcom G5 sensors[0] and xDrip[1] open source monitoring application for Android.
Insulin delivery is handled by a Accu-Chek Spirit Combo[2] pump, that is one of the rare pumps with a Bluetooth connection. The entity deciding the basal rates and corrections is an open source Android app called AndroidAPS[3].
As an insulin I use the fastest available analog Fiasp from Novo Nordisk, that works 10-15 minutes after injection.
All of these combined together has dropped my A1c results from 7.5% to 5.5%, being 90% of the time between 4.0 mmol/l and 8.5 mmol/l, and having no severe hypoglycemias. Basically I got myself some more years to live without any complications and in general I feel much better when I can sleep my nights without worrying and can eat whatever I want whenever I want.
Oh, and a warning to everybody who tries this: Accu-Chek will not cover any damage, there is nobody taking any responsibility of the results from the treatment you get out of the software. For me this works much better than any other treatment, but for others it might be even dangerous.
[0] https://www.dexcom.com/g5-mobile-cgm
[1] https://github.com/NightscoutFoundation/xDrip/
[2] https://www.accu-chek.com/insulin-pumps-integrated-systems/c...
We use a slow cooker which pretty much automates a lot of the process of making dinner. Just chop ingredients and throw them in. Now I just need to build a robot to chop veg
At some point, I got tired of the process to sync files: download the document from the browser, open the reMarkable app and drag the file into it.
I automated this workflow, and now I can just "print" directly to the device [1] the article/document I'm reading.
[0] https://remarkable.com/ [1] https://github.com/juruen/rmapi/blob/master/docs/tutorial-pr...