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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...
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For the bath, couldn't you add a sensor that detects water level in the bath and use it to override the lights? Even something as simple as measuring the weight of the tub would work, and would simultaneously cover the shower cases too.
Measuring the weight of the tub doesn't sound simple. A camera or ultrasonic level meter would be easier to set up
I made a sensor board that has light, motion, temperature and humidity sensors and IR LEDs and put one in every room. I put Sonoffs on the lights and various other devices and wrote a small managing program to coordinate the lot, so lights turn on when you walk into a dark room and turn off if there's no motion or if you turn on another light. The IR LEDs also control the TV/AC/etc. I've also added various other thin…
Do you share the design?
I automated all my piracy. My NAS automatically downloads files as they are released by scene/p2p/pirate groups. Files are extracted (if compressed), renamed, metadata is added, and published on some apps like plex and trakt. Movies, TV Shows, Music.
In the same general category, I just wrote a script to download episodes of anime as they're released.
My son used to ask me every morning whether to wear warm-weather clothes or cool-weather clothes, so I wrote a app that scraped some weather data and served it up in a web page as a temperature graph, along with a recommendation for what kind of clothes to wear.
I automated all my piracy. My NAS automatically downloads files as they are released by scene/p2p/pirate groups. Files are extracted (if compressed), renamed, metadata is added, and published on some apps like plex and trakt. Movies, TV Shows, Music.
Sickbeard and couchPotato did that through GUI with a few clicks a few years ago (at least).
accounting, expense tracking, tax loss harvesting, liquid investment rebalancing, taxes
Can you please elaborate on how you do this? I've been looking for ways to automate that.
Watering my plants. Nothing fancy, just using an automatic watering system.
(If indoor, overkill.)
I automated all my piracy. My NAS automatically downloads files as they are released by scene/p2p/pirate groups. Files are extracted (if compressed), renamed, metadata is added, and published on some apps like plex and trakt. Movies, TV Shows, Music.
Now I just need to figure out an efficient way to download from them from my Hungarian vps since the cellphone internets are slowwww...
I used Tasker to make my phone vibrate in Morse code. Now I don't have to take it out of my pocket to read a notification.