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I'm not a fan of the keypad deadbolts, as most I've seen seem to have keys that show wear easily.
You can just rotate the code every few months to wear different keys?
Home Assistant has home zones. You can trigger events based on being home, away, or the trigger between both states. My current favorite automation is to turn off my lights when I go to sleep by plugging my phone in to charge. The basic logic is: * IF it's 1AM OR I transition from Away to Home OR My mobile starts charging CONDITIONAL My location is AWAY OR the time is between 21:00 and 03:00 THEN Turn my office, kitc…
I do the same but have some additional logic including “is bedroom occupied” and “is bedroom door closed”. I combine those and a few other things into a hybrid Boolean sensor called “sleep conditions” At any point in time the “sleep conditions” sensor is calculated as “true” or “false” - ie. does it look like I’m likely to be going to sleep. So when my phone is placed on charge AND sleep conditions = true, my automat…
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You might deprive yourself from an interesting experience i had: My IoT light switches made the mental model of 'lightswitch on the door' to 'lightswitch were i need it'. It also allows you to actually have a light atmosphere which enhances how you use light. This is a stark contrast to a friend of mine who sits in a very bright and uncomfortable room. Using Alexa or Google for lights, timer and reminder also gave me…
> 'lightswitch were i need it'. That would certainly be a plus. I have at least one missing lightswitch in my kitchen, and adding it would be rather complicated. Still it seems like overkill to invest in IoT to solve the issue of my lightswitch being 1,5m from where I'd want it to be. The whole "light atmosphere" is something I already have, I just have to go around and turn on the lamps manually. As for the Alexa, G…
I 'setup' my lights and don't go around to switch them on. I just stop doing that. With hue i have always a specific scene active. For watching projector, eating, learning etc. I constantly play around with the lights. Its actually quite fun.
And yes of course i would love to have a local ML chip and some open language model. But i'm also running around with my smartphone. Friends work at mobile provider, they know were you are. The android os is 'trustworthy' but i still have a microphone in it and having it around me all day.
Knowing that those activation words can't just be deactivated, makes it, in my opinion, similiar if not more secure than my smartphone. So that wasn't a big deal for me either.
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You can just rotate the code every few months to wear different keys?
The Schlage one I bought took about 3 or 4 years before keys started showing signs of wear. We rotate the code every ~3 years now to wear out the other keys and now they are all pretty much equally worn 7 years later.