Event-driven access to my home after a run
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Event-driven access to my home after a run
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Re: Event-driven access to my home after a run
#2Still does not fix the initial issue of your phone going off before getting back home..
Re: Event-driven access to my home after a run
#3So if you turn off your phone for 5 minutes while staying at home and turn it on again, does your garage door open?
EDIT: Or do you need to go press a button on a webpage before going out for a run to make this work? The last part seems to suggest so.
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#4My feelings about these kinds of projects are a bit mixed. I certainly understand why, writing code that controls something in the real world is so much fun. However I actively avoid any kind of smart device in my home, beyond my vacuum cleaner. Having a computer control lighting, heating or access to my home is out of the question, I simply don't want to deal with it. I trust keys, switches and knobs.
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#5Still does not fix the initial issue of your phone going off before getting back home..
This is fixing that one precise incident he had, nothing else. He said that he came back from the run, turned on screen and the phone shutdown. With this solution the phone would open doors automatically. Cool project but it solves such narrow issue. It's like centering text in editor by adding spaces.
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#6My feelings about these kinds of projects are a bit mixed. I certainly understand why, writing code that controls something in the real world is so much fun. However I actively avoid any kind of smart device in my home, beyond my vacuum cleaner. Having a computer control lighting, heating or access to my home is out of the question, I simply don't want to deal with it. I trust keys, switches and knobs.
Dumb solution: hiding place for a key. Paradoxically it may be safer than smart solutions :)
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#7Automating such a narrow edge-case seems totally pointless. A much more likely scenario is that your battery dies while you're out, in which case you're still screwed.
A better tried-and-tested real world solution that covers all scenarios is a simple key safe.
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#8My feelings about these kinds of projects are a bit mixed. I certainly understand why, writing code that controls something in the real world is so much fun. However I actively avoid any kind of smart device in my home, beyond my vacuum cleaner. Having a computer control lighting, heating or access to my home is out of the question, I simply don't want to deal with it. I trust keys, switches and knobs.
Smart home stuff can't overcome the fundamental issue of complexity creep and the brittleness and unreliability inherent to it.
I've had a network connected soundbar bring down my home internet. My lights were set to re-enter the state they were in when they were last on, no way to turn those on without factory resetting them all and pairing all my devices again. My smart assistants were on a hair trigger, if anything tripped their wake word they would start a cacophony of complaints about not being able to connect to wifi and demands to be reset.
I'll give my smarthome crap one thing though, it's genuinely educational,
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#9My solution was just stopping my keys from jingling and poking me while running, I put my keys in a rigid key holder/organizer thing like a Swiss knife for keys
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#10I like this because even though relatively niche, it's more substantial than merely turning the lights on and off when entering the house.