I posted this on the Homeseer forum.
We have motion sensors around the house such that when we enter a “zone”, depending on the status of the house, lights stay off, turn on to 100%, turn on to 50% or turn on to 10%.
Here is an example of when we last physically touched this switch:
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If a window or door is opened on either of our two floors (we have a thermostat for each floor and dampers to control the flow of air) for more than 5 minutes, the respective thermostat is turned off. When all windows and doors are closed on 1 or more floors, the thermostat goes back to “auto”.
Our laundry room is on the second floor. When either the washing machine or dryer stops then an announcement is made on our Sonos speakers that one or the other has stopped. Huge WAF.
When a person is detected at the front door an announcement is made. Great for when deliveries are made and the doorbell is not pressed.
When the doorbell
is pressed, a bell sound is played throughout the house (we cannot hear the doorbell from some of the upstairs).
In our great room we have a tablet displaying most of our cameras from
Blue Iris. If we are in a room and want to see what our cameras are streaming, we ask Alexa to “turn on cameras” and the TV in that room turns on if off, then switches to the IP Camera Viewer app on the TV which is used to display the streams from our cameras.
In each room a ceiling fan turns on at various speeds depending on that room’s temperature - great when sleeping. Can save a couple degrees of A/C energy.
All closets and pantries have a recessed z-wave sensor. When the door is opened the light turns on. When closed, the light turns off.
All exterior doors have the same sensors and our sliding doors and windows have various sensors. When an exterior door is opened and is open for more than a minute, an announcement is made stating that the door is open. We have interior cats.
During the hours of 10pm to 30 minutes before sunrise, if motion from a person is detected outside from any of our cameras, our exterior lights and RGB lights in our eaves turn on. After 5 minutes of no motion, they revert to 10% and the eave lights turn off.
For Halloween, the eave lights run the lightning routine. During the Christmas holidays, the eave lights are our X-mas lights.
When we are driving home and enter a geofence an announcement is made that [name] is nearing home. When we enter our home geofence, the garage door opens (great for my Acadia because I have not been able to train its garage door opener to pair with our garage door).
When we exit our home geofence and no one is home, if a door is open we get a Pushover message. If one of us (won’t say who) forgets to close the garage door after leaving our home geofence, it is closed.
When the house goes “vacant”, the heat and cooling set points are adjusted to save energy. When we enter a geofence about 5 minutes from home, the set points are set to our ideal settings. Also, all exterior locks are checked to see if they are locked when “vacant”. If not, then they are locked.
When we are on vacation, various TV’s and lights are turned on to simulate our home being occupied.
If we spring a leak in the laundry or bath rooms or kitchen, the main water supply turns off along with the recirculating pump (so it doesn’t burn up). We can then open the valve by asking Alexa to “turn on the water”.
The fireplace can be turned on if the great room is occupied and the house is “awake”. Great for when my wife who likes early morning yoga wants to take the chill out of the room.
When the outside gate is opened or closed an announcement is made.
Our sprinklers adjust the time they are on based on a weather adjustment based on our local weather station data. In Nevada there is an an old Mark Twain saying: Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over. Water is expensive here.
Our address sign turns on about 30 minutes before sundown and off 30 minutes after sunrise. Our exterior lights do the same.
Our blinds are automated and open or close based on sunrise/sundown. We also have mini motes to open or close them as well as being able to control them with Alexa.
Based on Randy’s calendar event, our bedroom Sonos doesn’t make the usual “Today is [date] and the time is [time]” - different days have different wakeup times. If it is recycling day, that announcement is made and we have various visual indicators that we better make sure we get the can to the sidewalk.
There is more...but I’ve been too long winded already.
