• L7HM77@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I have a cheap shitty desk lamp. It would cost zero cents of effort to lean over and switch it on when I sit down at my desk, so I bought a dozen smart plugs, and fought through setting up HomeAssistant.

    Now I have a digital Rube Goldberg machine that lights my desk for me. HomeAssistant reads the wattage of my PC through one smart plug, I wake the PC from sleep, HA switches on another smart plug for the desk light.

    I think this is the most effort I’ve ever put into being lazy.

    • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I have a smart plug on my washing machine. It fires off a push notification to my wife when the draw has returned to nothing for a few minutes. Then the wife gets the laundry and hangs it to dry.

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      4 days ago

      if I hold the button that turns on my desk light it starts my computer with wake on lan