Dom ScandinaroFeb 23, 2023

Today my partner left to walk the dog while our cleaning person was here and I was at work. The automation I added a couple months ago to stop getting in trouble for leaving the lights on activated and turned all the lights off on the cleaning person while they were in our apartment by themselves. 🙈

I guess I’m going to have to add a disable switch for cases like this?

#homeassistant

Show threadReduxe
@DomScandinaro We implement a guest boolean that will block lights out automations. Right now it's manually enabled but I'm thinking maybe something like "if the family is all out of the house but motion persists then enable guest and send a notification to my phone".
Feb 23, 2023 at 11:04amWeb
Show threadDom ScandinaroFeb 23, 2023
@reduxe we’ve got a dog so I think motion sensing is unfortunately off the table.
Show threadReduxeFeb 23, 2023
@DomScandinaro Yeah, it's a tricky one to automate. I've also heard some people have had luck sensing the number of devices on the guest wifi network. Also not perfect and would probably fail to catch the cleaning person. It's probably a bayesian sensor kind of problem.