This is the only reason I have smart home appliances
I go to sleep drunk a lot. I forget to turn off lights. My partner calls me out for it. I have not shame.
For the lights or being drunk s lot?
This is why I love my smart bulbs. Fuck the switch; I can turn them off from my phone.
getting up to grab my phone from across the room where I keep it so I don’t doomscroll in bed
because I forgot to turn off the smart bulbs that are also controlled by the switch on the other side of the room
I need a modern clapper
A matter of time before someone invents a clapper allowing you to doomscroll from across the room.
Sounds like you need two separate phones dedicated for each specific task.
I have a lot of issues with my LIFX smart bulbs. Once a week when I click on/off in the app, it won’t do anything. And that’ll usually last until I physically turn the wall light switch off/on to reset it. Not sure if this is a typical smart bulb thing/a LIFX thing.
I have gotten so used to this it’s going to be tough when I inevitably excise Alexa from my life due to surveillance capitalism.
I use some not-as-smart smart bulbs that allow me to use all sorts of FOSS alternatives to control them which I only lucked out into getting since I was planning on getting Philips Hue, but these that I got (Wiz iirc; I don’t use the official software so I am not constsntly reminded of the brand) were half as expensive so I was able to get more of 'em.
Home Assistant is entirely self-hosted. No third-party required. It can run in a container or on a raspberry pi, but it’s typically easiest (and most functional) when you use a dedicated Home Assistant Green. It connects to Zigbee, Matter, etc via USB adapters. Or if your devices are networked (instead of using a hub), it can often find them directly on your network via local device discovery. It integrates with Alexa really well, so you wouldn’t need to immediately ditch your existing smart speakers.
If you really want to get fancy, you can even set up a local machine to do local LLM processing for self-hosted smart speakers.
I personally started using it after my smart light provider (Sengled) had a few extended outages. There was no communication from the company, and lots of people were speculating that they had gone kaput. It was literally cheaper to just get the HA Green and a Zigbee dongle, and set that up (instead of replacing all of my lights with a different brand). And since it’s entirely self-hosted, it even keeps working when my internet goes out during storms.
That sounds pretty nice, I have some devices compatible with Matter, but mostly I have Amazon plugs right now. I guess it’s not too late to start switching to Zigbee plugs.
I’ll probably start by just disabling the microphone on the Alexa devices and just control devices through my phone’s assistant or the app, so at least it’s not listening to me all the time.
Also, you can set up scheduled actions to automatically dim them or turn them off if you happen to pass out
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Selfhost Homeassistant, you’re welcome
Or simply having switches placed not in stupid places XD
Mine is just near the bed
Also, nice username :D
Thanks man
Sure but that will cost you more
Or not at all possible when renting.
why, is your landlord coming by to check if you’ve extended a switch circuit outside of the wall?
tape that shit to the wall and live in the future with your light switch right next to your bed
With a smart home setup, your phone is that switch.
Sure. Having a switch is often more conveniently tho. I can blindly click it from my bed for example
Take it a step further with Tasker and your sleep tracking app. Lights go off when I start sleep tracking, lights come on with alarm.
You can do that in HA no problem. No need for proprietary stuff (tasker has really lost it’s charm).
HO? Do you mean HA or something else I’m unfamiliar with? I didn’t see any option in the companion app or when creating and automation to trigger based on an Android intent.
The only thing I see is the sleep confidence and sleep segment sensors which while useful aren’t useful for this purpose.
Sorry, I meant HA. I just recently set this up, it’s not 100% the same, but very, very similar. I have some wake up system, and when I go to bed, I scan a ncf Tag (just hold the unlocked phone next to it). There is an android next alarm sensor in the companion app, and when this changes (under time conditions), the next alarm is set in HA. The Tag kills all lighting and sets the alarm (which was set earlier) to active, triggering the wake up system some time before the next alarm is set to go off. Of course, the Tag trigger can also be paired to a button (or to its secondary “mode”), but for now I let my (bed) button to the normal sleep/lights off everywhere more without the alarm, to be able to make a choice.
Meanwhile, I just have a big button on my Home Assistant home screen on my phone that turns off all my lights. It’s great.
I don’t consider that similar.
My current workflow I use the Sleep as Android app, I click “Start sleep tracking” and the lights go off (+ other stuff). When the app wakes me up the lights come on. The app has support for Tasker’s plugin system, which makes it easily possible. I could use Automate, another proprietary app, but prefer Tasker thanks to the support I received from the dev (in fact I’ve received good support from both Sleep and Tasker).
If I was to switch to a physical setup that required an NFC tag, I’d probably still use Tasker to initiate sleep tracking in Sleep as Android.
You can also just use the webhooks system in Sleep as Android and make a webhook receiver for it in home assistant, which is what I do
Damn that’s new since I was messed with this. They even have MQTT! Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll have to switch over lol.
I have it linked to my watch sleep mode. Hit sleep lights turn off.
Possible to do from bed as well
Setting up home assistant from the bed is not very ideal. Sit straight up in a chair, set it up then go to bed.
There are people who walk among us, people who can vote, and procreate, who will willingly sit in a room with just The Big Light on. It chills my blood to think about.
You’re telling me there is a giant orb in the sky that you are not allowed to make direct eye contact with and you don’t question that?
My new monitor has a flashing light when the pc is off… Last night I got few up and put black nail polish over the LED. Fuck off light
My bedside wireless charger has a piercing bright blue light on the front. That was covered by a small bit of black electrical tape on the first night.
Which sadist designs this shit?
The funny part is that blue LEDs were historically the hardest to make. Engineers tried for years, but the shorter blue wavelength was elusive. But one Japanese dude managed to figure it out, and they exploded in popularity because they were the new futuristic thing. And now they’re actually one of the cheapest colors available, because every single manufacturer was rushing to jump on the bandwagon and has the equipment to make them. Sort of like the flatscreen TV crash in the early 2010’s, when TV prices suddenly crashed because every manufacturer was getting better and better at making the (historically very expensive) screen panels cheaply.
And to answer the question on why they’re so fucking bright, it’s because blue is a very short wavelength. It takes less power to produce shorter wavelengths. When you compare the relative brightness of two different colored LEDs, shorter wavelengths will be brighter. Like if you send 1 watt of power into two different LEDs, a blue LED will always be brighter than a red one (if everything else about them is the same). That’s why so many of the cheap RGB LED lights tend to be sort of blueish when they’re set to “white”. The “white” is just all of the individual diodes at 100% brightness, which means the blue tends to beat out the other colors.
But the engineers who design those things don’t stop to consider that a blue LED needs less power. They’re just checking the “has a power light” item off of their design punch list. They could undervolt the diode to make it dimmer, but that requires extra circuitry. Just get a diode that works on the same voltage as what you’re already using (probably 5v or 12v for a wall charger) and hook it up to the same voltage that you already have. And use a blue one because they’re the cheapest option. Congrats, you’ve just designed a charger that has a fucking blinding blue LED. The whole “people will want to use this in their bedroom in the dark” thing was never even a consideration.
This is also why red (and infrared) light is better at heating things up. Longer wavelengths carry more energy, which means they heat things up more when they come into contact. The wave takes more power to make, which means it is able to carry more energy to whatever you’re trying to make. Trying to design a blue heat lamp would be an exercise in frustration, because you’d be fighting physics. It’s also why the sky is blue during the day but sunsets are red. The blue light tends to get scattered by air molecules, (which is why the sky looks blue) but red light is able to punch through and reach the surface when the sun is at a steep angle (like during a sunset).
Blue LEDs didn’t explode in popularity because they were futuristic - that came later. The reason they exploded in popularity was because they finally had the B in RGB, and could therefore combine LEDs to produce any colour. The lack of a blue LED was holding back the ability to produce LCD TVs and monitors.
So why could they not drop the voltage using a Zener diode instead of a separate power circuit?
Home Assistant with smart bulb and a voice preview. Stay warm and cosy.
And that’s why mine are on their own VLAN with their own SSID. My TV and my phone are still spying on me though.
Here is a link to the tool that video uses. This isn’t a case of someone compromising an existing smart bulb to do sketchy things, but rather someone installing this bulb covertly in your house and using it for penetration testing. the same could be accomplished by an arduino in the bushes or a guy with a white van out front.
Also most smart bulbs use zigbee or zwave not wifi. The hub could be hacked i guess, but I have mine setup to only be accessible on the local network.
GE sells LED bulbs that come with a remote, nothing smart about them, I can dim them or turn them off entirely with the remote that lives on my bedside table.
If you get a Zigbee smart switch (or smart bulb) and a Zigbee remote, you can pair the switch/bulb and remote directly so it works like you said, while still retaining the ability to control the light using Home Assistant (eg automatically turn it on or off based on something).
I have a Zigbee controller coming at some point this week, so I can set up a bunch of Zigbee sensors and products that a friend of mine no longer needs. Proper looking forward to seeing what I can do with it all in Home Assistant.
Hard mode: just sleep with the lights on.
Sleep maxing.
Sleep mask plus earphones that are specifically designed for sleeping (white noise, soft, low profile against pillow).
Optimizing your way out of being able to sleep without aid (I do it too).
Do you guys not have light switches next to your bed?
Most rooms I’ve seen have the light switch right next the door, most bedrooms don’t also keep their bed right next to the door. I’m assuming most people also don’t want to run wire through the walls wherever they’re renting/living.
Most bedrooms I have seen have multiple light switches wiht one of them being next to the bed most of the time.
not once in my life do i recall seeing this, having been in countless bedrooms
Dunno guess it’s a local/european thing?
yeah we don’t tend to have logical home choices like that over here in Canada
we also like to design bathrooms in such a way that the sink is immediately in front of the opening door, which means you’re not allowed to put the light switch adjacent to the door knob of the closed door position where it would be really convenient and intuitive, which means it’s usually awkwardly beyond the door knob in the open door position, because we never have light switches outside of the room they control
Oh we have light switches for bathrooms outside the room for some reason. You’ve not lived until one of your siblings turns off the light while you are showering.
Makes sense, as I live in the americas
