Most of my automations are practical.

If someone spends more than 30 seconds loitering in my driveway, I get a picture message. If my garage door is opened I get a critical message. Then if my interior garage door is opened I get a different critical message.

If my garage door is left open for more then 30 minutes or any of my exterior doors are left open I get a message.

I get notifications when any particular user unlocks my front door and if someone fails to unlock it.

The only thing I have that's online that pisses me off is my microwave. It has a big clock on the face. When I moved in I said there's no fucking way I'm connecting that to the internet. Why invite trouble? So I went through its menuing system and I set the time. The next day it was off by a minute I figure oh I must have just caught it right at the end of the minute it's probably just off a little bit. The next day it's off by 2 minutes the next day just over 3 minutes. I go through the men used to see if there's some way to disable the clock, there's not. So I can either connect my microwave to the internet and let it get time, or forever have a wrong clock in my kitchen. The worst thing is it's not even using NTP where I could just give it that port and call it a day, It pulls it's time by making a black box SSL connection back to its mothership.