Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Hi everyone! I’ve done a basic amount of research but thought I’d ask my questions here.

TLDR: I want a light to be turned on to be dim at dusk, brighten when I arrive home, and then shortly after revert back to be dim.

I just moved and am starting to build my smart home setup. I am an Apple person so have used HomeKit for my parents, and have a Apple TV as a home hub.

One thing I really want to do is this:
Dusk- porch light turns on dim When I arrive home- porch light changes color and becomes brighter 10 minutes later- light returns to first mode.

So basically, home kit is not what I want. I am working of trying IFTTT, but need more time to connect everything as it’s not working currently. I just don’t like how in Apple you can’t have a light have a background to always revert back too. I have thought about just having the light on a motion sensor, but then it would be completely off and just look dark…

Sorry if this is confusing, basically I just want to see what apps people are using. Thanks for all your help!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Home Assistant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

+1 but only if you’re serious about diving down the home automation rabbit hole.

The approach that I’ve found to work well is that Home Assistant provides the real “brains” of my house, and almost all of my smart devices are connected there.

I then use an HA integration with HK to expose those devices to HK so it can act as a “voice front end” to HA.

Implementing your requirement of a “default ambient brightness” would be straightforward to do in HA. I use the word “straightforward” intentionally, as it assumes you’re comfortable with basic concepts of coding. There’s a Node-RED plugin for HA that provides a visual programming interface that may help you. (I’m an old school programmer, so am more comfortable with raw code.)