Hii all. I hoped someone could help with a noob with the following requirements. I am a CPAP user with sleep apnea. Because I'm exhausted in the evening, I sometimes pass out before remembering to put on my CPAP, which just makes things worse the next day. I was hoping to design a system that would alert me by a certain time, for example 11pm, if I don't have the machine on. I could then wake up and put it on and go to sleep again.
The machine itself doesn't seem to expose any hooks that would allow this to happen. However, if I could monitor the current from some kind of smart plug and then add some simple logic (if current to CPAP plug = 0 and time = 11pm), then I could create an alarm in my phone to get me up.
I'm tech savvy and can do programming, but I don't have much experience with home automation systems. Can anyone suggest a path forward?
No, I don't have a any kind of system yet. I'm looking for something that's easy to get up and running, but that could still grow as, like most nerds, I'm sure I'll find lots of additional uses for it. Setting up a server seems rather heavyweight for my current needs, but might be worth it down the road.