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Cake day: June 8th, 2024

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  • I am in bed right now but tomorrow I can take a look at my setup and suggest some things.

    A couple examples: I connected my litter robot (litter box) to HA and it notifies me when the cats break something, and I can see statistics of which cats use it and how often to keep an eye on their health. I have it turn on the portable air filter after a cat goes and leave it on for 15 minutes. I also automate 2 dehumidifiers based on humidity sensors I built with some tiny wifi microcontrollers and hard wired humidity sensing chips (I can tell you more about that with specific models later)

    I also control a roomba-style lawnmower with HA.

    Lots of other little things too like sunset-based light triggers and doorbell-triggered events and stuff.

    All of these are things I already owned before I set up HA. Just browse through integrations and also get HACS (a community extension store built-in to the UI) and see what you already own that can be connected. I bet it will be more than you expect.



  • Some of the electric razors out there could help with this. I have a couple ridges in the back of my head and I just jam that thing in there and it gets it pretty well when a normal razor can’t. Mine’s panasonic, they make some good ones. But many brands make similar ones. Just don’t get one of the ones with several circular heads, those won’t get into the cracks. The ones that are basically half-tubes lined up parallel can get in there good. Something with a head that looks like this:

    Besides, the real ones don’t care what your head looks like. Do what feels best for you.