How it all started
IoT and Home Automation these few years have been on the rise.
For me everything started some time about 3 years a...
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I guess you could have a constant ping from the gateway to your local phone IP address for a simple presence detection:) looks good!
Check out Node-RED for more complex gateway flows, it really speeds up some task.
Nice setup and nice write up. I'm always curious about how other people tackle their smart home setups. I've shared my experience here too, after the first year of living with Home Assistant - dev.to/jumpalottahigh/living-with-...
Isn't it pretty weird that you need to tell Google that you're home?
Why do you think that's weird?
It's just a feature to turn music and lights in a single command.
I have just been wondering why Google doesn‘t already know you‘re home.
Oh. Of course I could set it up like that, but since I live with my GF, she might already be home, thus I would not even need to turn anything on :)