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What's your most pointless or silliest automation? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by chaospatterns@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Not the things that you depend on, but automations that are just for fun

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[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My fancy toaster came with dire warnings to not leave it plugged in when it's unsupervised, presumably because the cut-off on the mechanical timer can fail. Instead I plugged it into a smart socket with an automation to kill the power if there's a continuous draw for more than 4 minutes.

Not for fun but probably my most pointless. Other than when I was testing it I don't expect this automation to ever fire.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That did used to be a reasonably common failure scenario for mechanical toasters. I would have hoped it’s not anymore