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What's your most pointless or silliest automation? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days 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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[โ€“] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Due to two things:

  1. The fact that our washer and dryer are actually out in our garage.

And,

  1. We live in a very hot and humid area, which accelerates mold and mildew.

We just don't start loads that will be unattended, even for a few hours. Because laundry left in the washer for even as little as an additional 45 minutes will need, at a minimum, to be rewashed, or possibly even just completely thrown out, as our clothes would have begun to get very mildewed indeed.

[โ€“] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yuck. Makes me glad ours are in our relatively dry basement. But with them down there we used to forget about loads we started until I set up the notifications.