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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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[–] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Even though I live in a studio apartment, when my doorbell goes off (dumb doorbell with a tiny mic next to it) I have HA set the alarm volume to max on both my phone and tablet and send an alarm trigger. It sounds like a bunch of sirens going off whenever someone rings the doorbell. But it's not entirely pointless, because I wear noise-cancelling headphones all the time whenever I'm home, so there's always a chance I won't hear the doorbell going off.