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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/paul345 on 2025-03-30 20:00:14+00:00.
Was listening to the latest homeassistant podcast this afternoon and the guest talked about a household rule of no automations in the bedroom.
Fortunately, all the household automations (so far) are well received and nothing's out-of-bounds but what are you seeing?
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What automations are you most conscious could trigger family disapproval
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What are your household "no go" areas that you'd like to automate but aren't allowed. Maybe you have previously automated something, it went wrong and has now been banned.
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What principles do you use to minimise family disapproval.
On the principles side, I stick to:
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Automations have to make the house behave better. Aiming for almost all automations to require no additional steps or behaviour change. If interaction is required, it should be a small interaction to do multiple things, not just changing a simple switch to a voice command.
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Test automations in one place for a week before applying to the house.
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House has to fall back to a dumb house if HA were to be switched off.
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Everything should be triggerable via voice if required but not expected to be primary interaction.
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No requirement for dashboards or active use of companion app.