As a retired programmer, the iterative approach is nicely explained! I am new to home assistant. I encourage viewers to build a toolbox of conditions they like. Document them.! That makes it easy to reuse the condition in other situations. I have other languages I create code in, and a library of subroutines is very helpful !
Nice video, clear explanation. Subscribed. A timer helper might be useful here as well, which can be reset upon vibration and when reaches zero the announcement follows. With the HACS timer-bar card you can nicely display the remaining time on the dashboard.
Nice. Sometimes you get the whole thing right from the start, but most of the time you tweak and improve until it does just what you want. Your next challenge, should you accept, is to only have the announcement sound in a room that you or Lizzie are in, rather than throughout the house 😉.
I had a few instances where I wanted to turn it off, but turn it back on again later - like if my wife took him out to a class and I stayed at home. It just made it easier to toggle it on and off
Ha! 😂 I had a robot vacuum find one as well once. I got a new one, so moved the old one to the conservatory, then it set the alarm off in the middle of the night by triggering the motion sensor during it's scheduled clean
As a retired programmer, the iterative approach is nicely explained! I am new to home assistant. I encourage viewers to build a toolbox of conditions they like. Document them.! That makes it easy to reuse the condition in other situations. I have other languages I create code in, and a library of subroutines is very helpful !
Nice video, clear explanation. Subscribed. A timer helper might be useful here as well, which can be reset upon vibration and when reaches zero the announcement follows. With the HACS timer-bar card you can nicely display the remaining time on the dashboard.
Oh neat - that's a great idea!
Nice. Sometimes you get the whole thing right from the start, but most of the time you tweak and improve until it does just what you want. Your next challenge, should you accept, is to only have the announcement sound in a room that you or Lizzie are in, rather than throughout the house 😉.
That's a great idea - challenge accepted!
Do you need the dashboard toggle as a condition, could you not have the automation turned off from the dashboard
I had a few instances where I wanted to turn it off, but turn it back on again later - like if my wife took him out to a class and I stayed at home. It just made it easier to toggle it on and off
@@BensSmartHomeIdeas but you can add the automation itself to an entities card as a toggle
Ah, got it. I might ditch the input boolean and do that instead! Thanks for the comment!
How great, are a wife and kids for finding edge cases you didn't think about, fast? 🤪
Ha! 😂 I had a robot vacuum find one as well once. I got a new one, so moved the old one to the conservatory, then it set the alarm off in the middle of the night by triggering the motion sensor during it's scheduled clean
@@BensSmartHomeIdeas Brilliant! 🤣