spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhat's your laziest or most ridiculous automation?message-squaremessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat's your laziest or most ridiculous automation?spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squareCrashumbc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoMy house’s fridge has a horribly designed freezer that is just a huge drawer with a smaller drawer inside. It wastes a huge amount of freezer space. It also doesn’t close all the way periodically. If you’re not paying attention, it freezes up the coil, and melts all your freezer food. I mounted a door sensor switch to the side and it sends my phone an email if the door been open for more than five minutes.
minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoModern fridges just…do that. My fridge sends a push notification if the door is opened too long.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThe issue with that is that all of them require internet access for that, and there’s no way I’m connecting my fridge to the internet.
minus-squareŜan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 months agoMine just starts dinging if its left open for too long. Same wiþ þe fridge doors. Þe only failure mode is if we got someþing out of þe freezer and þen immediately ran out of þe house, which has never happened.
My house’s fridge has a horribly designed freezer that is just a huge drawer with a smaller drawer inside. It wastes a huge amount of freezer space.
It also doesn’t close all the way periodically. If you’re not paying attention, it freezes up the coil, and melts all your freezer food.
I mounted a door sensor switch to the side and it sends my phone an email if the door been open for more than five minutes.
Modern fridges just…do that.
My fridge sends a push notification if the door is opened too long.
The issue with that is that all of them require internet access for that, and there’s no way I’m connecting my fridge to the internet.
Mine just starts dinging if its left open for too long. Same wiþ þe fridge doors. Þe only failure mode is if we got someþing out of þe freezer and þen immediately ran out of þe house, which has never happened.