I went for a zwave tilt sensor: pricey, but relatively simple enough that I only had to worry about the battery :)
When opened, it sent a notification. If left open for longer than 30m, a high priority notification every half that I left it open for X minutes. Biggest issue I had after that was leaving it open on purpose 🙃
I recognise this problem, I had it for cameras detecting people, and that being annoying when I work in the garden.
The automation itself is surfaced as a switch so you can turn it off without trying to change your in automation logic to test for states.
Then, if you are like me, you’ll realise you forget to turn it back on! I created an automation that triggers when the automation is turned off and turns it back on after 2 hours (no way I’m gardening for longer than that).
Lastly, because it was annoying to have to open the app, I made the notification have an action button to turn off the notification automation, so that when I start gardening and my phone pings, I can turn it off without farting about too much.
I have 3 Kauf RGB switches that I use for garage door interfaces spread through the house. Off means closed, orange means reed switch and range sensor don’t agree (moving), white means open, red means fail to close.
The little corner light is for the pedestrian door.
The garage door itself has a konnected gdo.
https://konnected.io/products/smart-garage-door-opener
Spiders like to obscure the range sensor ~twice a year, and it probably best practice to not have all the inputs coming from one device. One day I’ll move the reed switch to the i4 dc shelly that reads the door switches. Maybe try ratgdo, the clone/knockoff I bought was not very reliable.
https://us.shelly.com/products/shelly-plus-i4-dc
https://konnected.io/products/contact-sensor-recessed-magnetic-for-doors-or-windows
What does this have to do with Home Assistant?
That’s cool but reading this it feels like nothing is being done on home assistant. Is that correct?
