Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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submitted 11 months ago by IconWorld@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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Hii all. I hoped someone could help with a noob with the following requirements. I am a CPAP user with sleep apnea. Because I'm exhausted in the evening, I sometimes pass out before remembering to put on my CPAP, which just makes things worse the next day. I was hoping to design a system that would alert me by a certain time, for example 11pm, if I don't have the machine on. I could then wake up and put it on and go to sleep again.

The machine itself doesn't seem to expose any hooks that would allow this to happen. However, if I could monitor the current from some kind of smart plug and then add some simple logic (if current to CPAP plug = 0 and time = 11pm), then I could create an alarm in my phone to get me up.

I'm tech savvy and can do programming, but I don't have much experience with home automation systems. Can anyone suggest a path forward?

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[–] loujr15@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

You basically just created your automation. Now, all you need is home assistant, an energy monitoring plug, and your smart speaker (Alexa, Google,or both) and put your requirements into an automation. I'm willing to help you build this automation if you get stuck.