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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Simple Google home action (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by OfficalRingmaster@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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I only want to be able to ask Google to either find my phone or my wife's phone, I've tried ittt, and automate, I know normally it would list the connected devices but it either doesn't understand me or only will start ringing my phone (the main host for the Google account) it can locate her phone otherwise, she's in the find my device for my Google account and it works if I either just go to the find my device website or app, but I wanted to be able to ask Google to make either of our phones to play a sound (even if the phone is on silent), and system or method would be great, although preferably not some program that has to constantly be running on a computer, but I can set something up on a computer if necessary.

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[–] loujr15@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Get home assistant,and make your own find my phone. I have a wireless buttons from aqara and 2 custom buttons I made for my dashboard that will ring my phone and send a tts message to it. No 3rd party app needed. Everything is done just using a single automation.