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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/RepresentativeAd2096 on 2024-11-15 05:15:47+00:00.

Once you get past all the “low hanging fruit” with home automation like locking doors and turning off lights automatically… you start working on more obscure or complicated, arguably unnecessary in many cases, automations like color matching the LEDs behind your TV to the logo of the channel that just launched on your Roku… fun… but why tho?

It’s nice to just implement a simple, very useful one every once in a while:

When the state of the office printer changes to “printing”…. Turn off the ceiling fan in the office so your papers don’t fly all over the place.

So many minutes saved picking up papers off the floor… no longer will my 5 year old accuse me of not printing all the coloring book pages she asked for (yet to be tested).

Am I already making it more complicated than it needs to be by trying to automate when the fan should kick back to its prior state? Yes. Yes I am. Am I now going to come up with 15 other useless automations now that I’ve started tinkering with the printer integration? Yes. Yes I am.

But for now… basking in the simplicity.

Hit me with some other stupid simple automations I should have thought of years ago.