The gauge idea is nice, I am thinking a manager that has info about the plants already in it to help manage or give tips about the type of plant it is.

I have done a few experiments with yaml config using ChatGPT. I have been looking at AppDaemon hoping I can think of all the automations as one big program that runs my house and not a bunch of small events.

Cool I will take a second look. The background location updates on iOS are unreliable for automations that might help. Thanks.

Ugh I remember when I was at that point with my Mom in 2011. Driving back and forth an hr to hospice, The Wiskey Media family of podcasts got me through a lot of those drives. Always wanted to mail and kind of thank you all but never got the chance.

I have it installed but do need to take a closer look at it. How are you using it?

Works good so far, just need to find a good use for it. So far I just have it remind me if i left the AC on in the summer. Any suggestions?

A work around I use is to expose my away mode sensor to HomeKit then I created an automation that flips the status once the last person leaves the house.

True but I have more statuses than sun up or sun down. I have a status for after my kids should be in bed and one for when everyone is asleep. The sun down and sun up event set num night mode and morning modes.

There are and always will be 4 lights!

I moved over to Proxmox this year. I am running it on an old dell mini desktop and it’s definitely worth it. I run HAOS and have a few other services running in LXCs. Jellyfin, Adguard + unbound, zigbee2mqtt and a few testing projects. Easy backups and separation of services. It’s nice.